Microelectronics & VLSI Laboratory — Overview
Licenses for the industry-standard Cadence IC design tools allow students to practice workflows for analog and digital IC design. Licenses for Synopsys Sentaurus device simulation software enable visualization of carrier transport in diodes and transistors, supporting device-level understanding. These tools are also integral to research in the VLSI domain. On the hardware side, the lab maintains FPGA boards (Xilinx), Microcontroller boards (Arduino, Texas Instruments), DSP kits (fixed and floating point, Texas Instruments), and Embedded systems (Raspberry Pi with accessories). Additionally, the lab leverages central facilities including RF/DC probe stations, parameter analyzers, solar simulator, and cleanroom tools for lithography, sputtering, and wet processing.