A Puzzle for All: Knapsack Logs You’re given 20 items n (n=1 to 20) with weights w (w=1+log2 n) and profit values p ( p = + w mod n), first compute the weight and profit of all 20 items. After computing the profit density for each item, greedily attempt to fill a knapsack […]
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Faculty Outreach Spotlight (Amy Banic)
This issues’ faculty outreach spotlight focuses on Amy Banic – an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wyoming who holds a joint appointment with the Idaho National Laboratory. While in the previous section the benefits of outreach on an individual researcher […]
Methods to Approach Outreach: Help for the Classroom and Beyond
Methods to Approach Outreach: Help for the Classroom and Beyond Mike Borowczak Erebus Labs and Consulting, Laramie, Wyoming USA Andrea Burrows Department of Secondary Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA In this issue of Outreach and Community the authors discuss the potential impacts of outreach – or ways to engage community with domain […]
Updates
Updates Upcoming Conferences/Workshops FIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), October 5-7, 2015, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea. http://www.vlsi-soc.com/ 2015 International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), November 2-6, 2015, Austin, TX. http://www.iccad.com/ The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, December 21-23, 2015, Indore, India. http://www.inisweb.org/ 29th International Conference on […]
IoT: the Internet of… “Everything”?
IoT: the Internet of… “Everything”? Prasun Ghosal Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur I. What is IoT? Today’s internet of approximately 4.9 billion things [7] is expected to touch the figure of around 25 billion by next five years only [2, 7]. With incredible growth of internet and internet users, the concept of […]
Nanoelectronic Mixed-Signal System Design Book Review
Nanoelectronic Mixed-Signal System Design Book Review (ISBN: 978-0-07-182571-9 ) Elias Kougianos, Senior Member IEEE Teaching traditional Integrated Circuit (IC) Design at the senior and graduate levels has been sharply divided into a very large set of “pure” digital VLSI courses, represented by numerous well-established textbooks, and a much smaller set of analog IC design courses […]
Protection of Reusable IP core at Architectural Level
Protection of Reusable IP core at Architectural Level Anirban Sengupta Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India I. Introduction Reusable intellectual property (IP) cores have become affordable solution in system-on-chip (SoC) designs to combat the conflicting demands of maximizing productivity in concurrency with minimal design time. This leads to future design challenges […]
Design for Manufacturability: From Ad Hoc Solution to Extreme Regular Design
Design for Manufacturability: From Ad Hoc Solution to Extreme Regular Design Bei Yu Department of Computer Science and Engineering,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1. Introduction and Motivation In very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design, shrinking transistor feature size using advanced lithography techniques has been a holy grail for the whole semiconductor […]
Multi-Cycle Single Event Transient Fault Security Aware MO-DSE for Single loop CDFGs in HLS
Multi-Cycle Single Event Transient Fault Security Aware MO-DSE for Single loop CDFGs in HLS Saumya Bhadauria and Anirban Sengupta Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India
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The VLSI Circuits and Systems Letter is affiliated with the Technical Committee on VLSI (TCVLSI) under the IEEE Computer Society. It aims to report recent advances in VLSI technology, education and opportunities and, consequently, grow the research and education activities in the area. The letter, published twice a year, covers the design methodologies for advanced […]