Please visit www.sscs.org or www.ieee-cas.org for more information about the societies. If anyone would like to share their expertise with the electronics community in Atlantic Canada, or have special topics that interest them, please contact us!
| Electromagnetic Compatibility [ Nov. 17th, 2005 ] Hello all, I'm pleased to announce that Dr.Donald Church of International Rectifier Automotive Systems has agreed to share his insights into what could rightly be classified as 'black magic', but is more formally known as Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). This will be a painless way to better understand what I think is an important, somewhat feared, and little-understood topic. There is also the added bonus of learning more about what goes on under the hood! The automotive environment is very unforgiving and forces electronics designers to learn the true meaning of 'robust'.
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| Platform FPGA Design Using the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro [ May. 5th, 2005 ] Dr.Richard Vallee, of Amirix, a leading design house for the embedded system industry, will be delivering a presentation on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), reviewing FPGA trends, and in particular, the features of the powerful and popular Xilinx Virtex II Pro.
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| Implantable Wirelessly-Powered and Fully-Controlled Smart Medical Microsystems [ Mar. 7, 2005 ] Hello, I'm very pleased to announce that as part of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program, Dr.Mohamad Sawan, of Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, is coming to Halifax on March 7th to speak about his groundbreaking and fascinating work in biomedical electronics. The IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program was established in order for all IEEE members to have the chance to hear from and talk to truly cutting-edge, established leaders in their respective fields. Dr.Sawan's work bridges the gap between man and machine, dealing with wirelessly-powered and fully-controlled smart medical microsystems. In essence, human-implantable electronics that neurally interface and communicate with systems such as the visual cortex and bladder!
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| Dalhousie Students Start New ASIC group [ Nov. 19th, 2004 ] E&CE students at Dalhousie University have taken the initiative to create a new ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) group. All interested students are welcome to participate. The goal is to learn as much as possible about practical chip design, including fabrication (through CMC), and test. The first project is still being defined and will likely be a digital chip using a standard cell approach. For more info, please contact Alex Currie, ASIC Group Leader. A website, asic.dpworld.net, is up thanks to Darcy Pierlot!
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| Platform FPGA Design Using the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro [ Nov. 18th, 2004 ] Dr.Richard Vallee, of Amirix, a leading design house for the embedded system industry, will be delivering a presentation on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), reviewing FPGA trends, and in particular, the features of the powerful and popular Xilinx Virtex II Pro.
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| Starting a New Technology Venture & Microchip Design [ Nov. 5, 2004 ] Mr.Farhad Shafai, Co-Founder of SiberCore Technologies, and winner of the prestigious CANARIE IWAY award, is coming to Halifax on Nov. 5th to speak about his experiences with starting a venture capital funded, high-technology company, and also, the modern methodology used to design large-scale integrated circuits.
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| Solid-State Circuits Archives in Dalhousie Library [ Oct. 1, 2004 ] The Journal of Solid-State Circuits archival DVD has been placed in the Dalhousie Sexton library. It contains all the papers from 1966 to 2002. The online sources do not go this far back, so you miss many of the detailed, classic papers. Also, the ISSCC 2000 Short Course CD entitled 'Circuits & Devices for RF Wireless Networks' has been placed in the library. It contains courses on:
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