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//VLSI Design Laboratory// \\
INFN, Sezione di Torino \\
Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica \\
via Pietro Giuria 1 \\
10125, Torino, Italy \\
Phone: +39.011.670.7380 \\
Fax: +39.011.669.9579 \\
E-mail: //__[[vlsi-users@NOSPAMto.infn.it]]__// \\
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Welcome to the __**//[[vlsi:info|VLSI Design Laboratory]]//**__ Wiki home page!
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The //VLSI Design Laboratory// is part of the __**//[[elettronica:home|Electronics Service]]//**__
of the Turin Section of INFN. It provides analog, digital, mixed-mode and radiation tolerant design
capabilities devoted to the development of full-custom **Application-Specific
Integrated Circuits (ASICs)**, meeting microeletronics requests made by different physics research groups
at the University of Turin. \\
The design flow is carried out with extensive use of **computer-aided design (CAD)**
techniques. In particular, the VLSI lab offers a large collection of professional **electronic design
automation (EDA)** softwares licensed by INFN for analog, mixed-mode and digital IC design.
These tools are commercial solutions and de-facto industry standards.
VLSI lab __[[vlsi:wiki:about|Wiki pages]]__ would become the primary source of documentation about design activities
and provide a simple environment for collecting whatever can make the daily work a bit easier.
//If you are a new student, please read carefully Wiki pages dedicated to
**__[[vlsi:workbook:computing|obtaining accounts and getting started with the VLSI lab computing environment]]__** !//
====== Projects and research activities =======
The VLSI lab is currently involved in several design projects.
Full-custom analog and mixed-mode design activities are focused on the development
of fast, low-noise and low-power radiation tolerant integrated front-end electronics for pixel
and silicon strip detectors, which are used for //particle tracking//, //timing// and //energy
measurements//. Digital design activities range from the concept of the overall control logic for the
analog part to high-level digital signal processing, data acquisition and fast and
high-rate off-chip data transmission.
For some years now, special attention is devoted to the design of hybrid pixel and double-sided
microstrip detector readout chips for the //Micro Vertex Detector (MVD)// of the **PANDA
(antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt)** experiment at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion
Research (Germany). In this project the Turin Section of INFN holds the overall //R&D// management
and coordination. \\
Since 2011 the VLSI lab has been also involved in both medium (2016-2017) and long-term (2020-2022) //upgrade projects//
of the **ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)** and **CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid)**
detectors at the CERN **Large Hadron Collider (LHC)**. \\
Furtheromore, opportunities offered by recent breakthroughs in the development of microelectronics
for precise time and energy measurements has been exploited in designing the front-end electronics for
**medical applications** in positron emission tomography (PET) and for a third party commercial project
supported by **[[http://europa.eu/policies-activities/funding-grants/|EU funding]]**.
Wiki pages of current VLSI activities can be accessed __[[vlsi:projects|here]]__.
They are meant to provide public documentation and links as well as private users support.
Descriptions of **past projects** and **designs** which have been completed in the last decades
can be found in __[[vlsi:projects:old|Old projects]]__ pages instead.
See also //[[http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~mazza/projects.html]]//
Details about **master theses opportunities** can be found __[[vlsi:theses:opportunities|here]]__.
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====== Private area ======
To read VLSI protected pages, you must first __[[vlsi:workbook:computing:accounts#wiki_account|obtain a VLSI Wiki account]]__.
You can access the VLSI protected area __[[vlsi:private:home|here]]__.
Left click on ''Entra'' at the top-right of the home page and authenticate yourself
using your Wiki credentials.
//Never put confidential and restricted information on Wiki public pages !//
====== Wiki resources =======
[ __[[vlsi:outreach|Outreach]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:csn5|INFN/CSN5]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:workbook|Design WorkBook]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:lectures:phunito|ph.unito courses (Campusnet)]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:conferences|Conferences]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:seminars|Seminars]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:meetings|Students internal meetings]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:lectures|Electronics lectures and courses]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:support|EDA tools official support and training]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:theses:archive|Theses archive]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:workbook:computing:unix|UNIX/Linux]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:latex|LaTex]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:verilog|Verilog]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:systemverilog|SystemVerilog]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:uvm|UVM]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:vhdl|VHDL]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:fpga|FPGA]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:resources:books|Books]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:publications|Publications]]__ ]
[ __[[vlsi:workbook:glossary|Glossary]]__ ]
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[ __[[vlsi:personalpages|Wiki personal pages]]__ ]
====== INFN resources ======
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[ __[[http://personalpages.to.infn.it/|Personal pages]]__ ]
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====== External resources ======
[ __[[http://www.asic-world.com/|asic-world.com]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.cadence.com|cadence.com]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.designers-guide.org/|designers-guide.org]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.eda.org/|eda.org]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.edaboard.com/|edaboard.com]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.europractice.com/|EUROPRACTICE Services]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.semiwiki.com|semiwiki.com]]__ ]
[ __[[http://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=1591|CERN PH-ESE electronics seminars]]__ ]
[ __[[http://www.vlsi-expert.com/|vlsi-expert.com]]__ ]
[ __[[http://vlsi.pro|vlsi.pro]]__ ]
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Wiki creator: [[pacher@NOSPAMto.infn.it|Luca Pacher]] \\
Last update: [[pacher@NOSPAMto.infn.it|Luca Pacher]] - Jan 29, 2015
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