VLSI Technology and Design, February 17

Organizers
The National Workshop on VLSI Technology and Design is organized jointly by Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara. Kochi and College of Engineering Chengannur, Chengannur and IEEE Education Society. College of Engineering Chengannur and Model Engineering College are premier educational Institutions, started under the auspices of the Institute of Human Resources Development (IHRD), a Government of Kerala undertaking. All eligible programs offered by both the institutions are accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA). These colleges are network partners and funded by Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of Government of India. IEEE Education Society is one among the 38 societies under IEEE and it focuses on the betterment of educational methods and technology.

VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) has emerged as a very important technology in modern electronics, featuring deep sub micron manufacturing processes, low voltage operations, exploding speeds and smart programmable devices sufficient enough to digest ambient conditions to extremes. The electronics industry worldwide is rapidly approaching another revolutionary leap in the global market scenario. Semiconductor technology has crossed the quarter-micron threshold, making tens of millions of transistors available on a single chip equipped with the powerful arm of VLSI design. This imparts the electronics industry a potential to create designs of incredible densities and lightning speeds while utilizing batteries to power them. This has had a phenomenal impact on widespread applications ranging from consumer electronics, communications, and defense to just about everything. VLSI design group offers end-to-end design and development services in VLSI Design, Design Consulting, and System level and Board level Designs including Firmware Development.

The content of this workshop has been designed keeping in view of the emerging trends in the field of VLSI design, technology and need for skilled manpower in research activities. The primary aim of this workshop is to provide an overall view of VLSI Design and design flow. A series of lecture sessions on state of art technologies in VLSI is scheduled like device modeling, ULSI prospects and challenges and algorithm for VLSI design automation. It is also expected to impart knowledge in the emerging technologies like silicon photonics, MEMS processing and to give a flavor of open source tools available at various levels of VLSI design.

Prof. (Dr.) J. P. Raina

Director, Center of Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

He received his M.Sc. degree from MS University, Baroda and D.Sc ( Engg.) form UCL- Belgium. Being an academician he has been closely associated with CEERI, Pilani and IIT Madras. During the past 45 yrs of Teaching and Research, he published nearly 80 papers in National and International journals, edited and contributed to 9 book/journal, guided 12 Ph.Ds and presently guiding 6 Ph.Ds at VIT. He also has 7 Patents to his credit and handled sponsored projects from various agencies. His area of interest are Image Signal Processing, DSP/ADSP, Fibre Optics and Photonics, VLSI/ULSI and Embedded System Design, Communication and Network Engineering, Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics. He is a recipient of President of India’s GOLD SHIELD for Invention Promotion.

Prof. (Dr.) Shreepad Karmalkar
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

He received accelerated Ph. D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), 1989. He has held visiting research/teaching assignments at several US universities. He has authored numerous articles in journals, conferences and books, and has been awarded several patents in the areas of semiconductor device modeling and process development. For his research contributions, he has received the 2005 Vikram Sarabhai Award and 2007 IBM Faculty Award. He is also a consultant to industries for developing manufacturing processes for semiconductor devices and reviewer of several reputed journals.

Prof. (Dr.) Nandita Dasgupta
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

She received her Ph. D from IIT Madras. Her area of research are Silicon and Compound Semiconductor Technology, Device Modeling and MEMS. She is a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellow award in 1991 and Best Poster Award by IEEE India ED/MTT Chapter. She has got several publications to her account in various national/international journals and conferences. She has also authored a book “Semiconductor Devices Modeling and Technology”.

Prof. (Dr.) Enakshi Bhattacharya
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

She completed her Ph. D (1985) from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. Her areas of expertise are Different silicon - materials and devices, sensors and MEMS. She has authored a number of research papers in referred journals and conferences. She has held visiting research/teaching assignments at several universities/research organizations and guided various sponsored projects.

Dr. Anjan Chakravorty
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

He completed his Ph. D from IIT Kharagpur. His areas of research interest are compact modeling, LDMOS Modeling, SiGe HBT, Modeling of Nano-FET. He is currently offering Introduction to Digital Circuits, Compact Modeling of Devices for IC Design. He has got several papers in journals and Conferences to his account.

Dr. Bijoy Krishnadas
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

He received his Ph. D from University of Paderborn, Germany . His interested areas of research are Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits, Silicon Photonics, Lithium Niobate Integrated Optics, etc. He has authored a number of research articles in national/international journals and conferences.

Dr. Lisa Mathew
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai

She completed her Masters degree in Mathematics from IIT Madras, M. Phil and PhD degrees from the Madras Christian College, Chennai. While doing her Ph. D she was involved in three major research projects, two of them funded by international agencies. She authored/co-authored around 15 technical papers in international journals and conferences of repute. Her areas of interest includes Automata theory, Graph theory, Learning theory, Cryptography, and Lyndon words.

Sri. Cejo K. L.
Lecturer, Model Engineering College (MEC), Thrikkakara

He did his B. Tech from Model Engineering College and then underwent a 6 month training in VLSI Design focussing on CMOS Analog Design at Semiconductor Laboratories, Mohali. He then joined Cypress Semiconductors, Bangalore and worked on four PLL based PC motherboard clocks at the PC Clocks Division for more than a year. Then he joined his alma mater, MEC, as a Lecturer teaching Solid State Electronics, ASIC Design and VLSI Design and guiding undergraduate student projects in VLSI design. He also setup the VLSI Design Laboratory at MEC employing free and open source EDA tools. His areas of interest includes Solid State Physics and Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design.

Experts from Industry

Practicing Professionals from the VLSI Group, Wipro Technologies, Kochi

Eligibility
Admissions are open for faculty members and research scholars from universities and engineering colleges, practising engineers in the industry and student doing M. Tech/M. S. in Engineering/Technology.
Number of Seats are limited to 60

How to Apply
The course fee is Rs. 1000/-. Interested persons may complete the application form and send it along with the DD for Rs 1000/- in favour of Principal, College of Engineering Chengannur, Chengannur, payable at Chengannur on or before 11th February of 2009. No TA/DA will be provided.

Venue
Contour Backwaters Resort and Convention Center, Changanacherry, Kottayam District, Kerala. It is nearly 110 km from Nedumpacherry (Kochi) airport and 2km away from Changanacherry railway station.

Accommodation
Limited Accommodation can be arranged on prior request in the College Hostel/outside on a cost sharing basis.

Organizing Committee

Prof. (Dr.) V. P. Devassia

(Principal & TEQIP - Coordinator, College of Engineering, Chengannur)

Prof. (Dr.) P. Suresh Kumar

(Principal, Model Engineering College, Kochi)

Smt. Nisha Kuruvilla

(HOD, Electronics Department, College of Engineering, Chengannur)

Dr. Mini M.G.

(HOD, Electronics Department & TEQIP-Coordinator, Model Engineering College, Kochi)

Sri. C. V. Anilkumar

(TEQIP-Nodal Officer Academic, College of Engineering, Chengannur)

Smt. Deepa J.

(TEQIP -Network Coordinator, College of Engineering, Chengannur)

Smt. Minimol B.

(TEQIP -Network Coordinator, Model Engineering College, Kochi)

Sri. Aju Thomas

(Chairman, IEEE Education Society, India Council)

Address for Correspondence:
C. V. Anilkumar
Asst. Professor in Electronics,
College of Engineering,
Chengannur – 689121
Kerala

Office Phone: 0479 – 2450435
Mobile Phone: 09446108491
Fax: 0479 – 2451424
Email: cvanil@ceconline.edu