The Vela Effort at MSU

The Vela project is an experiment in distributed ECAD using the WWW. The Vela project is headed by Franc Brglez at NCSU. MSU is participating in the Vela project in two areas:

• Design Libraries and Services. MSU is providing Standard Cell library services over the WWW. The library services include synthesis and layout using an internally developed WWW-based server name JavaCADD for remote CAD tool invocation of commercial tools which run on MSU resources. The standard cell libraries were developed at MSU and are compatible with MOSIS technologies.
  
  • JavaCADD Client
  • JavaCADD Server
  • Presentation
  • Overview Paper

• Design Driver. The design driver for the WWW capability being developed within Vela is a single chip multimedia processor. The processor contains an embedded RISC core, a PCI bus interface, MPEG Video Decompression block, and an audio codec. MSU is working with Anantha Chandrakasan on the MPEG decoder block. The design driver effort is headed by Jan Rabaey (Berkely), other members include Anantha Chandrakasan (MIT),Dimitri Antonaidis (MIT), and Teresa Meng (MIT).