"Hi, this is Siek Liter from VIRTUS, IC Design Centre of Excellence, here in NTU. VIRTUS is jointly funded by EDB and NTU."
~ Professor Siek Liter, Centre Director
"VIRTUS will be a pioneer in the field of integrated circuit design in Singapore. As we have already heard from Guaning, it will develop talents, offer leading edge technologies and create industry spin-offs."
~ Mr S Iswaran, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education (2010)
"Some of our industry partners that are working closely with us like Broadcom, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, MediaTek , Panasonic, Silicon Labs and many others are offering scholarships for selected students pursuing with their post graduate research degree, like Masters and PHD."
~ Professor Siek Liter, Centre Director
VIRTUS, the IC Design Centre of Excellence jointly funded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).
We aim to be a world-class IC design house, developing key technologies required to design integrated circuits and systems for applications in medical technology, clean technology and consumer electronics.
The Centre brings together key actors from intellectual property, fabless semiconductor, system houses and design industry to build a vision of the next step in analog integrated circuit and system design.
VIRTUS' research focus can be broadly divided into the following major areas
1) Analogue mixed‐signal,
2) Power management & data converters,
3) Energy harvesting,
4) Low‐power radio frequency & mm‐wave integrated circuits,
5) Memory & advanced techniques in nano-scale CMOS,
6) Smart sensors and
7) System integration & new technology directions such as
3D-integration & physical design, which includes
i. 3D radio frequency circuits,
ii. 3D mixed signal circuits and
iii. Tera-hertz integrated circuits.
In VIRTUS, we welcome collaborations and the sharing of ideas and expertise with new research institutions. We also consistently help businesses to improve their operation processes and technologies. We look forward to more ventures with institutions and businesses to create the new future for tomorrow electronics technologies.
