Five-Day Faculty Development Program on "Recent trends in VLSI and MEMS" was organized…

Five-Day Faculty Development Program on "Recent trends in VLSI and MEMS" was organized Online, during June 3-7, 2024, in association with IEEE CASS Kerala Chapter and IEEE CAS Society, IIIT Kottayam. FDP was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma , IIT Indore, presided by Dr. Rajiv Dharaskar, Director, IIIT Kottayam. Participants were faculty and PhD scholars from various institutions of India. We had eminent speakers from industry and academia whose practical experience resulted in an overwhelming feedback from the participants. Sessions were handled by Dr. Ambika Prasad Shah , IIT Jammu, Dr. Vishal Sharma, SOC Design Engineer, Intel Bangalore, Dr. Varun Gopi, NIT Trichy, Dr.Menka Yadav, MNIT Jaipur, Ms. Greeshma R, Senior Analog Design Engineer, Onsemi Bangalore, Dr.Sujan Yenuganti, Dr. Pankaj Arora and Dr. Meetha V Shenoy from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, Dr. Kala S , Dr. Lakshmi N S , Dr. M. Gopal and Ms. Remya R (Research Scholar, Integrated Circuits & Systems Lab-IIITK) from IIIT Kottayam. 5 days with 15 sessions, it was a journey through various domains in VLSI. Started the programme with fundamentals of CMOS VLSI design, covered various topics including In-memory computing using emerging nano devices, Challenges in In-memory computing for AI applications, Hardware Accelerators for AI/ML, Analog/RF IC Design principles, Data converters, Reliability in IC Design, Sensor design fabrication packaging and testing. Introduction to open source EDA tools was also given to participants. Five day FDP was concluded on June 7th with the final session on Opportunities & Role of VLSI in state-of-the-art and emerging IoT Applications. Program has been coordinated by Dr. Kala S , Dr. Minu A Pillai , Dr. Lakshmi N S Dr. M.Gopal. Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) IEEE Kerala Section