IIST (INDUSTRY INSPIRED SPECIAL TRAINING)

ONLINE CAMPUS TRAINING AND PLCEMENT COURSE

(CORE DOMAIN) ALONG WITH PROJECT FROM STRING TECHNOLOGIES

1.Profileof the company:

String technologies, a training division of Unistring Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd, a pioneer in VLSI and Embedded systems training. Every year we train more than 200 M tech students (VLSI / Embedded / DSP) and about 1000 B Tech Electronics students on various core modules. A good no of our students are working with many Core companies. We conduct about 50 to 60 on site training programs and faculty development programs at engineering colleges. We have an expert team of trainers rich with hardware and software development skills. Team has exposure in working on ARM, 8051, PIC, PSOC, AVR, Controllers and FPGAhardware development and embedded software development. The following is the list of some esteemed colleges with which we have MOUs. Sreenidhi engineering college, Mallareddy Group of Institutions, Gudlavalleru College of Engineering, BVRIT. Etc. This list has more than 50 engineering colleges.

2. Initiative:

We have a close association with many core companies and support the companies in recruitment by conducting core placement drives. Based on the latest interactions with many companies in and around Hyderabad and Bangalore, we understood some recruitment requirements. The companies are willing to recruit the fresh graduate and undergraduate students with some core skill set. In order to reach more number of students and to find the students who can meet industry requirements we have initiated this online training program.

3. Solution:

The solution to the current recruitment problem is to improve the employability skills of the students through a practical approach. In order achieve this objective we have come up with a oncampus online training model to the final year ECE , EEE, EIE and CSE students.

3. 1 Why Online Campus training :

Students need not travel longer distances and need not stay at the outstation to get expert training and hands on experience.

Experts can do a better job as they need not travel to the remote places

College faculty has better supervision and monitoring on the students.
Better infrastructure in the college will be properly utilized.
This model will be more economical to the students.
Costly Embedded and FPGA boards can be made available over virtual lab setup to all students
With present internet technology perfect connectivity is possible including video of speaker, computer screen and complete lab tools & hardware access.

3. 2 How is this different than on campus training ? Trainers are the Technologists, experts from the industries and scientists from the reputed R & D organizations with over 10 years of Experience.

In present day scenario, typical on campus trainings, will be done by inexperienced engineers. It is a known fact that no industry expert would visit the college campus months together. Hence the online training is the only viable solution.
Focus is more on getting the development done through the students not on giving direct solutions to the problem. Please note that this programme has more than 50% sessions lab and assignments.
Dedicated and Committed team with exclusive focus on improving the skills of the students
Focus is not just to complete the training/ project.

4. Course Duration:

Sl no	Type	Duration
	Number of weeks	12
	No of day in a week	5
	No of hours per day	3
	Total no of hours		180

Course begins from 1st January 2013.

Each and every student shall spend 3 hours per day under our supervision. The student side commitment is compulsory. Students with less than 90% attendanceor 50% marks in our lab sessions will not be processed by our HR team for placements.

5. Execution Model :

Under this model Computers in the college will be installed with online broadcast software. College requiresto arrange a class room with sufficient seating capacity and LCD projector. In case of lecture sessions the speakers video and computer screen is streamed to class room, which will be projected on screen with LCD. The students video shall appear on the computer screen at speakers place. This ensures perfect one to one connectivity making live interaction possible.
From String technologies experts will be connected online and the computer screen will be shared. Face of the instructor is visible to the student along with the content to be explained.

5.1 Online black board :

Expert will use latest computer connected notepad tools which will be used to explain the content as it is explained in black board of the class room.

5.2 Online Hardware Access :( Revolutionary idea to bring the complex hardware accessible to Engineering institutions)

All the hardware used for training will also be shared online , so that each student will have access to the hardware simultaneously. This enables the students not only listing to the classes by experts, it will also enable the students to practice the content effectively.

5. 3 Other important points

Sessions from Technology Experts will be delivered on line. Students shall clarify the doubts online live during the session through Voice and chat.
Provision to access the hardware remotely and develop the applications will be provided.
Students will be guided online to use the hardware.
Every doubt and question will be resolved instantly.
Complete hands on experience in using the hardware.
No wastage of time in travelling.
Effective utilization of time, value for money and time.

5. 4 Deliberate practice:

This program is aimed at making the students solve the problems on their own through rigorous practice and own analysis.
Nospoon feeding , Only providing the necessary content
Regular tests will be conducted to monitor the improvements of the students.
Depending on the test results more practice problems will be given to improve the specific skills. That is the target of deliberate practice.
Program is aimed at making the students solve the industry level problems on their own.

5. 5 Infrastructure needed at the college:

PC with internet connectivity (as many no of PCs as the number of students)
Audio system connected to the internet PC.
Wireless mike to interact with the Experts.
Class room with LCD projector
One Webcam (2 Megapixel or above)

Internet connectivity 2 Mbps broadband
One coordinator to look after the connectivity and training progress.
Lab with Personal computers all with internet connectivity (2 Mbps shared among all PCs)

An engineer from String Technologies shall visit the college to establish the initial setup and train the computer administrator of college about the maintenance.

6 Financial model :

Fee for the 12 weeks training is INR 5000/.
Min 20 students per stream ( VLSI / Embedded).
This payment shall be done at the beginning of the course.

On placement, individual shall pay the salary of the first month to String technologies

7 Target industries :

Category 1 : Industry working on design and development and realization of the embedded hardware
Category 2 : Companies working on Embedded software protocol development
Category 3 : Companies working in IP core and algorithm development on FPGAs and High end processors.

7 Course Content :

Initial part of the program is mandatory to all as mentioned in the stream column of the table below.
Rest of the coursecontent isorganized in two streams one is VLSI and the other is Embedded.

Students opted for VLSI will be trained in the modules mentioned as VLSI .
Students opted for Embedded will be trained in the module mentioned as Embedded.
Modules mentioned as optional will be trained based on the industry requirements.

Students are free to choose the domain of interest.

Depending on the industry requirements students will be trained more specifically on few modules.

Industry Inspired Special Training (IIST)

Module name

Stream

Brief content

Theory sessions (hrs)

Lab Sessions (hrs)

ESSENTIAL DOMAIN CONCEPTS

Microcontroller Architectures	ALL	Evolution to microcontrollers, introduction to embedded systems, Generic microcontroller architecture, Architecture and programming aspects	2	0
Embedded system design	ALL	Embedded system specifications, Hardware and software portioning, Selection of platform for given requirement, OS based systems and OS less systems, Interrupt based and polling based command, state machines, evolving commands and communication sequences.	10	10
Analog circuit basics	ALL	Fundamental principles, Basic theorems, BJT circuits, MOS circuits and OP AMP circuits. Power supply design aspects and numeric problems	12	12
Digital bus interfaces and protocol standards	ALL	UART, RS422, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, USB standards timing diagrams protocol sequences	12	12
VLSI fundamentals	VLSI	MOS transistor basics, CMOS circuits, ASIC cell design and FPGA based design issues	6	12
HDL based digital design	VLSI	VHDL coding for combinational logic and sequential logic, Verilog coding, state machines	15	30
Signal processing	ALL	signal & system characterization in time and frequency domain, CTFT, DTFT, DFT, FFT and LTI systems	9	9
Image processing	Optional	2D and 3D signal processing, linear image filtering, morphological operations, edge detection algorithms	6	6
		TECHNOLOGIES
C programming for X86 PC	ALL	Working with C language, functions, pointers, arrays, function pointers and their use in embedded programming, examples programs	12	36
C++ basics	Embedded	Objected oriented programming with C++, Classes, Basic examples with MS V++	4	12
Embedded C	Embedded	Embedded C compiler and linker issues	6	6
programming
8051 Microcontroller programming	Embedded	MCS-51 family, 8051 architecture, 8051 I/O ports, Timers and counters, Arithmetic, logical, data transfer, conditional and branch instructions	12	24
PIC microcontroller and programming	Embedded	PIC 8bit/16 bit/32 bit microcontrollers, MPLAB IDE	12	24
ARM7 microcontroller and programming	Embedded	ARM history, architecture, instruction set, ARM GNU tool chain, working on ARM simulator and hardware.	12	36
ARM9 and 11 architecture and programming	Optional	ARM9 and ARM 11 architectures Building Linux kernel for ARM and developing applications	15	30
RTOS	Embedded	Introduction to embedded and real time kernels, uCos-II Architecture, Linux kernel compilation, porting of Linux on ARM based board, application development on the ported Linux kernel Porting of uCos II RTOS on ARM microcontroller, Application development using uCos-II	15	15
Open CV	Optional	Open CV API basics Building first example with Open CV case studies	5	8
Open GL	Optional	Graphics programing with OpenGL. Example programs	3	6
PCB design	Optional	Schematic capture, foot print design, Manual place and route, Multilayer PCB design challenges and signal integrity issues	15	30
Instruments Handling	ALL	oscilloscope, function generator, spectrum analyzer and mobile equipment (BTS) testing etc	4	8
Soldering skills	Optional	PTH component and SMD components soldering and desoldering. QFP package soldering. Reflow basics and industry standards	3	15
Debugging skills	ALL	Analog board failure analysis and basic debugging steps. Digital board analysis and debugging	6	12
FPGA based system design	VLSI	Xilinx design flow with ISE tools Functional simulation Timing simulation Applying area and timing constraints Xilinx Chipscope	15	15
Advanced FPGA design	Optional	Basics of Xilinx, Altera and ACTEL FPGA architectures Key components - DSP48s, DCMs, BRAMs, IOBs High speed complex system design with Virtex-6 and 7 FPGAs High speed communication- DDR interfaces, SRIOs Board design fundamentals for FPGAs Case study - complex FPGA based system	12	15
		PROJECT MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY PRACTICES
Documentation	ALL	Overview of Documentation standards, IEEE 12207, MIL STD 498, DO178B, DO 254, Case studies on requirement analysis	6	6
Govt regulations and testing standards	Optional	ITU standards, Spectrum regulations	3	3
Qualification tests and certification	Optional	Reliability fundamentals, MTBF Environment testing EMI/EMC testing Software Quality Assurance processes	3	3