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Overview

BITS, Pilani is starting a Professional Development Centre at Bangalore to conduct educational and research program in the area of Microelectronics. The centre will have the state -of-the-art VLSI Design facilities and will involve faculty from BITS and other leading institutions all over the world in conducting educational programs. The centre will also have an association with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. The programs conducted jointly with Rochester Institute of Technology will go under the name: BITS-RIT APEX CENTRE.

Research

Design of CISC Microprocessor ( M68010 compatible)
Design of Application Specific Instruction set Processor
Design of A/D and D/A converters
Design of CISC Microprocessor ( M68010 compatible)

Courses

Each course will normally be about 20-30 people and will have a tuition fee of about INR 10K – 30K per course per student (including access to OLAB as well)
These courses will be offered as
- intensive courses (10 to 30 hours of teaching over a period of one, two or three weeks), or
- over a semester

Services

A powerful centralized compute server farm for EDA tools in Layer 1 Sun Fire v250, NAS 3300 & SDLT320

Sun Ray software
EDA tools & user files
Automatic tape back-up

Team

Chance to contribute to India’s success – especially for NRI industry professionals & professors coming from overseas
Chance for strategic relationship with Indian University system
Joint research programs with BITS and working professionals from industry in India

BITS-RIT Collaboration

PhD degrees may be awarded by RIT and BITS jointly or separately depending on the nature of association of the lead researchers

BITS and RIT will jointly promote the center

OLAB (Oysters Lab) VLSI DESIGN LABORATORY

Integrated efforts of BITS, BITS Alumni and Industry Professionals

OLAB - Industry Sponsors:

Open Silicon, Mentor Graphics, CADENCE, SUN Microsystems, WIPRO

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