Skilled Manpower Advanced Research and Training (SMART) facility or Virtual Prototyping Lab is set up at NIELIT Calicut as part of Chip to Start-up (C2S) programme of MeitY for the proliferation of advanced VLSI and Embedded system design training, research, and electronics systems development across the country.

To learn electronics hardware and embedded system design concepts, and to acquire design skills, it is inevitable to practise laboratory experiments. Skilled Manpower Advanced Research and Training (SMART) facility for conducting skilled training programmes through remote hardware facility in the state-of-the-art areas of Embedded System, VLSI, & Electronic Product Design.

* Courses of beginner, intermediate and advanced levels complexity shall be started in a phased manner. 

Registered  20,750

Certified 7,766

The beginner level programmes in the areas of VLSI and Embedded

S No Course Name Course Fee Start Date Course Tenure Regn Link 1. Embedded for Beginners Free 10-04-2024 5 Days + 1 SMART Lab Session (1-Week)   2. VLSI for Beginners Free 10-04-2024 5 Days + 1 SMART Lab Session (1-Week)   3. Python for Beginners Free 10-04-2024 5 Days    4. Introduction to MATLAB & Simulink Free 10-04-2024  5 hrs - Daily (1 hr Theory + 1 hr Lab)   5. MicroPython Primer Free 22-05-2024 5 Days + 1 SMART Lab Session (1-Week)   6. RISC-V programming primer Free Will be announced 5 Days + 1 SMART Lab Session (1-Week)   7. Machine Learning using Python Free Will be announced  10 hrs - Daily (1 hr Theory + 1 hr Lab)

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOC) 

S No MOOC Name Course Fee Start Date Major Topics Regn Link 1. FPGA Architecture and Programming Free for C2S participating institute Certification Criteria Applicable # 25-03-2024 Introduction to VLSI Design flow  RTL Design (Verilog HDL) Quick start FSM Coding  Fundamental of Programmable Logic FPGA Architecture &Design Flow Timing Fundamentals Advanced FPGA Topics 2. ARM based Soc Design 25-03-2024 Introduction to Verilog HDL & Hierarchical Modelling Concepts AHB Light bus architecture Building a System on Chip- Integrating AHB peripherals to ARM  UART, Timer, MEMORY, GPIO etc.   3. MOOC on Embedded C and ARM Microcontrollers 25-03-2024 Introduction to Embedded Systems Embedded C Programming ARM Cortex M Architecture Overview Introduction to STM32 Microcontrollers & Development Boards Overview of IDEs for STM32 Microcontrollers Peripheral libraries & drivers for STM32 Microcontrollers ARM Cortex Microcontroller peripherals – GPIO, Timers, Interrupts, PWM UART Serial bus protocol with STM32 Microcontrollers

 

Certification Criteria for MOOC :

 

•  50% for attendance and 50% for exit test.
•  Payment of Certification fee (Rs 1000/- per head) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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