Research
Facilities in CICS
The
Center has a strong commitment to build competitive research and education
programs in circuits and systems design areas. The center currently
has ten faculty members. Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science to which the center belongs is the fastest growing
program in the country. All institutional resources needed for this
effort are already in place: (a) Research laboratories have a network
of Sun Blade 100, Sun Blade 200, Ultra 30 workstations. In addition to the
Sun workstations, several networked Pentium 4 class PCs and printers
are available for research. A design prototyping and test facility
supported by high speed logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and test equipment
is also in place. The facility also includes a host of reconfigurable
computing and design prototyping platforms. These include RACE and
NEBULA architectures built under Air Force funded RACE program, the
REACT architecture built under DARPA funded REACT program, Tricend
embedded microcontroller based programmable hardware, ACE card from
TSI Telesys, Wildforce Card from Annapolis Microsystem, Several cards
representing HOT I, HOT II, and Virtex based prototyping environments
from VCC Corporation, and mixed collection of Virtex -II, Altera
NIOS, and CPLD based boards from XESS corporation. Hardware resources
are complemented by wide variety of state-of-the-art academic and
commercial CAD tools suitable for circuits and systems research. We
have commercial CAD tools from Xilinx, Cadence,Texas Instruments,Synopsys
and Altera.
