"The SMDP II program in VLSI" provides several resources for the use of students, staff and faculty. The program is funded by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt of India to set up VLSI design laboratories with advanced EDA tools in all the 32 Institutions. the 32 institutions which is formed by 7 Resource centres and 25 participating Institutions. The EDA tools and information used in the various courses taught during the course of Post-graduate and Research Programs.

IISc, Bangalore is one of the Resource centre under this program. The other participating institutions associated with IISc are NIT Suratkal, PSGCT Coimbatore and BESU Shibpur.

The SMDP lab is being jointly run by the CEDT and ECE departments of IISc. It hosts a variety of VLSI EDA Software tools which are used by ME/MTech/MSc and PhD students of IISc for their course and research projects related to VLSI.

The SMDP Lab at CEDT department IISc, Bangalore has popular VLSI design Lab, computer and electronic simulation labs for MTech & ME / MS and Phd students and faculty.

The SMDP II program started in the year 2006

Objective:-

The objective of this program is to develop the VLSI activities with the establishment of VLSI Design Labs at Resource centres and participating Institutions by giving training to post graduate (ME / M Tech) and Doctoral (Phd) levels in VLSI Microelectronics fields.