Lviv Polytechnic National University is the oldest technological
university in Eastern Europe (it was founded in 1844) and one
of the largest in Ukraine. The overall numbers of students amounts
to 16,000. They are enrolled in 76 subject fields. At Lviv Polytechnic
National University there are 16 faculties with 82 academic departments
and over 1,500 teaching staff, over 150 of whom hold the degree
of Doctor of Science and over 1000 - the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Scientific research is pursued in 4 large research and design
institutes and in about 100 laboratories, with a staff of about
1,000 researchers. Lviv Polytechnic National University has a
long tradition of education of international students.
The University actively participates in external economic activities.
Contracts have been signed with a number of foreign companies
for the export of the results of scientific research. Contacts
for scientific and technical cooperation have been signed with
universities in USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Austria,
Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria and other countries. One of the largest
TEMPUS/TACIS projects in Ukraine entitled "Modernisation
and Development of the Teaching of English and German at Lviv
Polytechnic State University" (T_JEP 10090-95) was implemented
from 1995-1998.
The project will be carried out by the Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Department of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information
Technologies, which is one of the largest faculties at the University
(academic staff: 94, including: 8 Dr.Sc., 78 Ph.D.; student body:
over 1,000).
The research mission of CAD Department is the research activities
in field of CAD tools development in microelectronics, namely:
a) The development of the methodology of probabilistic analysis
of CMOS physical defects in complex gates of VLSI circuits for
defect-based test generation and the development and the improvement
of the special software tool "FIESTA", main destination
of which is the faults identification and estimation of testability
of complex gates from standard cell libraries.
b) The development of the special open systems filled with training
components in modern software market in microelectronics: development
of the special software tools for solving the problems of the
design of analogue non-linear ICs (solving the problem of the
parametric optimisation of analogue ICs; ICs simplified models
synthesis; tolerances assignment; analysis and simulation of analogue
ICs; providing the manufacturability of ICs). For instance, the
open training system ­ circuit simulator "Micro-PC"
is developed on the PC platform.
c) The development of CAD tools for the layout design of hybrid
packages (nonregular structure): automatic and interactive placement,
automatic and interactive routing, verification (for instance,
the CAD system "TOPOS" is developed on the VAX platform).
d) The development of the CAD tools for modeling and diagnosis
of the IC's technological process: modeling of technological operations
(diffusion, oxidation, ion implantation, etc.), statistical modeling
and simulation, pattern recognition, modeling of electro-physical
parameters.
e) The development of the CAD tools for the thermal design of
microelectronics systems: thermal simulation of IC's, thermal
simulation of hybrid packages, thermal simulation of Multi-Chip-Modules.
For instance, the thermal simulator "MONSTR" is developed
on the PC platform.
CAD department maintains the scientific cooperation with other
former Soviet and foreign universities and scientific institutions
including: Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, Warsaw University
of Technology, Poland, Technical University of Lodz, Poland, Budapest
Technical University, Hungary, Institute National Polytechnique
de Grenoble, France, etc.
A large proportion of the research projects has been sponsored
by industry and Ministry of Education. CAD department participated
in the international scientific COPERNICUS project: "New
Methods for Thermal Investigation of Integrated Circuits - (THERMINIC)".
The staff of the CAD department includes 13 associate professors
and about 15 teaching assistants, researchers and Ph.D. students.
The staff of the CAD department publishes yearly about 10 research
papers at international conferences and in international journals.
Key persons to be involved in the project:
Mykhaylo Lobur
Dr. Mykhaylo Lobur is the Head of the Computer Aided Design
Department.
Last updated: September 30, 2002