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Digital Circuits & VLSI Testing Laboratories

The digital circuits laboratory is a computer-based lab, featured with software useful to
design, analyse and simulate the performance of digital circuits, of either combinatio-
nal or sequential type. The VLSI test laboratory was founded based on industrial gra-
de design automation tools provided by Mentor, a Siemens Business. This software
comprises several best-in-class EDA solutions, used to generate, simulate, and apply
production test patterns for digital circuits and systems. During classes, students learn
how to automate the process of test generation, fault simulation, test point insertion,
and fault diagnosis. Furthermore, they are taught basics of modern HDL design for testa-
bility (using Verilog), test compression, and built-in self-test.

Software Engineering Laboratory

This fundamental computer-network laboratory is used for training skills in algo-
rithmic de-sign and C/C++ programming, computer network configuration and crea-
tion of WWW webpages. The laboratory consist of two air-conditioned rooms,
equipped with 18 and 16 PCs, respectively. Depending on the class, either MS Win-
dows 10 or Linux Ubuntu operating systems are used.

High-performance computer claster

Nowadays, conducting reliable research in the field of wireless communications requires
intensive and long-term computation efforts. In order to meet these requirements, a
multi-processor computer cluster (of 258 cores) has been built. The cluster consists of
15 AMD Phenom II processors (each of 6 cores and clock rate of 3 GHz), 12 AMD FX-
8320 processors (each of 8 cores and clock rate 3.5 GHz) and 9 AMD Ryzen 7 pro-
cessors (each of 8 cores and clock rate 3 GHz). For each processor, at least 8 GB of RAM
is assigned. Such a configuration allows for independent usage of each of 258 cores.
Both sequential and parallel computations are allowed. Such flexibility allows for efficient
cluster use in various research, but also in teaching tasks.