VSDOpen announces new technologies for effective VLSI skill development-2

If you have been following VSDOpen for the last 5-years, the theme has been maintained - What VSD did last year and what VSD will do next year 
Every year, every company looks for pointers to technologies which prove to be useful for next-gen VLSI design, better PPA, tape-outs and learning. Almost all of them are cutting-edge and have a beautiful interface to start with. This year, VSD is very delighted to work with our partners on 4 upcoming technologies
1) UpTickPro by Vyoma Systems - Lavanya J, who is the CEO and Founder of Vyoma systems, has close to 11+ years of experience with IBM, ARM & Rambus, with an MS from IIT Madras. She was a part of the very popular RISC-V-based Shakti project under Prof. Kamakoti. Recently, we did a design verification hackathon using UpTickPro and we received an unbelievable 2300+ registrations, who eventually became users of UpTickPro. Glad to have Lavanya as a VSDOpen2022 speaker
2) OpenFPGA by the University of Utah - Prof. Nanditha Rao, along with Prof. Xifan, went through a series of iterations and helped VSD to launch the first cloud-based hands-on FPGA workshop using OpenFPGA. This workshop was carefully designed to incorporate benchmarking results from proprietary FPGA tools and OpenFPGA. Not just that, Prof. Nanditha went ahead to build a STEM education process with an OpenFPGA workshop as a test case, which has trained close to 200+ users in the last 6 months. Glad to have Prof. Nanditha as a VSDOpen2022 speaker 
3) OpenFASoC by the University of Michigan - Tim Ansell introduced us to Mehdi Saligane, who is an Assistant Research Scientist, and an Intermittent Lecturer at the University of Michigan. He has been working on interesting automated analog generators which are built on top of OpenROAD and other open-source tools. VSD is very much interested in analog and we are looking forward to introducing many programs and tapeouts using OpenFASoC as high-performance analog layouts have always been challenging. Stay tuned to our website for more statistics about OpenFASoC. Glad to have Mehdi as a VSDOpen2022 speaker
4) BigSpicy by the University of California, Berkeley - This one is quite interesting and very close to our hearts. Tim Ansell, again, introduced us to Arya, who is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. While I was working at Cadence as an application engineer for the Tempus STA tool, the thought of having a complete SPICE simulation for the whole chip for accuracy purposes had always crossed my mind. But during those years, we never got a fast SPICE simulator and neither a framework which supported this. Finally, when we heard about BigSpicy, the hidden thought came back and we are glad to partner with Arya on this project. Entire statistics are yet to be finalized. But glad to have Arya as a VSDOpen2022 speaker
As we mentioned earlier, VSDOpen is all about Ground-level efforts to boost Semiconductor tape-outs and Skill Development
Here's the registration link, which closes in 24hrs -

Registration for Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

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)

VSDSquadron, a cutting-edge development board based on the RISC-V architecture that is fully open-source. This board presents an exceptional opportunity for individuals to learn about RISC-V and VLSI chip design utilizing only open-source tools, starting from the RTL and extending all the way to the GDSII. The possibilities for learning and advancement with this technology are limitless.

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 !!

Check out VSD Interns Achievement!

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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