IIM Calcutta to
Conduct Workshop on "VLSI Interconnect Routing in the Nanometric Regime"
On January 19, 2008
A one-day workshop titled
"VLSI Interconnect Routing in the Nanometric Regime" under the auspices of a
DIT-funded Research Project in the institute is to be held on Saturday,
January 19, 2008 at Tata Hall, IIMC campus. The Minister-in-Charge of Dept of
Information Technology, Govt. of West Bengal, would inaugurate the event.
Synopsis
The tiny chips are the basic
components of every electronic device that performs wonders in our daily life.
These chips, each of which can carry more than a million small transistors
embedded in a single wafer, are called integrated circuits. Every chip has a
highly complex, one or more electronic circuits embedded within it. For
appropriate operation of these chips, these circuits within the chips have to be
interconnected with electrical lines, almost similar to the electrical
connections that we find in our homes and offices. Due to the extremely tiny
size of the circuits (of the order of few nano-meters), they are technically
termed as Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits or, in short, VLSI circuits. The
interconnection of the miniaturized electronic circuits in the chips is
technically known as Interconnect routing.
Design of such miniaturized
circuits is almost a next to impossible task without the help of automation and
software design tools. Due to the extremely high requirements of precision and
accuracy, the software tools available in market are costly, say of the order of
few thousand dollars. Owing to the availability of bright but cheap human
resource, India is recently witnessing a boom in the design automation industry.
Several design automation giants like Intel, Motorola, Mentor Graphics,
Synopsis, and Texas Instruments have already opened their research and
development centers in India. Many more are about to come. In recent times,
there are several start-ups in West Bengal, and some of these multi-nationals
have either opened are about to open their development centers here.
In a recent survey by Indian
Semiconductor Association, it has been observed that there is an acute
shortage of capable manpower for the VLSI industry in India. As such, there is
an acute need for proper training and development of such manpower. This
workshop is a direct outcome of such need. It is funded by a Research Project
from Department of IT, Govt. of India, and is hosted by IIM Calcutta.
Contact
Details
For further details, please
contact: -
Aloke Guin,
PRO,
Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta,
Joka, Diamond Harbour Road,
Kolkata - 700104.
Phone: 033-24678300-8306, 24677851 (Extn: 187)
Mobile: 9883126494
