Founded in the year 2000 with the active support of the IIT Foundation and several companies, the Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory is a state-of-the-art centre for advanced research in VLSI Design, Test and CAD.

The lab has established industry standard design and verification flows. The AVLSI Lab has its own state-of-the-art test equipment procured with institute support. More than 100 chips have been designed in this lab, fabricated and successfully tested.

Currently more than 60 PhD students and full time MS students work under the ambit of the lab. Each year about 70-80 papers are published in areas related to VLSI design and CAD by the students and faculty associated with the activities of the Lab. There are several research groups in the lab, who have specific areas of expertise, such as Digital Design, Analog Design, RFIC, Power Management, Test, Verification & CAD, and MEMS.

In recent times several vertical domains are emerging which exploit the expertise of multiple research groups. This includes application-specific Sensor-Nodes, Medical Electronics, Automotive Electronics, Software Radio, Mobile and Wireless Computing and next generation Semiconductor Devices.

At present, a number of sponsored projects are being conducted through the AVLSI lab, which is funded by government agencies and private industries. The lab also has a strong collaborative network with top university research groups across the globe.

Contact: Prof. Tarun Kanti Bhattacharya tkb@ece.iitkgp.ac.in