VLSI Design Automation Lab

• Prof. Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Acting Director.
• Prof. Kazuo Nakajima, Participant Faculty
• Prof. K. J. Ray Liu , Participant Faculty.
• Prof. Gang Qu, Participant Faculty.

• Fuat Keceli
• Mainak Sen
• Ankush Varma
• Shahrooz Shahparnia (Member of PCA Project)

• Michael Rinehart

• Aydin Balkan

• Kursad Albayraktaroglu
• Ozkan Dikmen
• Steve Haga
• Krishnan K. Kailas
• Ilya Khazanov
• Gary Spivey
• David T. Wang
• Lucas A. Womack
• Daniel Roddy

News

• 1994 Fall; EE Connections: Computer-Aided Design of VLSI Systems Revitalized
• 1995 Spring; EE Connections: Award from Hewlett-Packard
• 1995 Fall; EE Connections: VLSI Design Automation Activities Further Enhanced
• 1995 Fall; EE Connections: Faculty Guest Researchers in Japan
• 1997 Fall; EE Connections: George Corcoran Student Teaching Award

Courses

• ENEE 408C
• ENEE 644
• ENEE 749
• ENEE 750
• ENEE 759E

Resources

• Hardware
  
  • 10 Sun Sparcstations of various types, HP workstation, Gateway 2000 PC, HP 82000 IC Evaluation System, Tektronix DAS9200 Digital Analysis System, 4 HP Logic Analyzers, HP Color Plotter.
• Software
  
  • Cadence CAD Software Suite, PARTHENON High-level Sysnthesis System, FPGA development systems (Xilinx; Motorola).
  
  
  • Synopsys CAD Software Suite

Sponsors

• Agilent Technologies
• Angeles Design Systems
• AT&T Corp.
• Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Hewlett Packard Co.
• Hitachi Ltd., Ltd.
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,
• Mentor Graphics Corp.,
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
• Motorola Semiconductor
• National Science Foundation
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation
• Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Semiconductor Research Corporation
• Sun Microsystems Inc., Inc.
• University of Maryland Engineering Research Center.
• University of Maryland Graduate Research Board.
• University of Maryland Minta Martin Fund for Aeronautical Research.
• US Army Research Laboratory

Other interesting links

• VLSI at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.
• MOSIS -the people who fabricate our chips!
• Do you believe in Magic?
• PARTHENON (in Japanese), our main HDL-based design and synthesis tool.
• Trip through the Semiconductor Subway
• VLSI information
• IEEE Design Automation Technical Committee
• ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
• CPU Info Center
• Chip Directory

Our snail-mail address...

VLSI Design Automation Lab
Electrical Engineering Department, 1458 A.V.Williams Bldg
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742