Laboratories Keystone Mixed-Technology Microsystems Design
Keystone Mixed-Technology Microsystems Design:
271i Benedum Hall
The Keystone Mixed-Technology Microsystems Design Laboratory supports a heterogeneous network of over a dozen computing platforms including SUN/SunOS and Solaris, PC/Windows and Linux workstations. A RAID file server supports the research group, and several compute servers that are dedicated to Micro and Nano Systems CAD based projects.
Design software includes commercial electronics design tools from Altera, Cadence, Mentor, Synopsis, Tanner, and Xilinx and Analog design tools from Neolinear. The available optical system design tools include OSLO (for lens design and imaging), and RSoft (for beam-propagation and fiber networks). Micro-mechanical CAD design is supported with packages from Ansys, Cadence and Tanner. A number of university based tools and other utilities have been developed and maintained in-house.
Major research projects, funded over the past 10 years by grants from Telcordia, Coventor, the National Science Foundation and DARPA have been in the area of developing a comprehensive framework for computer aided design of mixed-signal multi-domain microsystems. The results of much of this work is embodied in a software environment, Chatoyant, developed at the University of Pittsburgh. Chatoyant has been used to model a wide range of optical-MEM systems including micro-mirror arrays, for display and network switches; thermal, and electrostatically actuated switches, MEMS based interferometer switches; grating light-valve beam steering display systems; and several free space optoelectronic computing and communications systems.
We have used these facilities to successfully design and test a number of electronic and optoelectronic devices and systems. These have been fabricated by the MOSIS service using multiple CMOS and GaAs foundries, Peregrine Semiconductor, using their UTSi (Silicon on Sapphire) foundry, AT&T Lucent, using their GaAs FET-SEED process and several experimental projects fabricated through the Consortium for Optical and Optoelectronic Technologies in Computing Program (CO-OP) funded by DARPA.
Contact: Professor Steven P. Levitan (steve@ee.pitt.edu)
Visit http://kona.ee.pitt.edu/pittcad
