Welcome to CAD Research Group

The CAD Research Group is part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Tehran.The University of Tehran is the oldest and largest university in Iran with 32,000 student population, 111 undergraduate, 177 graduate and 156 Ph.D. degree programs. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is the largest engineering school of the College of Engineering, and is known for the role of its alumni in the top international educational and research instructions.

The CAD Research Group was founded in 1998 by funding from Iran's Hi-Tech Industries Center for the purpose of providing electronic CAD tools for domestic use and international distribution. Since then, this group has developed register-transfer level (RTL) simulation, synthesis, and test tools and environments, and has moved from the RT level of abstraction to the transaction level modeling (TLM) that is the required level of abstraction for system design.

Our research and development group has created a strong EDA infrastructure by developing its own EDA tools that include VHDL and Verilog analyzers, a mixed signal simulator, test and testability tools, generic RTL synthesis tools, EDA GUIs, and many utility tools for assertion verification, waveform editing, display and language translation. These tools are being used as a foundation for advanced EDA/ESL research as well as development of newer state of the art ESL tools at the transaction level and beyond.

With collaboration of Iran's ministry of Science, Research and Technology, some of the more basic tools are being distributed throughout the country for improving education and research in the areas of hardware and digital system design and test. Our experts in the fields of hardware description languages, EDA tools, logic design, and FPGA based design and implementation are helping other universities with tutorials, tools, and teaching material to modernize their digital system and hardware design education.

Over the years, the CAD Research Group of the University of Tehran has graduated many M.S. and Ph.D. students. We currently have a total of 35 part-time and full-time employees. There are four Ph.D., twelve M.S., a number of B.S. students, and several full-time researchers working on various aspects of automation of design and test. Our group has publications in major international conferences and journals. We have conducted several domestic and international tutorials in our fields of research and development.

 

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March 15-17 2011,     Visit our booth at: 14'th Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE'11),Grenoble, France, 14-18 March 2011