IEEE Bombay Section
AP/EDS Bombay Chapter
Quarterly Report (Jan to March 2003)
During January -March 2003, the IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter organized the following events.
On January 2, Prof. K.C Saraswat, Stanford University, gave a talk on "Performance limitations of devices and interconnects and possible alternatives for nanoelectronics."
Dr. Pushkar Apte, McKinsey, USA talked on "The evolving structure of the semiconductor industry" on January 9. The audience were given an excellent perspective of the global scenario regarding fabrication facilities and current trends in the industry.
On Jan 10, Dr.Natarajan Iyer, IMEC, Belgium presented a seminar on "ESD: from black magic to CAD assisted methodology". Dr. Iyer gave a good idea of the problem of ESD and the current research in this area.
Dr. Vishwani D. Agarwal, Rutgers University gave a seminar on January 24 on "Minimum dynamic power CMOS circuits" in which he explained the significance of dynamic power and a linear programming technique for its minimization.
The AP/ED Bombay Chapter co-sponsored a two day seminar on "Circuit simulation" on Jan 31, Feb 1. The seminar was attended by students and college teachers from various colleges in Mumbai. The seminar covered introduction to circuit simulation, circuit simulation tools, and advanced topics such as partitioning of networks.
Prof. Tadashi Takano, University of Tokyo, talked on "Gigantic antenna with 1 km diameter for microwave power transmission from a solar power satellite" on March 14.
On March 15, 2003 the IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter organized a one day workshop on Microelectronics and VLSI at the Finolex Academy, Ratnagiri, which is about 450 Km from Bombay. Over 130 students and faculty from various engineering colleges in the Konkan region attended the workshop. Profs. A.N.Chandorkar, D.K.Sharma and V.Ramgopal Rao from the Microelectronics group, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay delivered lectures at this workshop covering various aspects of microelectronics, including ULSI chip design, device physics, circuit design and Nanotechnology. The talks were extremely well received and the participants were exposed to the current research trends in all these areas.
Prof. Vikram Dalal, Iowa State University, gave a seminar on "Nanocrystalline Si:H, new material for electronic and optical devices," on March 20. He described material growth, transport properties, and device applications of nanocrystalline Si:H.
The IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter took the initiative to invite Prof. C.R.Viswanathan, Life Fellow, IEEE, who was visiting the country, to the IIT Bombay campus as part of its efforts to provide a forum for research groups working in common areas to interact with each other. Prof. Viswanathan visited IIT Bombay on March 13, 2003 and spent a day discussing various research activities that are currently underway in the Microelectronics group at IIT Bombay. Prof. Viswanathan, who is a senior professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, discussed various possibilities for a research collaboration between the Microelectronics group at IIT Bombay and UCLA.
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