The VLSI Design & Test Seminar Series

seeks to provide an open forum for various faculty, graduate and undergraduate students with research and development efforts in the area of design and test of VLSI systems, including application specific and programmable circuits in digital, analog, and mixed-signal microsystems. The goal is to promote further learning, discussion, and teamwork along with the conception and development of exciting new ideas.

The seminar series counts as a 1-credit course ELEC7950 (which may be repeated for up to 3 credits).

 

This seminar series sponsored by:

the Testing Group at Auburn:

Vishwani Agrawal - Design for Testability (DFT) and low-power design

Foster Dai - mixed-signal and analog design and testing

Vic Nelson - ASIC/FPGA testing and fault tolerance

Adit Singh - digital and mixed-signal VLSI design and Design for Testability (DFT)

Professor Emeritus: Chuck Stroud - digital and mixed-signal Built-In Self-Test (BIST)

 

Spring 2014 schedule:

When: Wednesdays from 4-5:30pm

Where: Broun Hall room 235

Coordinator: Vishwani Agrawal

Invitation: If you are interested in presenting a seminar or defending your thesis/dissertation, please contact the coordinator.

Notes: The following is a tentative schedule (speakers/topics in blue text are not confirmed at this point).  A link under Speaker is to an abstract of the presentation and a link under Topic is to a PDF file of the presentation slides.

Date

Speaker

Topic (w/ link to presentation slides after seminar date)

Jan 11

No Seminar

First Week of Classes

Jan 15

Vic Nelson

Functional IC test with the ADVANTEST T2000 GS system

Jan 22

Adit Singh

Better Than Worst Case Timing Design With Latch Buffers On Short Paths

Jan 29

Postponed to Feb. 12

University closed (snow)

Feb 5

Eric Ingram

Fault Injection for FPGA Testing on the ADVANTEST T2000

Feb 12

Michael Pukish

Comparison of Various Learning Machines in Computational Intelligence for Data Processing and System Modelling

Feb 19

Karthik N. Jayaraman

DVF4: A Dual Vth Feedback Type 4-Transistor Level Converter

Feb 26

Vijay Sheshadri

Power-Aware System-on-Chip Test Optimization through Frequency and Voltage Scaling (PhD defense)

Mar 5

Vishwani Agrawal

Specification Test Minimization for Given Defect Level

Mar 12

No seminar

Spring break

Mar 19

Praveen Venkataramani

Functional Testing Using Advantest T2000GS

Mar 26

Chao Han

Improving CMOS Open Defect Coverage Using Hazard Initialized Tests

Apr 2

Sidhu Gunesekar

Finding Optimum Clock Frequencies for Aperiodic Test (MS defense)

Apr 9

Jie Zou

Combining LOC and LOS Tests for TDF Coverage Improvement (MEE defense)

Apr 16

Victor P. Nelson

Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) with TessentFastScan

(Cancelled – University closed)

Apr 23

Abhjit Chatterjee

SELF-AWARE REAL-TIME WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS:  ADAPTATION FOR PERFORMANCE, LOW POWER AND ERROR RESILIENCE

 

Links to previous semesters of the VLSI Design & Test Seminar Series:

 

Spring 2012: Coordinator Chuck Stroud

Fall 2011: Coordinator Vishwani Agrawal

Spring 2011: Coordinator Adit Singh

Fall 2010: Coordinator Adit Singh

Spring 2010: Coordinator Chuck Stroud

Fall 2009: Coordinator Vishwani Agrawal

Spring 2009: Coordinator Adit Singh

Fall 2008: Coordinator Chuck Stroud

Spring 2008: Coordinator Vishwani Agrawal

Fall 2007: Coordinator Adit Singh

Spring 2007: Coordinator Chuck Stroud

Fall 2006: Coordinator Adit Singh

Spring 2006: Coordinator Vishwani Agrawal

Fall 2005: Coordinator Chuck Stroud

Spring 2005: Coordinator Adit Singh

Fall 2004: Coordinator Chuck Stroud