Post on 18-Dec-2015
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Project Proposal for Infrastructure to become Recipient Remote Centre of IIT Bombay’s (CDEEP) Centre for Distance Engineering
Education Programme on
“Virtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded Systems”
During 2009-2010 at
Department of Computer Science,Panjab University, Chandigarh
Virtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded SystemsVirtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded Systems
Dr R.K. Singla, Professor
http://rksingla.puchd.ac.in
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Virtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded SystemsVirtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded Systems
Objectives: 1. About the Project Proposal2. Proposed Requirements in the 11th Plan
Period3. Suggested Courses for Teacher Training4. Details of funds requested for 5 years5. Expected Deliverables of the Proposal
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About the Proposal
1. Title of Project Virtual Laboratories for VLSI & Embedded Systems
2. Broad Area Computer, IT, Electrical & Electronics
3. Location Panjab University, Chandigarh
4. Principal Investigator
Dr R.K. Singla, Professor
5. Co-Investigators Dr Harish Kumar (UIET)
Anu Gupta (DCSA)
6. Participating Institutes
IIT Bombay (Electrical for VLSI and CDEEP), DCSA and UIET
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Why this Proposal? Over the past ten years, PU has put in significant effort in
building the teaching programmes and setting up of Computer Labs and Panjab University’s network.
There have been continuous upgrades to the teaching programmes, network infrastructure and computer equipment as the technology took tremendous strides over these years.
The PU has hitherto built a firm foundation of a modern and sophisticated campus network infrastructure. It is proposed that we should capitalize on our current provisions to move towards the vision of the development of a state-of-the-art Computer Equipment for effective teaching anywhere anytime.
A firm commitment from various funding agencies, top management and senior administrators is necessary to make this proposal viable. The total investment will not be small. Extensive training is needed to build up this culture, a culture which we firmly believe will be vital to the well-being of the University in the next few years.
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Need of the Project To reach out to Technology and Engineering
Institutions located across India in general and northern part in particular
To disseminate the knowledge in the fields of engineering (VLSI design and Embedded Systems) and Science using modern e-learning tools
To adopt industry Open Standards in the University to allow for the most cost-effective acquisition of IT products.
To improve teaching-learning methods by integrating ICT in curriculum, develop and use multimedia software packages, tools and educational video films
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Some Facts related to the Project 0.5% of the electronics design business in India.
Thus, there is a need to invest in producing quality electronics design engineers to compete in world market.
The fields of VLSI design and embedded systems are converging into a common platform: the systemonchip. Thus, an exposure to this field is critical in manpower training.
In order to provide laboratory infrastructure for such training programmes, a virtual laboratory framework offers a cost effective solution.
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Proposed Requirements in the 11th Plan Period
In this proposal, we outline the development and deployment of a virtual ”IMAGE
VLSI and Embedded Systems Laboratory” infrastructure at PU, and
the delivery of educational content through this infrastructure using distance learning facilities provided by the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program (CDEEP), IIT Bombay.
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Proposed Requirements in the 11th Plan Period
The virtual laboratory would consist of three components:1. Basic infrastructure at PU
2. Content delivery for teacher training at PU (through the CDEEP facility at IIT Bombay).
3. Content delivery for student training at PU
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Proposed Requirements in the 11th Plan Period: 1. Basic Infrastructure at PU:
(A) IMAGE VLSI & Embedded Lab 50 a) NGSPICE, NGNUTMEG (circuit simulator & result viewer).
b) GHDL (VHDL simulator).
c) Xilinx ISE (9.1 or higher) (FPGA synthesis tool set).
d) IMAGE simulation accelerator (FPGA based simulation environment).
e) Computing infrastructure: Thirty node IMAGE VLSI and Embedded Systems Laboratory (five servers and forty-five high-end PC’s with all tools installed and configured).
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Proposed Requirements: Basic Infrastructure ….
f) HookIN; signal visibility tool: Random internal signal visibility tool, which enables to monitor any signal or port, implements VHDL-in-VHDL-out; observing ports or signals of any level in the design hierarchy.
g) IMAGE ForceIT; controllability tool: Forces any signal to any desired value i.e. stuck at “0” or stuck at “1”.Deliberately inducing a glitch by forcing a signal.
h) MiRAGE; Memory Extraction tool: The memory mapping tool for better FPGA utilization.
i) IMAGE API: Application Program Interface (API) to interface the host customized machine with the Board: for
Embedded System and prototyping.
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Proposed Requirements: Basic
Infrastructure ….
j) IMAGE TDM: Automatic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) for data exchange between the four FPGAs.
k) IMAGE ScaleUP: Software and hardware for adding more four FPGA PCB Card on the machine, to scale-up the Capacity.
l) IMAGE FPGA Board: FPGA Board having Four FPGAs on a single PCB Board with a total capacity of 100 Million FPGA gates. Board Memory: 120 MB SRAM on Board
m)Software that make the FPGA Board compatible with standard simulation software & with Standard synthesis tool.
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Proposed Requirements: Basic
Infrastructure ….
n) PartIT; Design Partition tool
o) IMAGE Learning Resource (ILR)
p) Detailed training program to be conducted
q) IMAGE ScaleUP: Software and hardware for adding more four FPGA PCB Card
r) Black-boxes, Unsynthesizable Entities
s) IMAGE Signal Coding
t) IMAGE Flow Debugging
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Proposed Requirements: Basic Infrastructure ….
1. Basic Infrastructure at PU:
(B) A streaming video interface to the internet (for delivery of CDEEP courses) or an EDUSAT terminal
(C) A web interface to the software tools, with adequate network connectivity
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Proposed Requirements in the 11th Plan Period: 2. Content Delivery for Teacher Training
To train the teachers at the remote centres, CDEEP will deliver course content in the area of VLSI design and Embedded Systems to the remote centers by means of regular onsite visits by certified personnel who will be responsible for maintaining the quality of content delivery.
3. Content Delivery for StudentsA series of online laboratory courses in Hardware description languages, Simulation and Synthesis, and the use of FPGAs will be provided .
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Suggested Courses for Teacher Training1. VLSI System Design
2. VLSI Circuit Design.
3. Hardware Description Languages.
4. Embedded Systems.
5. Computer Systems
6. VLSI Design Lab
7. Modern Electronics Design Techniques
8. Digital Circuit Lab
9. Foundation of VLSI
10. Hardware Description Language
11. Basic Electronics
More meaningful & much needed courses can be added to this list.
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Details of funds requested for 5 years Cost in Lacs Rs. (1 Lac= 100,000)
Sr.No./Items Name 1st Yr. 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Yr. Total
A. IMAGE VLSI & Embedded Lab 50
• Infrastructure Facilities for receiving CDEEP courses/CDEEP services
B. Onsite support on delivery of CDEEP courses and Maintenance of Equipment
250 15
1st Yr is included
5 5 5 5
25 25 25 25
250 35
100
Total 265 30 30 30 30 385
Recurring budget will include staff salaries, workshops, consumables, travel, Honorarium for experts, teachers & coordinators and contingency costs.
Non-recurring budget will include hardware, software, networking, UPS etc.
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Expected Deliverables of the Proposal Re-engineering the contents of more than 10 identified
courses for the use of technology and engineering students
Disseminating the knowledge in the fields of engineering (VLSI design and Embedded Systems) and Computer Science using modern e-learning tools located across India in general and northern part in particular
Developing a series of online tutorials describing the use of the CAD tools
Strengthening the Computer Science and Engineering manpower
Setting up a dedicated Educational Server where teachers may post their educational material, which may be made available on the Internet/Intranet round the clock so as to facilitate the students
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“We will move ahead, realizing our dreams of making Panjab University technologically one of the most advanced
universities in the country”
Thank You All