Resources at the Center for VLSI Design and Testing
The VLSI Group has access to two labs in the
CoRE Bldg.
at the Busch Campus,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick; graduate students live :o)
in four-man offices at the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP)
in the CoRE bldg.
Hardware resources include:
- 18 Color Sun Sparcstation and Sunblade workstations.
- A Sun Sparcserver with 2 processors.
- Color and black-and-white Hewlett-Packard laser printers.
- An Apple Macintosh with extensive graphics capabilities.
- Two Pentium PCs running Windows 2000 with extensive graphics capabilities and a scanner.
- A Compac MHz Pentium notebook computer with CD writer.
- An ISM 1000 Automatic Test Equipment.
In addition, the CAIP
Center offers access
to numerous Sun workstations as well as a nCube parallel processor with 1024
processors and an IBM SP2 8 processor machine.
Software resources include:
- 50 copies of Cadence Virtuoso Layout Software, Spectre Simulator, and Schematic Composer; used to design and
simulate chip layouts as part of a graduate course in VLSI Design.
- 50 copies of the Synopsys Logic Synthesis System from Synopsys,
Inc.
- MATLAB.
The group also has proprietary software for test generation for VLSI chips.
Some pictures of the lab
To the group inventions
To the group home page
bushnell@caip.rutgers.edu; August 11, 2004
