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VSI Publications

VSI publishes the half-yearly technical journal VSI VISION, which all members receive. It also compiles softcopies of the proceedings of all workshops, short-courses and VDAT (VLSI Design and Test Symposium), which has hardcopy publication additionally.

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Publication Cost incl. postage
VLSI Design And Test - Milestones and Challenges - 2000 Rs 300
Frontiers of VLSI Design And Test - 2001 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Frontiers of VLSI Design And Test - 2001 (CD) Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2002 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2002 (CD) Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2003 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2003 (CD) Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2004 (CD) Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2004 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2005 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
VDAT2005 (CD - Tutorial-1) "Analog Design and Synthesis Issues for Scaling CMOS Technologies" Rs 150
VDAT2005 (CD - Tutorial-2) "Implementation Challenges in Embedded Systems" Rs 150
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2005 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2006 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
VDAT2006 (CD - Tutorial-1) "Analog Design" Rs 150
VDAT2006 (CD - Tutorial-2) "Low-power Electronics and Future Technologies" Rs 150
VDAT2006 (CD - Tutorial-3) " Testing and Verification" Rs 150
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2006 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
VDAT2007 (CD - Tutorial-T1, T2 & T3)

T1: ANALOG DESIGN AND BIOCHIPS
Tutorial-1: Low Power Design Technique in Analog And Mixed-Signal Design
Dr. Chetan Parikh (DAIICT) and Dr. Krishnapura (IIT Madras)
Tutorial-2: Design And Test of Microfluidic Biochips
Dr. K. Chakrabarty (Duke University, USA)

T2: SYSTEM-ON-CHIP TEST
Tutorial-3: Manufacturing Test Solutions for System-On-Chip Integrated Circuits
Dr. E. Larsson (Linkoping University, Sweden) and Dr. K. Chakrabarty (Duke University, USA)
Tutorial-4: Compression, Delay Test and Diagnosis :
Ensure High Quality, Low Cost and Quick Yield Ramp of Nanometer Ics
Navneet Kaushik, Shaleen Babu and Sameer Chillarige (Cadence)

T3: POWER MANAGEMENT
Tutorial-5: Power Management Circuits Design & Applications
Amit Patra and S. Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur, Ram Anant and S. Venkatraman, TI India

Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2007 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2007 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
VDAT2008 (CD - Tutorial-T1, T2 & T3)

Tutorial – I
RF Design and Test
RFIC Design and Testing for Wireless Communications
Vishwani Agrawal and Foster Dai, (Auburn University)
Tutorial – II
Low Power Design
SoC Power Management Architecture Design and Verification
Dr. Bhanu Kapoor (Mimasic), Shankar Hemmady (Synopsys), and Sandeep Aggarwal (TI)
Ultra Low-Power Processors for Embedded Systems
Atul Lele (Texas Instruments) and Gurjit Singh Gill (Gill Instruments)
Tutorial – III
Design Verification Methodologies
Holistic Verification: Myth or The Magic Bullet?
Pradip Thaker, Analog Devices
Foundations of Design Verification- Formal and Functional Approaches
Ansuman Banerjee; Kausik Datta; and Amit Roy (Interra Systems India Pvt. Ltd.)
Design Verification using Static Checker and Verification of Clock-domain Crossing
Kaushik De, Synopsys
Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2008 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2008 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
VDAT2009 (CD - Tutorial-T1, T2, T3 & T4)
Tutorial – IM
Open Source Embedded System Development using Beagleboard
Syed Khasim (Texas Instruments India)
Tutorial – II
Compact Modeling and PDK's
Madabusi Govindarajan, Tamilmani Ethirajan, Abhisek Dixit, and Josef Watts (IBM)
Tutorial – III Part-1
Test Cost Reduction Techniques, Current Practices, Challenges and Impact
Sarveswara Tammali (Texas Instruments India)
Tutorial – III Part-2
Test Power Reduction Techniques: Current Practices, Challenges and Impact
C.P. Ravikumar and V.R. Devanathan (Texas Instruments)
Tutorial – IV Part-1
Telemedicine
Poornima Mohanachandran (i2iTeleSolutions)
Tutorial – IV Part-2
Assistive Devices for the Visually Impaired
M Balakrishnan (IIT Delhi)
Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2009 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2009 (Hardcopy) Rs 500
VDAT2010 (CD - Tutorial-T1, T2, & T3)
Tutorial - 1A
Fundamentals of SoC Power Management Architecture Design and Verification
Bhanu Kapoor (Mimasic); Prapanna Tiwari (Synopsys); John Goodenough (ARM Embedded Technologies); Amit Kumar (Sirf/CSR); and Milind Padhye (Freescale)
Tutorial - 1B
VLSI and System Design for Solar PV Energy Management - Why, What and How
Nagavolu Murty; Mukesh Nair; Jayalakshmi P; and Mahadev Cholachagudda (NXP Semiconductors)
Tutorial - 2A
Network-on-Chip: The Next Generation of Multi-Processor System-on-Chip
Santanu Chattopadhyay; and Santanu Kundu (IIT Kharagpur)
Tutorial - 2B
Video Codecs for Embedded Multimedia Systems
Milind Phadtare (NXP Semiconductors)
Tutorial - 3
An Overview of Modern-day VLSI Design and Test
C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments, India)
Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2010 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
VDAT2011 (CD - Tutorial-T1, T2, & T3)
Tutorial - 1A
Fundamentals & Design of Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs)
Dipankar Nagchoudhuri, Subhajit Sen, and Chetan Parikh (DAIICT, Gandhinagar)
Tutorial - 1B
Future directions in IC technology for RF communication: Challenges and Opportunities
Rajnish Sharma (CIET, Chandigarh)
Tutorial - 2A
Challenges in the Physical Implementation of Automotive SoC's in RFCMOS65
Madhu Kiran, and Christian Joseph (NXP Semiconductors)
Tutorial - 2B
Challenges in Automotive Chip Testing for Power Consumption & Analog-Mixed Signal Test
Janardhan E, Venkatesh S S, and Saurabh Patodia (NXP Semiconductors India Pvt. Ltd)
Tutorial - 3
An Overview of Modern-day VLSI Design & Test Practices
C.P. Ravikumar (Texas Instruments, India)
Rs 250
Progress in VLSI Design And Test - 2011 (CD - Symposium) Rs 250
Proceedings of VSI workshops, short-courses since 2005 (CD)
Please visit VSI Events for the list of all events.
Rs 250

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Softcopies of Newsletter and periodical

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     VSI Vision Volume 5, Issue 1: January - July 2009 PDF 4.50MB
     VSI Vision Volume 4, Issue 2: July 2008 PDF 1.00MB
     VSI Vision Volume 4, Issue 1: January 2008 PDF 2.71MB
     VSI Vision Volume 3, Issue 2: August 2007 PDF 1.60MB
     VSI Vision Volume 3, Issue 1: January 2007 PDF 1.92MB
     VSI Vision Volume 2, Issue 1: August 2006 PDF 1.41MB
     VSI Vision Volume 1, Issue 2: December 2005 PDF 1.50MB
     VSI Vision Volume 1, Issue 1: August 2005 PDF 2.33MB
     Volume 2, No. 1; January 2005 PDF 0.99MB
     Volume 1, No. 3; December 2004 PDF 142KB
     Volume 1, No. 2; August 2004 PDF 355KB
     Volume 1, No. 1; January 2004 PDF 732KB

Article extracts from VSI Vision

International Publications from Indian Authors
      (Vol.4, Issue-2, July 2008)
      PDF, 228 KB
As Processing Becomes Digital Intensive, Systems Will Require More Analogue Content
      Interview with Dr. Biswadeep (Bobby) Mitra, Texas Instruments India
      PDF, 110 KB
International Publications from Indian Authors
      (Vol.4, Issue-1, January 2008)
      PDF, 135 KB
Infrastructures for Education, Research and Industry in Microelectronics – Recent Developments
      B. Courtois, K. Torki, S. Colin, H. Delori, S. DUMONT, S. Eyraud, J-F Paillotin, G. di Pendina CMP Service, France
      PDF, 94 KB
What’s Beyond CMOS? The Answer Is CMOS
      Dave Bursky, Chip Design (First appeared in Chip Design)
      PDF, 104 KB

Audible Color: Custom Design and Implementation of System for Light to Sound Conversion
      Team Rainbow and Dr. S.S. Mahant Shetti (Senior Member, IEEE) (Vol.3, Issue-2, August 2007)
      PDF, 513 KB
Medal of Honor: Thomas Kailath, The Man Who Loved Algorithms
      Article Reproduced with Permission from IEEE. IEEE Spectrum, 2007, May Issue
      (Vol.3, Issue-2, August 2007)
      PDF, 135 KB

Tips for Getting A Transactions Article Published
      Prof. Bimal K. Bose, Life Fellow, IEEE
      (Published in Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter, vol. 53, March 2006)
      (Vol.3, Issue-1, January 2007)
      PDF, 164 KB

Euclidean Distance Computation Algorithm for QAM Applications
      Prajnanam Project Team, S.S. Mahant Shetti, Senior Member, IEEE, KarMic
      (Vol.1, Issue-2, December 2005)
      PDF, 289 KB

The changing landscape for Semiconductors
      Vinod Dham, Reprinted with permission from "Silicon India" January 2005
      (Vol.2, Issue-1, August 2006)
      PDF, 214 KB

Design Technology Challenges in the Sub-100 Nanometer Era
      V. Vishvanathan, C.P.Ravikumar, and Vinod Menezes, Texas Instruments India
      (Vol.1, Issue-1, August 2005)
      PDF, 133 KB

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