HEC to establish ESDA Centre at NUST, Rawalpindi
By Bushra Rafique

ISLAMABAD—Higher Education Commission would establish Electronic System Design Automation (ESDA) Centre at National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Rawalpindi at a cost of Rs. 29.00 million.
The centre would operate in tandem with NC (NUST) Consultancy and TIC (Tech Incubation Centre) for the challenging task of meeting industry 04 Electronics Companies who require the ESDA facility.
It will also provide infrastructure for generating high quality projects and research work for MS / Ph. D Programs at NUSt campuses. The centre would support the academic and research activities through integration of MS / Ph.D cources with the NUST curriculum as well as provisioning of a comprehensive R&D facility for faculty and MS / Ph.D students.
The ESDA centre would support research and development in the disciplines of embedded system design, multimedia processing, data acquisition & signal conditioning, virtual instrumentation, automated test equipment, industrial control and automation and programmable communication systems.
It is meant to build prototype systems with the potential of commercialization of selected products. The centre will cater to R&D, development of prototype and subsequent commercialization at industrial scale.
In this context, 08 indigenous projects undertaken by technology incubation centre (TIC) of NUST for product development and subsequent commercialization would utilize the design automation tools available at ESDA centre.