Feb 7, 2016

Device to GDSII for IC Design Training

Hands on Training Program on “Device to GDSII for IC Design”
on 22-27 Feb 2016
Organized by VLSI Division of School of Electronics Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology, Near Katpadi Rd Vellore, Tamil Nadu - 632014


The relentless march fast of the CMOS has slowed down and the semiconductor industry is looking for novel and innovative devices. Many novel devices are being explored currently. TCAD and Cadence tool allows us to generate new structures, circuits and analyze its performance. Unlike other circuit simulators, TCAD and Cadence needs a special training. This hands on training addresses this gap.

Target Audience: Faculty, students and research scholars from various engineering colleges of India. The number of participants is limited to 40. 

Topics to ďe addressed:

Using TCAD:
  • Structure Creation, Simulation and Device Simulation 
  • Process Simulation 
  • Multi-gate Transistors 
  • Radiation study on devices and circuits
Using Cadence: 
  • RTL Design and Simulation 
  • Synthesis and low power synthesis Using RTL Compiler 
  • Physical aware synthesis and DFT 
  • Block and Top Level P&R Using SOC Encounter 
  • STA Using Timing Engine 


Advanced Test Engineering Course

Barcelona, Spain
February 15-16, 2016 (2 days)

The course will highlight board and system-level manufacturing test and supportability issues. In order to achieve the unambiguous isolation of the faulty circuits, testability has to be assessed at the design stage – often before the circuit details are known. We will examine how this can be achieved using diagnostic assessment and modeling techniques. Finally, the course will evaluate the value of DFT and BIST at all levels of assembly from an economic perspective. You will leave the course with a thorough understanding of techniques, and guidelines you can put to use right away to manage automatic test and ATE at your company. The DFT and BIST methods will profit both manufacturing and support, while at the same time greatly improve the quality of units under test UUTs.

Who should attend: This course is not only of interest to designers and test engineers, but it will also be of great value to reliability, logistics, quality and manufacturing engineers. Managers concerned with testability and BIST techniques as part of DFX, as well as those with general interest of IEEE and military standards in DFT should find this course a great value.

Instructor: Louis Y. Ungar; Details and Availability [read more...]

Simulating the World’s Smallest Integrated Switch

This visualization from CSCS in Switzerland shows the world’s smallest integrated switch.

The switch is based on the voltage-induced displacement of one or more silver atoms in the narrow gap between a silver and a platinum plate.

Researchers working under Juerg Leuthold, Professor of Photonics and Communications at ETH Zurich, have created the world’s smallest integrated optical switch. Applying a small voltage causes an atom to relocate, turning the switch on or off. ETH Professor Mathieu Luisier, who participated in this study, simulated the system using Piz Daint Supercomputer. The component operates at the level of individual atoms. The team’s latest development was recently presented in the journal Nano Letters.

Feb 5, 2016

gEDA Edinburgh meetup - Saturday 6th February 2016

gEDA Edinburgh Meetup
Saturday 6th February 2016

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From: "Peter TB Brett"
Date: 3 Feb 2016 13:57
Subject: gEDA Edinburgh meetup - Saturday 6th February 2016 

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Hi all,
There will be a UK meet-up and hack day this weekend.
  • Edinburgh, UK
    Saturday 6th of February
It'll be at my place, so if you want to come, send me a direct e-mail and I'll send details by private e-mail.

Sorry for the short notice. It's on Saturday so as not to conflict with the PCB hack day on Sunday.

Peter Clifton and I will both be there, and everybody else who can attend for all or some of the day will be welcome. We'll also be using the #geda channel on irc.oftc.net

If you use or develop free and open source system (FOSS) design and simulation software, you'd be welcome to attend!

Peter
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Free Computational Electromagnetic Modeling Codes

The software in this list is either free or available at a nominal charge and can be downloaded over the internet. Some of the codes require the user to register with the distributor's web site. If you are familiar with other free EM modeling software that that should be added to this list, please send the name of the software, a hypertext link, and a brief description to CVEL-L@clemson.edu.

This page has been translated into Italian here, Serbo-Croatian here, Slovakian here, Swedish here and Polish here and here.

(Page last update: December 14, 2015 )

Feb 4, 2016

Funding the Costs of Open Access Publishing

The EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot:
Funding the Costs of Open Access Publishing

This blogpost was aimed to provide a background to the discussion on Open Access held at the now cancelled Nov 26-27th Euraxess-Voice of the Researchers conference in Brussels. The barbarians may have succeeded in sabotaging a unique opportunity for civilized discussion on how to achieve progress through research, but they will not stop our building the absolute opposite to what they represent.
A new funding initiative has been launched by the European Commission earlier this year in order to fund the Open Access publishing fees for publications arising from post-grant FP7 projects. This 2-year initiative, called the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot and being implemented under the OpenAIRE project, has a 4m euro budget to cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for journal articles (and BPCs for books) stemming from FP7 projects finished no longer than two years ago at the time a manuscript is accepted for publication. This means that over 8,000 FP7 projects are eligible for funding at the moment, and currently running ones will become eligible as they reach their end-date [read more...]

Posted by diamartin| November 26, 2015
Guest post by Pablo de Castro, LIBEROpen Access Project Officer

Feb 3, 2016

Academics across Europe join #Brexit debate https://t.co/bfj7efwNu3 #papers #feedly


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