Circuit boards have certainly come a long way over the decades. Were one have approached Messrs. Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen back in 1947 and suggested to them that their little invention would soon be packed, over 60 million a chip, one would surely have been excluded from the gene pool right there and then.

Yet here we are, in the year 2009, and the intricacies of PCBs these days make the best planned townships appear appallingly chaotic. The questions beg askance – when you are working with millions of logic gates and switches, each interconnected in their own complex fashion, how do you begin to verify if the circuitry is performing exactly the operations required as per specification? What kind of architecture do you follow? How do you optimize such a vast design for the little bit of space on that silicon wafer? This of course brings us to the domain of CAD and Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

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We are pleased to report the department change statistics of the previous academic session below. Click on the chart to view it in full size.

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