vlsisystemdesign.com – re-created, revamped and re-published – its cooler now!!


vlsisystemdesign.com – The website which started with basic hand-drawn diagrams and blogs is now being re-created, revamped and re-published. This time, it more cooler and light weight than before, and you will fall in love with it. If you don’t, please send us feedback, why you still haven’t and it will be taken care of 🙂

Now, the mission and goal is quite clear, and let me give you some brief highlights of the newly re-launched website…

The homepage below has 3 buttons:

 

Online Video  page will re-direct to list of all my courses and blogs that I have till now. Will get back to this page below

Practice with OST (Open Source Tools) Once you understand, say CPPR point or voltage transfer characteristics, and also are aware of open source tools like MAGIC, OpenTimer, ngspice, etc., this page (under construction) will help you to practice those designs. Till the time, forum is ready for practicing, you can use Virtual-Box for downloading/installing tools on your laptop, and start designing.

Design Projects “Concepts- Tool – Practice, finale product stage. Now the main phase (productize)” i.e. product acceptance in community and applied in correct channel. The complete process is incomplete without the last (main phase). All individual at certain stage must have reached upto three steps. Here, at VSD, we will guide you to take the next two steps to Productize your idea. Our vision is to Take YOU from idea level to the finale product application in market or community with minimal.

Coming back to Online Video page, we have 2 buttons, shown below. One button will redirect you to my video, and other one will take you to the blogs page: By the way, the person in below image…its not me 🙂

Next, you have a cool chat box, at right bottom of the web page, which will help you chat with me directly. Now since the website will be live during IST, I will be able to reply, consult, talk to you real time, but during offline hours, it will save a message for me and I will get back to you at the earliest. Have a look and try it out:

And finally, we have a place for all of you young and new bloggers to write blogs on our forum. We are looking for fresh and unique blogs here. By unique, I mean, loads of images, and very few text. Images speaks a far more than text, and by now, this must have been evident from my courses and blogs.

This website is under constant improvement. The team has worked really hard and we will need your help to improvise this one. This is your website. Treat it one of yours. Your fresh ideas will give this website and forum a look which you need and easy to use.

This website perfectly matches what Socrates said “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new

Let’s constantly change and I will talk about “Open To Innovate” concept, which was, and still is, our vision, mission and goal when we started back then in 2011.

Till then, enjoy the website, provide feedback, and happy learning!!

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Welcome to Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

The “Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop” at IIIT Bangalore, organized in collaboration with VSD, is a structured, educational competition aimed at exploring real-world challenges in IoT and embedded systems. Participants progress through three stages: building an application, injecting and managing faults, and enhancing application security. The event spans from May 9 to June 15, 2024, culminating in a showcase of top innovations and an award ceremony. This hands-on hackathon emphasizes learning, testing, and securing applications in a collaborative and competitive environment.

Rules :
  1. Only for Indian Student whose college is registered under VTU
  2. Only team of 2 members can Register
  3. Use only VSDSquadron Mini resources for product development
Awards :
  1. Prize money for final 10 Team
  2. 3 Winner team’s Product will be evaluated for Incubation
  3. 7 consolation prizes
  4. Completion Certificate to final round qualifier
  5. Chance to build a Proud Secured RISC-V Platform for India

Date for Registration : 9th May - 22nd May, 2024
Hackathon Inauguration : 23rd May 2024

VSDSquadron (Educational Board)

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Furthermore, the RISC-V chips on these boards should be open for VLSI chip design learning, allowing you to explore PNR, standard cells, and layout design. And guess what? vsdsquadron is the perfect solution for all your needs! With its comprehensive documentation and scalable labs, thousands of students can learn and grow together.

VSD HDP (Hardware Design Program) Duration-10 Week

With VSD Hardware Design Program (VSD-HDP),  you have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what exist in open source and establish the new benchmark for tomorrow.

It will leverage your degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering to work with

  • Programmable logic
  • Analog/ digital IP
  • RISC-V
  • Architecture & microprocessors
  • ASICs and SoCs on high-density digital or RF circuit cards
  • Gain hands-on knowledge during design validation and system integration.

Sounds exciting to just get started with expert mentors, doesn’t it? But we are looking for the next generation of learners, inventors, rebels, risk takers, and pioneers.

“Spend your summer working in the future !!”

Outcomes of VSD Online Research IP Design Internship Program

  1. Job opportunities in Semiconductor Industry
  2. Research work can be submitted to VLSI International journals
  3. Participate in Semiconductor International Conference with Internship Research Work
  4. Paper Publications in IEEE Conference and SIG groups
  5. Tape out opportunity and IP Royalty
  6. Interact with world class Semiconductor designer and researchers
  7. Academic professions where more research projects are encouraged.
  8. All the above research and publication work will help colleges and institutes to improve accreditation levels.

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VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT)

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT) is expertly built training platform and is suited for designer requirements. Semiconductor companies understand the value of training automation and Engineer performance enhancement, and do not need to be convinced of the impact of a virtual platform for learning. VSD trainings are quick, relevant, and easy to access from any device at any time zone.

VSD Intern Webinars

VSD Interns made it happen !!

VSD is working towards creating innovative talent pool who are ready to develop design and products for the new tech world. VSD believes in “Learning by doing principle” , and always prepare the student to apply the knowledge learned in the workshops, webinars and courses. We always push our students to work on new designs, test it and work continuously till it becomes the best performing design. Any student who enrolls to VSD community starts working with small design and grows with us and develops a tapeout level design with complete honesty and dedication towards the Work !!

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VSDOpen Online Conference

Welcome to the World’s only online conference in Semiconductor Industry VSDOpen Conference. With enormous support and global presence of audience from different segments of industrial lobby and academia made a highly successful event. Evolution is change in the genetic makeup of a population over time, online conference is one kind evaluation everyone adapt soon. 

  • VSDOpen 2022 is an online conference to share open-source research with the community and promote  hardware design mostly done by the student community.
  • VSDOpen 2022 is based on the theme “How to lower the cost to learn, build, and tapeout chips ?”  , which will provide a platform to community to build stronger designs and strengthen the future of Chip design.
  • VSDOpen is envisioned to create a community based revolution in semiconductor hardware technology.
  • The open source attitude is required to bring out the talent and innovation from the community who are in remote part of world and have least access to the technologies.  And now Google support will help to bring the vision to execution by VSD team

VSD Online Course by Kunal Ghosh

VSD offers online course in complete spectrum of vlsi backend flow from RTL design, synthesis and Verification, SoC planning and design, Sign-off analysis, IP Design, CAD/EDA automation and basic UNIX/IT, Introduction to latest technology – RISC-V, Machine intelligence in EDA/CAD, VLSI Interview FAQ’s.

Current Reach – As of 2021, VSD and its partners have released 41 online VLSI courses and was successfully able to teach  ~35900 Unique students around 151 countries in 47 different languages, through its unique info-graphical and technology mediated learning methods.

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