{"title":"GPU design in a power-limited era","authors":"Brucek Khailany","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566707","url":null,"abstract":"As we enter this era of power-limited computing with GPUs playing a leading role in parallel processor architecture, interesting design challenges need to be faced and new tradeoffs need to be considered. For example, aggressively reducing operating voltage closer to threshold has been proposed as one way to overcome power limitations. However, this approach can introduce complications related to variation-related effects and yield issues, power delivery losses at low voltage, and significant degradations in performance per mm2. Alternative approaches to improving power efficiency include micro-architectural techniques for eliminating wasteful energy in data and instruction operand delivery on-chip, particularly in the presence of data parallelism. Many of these and other techniques will play a key part in continuing to scale GPU performance in the presence of power dissipation limitations in future technologies.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128571553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. I. Bahar, A. Jones, S. Katkoori, P. Madden, Diana Marculescu, I. Markov
{"title":"“Scaling” the impact of EDA education Preliminary findings from the CCC workshop series on extreme scale design automation","authors":"R. I. Bahar, A. Jones, S. Katkoori, P. Madden, Diana Marculescu, I. Markov","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566706","url":null,"abstract":"The breakdown of Dennard scaling implies radical changes in the design, integration, manufacturing and deployment of new electronic systems. These changes, along with labor-force and macro-economic trends, undermine the status quo in the semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) fields. Of particular concern is a fairly static and aging workforce and a decline in new students interested in these fields. Recognizing the dramatic changes afoot, a series of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored workshops have been organized to identify key steps to take, to secure the future growth of the electronics industry. This paper shares some preliminary findings from the first of these workshops emphasizing challenges in finding and preparing the next generation of electronic design professionals.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127760334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ingo Schmädecke, C. Leibold, Hans-Peter Brückner, H. Blume
{"title":"Project-organized education: From FPGA prototyping to ASIC design: Consecutive microelectronic education in designing application-specific hardware","authors":"Ingo Schmädecke, C. Leibold, Hans-Peter Brückner, H. Blume","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566691","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an educational concept designed for two complementing courses offered at the Leibniz Universität Hannover that cover FPGA prototyping and ASIC design. One intention of this concept is to teach students concerning the design of digital application-specific hardware based on formal specifications within two semesters. Moreover, the participants gain detailed insights into various aspects of microelectronic systems. Both courses are project-organized in order to further support the students to be well prepared for industry. The goal of this paper is to present the organization structures as well as the used didactic concepts. The success of the course concepts are confirmed by the very good evaluation results obtained by a continuously high count of students.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134360473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christos Ttofis, D. Stavrou, Dimitris Koukounis, T. Theocharides, C. Panayiotou
{"title":"A laboratory course on 3D vision for robotic applications","authors":"Christos Ttofis, D. Stavrou, Dimitris Koukounis, T. Theocharides, C. Panayiotou","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566695","url":null,"abstract":"3D vision has recently become particularly relevant for industrial robots operating in real-world unstructured environments. However, the complexity of robotic 3D vision systems poses novel and exciting challenges in academia, as teaching their design requires the students to understand how to develop the 3D measuring algorithms of the vision system, and how to integrate the precise vision measurements into the robot applications. This paper presents a practical, teaching framework composed of a sequence of laboratory assignments, which help instructors teach students how to integrate 3D vision algorithms into real-world robotic applications, and how to evaluate their design parameters using real-time data acquisition from 3D sensors. The proposed teaching framework has been integrated as part of an existing undergraduate course on Embedded Systems Design at the University of Cyprus, and early evaluation provided by students is also included.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"605 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123243439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UNTANGLED - An interactive mapping game for engineering education","authors":"Gayatri Mehta, Xiaozhong Luo, Natalie Parde, Krunalkumar Patel, Brandon Rodgers, Anil Kumar Sistla","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566700","url":null,"abstract":"Retaining students poses a huge challenge in the field of engineering, as many students become discouraged while working on their degrees and switch majors or leave school entirely. Our key observation is that it is extremely important to introduce students to real-world problems early on in their studies. Too often, students become confused and dissatisfied by abstract theories in their early engineering courses, and fail to see any practical importance to what they are learning. This paper presents the idea of using an interactive game, UNTANGLED, to introduce real-world problems related to chip architecture and design in the early stages of engineering education, thus generating enthusiasm and helping students connect the theories they learn in classes to applicable problems. We believe that doing so will help elevate future engineering student retention rates.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132886321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comprehensive embedded systems design course and laboratory","authors":"A. Mondragón-Torres, Jeanne W. Christman","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566704","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a vision of the sequence of three embedded systems design courses being taught for computer engineering technology students. The focus of these courses is to prepare strong students in both digital hardware design as well as embedded software design. The courses have been evolving from traditional delivery of the content to a highly interactive hands-on industry-like experience where students are allowed to balance tradeoffs between hardware and software, and to design from idea to final implementation. The sequence progresses around examples of everyday objects as simple as an electric toothbrush, to smartphones and tablets, to airplanes and military devices. Being so pervasive, emerging embedded applications are used as examples and students are asked to explore further to find what skills, hardware and software, are required to build these applications. In the present review, a glimpse of the core ideas around these three courses and how can they be implemented to engage students in this vast field is given.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134142799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Chua, Anne Lorraine S. Luna, Christian Raymund Roque, L. Alarcón, C. Oppus, R. Yap, Ellen Agnes Zafra, Mercedenia Lambino, Ramon Garcia, J. Hizon
{"title":"Driving philippine microelectronics education development with multi-university collaboration","authors":"A. Chua, Anne Lorraine S. Luna, Christian Raymund Roque, L. Alarcón, C. Oppus, R. Yap, Ellen Agnes Zafra, Mercedenia Lambino, Ramon Garcia, J. Hizon","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566703","url":null,"abstract":"The Eye-C program was instituted to enable a collaborative IC design effort among different universities in the Philippines. This paper presents the impact of the program on the member universities' curriculum during and after its implementation. A post-implementation review by member universities is then presented to further highlight the Eye-C program as the first of a series of steps to enhance the potential of microelectronics in the Philippines.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125225674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovating projects as a pedagogical strategy for the French network for education in microélectronics and nanotechnologies","authors":"O. Bonnaud, L. Fesquet","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566690","url":null,"abstract":"The training in microelectronics and nanotechnologies in France is structured as a national network since more than 30 years. This network is composed of 12 regional common centers including technological and design facilities. The network mission is to support animation and educational activities in this field at a national level. The strategy of innovative projects to maintain both quality and attractiveness to students has been established since 2006. This approach has been reinforced by the support of specific multiannual programs since 2009 and more especially in the frame of Excellence Initiative Program (IDEFI). The first achievements of these pedagogical projects have already been transferred to the menus of the common centers and have already showed all their interest as well at master and engineer degrees, as doctorate studies and lifelong learning.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127523077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A toolkit to demystify CMOS Active Pixel Sensors","authors":"J. Gallière, J. Boch","doi":"10.1109/MSE.2013.6566696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.2013.6566696","url":null,"abstract":"No specific pedagogical methods are dedicated to explain the specificity of CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technologies. Nevertheless, this technology of image sensing is wide-spread in today's life and needs a good understanding on behalf of our students in microelectronics. This paper proposes a toolkit implemented with MATLAB. This toolkit can help the student to find out the architecture of an active pixel sensor imager. With such approach, student is able to easily control, visualize and understand how an image is elaborated.","PeriodicalId":333289,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133115926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}