This paper describes the process of establishing and maintaining a certified integrated circuit design lab. The advantages of having a certification for the lab are presented, and also how to obtain the certificate based on the example of Cadence Certified Lab at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Various integrated circuits designed at the lab are also briefly shown.

Automatic recognition and classification of electronic integrated circuits based on optical character recognition combined with the analysis of the shape of their housings are essential to machine vision methods supporting the production of electronic parts, especially small-volume ones in the through-hole technology, characteristic of printed circuit boards. Since such methods utilize binary images, applying appropriate image...