VSDSquadron

The Power of VLSI with
Chip Design & Manufacturing

One Chip One Board One Lab Setup with Open Tool Chain

VSDSquadron

The Power of VLSI with
Chip Design & Manufacturing

One Chip One Board One Lab Setup with Open Tool Chain

What is VSDSquadron ?

Development Board

An educational kit and cutting-edge development board. With general-purpose interfaces that enables to evaluate features of RISC-V ISA

Opportunity

An exceptional opportunity for individuals to learn about RISC-V and VLSI chip design utilizing only open-source tools.

Gateway to RISC-V Programming

VSDSquadron labs are designed to get started with RISC-V programming, synthesis, physical design, and circuit design.

Industry-Grade Educational Content

Kit includes RISC-V Programming and VLSI Chip Design industry grade educational content.

Build Application

The VSDSquadron board comes with a minimum of 10 GPIOs, which makes it ideal for a diverse range of projects.

Kit Modules

VSDSquadron Modules covers RISC-V Basics, RTL Design and Synthesis, Physical Design, Circuit design and SPICE simulations.

Key Features

Kit-Centric Learning Modules

VSDSquadron trains universities and students in EEE/ECE/CSE/IT/E&I streams on Chip Design and Manufacturing skills, covering 20 Engineering Course Labs.

Development kit specification design

Interfaces in schematic

RISC-V ISA, Implementation and Verification

System Design and Modelling using Verilog

PCB Power Supply Design

Discrete Devices Design R & C, Diodes , Connectors, Crystal

CAD for VLSI Design

SOC Design & Implementation

Analog IP Design - PLL, DAC, ADC, Comparator, SRAM

PCB Design & Packaging

Development kit specification design

Interfaces in schematic

PCB Power Supply Design

System Design and Modelling using Verilog

RISC-V ISA, Implementation and Verification

PCB Design & Packaging

CAD for VLSI Design

SOC Design & Implementation

Analog IP Design - PLL, DAC, ADC, Comparator, SRAM

Discrete Devices Design R & C, Diodes, Connectors, Crystal

VSDSquadron trains universities and students in EEE/ECE/CSE/IT/E&I streams on Chip Design and Manufacturing skills, covering 20 Engineering Course Labs.

Development kit specification design

Interfaces in schematic

RISC-V ISA, Implementation and Verification

System Design and Modelling using Verilog

PCB Power Supply Design

Discrete Devices Design R & C, Diodes , Connectors, Crystal

CAD for VLSI Design

SOC Design & Implementation

Analog IP Design - PLL, DAC, ADC, Comparator, SRAM

PCB Design & Packaging

Development kit specification design

Interfaces in schematic

PCB Power Supply Design

System Design and Modelling using Verilog

RISC-V ISA, Implementation and Verification

PCB Design & Packaging

CAD for VLSI Design

SOC Design & Implementation

Analog IP Design - PLL, DAC, ADC, Comparator, SRAM

Discrete Devices Design R & C, Diodes, Connectors, Crystal

Demo Videos

VSD - Approach

STEP 1

Online IP Design Hackathon
3 Weeks

STEP 2

Hardware Design Program
10 Weeks

STEP 3

Tape out designed IP

STEP 4

Design Webinar & Documentation

STEP 5

Post Silicon Testing & Benchmarking

VSD - Statistics

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Online Beginner Course

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RTL GDSII VSD-IAT Workshop

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VSD Community Based Silicon Tape Out

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Analog & Mixed Signal IPs

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VSDOpen Online Conference

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Unique Global students

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VSD Hackathon Participants

VSD - Secret Sauce

“Online & Open Source”

ONLINE COURSE

Low cost
42 Modules which cover Basic to Advance VLSI Chip Design, RISC-V Architecture, Open Source tools for tapeout

2011

WORKSHOP

Complete RTL2GDS flow
14 Workshops on Cloud Enabled Design Lab taken by 20,000 + participants

2017

VSDOPEN ONLINE CONFERENCE

2018

HACKATHON

Open Source
Executed 7 Series participated by more than 10,800+ on cloud platform to learn and design

2020

TAPEOUT

Community Designed
62 Designs have been submitted for manufacturing in Google sponsored SKY130 Shuttle

2020

BOARD

VSDSquadron
A complete board for RISC-V learning and VLSI Chip design with Open source tools and course loaded in USB stick

2023

VSDOpen

 Pioneer of Online Conference

VSDOpen 2018 Keynote & Paper

First ever Online Semiconductor Conference was successfully attended by presenters and audience all over the world from different time zone and made it a grand event. All thanks to the Keynote speakers and Paper presenter who delivered so advanced industry edge content to our audience.

VSDOpen 2019

Welcome to the World’s Only Online Conference in Semiconductor Industry VSDOpen Conference 2019. With enormous support and global presence of audience from different segments of industrial lobby and academia made VSDOpen 2018 a highly successful event. Evolution is change in the genetic makeup of a population over time, online conference is one kind evaluation everyone adapt soon.

VSDOpen 2020

We are really excited to showcase some masterpieces of work done by Research Interns over last year, and also, we are really excited to introduce you to novel techniques of learning and designing analog/digital IP’s. This time, we are about to showcase you a list of projects which was achieved for the very first time in the field of open-source.

VSDOpen 2021

We are excited this year to talk more about the silicon and the journey towards tapeout. The term tape-out was named so because historically a magnetic tape was used to store all the ASIC design files and this tape was then send to the foundry for manufacturing. Tape out is a major milestone in every VLSI Engineer lifecycle.

VSDOpen 2022

VSDOpen 2022 is an online conference to share open-source research with the community and promote hardware design mostly done by the student community.

VSDOpen 2022 is based on the theme “How to lower the cost to learn, build, and tapeout chips?”, which will provide a platform to community to build stronger designs and strengthen the future of Chip design.

VSDOpen 2023

In this groundbreaking year of VSDOpen2023, we proudly launched the VSD’s First RISC-V based Product Development Hackathon, marking a pivotal shift in our trajectory.

The RISC-V based Product Development Hackathon is not just an event—it’s a journey from knowledge to application for innovation. Aimed to enlighten young India, this platform is crucial in navigating the intricate path from hardware design to the final product.

Pan India RISCV Roadshow on VSDSquadron

 IIT Madras & Gujarat

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VSD - Read More

“VSDSquadron”: Empowering Learners with Open-Source Technology and VLSI/RISC-V Skills

Embedded and Chip design Education curriculum – All in one via VSDSquadron

Five reasons why you need VLSI and RISC-V education board ‘VSDSquadron’

Media Coverage

VSD Team interview taken by DD News at SEMICON India 2024

RISC-V Roadshow on SHAKTI Ideology

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VSDSquadron was launched by Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras

Innovation & Education Unite

VSD Launches VSDSquadron In Collaboration With IIT Madras & DIR-V

Unleashing VLSI

Job Roles, Convergence With Embedded Systems, and Startups

Semicon India Future Skills by IESA

VSD showcased at Semicon India 2023

Puthiya Thalaimurai

VSDSquadron Educational board on Tamil News channel

NIT Jamshedpur

5 Day Workshop on VLSI Design Flow using RISCV and EDA Tools

Sahyadri College

Karnataka VLSI roadshow at Sahyadri College, Mangalore

VSD - Supporters

If you are interested to buy the board