Chith Vihar

Computer Science Department at Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA)

Chith Vihar is the building that houses the Computer Science and Engineering Division of SASTRA, Tamil Nadu, India, and is the main computer hub of the SASTRA campus. The building (called Chith Vihar) occupies an area of 1871 square metres and houses a computer centre with over 300 computers. Microprocessor kits and the associated hardware are available in the Microprocessor Laboratory. The laboratory is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on all working days. The centre is open all the 24 hours on holidays. A 1 Mbit/s bandwidth internet line is available on a networked environment.

The division houses a laboratory for real-time project development. The systems administration and management are done by the students themselves. Facilities like unlimited access to the internet, latest software and online help make it an ideal place for project development. Research projects on OCR, Natural Language Processing, Expert System, Image Recognition, VOIP and Internet Telephony are done here.

Classes

Students of SASTRA in their classroom

Classes for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering are conducted here. There are two lecture halls.

Labs

Labs in Chith Vihar include:

Advanced Programming Lab

The lab is equipped with 40 IBM Netvista Pentium IV workstations. Each system is configured with 128 MB SDRAM, 40 GB HDD, 52x CD ROM drive and 15” color monitor. The lab is used by final year B.E/B.Tech students and M.Tech students for project work. Software such as Microsoft Visual Studio-6, Oracle, Java, and Visual studio.net are available. Operating systems such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Red Hat Linux 8.0 are used as platforms for students projects. All the users’ and their storage requirements are managed by a Windows 2000 server and Linux server.

Advanced Programming lab

GUI lab

The lab is equipped with 26 PIII workstations. Each system is configured with 128 MB SDRAM, 20 GB HDD, CDROM drive with color monitor. Another 24 PCs are dedicated to free internet access round the clock.

Work such as internet programming, network programming, RDBMS, Visual programming, computer graphics, and system software are conducted here. Software available includes Microsoft Office, Turbo C++, FoxPro, Qbasic, FORTRAN, Design CAD, Visual Studio, Oracle, and Developer 2000. One dedicated Solaris server is used as a back end server for the Oracle.

Microprocessor lab

The lab is equipped with 40 PCs and PC based interfaces for interfacing experiments. Interfaces such as emulators, stepper motor, traffic controller, ADCs, and DACs, are available. Eight bit and 16 bit trainer kits for microprocessors 8085/8086/8088/68000, DSP trainer kits and Microcontroller trainer kits are also available to train the students in Assembly language programming and PC interfacing. SMPS trainer, printer trainer, and CPU trainer modules are used to handle computer hardware lab experiments.