M.E. VLSI Design

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A two-year PG program offered to provide a broad knowledge and practical experience in VLSI Design with fundamentals in ASIC design, Digital and Analog design with six areas identified for Professional electives handled by Ph.D. qualified and experienced faculty members. The program boasts of an exclusive well equipped lab with state-of-the-art EDA tools, FPGA & embedded processor based development boards and computing facilities that is available to student use during regular and beyond regular course schedule. Students have access well equipped library with quality textbooks & reference books, and e-journals including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and others.

The program allows students to complete their Master’s thesis internally under the guidance of our faculty or externally through Industry experts with a strong emphasis on research and development.

Highlights

• Started in the year 2011
• Offers special elective courses by faculty from aboard
• Internal grant to student projects or ME thesis by SSN trust
• Some of the major software used in the program includes CADENCE, Xilinx Vivado, Intel Altera, Agilent ADS, MATLab, Intellisuite, COMSOL Multi-physics
• Strong Placement record

Programme Outcomes

Engineering Graduates will be able to:

PO1: An ability to independently carry out research / investigation and development work to solve practical problems.
PO2: An ability to write and present a substantial technical report/document.
PO3: Students should be able to demonstrate a degree of mastery over the area as per the specialization of the program. The mastery should be at a              level higher than the requirements in the appropriate bachelor program.
PO4: Design and develop solutions for problems in digital and analog electronic system through VLSI Integrated Circuits.
PO5: Execute independently the projects involving simulations and / or measurements in digital and analog electronic circuits and system design.

The program education objectives and program outcome of M.E. VLSI design are list in the following URL:

https://www.ssn.edu.in/college-of-engineering/ece-peos-and-pos/

The department of ECE offers 11 professional core subjects, 24 elective subjects, employability enhancement course, professional electives and one foundation course in mathematics. The subjects are listed below.

Core Subjects:

1. Digital CMOS VLSI Design
2. Advanced Digital System Design
3. Analog Integrated Circuit Design
4. Solid State Devices and
5. Integrated Circuits – I
6. DSP Integrated Circuits
7. Hardware Software Co-design
8. VLSI Physical Design and Algorithms
9. Design for Testability
10. Integrated Circuits Laboratory
11. VLSI System Design Laboratory

Electives:

1. VLSI System Design
2. Data Converters
3. Signal Integrity for High Speed Design
4. Microwave Integrated Circuits
5. Embedded System Design for IoT
6. Multimedia compression techniques
7. Software Defined Radio
8. Cryptography and Network Security
9. MEMS and NEMS
10. Nano Electronics and Technology
11. DSP processor architecture and programming
12. Advanced Digital Image Processing
13. Advanced Computer Organization and Architecture
14. CAD for VLSI IC Design
15. RF IC Design
16. Low Power VLSI Design
17. Scripting Languages for VLSI
18. VLSI Technology
19. Nano Scale Transistors
20. Sensors, Actuators and System Interface
21. Artificial Intelligence
22. Quantum Computing and Quantum Information
23. Solid State Devices and Integrated Circuits-II
24. Signal Processing for VLSI

Employability Enhancement Course

1. Technical Seminar
2. Technical Writing
3. Project Work Phase I
4. Project Work Phase I

• VLSI Lab
• Intel sponsored “Embedded System Lab”
• MEMS Lab
• Microprocessor and Microcontroller Lab
• Low Power Computing Lab

The students of M.E. VLSI Design has come out with flying colors in the Anna university examinations and secured top ranks. The list of rank holders since 2013 is enclosed in the following file.

Rank holders

The department of ECE encourages students to actively participate in internships offered by reputed industries and institutions. To facilitate this, MOUs are signed with corporates like TATA Elexsi, Alcatel Lucent and BIGCAT Wireless.

To motivate students to excel in studies and research, the management of SSN provides scholarships to meritorious students. For GATE candidates (in addition to AICTE stipend): are granted with

• 1,00,000 scholarship for 90 & above percentile
• 75,000 scholarship for 80 to 89 percentile

Mr. Nadin Naushad (PG-VSLI) of 2017-19 received scholarship for his outstanding work in academics.

Our post graduate students are actively involved in participating competitions organized by the state and the central government organizations.

Highlights

• Project titled “Galvanic Cell based energy harvesting system using sea water for underwater and fisheries application” under the guidance of Dr. S. Sakthivel Murugan, Asso. Prof. is accepted for demonstration in the Coimbatore Science and Technology festival. The system was demonstrated by Mr. B. Arun, II year/ME (CS) & Ms. D. Deepika, Final year/ECE in the Science & Technology festival held at Codissia Trade Fair Complex.
• Team Members from ECE comprising the following students Mr. S. Praveen, II yr ME/VLSI Design, Mr. B. Arun Kumar, II yr ME/CS, Ms. M. Pratyusha, II yr ME/CS, Ms. M. Haarika, II yr ME/CS and Dr. R. Kishore, Asso. Prof. as Mentor won the Second prize (Cash Prize: Rs. 20,000) in HackICAV’18 – A Hackathon on IoT Cloud Analytics and Visualization, organized by IIIT Kottayam, ROLTA Foundation, AIC-IIIT Kottayam, IEEE & ACM held at Lucknow during January 2019.
• Ms. G. Azhaguvarthani (PG-CS, 2015-2017), Dr. B. Ramani, Asso. Prof., “Handwritten text recognition system for English,” International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 117, no. 16, pp. 257–263, 2017.
• Mr. PSSKP Sadagopan, PG VLSI, Dr. V. Vaithianathan, Asso. Prof., and Dr. R. Srinivasan, Prof./IT, “Performance Enhancement of Reconfigurable FET using Gate Work function, Inter-Gate Length and Inter-Gate Dielectric Permittivity” 4th International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking (ICSCN 2017) organized by Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University Campus, Chennai. The paper received the “Best Paper Award”.
• Ms. R. Subhashini, PG CS 2015-2017, Dr. N. Venkateswaran, Prof., “Semi Blind Hyperspectral Unmixing using Non negative Matrix factorization” Proceedings of Computational signal processing & analysis symposium, International Conference on Next Gen Electronic Technologies: Silicon to Software-ICNETS2, Mar. 2017. The paper received the “Best Paper Award”.

The department has acquired projects from several national agencies such as DST, AICTE, NIOT, BRNS, ISRO, IGCAR, Tamilnadu Forrest Department, AICRP, etc. As of 2020, the department has successfully completed 21 projects worth Rs.3.63 crore and is currently executing 9 projects worth of Rs. 2.7 crore. To inculcate research activities among PG students, SSN management provide funding for student projects. The detailed list of projects can be accessed through the following hyperlink
https://www.ssn.edu.in/college-of-engineering/ece-research/

The department’s annual conference WISPNET technically co-sponsored by IEEE is a mega event which hosts keynote address from eminent researchers and academicians across the globe. To meet the needs of local community the department organizes a national conference called NCICT every year which is the culmination of delegates from various levels including IITs and NIT. To provide hands on training on software and hardware, the department of ECE regularly conducts workshops for PG students. Each and every event conducted by department of ECE is published in the newsletter. The information of conferences, workshops and seminars can be accessed using the hyperlink below.
https://www.ssn.edu.in/college-of-engineering/ece-newsletter/

Industrial visits:

The department of ECE encourages students to go beyond academics, industrial visits are organized to understand the practical perspective of the workplace. Every year the students accompanied by a faculty member visit various industries. The following is the list of companies visited by our students.

1. Nandhini A of ME VLSI visited the Society for Electronic Transaction and Security, Taramani, Chennai on 14-02.2020.
2. M.E students (All Branches) of 2018-20 batch visited Indian Telecom Industries (ITI), Bangalore during February 2019.
3. M.E Students (All Branches) of 2017-19 batch visited National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Tirupati during March 2018.
4. M.E Students (All Branches) of 2016-18 visited Radio Astronomy center, Ooty during Novemebr, 2017
5. M.E Communication Systems students of 2015-17 batch visited News-7 Channel to understand the broadcasting nuances on 20.08.2016.
6. M.E (CS and AE) students of 2015-17 batch visited Ennore Thermal Power Station on 02.03.2016.

Generally placement is SSN is good and it is the same for PG students also. The students are placed in top MNCs like Intel, Microchip, QUALCOMM, Sameer, Tata Communications, Alcatel -Lucent, TCS, Infosys, HCL, CTS, Valeo etc. Apart from placement PG students are interested in pursuing higher studies and research. In this regard, our students are in various Indian and foreign universities like Florida International University – USA, University of Catania – Italy, Aalto University Finland, IITs, IIITDM, NIT, SSNCE, Anna University etc. Many of our PG students interested in taking teaching profession and are placed and are well settled in in Government, Self – financing, Deemed to be Universities across various states in India.

Exclusive training on competitive question paper solving is provided by the Carrier development Cell of our Institute. Apart from this, core technology based training is provided to the PG students for 80 hours. Recently for the past two years, CCNA certification courses training is provided in the campus itself with the collaboration of Dynamic Networks Pvt, Ltd., Chennai. Students who took this training were placed before their certification exams and this have helped to acquire job from good core companies too. Few students are continuing in taking advanced training on certification which proves the quality of training provided for PG students.

Additionally, a program on “A day with Alumni for Future Alumni” is conducted by the department for the past three years continuously exclusively for the PG students. This program is a full day interaction session between present PG students with PG alumni in various sectors like core industries, software, banking, civil service, young entrepreneur etc. Through this forum, the PG students are provided information on real expectations of Industry, technical knowledge requirement, Communication skills required, Internship offers, GATE exam preparation, admission process in IITs, research opportunities available in India and abroad, placement opportunities and many more. PG alumni also give hands on experience by mock interviews.

SSN management considers alumni as a valuable asset and resource in building a successful institution. In line with that, the department of ECE regularly invites our alumni to share their academic as well as industrial experiences with the juniors to enlighten them to achieve their passion of interest

Photographs of Alumni Interaction