CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN VLSI DESIGN

 

The Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering was established in the year 1980 with an intake of 35 students and the number was subsequently raised to 240 students over the last four decades. The department is presently offering 4-year B. Tech program in ECE, 2-year M.Tech program in Communication Systems besides the Ph.D. program. The department was accredited by NBA four times consecutively. It was recognized as a research center by AU, Visakhapatnam and JNTU, Kakinada. The department has student chapters of professional bodies such as IETE and the college level ISTE. These bodies regularly conduct various technical events for students.

Motivated by the recent national and international thrust on research, the department has begun to consider research seriously. As a result, a good number of faculty members obtained doctoral degrees and the remaining are being pursued. The department is giving high importance to publications which in turn gives impetus to research in the department. It established an Excellent Research Centre in VLSI Design. The center aims to conduct extensive research in VLSI Design contributing to academic excellence.

The field of VLSI Design has an enormous growth in research over the past two decades. With worldwide semiconductor revenue reaching $48.8 billion in October 2021, there is a need to design and produce highly efficient and specialized chips. The advanced tools in VLSI chip design enable professionals to build VLSI chip designing capabilities that can power new-age technologies like AI, IoT, Mobility, Cloud, and Analytics.