Centre for VLSI and Embeded Systems Technology

CVEST focuses on broadly two different areas. The first one is on designing low power, high speed integrated circuits and systems. The second area involves innovating new tools and techniques for addressing problems in High Performance Computing Architectures. The activities are designed to train manpower for carrying out research and development work and take up industrial problems.

In VLSI design area, research, to conceive and develop integrable low power circuits both from the point of hardware and software is conducted. The work carried out here generally starts from the concept and ends in the product design. The work is mostly based on simulations.

Subareas

1. Low Power VLSI Design
2. System on Chip (SOC)
3. Optimizing Compilers for High Performance Architectures
4. Parallel Programming and Concurrent Data Structures
5. Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits and Systems
6. Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
7. All Optical Devices
8. Microwave and Optical Sensors
9. Statistical Variation Aware Modelling and Optimization for Nanoscale CMOS/FinFET based VLSI Circuits
10. Current Mode Devices
11. Reliability / Ageing Degradation issues in VLSI Circuits

Teaching Programmes (associated with VLSI and Embeded Systems Technology)

Under-graduate Programmes

1. B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
2. B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Post-graduate Programmes

1. M.Tech in VLSI and Embedded Systems
2. MS in Electronics and Communications Engineering
3. Ph.D in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Major Funded Projects

1. Architectural Techniques for Process Variation Aware Designs (2007-2010) (Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)
2. Phoenix-based Compiler Course Development (2006) (Microsoft)
3. Rotor-based Course Development (2004-2010) (Microsoft)
4. Open Source Tech Program Scholarships (2007) (Microsoft)
5. Design of 8-Bit Current Steering 'DAC' with Integrated Power Supply (2009-2009) (ANURAG, DRDO, Ministry of Defence)
6. Study and Design of Low Power and High Efficiency SRAM for Memories (2009-2011) (DST)
7. Design Validation of Firmware Algorithms of the Jammer Processing Unit (2010-2011) (Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, DRDO, Govt. of India)
8. IO Protection Strategies in Multi Voltage Signaling Environment in ICs (2010-2013) (Directorate of Extramural Research and Intellectual Property Rights (ER&IPR), DRDO, Govt. of India)
9. Design of Integrated Ring Resonator Gyroscope (2014-2017) (RCI, DRDO, Hyderabad)
10. Design and Development of ASIC Chip simulated Architecture for DRFM and High Speed Network for Long Range Missile System (2013-2016) (ASL, Ministry of Defence, Hyderabad)
11. VLSI Design Virtual Lab (2010-2012) (MHRD, Govt. of India)
12. Electromagnetic Theory Virtual Lab (2010-2012) (MHRD, Govt. of India)
13. Computer Organization Virtual Lab (2010-2012) (MHRD, Govt. of India)
14. Advanced VLSI Virtual Lab (2010-2012) (MHRD, Govt. of India)
15. Analog CMOS VLSI Circuit Design Virtual Lab (2010-2012) (MHRD, Govt. of India)
16. ASIC Chip Development of a High Performance Digital Fuzzy Processor (2012-2015) (Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST)
17. On-Chip Radio Frequency Inductors Incorporated with Patterned Magnetic Material (2012-2014) (Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST)
18. Testing and Detection of Failure Modes in an FPGA based Missile Interface Unit and on Board Computer (2012-2014) (DRDL, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India)
19. ASIC Chip-Tapeout of Reconfigurable Multiple Radix Parallel-Turbo Decoder for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems (2016-2019) (SERB, DST, New Delhi)

Achievements

Contests

1. Students of the CVEST Lab have, time and again, performed exceptionally well at the Annual Nationwide Research Contest organized by Intel. In 2005-06, the students were part of the final 13 teams. The next year, students won the contest for their entry on a High Speed ALU Design. Again, in 2008-09, CVEST M.S. students won the contest which saw over 200 entries.
2. A team of Masters and Ph.D. students of the Lab won the 2008 version of the Cadence India Design Contest, for their work titled "Design of a Low Power, Variable Resolution Flash-Type ADC".
3. Also, students reached the finals of the Altera Nios Design contest in 2006.
4. IIIT-H's team Mission Gaganyaan has been ranked FIRST at the Global Aerospace Competition CanSat 2010, which has seen participation from premier Universities from across the world, at Amarillo, Texas, USA, on June 13, 2010. IIIT-H team is the ONLY one from India and the FIRST from ASIA to win this global competition.
5. A IIIT-H CSE students’ project Aarogyam, mentored by Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, received the first prize at the VNR VJIET, Hyderabad organized national level techno symposium. Aarogyam is a software enabled tool for use by semi-literate patients for self diagnosis.
6. Under Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury’s guidance, IIIT-H’s bachelor’s students of ECE won the fourth place at the Finals of the World Embedded Systems Contest 2010 (WESC 2010). The team was recognized for its work, the “Red Eye”, a laser technology based virtual gaming environment, in the finals at Seoul, South Korea.

Best Paper Awards

1. IIIT-H's ECE Students Bag Best Poster Award at the National Conference on Sensors and Actuators 2011. The all India conference was jointly organized by the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Government of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), at Kolkata, on March 11-12, 2011. The poster, titled “A Low Cost Portable Temperature-Moisture Sensing Unit With Improved ANN Based Signal Conditioning For Smart Irrigation Applications”, was authored by B Tech (ECE) students Aman Tyagi, Arrabothu Apoorv Reddy, and Jasmeet Singh, and their guide Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury.
2. One of our M.S. student, Mr. Sunil Kumar Maddigatla (under the guidance of Dr.Srivatsava Jandhyala), won the best paper award for the paper "An accurate CMOS integrated temperature sensor for IOT Applications" in ISVLSI, 2016, held in Pittsburgh.

Others

1. The CVEST Lab was involved in the Microsoft Digital Inclusion Research Funding Scheme, working in the area of Telemedicine. Students also showcase their work in the annual R&D showcase hosted by IIIT, Hyderabad, which is frequented by Senior Personal for the industry.
2. Dr.Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury is awarded "Young Engineers Award 2012-13" by Institute of Engineers (India) in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. The award was given at the 28th National Convention of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers held at Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam on Nov, 21-22, 2012.

Faculty

1. Zia Abbas
2. R Govindarajulu
3. Azeemuddin Syed (Head)

Students

1. Anirban Guha
2. Krishna Teja KVS
3. Nikhil Bhandari
4. Soumitr Sanjay Dubey
5. Shivani Maurya
6. Neeraj Paradkar
7. Prateek Pendyala
8. Anand Thati
9. haranadha.rm
10. Sunil Kumar Maddikatla
11. Soumya Tapse
12. Prasada Raju LVR
13. Madhubabu Anumukonda
14. Swathi Reddy Ramasahayam
15. ajinkya kale
16. venkat appa rao yempada

Past Students

1. SS Sarma Chinta
2. Rahul Reddy Koora
3. Kshitij Agrawal
4. Siddula Gopikrishna
5. R Gopi Krishnan
6. Vasu Pulijala
7. Apoorva Sharma
8. Naman Govil
9. Utkarsh Jindal
10. Bhuvanan Kaliannan
11. Divya Duvvuri
12. Mehak Sood
13. Amitanshu Shukla
14. Vijaya Kumar Mareedu
15. Killivalavan K
16. gaurav.angiras@research.iiit.ac.in
17. Mohd Anwar
18. Ziaul Choudhury
19. Trivedi Ravi Maheshbhai
20. Mrinal Jyothi Sarmah
21. Anshul Agarwal
22. Pradeep Kumar Sana
23. Aman Gupta
24. Sandeep Saini
25. Anshul Singh
26. swathireddy@research.iiit.ac.in
27. R Bharghava
28. Prashanth Paramahans
29. Abinesh Ramachandran
30. Akshaykumar Salimath
31. Raja Narasimha Rao B
32. A Padma Sravani
33. Suresh Kumar Varanasi
34. Sumit Raj
35. Sandhya Vinjam
36. Harsh Wardhan
37. Narendra Varma Alluri
38. Arpit A Khandelwal
39. Ratan Sanjay Doma
40. Deepak Kumar Mittal
41. Sunit Pujari
42. Sreehari Veeramachaneni
43. Mamatha Samson
44. Ushasri M
45. Krishna Kanth AG