Presentations
Synergistic Modeling and Optimization for Nanometer IC
Design/Manufacturing Integration
Nanometer IC design and manufacturing are facing unprecedented grand challenges for 45nm and beyond, for performance, power, predictability, reliability, and so on. On one hand, many entangled physical effects continue to pose tremendous challenges to reach design closure with stringent turn-around-time; on the other hand, design closure no longer guarantees manufacturing closure. The conventional contracts between design and fab through design rules are breaking, due to deep sub-wavelength lithography and growing process variations. Thus design/manufacturing integration and co-optimization will become more and more important. To enable true design/process integration, it is crucial to be able to model proper manufacturing/variability/yield metrics, and feed them upstream at various physical design implementation stages. This lecture will present synergistic modeling and optimization issues on both physical and electrical design for manufacturing (DFM). We will seek to address DFM from its root causes, in a holistic manner through better manufacturing for design (e.g., variation aware lithography modeling and optical proximity correction), manufacturing-design interface (e.g., predictive silicon modeling and variational circuit analysis), and true “design” for manufacturing (i.e., manufacturability aware and variation tolerant designs download
Nanometer IC design and manufacturing are facing unprecedented grand challenges for 45nm and beyond, for performance, power, predictability, reliability, and so on. On one hand, many entangled physical effects continue to pose tremendous challenges to reach design closure with stringent turn-around-time; on the other hand, design closure no longer guarantees manufacturing closure. The conventional contracts between design and fab through design rules are breaking, due to deep sub-wavelength lithography and growing process variations. Thus design/manufacturing integration and co-optimization will become more and more important. To enable true design/process integration, it is crucial to be able to model proper manufacturing/variability/yield metrics, and feed them upstream at various physical design implementation stages. This lecture will present synergistic modeling and optimization issues on both physical and electrical design for manufacturing (DFM). We will seek to address DFM from its root causes, in a holistic manner through better manufacturing for design (e.g., variation aware lithography modeling and optical proximity correction), manufacturing-design interface (e.g., predictive silicon modeling and variational circuit analysis), and true “design” for manufacturing (i.e., manufacturability aware and variation tolerant designs download
Low Power Design and Challenges in the Nanometer Multicore Era
Power has been the most important design metric for not only portable devices but also computing servers and data centres. In talk, I will give a brief tutorial and present challenges and solutions on various aspects of low power design techniques for both dynamic power and leakage power. Techniques such as clock gating, power gating, voltage islands, frequency islands, multiple Vdd/Vt assignment with physical co-synthesis (sizing, placement) will be discussed. We will also discuss challenges for energy-efficient multi-core and networks-on-chip designs. download
Power has been the most important design metric for not only portable devices but also computing servers and data centres. In talk, I will give a brief tutorial and present challenges and solutions on various aspects of low power design techniques for both dynamic power and leakage power. Techniques such as clock gating, power gating, voltage islands, frequency islands, multiple Vdd/Vt assignment with physical co-synthesis (sizing, placement) will be discussed. We will also discuss challenges for energy-efficient multi-core and networks-on-chip designs. download
The Impacts of Policy and Regulation on
FTTH deployments
Stefan Keller-Tuberg
Governments and regulators can substantially influence the nature and timing of FTTH / B transition
– How open will FTTH / B be to competitive access?
– What population coverage?
– How can policy initiatives influence market behaviour?
The absence of policy can be a cause of uncertainty that can delay investment. Important progress can be made when governments take the lead...
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Stefan Keller-Tuberg
Governments and regulators can substantially influence the nature and timing of FTTH / B transition
– How open will FTTH / B be to competitive access?
– What population coverage?
– How can policy initiatives influence market behaviour?
The absence of policy can be a cause of uncertainty that can delay investment. Important progress can be made when governments take the lead...
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A Universal Debugging Solution For Embedded Software Development –– using Open Standards.
By: Dr. Anthony Overmars.
The Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) proposed IEEE1149.1 standard 1991. This provided a mechanism hardware could be subjected to automatic test equipment (ATE) to determine if a circuit board had been correctly loaded with all of its electronic components. ICs on the PCB had a special circuit which provided a series connection to the next IC, such that all of the ICs would be connected in series via a special bus. This would then be brought out to a header which would avail itself to the ATE. download
By: Dr. Anthony Overmars.
The Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) proposed IEEE1149.1 standard 1991. This provided a mechanism hardware could be subjected to automatic test equipment (ATE) to determine if a circuit board had been correctly loaded with all of its electronic components. ICs on the PCB had a special circuit which provided a series connection to the next IC, such that all of the ICs would be connected in series via a special bus. This would then be brought out to a header which would avail itself to the ATE. download
Intellectual Property - the most valuable business asset
Intellectual Property (IP) at the most fundamental level represents the property of your mind or intellect. Relating this definition to a typical business, IP can be thought of as the collection of ideas created by the owner that are unique and essential to the business. Because it is an intangible asset, business owners are sometimes unaware that they own valuable IP. This can prove disastrous particularly if the business is using IP owned by someone else.
In this talk, the basics of IP will be outlined, including the different ways that IP can be protected and the procedures that must be followed to acquire registered rights for patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeders rights. The presentation will also outline the pivotal role played by IP Australia in the administration of Australias IP system and what products and services are available to help people understand the process of obtaining registered IP rights.
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Intellectual Property (IP) at the most fundamental level represents the property of your mind or intellect. Relating this definition to a typical business, IP can be thought of as the collection of ideas created by the owner that are unique and essential to the business. Because it is an intangible asset, business owners are sometimes unaware that they own valuable IP. This can prove disastrous particularly if the business is using IP owned by someone else.
In this talk, the basics of IP will be outlined, including the different ways that IP can be protected and the procedures that must be followed to acquire registered rights for patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeders rights. The presentation will also outline the pivotal role played by IP Australia in the administration of Australias IP system and what products and services are available to help people understand the process of obtaining registered IP rights.
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Random Finite Sets in Stochastic Filtering
The last decade has witnessed exciting developments in stochastic filtering theory and practice. The introduction of random finite set theory to signal processing has led to the development of the Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filters, which attracted substantial interests from academia and industry alike. The PHD filters have been used by BP in oil pipeline tracking, DSO Singapore in passive sensing, FGAN in the September 2007 NATO Bold Avenger defence exercise and Lockheed Martin in the US space fence program. Random finite set theory is a rigorous mathematical discipline for dealing with random spatial patterns that has long been used by statisticians in many diverse applications including agriculture, geology, seismology, and epidemiology. This seminar outlines recent advances in stochastic filtering brought about by random finite set theory, and presents a number of applications areas including, radar, sonar, computer vision, and robotics.
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The last decade has witnessed exciting developments in stochastic filtering theory and practice. The introduction of random finite set theory to signal processing has led to the development of the Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filters, which attracted substantial interests from academia and industry alike. The PHD filters have been used by BP in oil pipeline tracking, DSO Singapore in passive sensing, FGAN in the September 2007 NATO Bold Avenger defence exercise and Lockheed Martin in the US space fence program. Random finite set theory is a rigorous mathematical discipline for dealing with random spatial patterns that has long been used by statisticians in many diverse applications including agriculture, geology, seismology, and epidemiology. This seminar outlines recent advances in stochastic filtering brought about by random finite set theory, and presents a number of applications areas including, radar, sonar, computer vision, and robotics.
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THE AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION - Key to Woodwards Resolution Theory
Resolution in any sensor is, of course, a vital property the ability to separate things very closely spaced in one dimension or another. In signal processing applications such as radar, communications systems and sensor networks, we find at the core of them an important property, the autocorrelation function of the waveform were using. This evenings lecture presents this idea much as done by the celebrated P. M. Woodward half a century ago that is, without intimidation at all, clearly and straightforwardly, and in such a way that even you will be quite able to explain to whoever is concerned where the devil you were this evening! A bit of math, yes, but illustrated with several system examples in the area of pulse coding and matched filtering (pulse compression) and high range resolution profiling. Youll understand something that, as in my case, had simply been memorized to get past the next exam in school, so many years ago
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Resolution in any sensor is, of course, a vital property the ability to separate things very closely spaced in one dimension or another. In signal processing applications such as radar, communications systems and sensor networks, we find at the core of them an important property, the autocorrelation function of the waveform were using. This evenings lecture presents this idea much as done by the celebrated P. M. Woodward half a century ago that is, without intimidation at all, clearly and straightforwardly, and in such a way that even you will be quite able to explain to whoever is concerned where the devil you were this evening! A bit of math, yes, but illustrated with several system examples in the area of pulse coding and matched filtering (pulse compression) and high range resolution profiling. Youll understand something that, as in my case, had simply been memorized to get past the next exam in school, so many years ago
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