The VLSI design laboratory is established in 1993 with the aim
of conducting research in various aspects of the evergrowing field
of Very Large Scale Integration and establishing links between
industrial companies in order to meet their ASIC demands. With
the recruitment of new faculty members with backgrounds in the
field, new projects were sought for and as a consequence of the
received support from various sources both internal to the university
and the leading industrial companies, the VLSI design lab. facilities
are now housed in BETA which is named after the recently established
Boğaiçi Üniversitesi Elektronik Tasarım ve Araştırma Laboratuvarı
(Boğaziçi University Electronic CAD Laboratory) in July 1996.
The laboratory which has been a member of Europractice since 1995,
is equipped with nine SUN workstations, all of which are capable
of running a full version of MentorGraphics suite of tools as
well as HSPICE. The lab has Altera FPGA tools, several personal
computers, and various equipment for testing and characterization
of ICs.