VLSI Design Laboratory

Name Description Instruments/Softwares
Nexys 4 Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board The Nexys 4 board is a complete, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on the latest Artix-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx. The Artix-7 FPGA is optimized for high performance logic and offers more capacity, higher performance, and more resources than earlier designs.
Zed Board Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board ZedBoard is a low-cost development board for the Xilinx Zynq- 7000 all programmable SoC (AP SoC). This board contains everything necessary to create a Linux, Android, Windows, or other OS/RTOS based design. Additionally, several expansion connectors expose the processing system and programmable logic I/Os for easy user access.
Artix-7 FPGA AC701 Evaluation Kit The AC701 evaluation board for the Artix-7 FPGA provides a hardware environment for developing and evaluating designs targeting the Artix-7 XC7A200T-2FBG676C FPGA. The AC701 board provides features common to many embedded processing systems, including a DDR3 SODIMM memory, an 4-lane PCI Express interface, a tri-mode Ethernet PHY, general purpose I/O, and a UART interface.
Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit The KC705 evaluation board for the Kintex -7 FPGA provides a hardware environment for developing and evaluating designs targeting the Kintex-7 XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA. The KC705 board provides features common to many embedded processing systems, including a DDR3 SODIMM memory, an 8- lane PCI Express interface, a tri-mode Ethernet PHY, general purpose I/O, and a UART interface.
Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit The VC707 evaluation board for the Virtex-7 FPGA provides a hardware environment for developing and evaluating designs targeting the Virtex-7 XC7VX485T-2FFG1761C FPGA. The VC707 board provides features common to many embedded processing systems, including a DDR3 SODIMM memory, an 8- lane PCI Express interface, a tri-mode Ethernet PHY, general purpose I/O, and two UART interfaces.
Atlys Spartan-6 FPGA Trainer Board The Atlys circuit board is a complete, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on a XilinxSpartan-6 LX45 FPGA. The on-board collection of high-end peripherals, including Gbit Ethernet, HDMI Video, 128 MB DDR2 memory array, audio and USB ports make the Atlys board an ideal host for complete digital systems built around embedded processors like Xilinx's MicroBlaze.
Xilinx Vivado Design Suite Xilinx Vivado enables developers to synthesize (compile) their designs, perform timing analysis, examine RTL diagrams, simulate a design's reaction to different stimuli, and configure the target device with the programmer. Vivado is a design environment for FPGA products from Xilinx, and is tightly- coupled to the architecture of such chips, and cannot be used with FPGA products from other vendors.
Cadence EDA Tools Set Custom IC technologies - Virtuoso Platform - Tools for designing full-custom integrated circuits;[9] includes schematic entry, behavioral modeling (Verilog-AMS), circuit simulation, custom layout, physical verification, extraction and back- annotation. Used mainly for analog, mixed-signal, RF, and standard-cell designs, but also memory and FPGA designs. Digital & Signoff technologies - RTL to GDS II implementation: Genus Synthesis, Joules Power Analysis, Innovus Place & Route, Tempus Timing SIgnoff, Voltus Power Integrity Signoff, Modus Automatic Test Pattern Generation.
Mentor Graphics EDA Tool Set Integrated circuit layout full - custom and SDL tools such as IC Station IC Place and route tool - Olympus-SoC IC Verification tools such as Calibre nmDRC, Calibre nmLVS, Calibre xRC, Calibre xACT Schematic editors for electronic schematics such as Design Architect IC or DxDesigner Layout and design tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Xpedition Enterprise and Board Station Component library management tools IP cores for ASIC and FPGA designs