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ATIPS Member Joshua Nakaska won 3rd place in the Student Paper Competition held at the prestigious 2007 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Honolulu, Hawaii on June 7th. The title of his paper was, "2 GHz Automatically Tuned Q-Enhanced CMOS Bandpass Filter."

The student finalists presented their conference papers in interactive poster format on Tuesday of the symposium week. A panel of judges reviewed each poster and presentation. First, second, and third place winners were selected based on the professionalism of the presentation, verbal communication skills, and the technical merit of the topic.

The winners were announced at the Student Awards Luncheon on Thursday June 7th at the IMS 2007 conference.

Mr. Nakaska is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the ATIPS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Research Group under the supervision of Dr. Jim Haslett.

ATIPS Member Joshua Nakaska has been selected as a finalist in the student competition held at 2007 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), June 3-8.

An interactive forum for all student finalists to present their papers in poster format is scheduled on Tuesday of the symposium week. A panel of judges will review each presentation. First, second, and third place winners will be selected based on the professionalism of the presentation, verbal communication skills, and the technical merit of the topic. The winners will be announced at the student luncheon on Thursday.

Joshua is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the ATIPS RFIC Research Group under the supervision of Dr. Jim Haslett. The title of his submission was, "2 GHz Automatically Tuned Q-Enhanced CMOS Bandpass Filter." Joshua's paper has been selected for presentation at IMS2007 (Jun'07).

ATIPS Labs' work on the Square Kilometer Array Telescope has been recognised in this month's OnCampus. Led by Dr. Jim Haslett and Ph.D. candidate Leo Belostotski the team has developed an ultra-low noise uncooled amplifier to be used in the giant telescope's multitude of radio antennae.

for more information see OnCampus.

Ray Lemieux of MSTRI will be visiting Calgary on Friday (25th August) to give a presentation on the MSTRI Program and provide a workshop / question and answer session on the applications process.

The MicroSystems Technology Research Institute (MSTRI) was established in the fall of 2000 to foster the development of a Canadian microsystems industry through the support of innovative research projects, where the anticipated outcomes demonstrate a potential for crystallizing commercial opportunities. Further information on MSTRI and the funding programs it offers can be found at http://www.engineering.ualberta.ca/mstri/programs.cfm.

Friday's presentation will being in CCIT Rm 209 (the CCIT boardroom) at 10am, all are welcome. Please provide an indication of your intention to attend to Chris O'Neill so that we can gauge the likely numbers.

If you have any further questions please email Chris O'Neill. Please inform anyone who may be interested.

The ATIPS Labs speaker for this week is Sherif Hammounda who will give a talk entitled "Analog Circuit Reuse". It will be given in ICT 516 at noon.

This Friday's seminar will be given by Gabriel Schulhof. The title of the talk is "QCADesigner: Behind The Screens."

As per usual the meeting is at 12 Noon in ICT 516.

More information on QCADesigner can be found at: http://www.qcadesigner.ca/

Khan Wahid has been awarded with an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship for a tenure of 2 years with provincial iCORE matching.

This Friday's seminar will be given by Yifeng Qiu. The title of the talk is "An Integrated Virtual Socket Hardware-Accelerated Co-design Platform for MPEG-4". As per usual the meeting is at 12 Noon in ICT 516.

Joshua Nakaska, a PhD student under Dr. Jim Haslett's supervision in the RF IC Industrial Research Chair Program in The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, has been awarded an "Outstanding Student Designer" award by Analog Devices Inc. whose corporate headquarters are located in Norwood Massachussetts, USA.

The award was presented in the form of a cheque for $1500 US funds at a luncheon meeting during the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco (ISSCC2006) on February 7, 2006.

Joshua spent a 16-month internship at Gennum Corporation in Burlington, Ontario. Since joining the RFIC research group in Calgary, Joshua has been working on the frequency synthesizer for a high data rate Wireless Local Area Network receiver terminal in collaboration with the TRLabs Wireless Research Center in Calgary. More recently Joshua has been focused in the areas of frequency division circuits and RF bandpass filters. Joshua currently holds an NSERC PGSD scholarship and a provincial government iCORE scholarship to support his PhD research work.

Dr. Jim Haslett presented a well-attended short course on RF IC design for wireless applications at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, California on September 17, 2005. Dr. Haslett is also planning to continue his series of training courses provided to PMC Sierra in Burnaby, B.C.

ATIPS Researchers Laurent Imbert and Vassil Dimitrov have had a paper accepted for Asiacrypt 2005. This is a highly prestigious conference with an 85% rejection rate. Acceptance of this paper is an indication of the high quality of ATIPS Labs’ research.

Philip Chan has been awarded an NSERC (PGSM) scholarship with iCORE matching and a Dean's Research Excellence Award from the University of Calgary.

RFIC researchers presented 13 posters and won 2 awards at the iCORE Banff Informatics Summit. Dr. Jim Haslett also chaired a well-attended dicussion panel on Commercialization of Wireless IP, supported by Dr. Sebastian Magierowski, Dr. Ivars Finvers, and TRLabs affiliate Dr. John McRory.

Holly Pekau, Rob Randall, Ihab Amer, and Ian Steiner all won “best poster” awards at the 2005 iCORE Informatics summit in Banff (Sept. 2nd):

• H. Pekau, J. W. Haslett, A 2.1GHz CMOS RF Sub-sampling Receiver Front End With Integrated Q-Enhanced Filtering, iCORE Informatics Summit 2005, Aug. 31st - Sept. 2nd, Banff 2005.
• R. Randall, J. W. Haslett, J. G. McRory, Fully Integrated CMOS RF Power Amplifiers, iCORE Informatics Summit 2005, Aug. 31st - Sept. 2nd, Banff 2005.
• I. Amer, W. Badawy, G. A. Jullien, A Design Flow for an H.264 Embedded Video Encoder, iCORE Informatics Summit 2005, Aug. 31st - Sept. 2nd, Banff 2005.
• I. Steiner, G. A. Jullien, A Fault-Tolerant Modulus Replication Complex FIR Filter, iCORE Informatics Summit 2005, Aug. 31st - Sept. 2nd, Banff 2005.

ATIPS member Konrad Walus completed his Ph.D., Design and Simulation of Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) Devices and Circuits, on August 26th and has taken up an Assistant Professorship position at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Walus' Ph.D. Thesis has been selected as the University of Calgary submission to the 2006 NSERC Doctoral Prize competition in the Engineering and Computer Science division.

Pranavi Anand joined the RFIC team as a Research Assistant on August 1st. She will be researching wideband low noise amplifiers and ultrawideband systems.

Dr. Mohamed Shehata joined the team in August as a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Wael Badawy. He is researching shadow detection in video sequences.

Philip Chan joined the ATIPS group in September as a Masters student under the supervision of Dr. Graham Jullien. Philip will be working as part of the information security team and will be funded by an iCORE matched NSERC Scholarship.

Youssef Ibrahim (University of Windsor - supervised by Dr. Graham Jullien) successfully defended his thesis Novel Arithmetic Implementations Using Cellular Neural Networks on August 4th.

International team member Laurent Imbert presented an invited talk on "A CRT-Based Montgomery Multiplication for Finite Fields of Small Characteristic" to the 17th IMACS3 World Congress in Paris, France. The paper was co-authored by Laurent, his CNRS colleague Jean-Claude Bajard, Dr. Graham Jullien and fellow iCORE chair Hugh Williams (CISaC).

Dr. Takis Zourntos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University, discussed his research on low-complexity artificial intelligence. Rather than embracing algorithmic or neuromorphic approaches, Dr. Zourntos is applying non-linear control theory to develop intelligent radio systems that mimic instinctual behaviour. Integrated circuit applications for data converter optimization were presented as examples of the approach.

Yehya Ghallab and Dr. Wael Badawy gave a tutorial on Circuits and Systems for Lab-on-Chip Integration at the International Workshop on System-on-a- Chip (IWSOC 2005) in Banff July 21-24.

Chris Holdenried’s Fully Integrated 10 Gb/s Hilbert Transformer for Optical Single Sideband circuit was displayed at the prestigious European Solid-State Circuits Conference in Grenoble. Chris’s circuit was one of a select few chosen by CMC Microsystems from submissions across Canada.

A joint University of Calgary and Calgary Health Region research partnership was formally announced on July 5th. Research by ATIPS laboratory members is crucial to this effort, developing a new generation of wireless medical devices to improve patient care and create safer health care environments. This work will be tested on the Medical Ward of the 21st Century.

The Ward of the 21st Century / Centre for Engineered Care Press Conference Our team has been working closely with Calgary Health Region (CHR) and the Department of Medicine at the University of Calgary on technologies for the Medical Ward of the 21st Century (W21C). This July, in a joint announcement between the University if Calgary and Calgary Health Region, some of that technology was unveiled to the public. The announcement included details of the new generation of wireless medical devices that the RFIC team has been designing. These devices will eventually be “built in” to CHR’s new South Health Campus. They include: pain-free micro-needles smart band-aids real-time, wireless remote body sensors smart hospital beds The press release details and a press clipping for the announcement and some of the technologies are included as appendices to this report. A CHR video of the announcement can be viewed by on this page http://www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/newslink/2005/engineeredcare.html.

Related Links: http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/july05/engg-care-background.html http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/july05/engineered-care.html http://www.schulich.ucalgary.ca/CCEC/index.html

Choudhury A. Rahman passed his Ph.D. candidacy exam in April. The title of thesis was H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Enabled Hardware Video Codec for Handheld Devices.

James Doherty defended his Master’s thesis, Transcutaneous Power and Data Telemetry for an Implantable Gastrointestinal Stimulation System, on April 14th and is currently interviewing.

Ryan Glabb defended his Master’s thesis, The Rapid-Prototyping Co-design of a Proprietary Key Negotiation Algorithm, in April and will be continuing with ATIPS as a Ph.D. candidate.

Paul Horbal defended his Master’s thesis, Application of Ordered Binary Decision Diagram Logic for use as General Purpose Lookup Tables, on June 3rd and will be continuing his education at the University of Toronto in September.

Jeff Keilman defended his Master’s thesis, The Development and Experimental Verification of the Lexel™ Array: A Microelectrode Structure to Implement Reconfigurable, Programmable AC Electrokinetic Particle Manipulations, on June 10th. Jeff will be returning to his medical studies at McGill University later this year.

Jonathan Yeboah defended his Master’s thesis, Analog Circuits for Ultra-Low Noise Digital Arithmetic, 10th June 2005 and will continue to work with ATIPS on further Journal Publications whilst taking up a position with Schlumberger here in Alberta.

Dr. Jim Haslett delivered a one day radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design training course to PMC Sierra employees, Ottawa, Ontario, May 18, 2005.

Dr. Jim Haslett was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering at the CAE Annual General Meeting June 3rd, 2005 for his substantial contribution over 34 years, to microelectronics-based research and technology transfer to industry, in Canada and internationally.

The Academy is an independent, self-governing organization, established to serve the nation in matters of engineering concern. Fellows of the Academy are engineers from all disciplines; they are elected by their peers on the basis of their distinguished achievements and of their contributions to the profession, to the country, and to society. The total number of active fellows in the Academy slightly exceeds 250. Given a total of some 250,000 engineers across Canada, those who are elected to the Academy clearly constitute an extraordinarily well-qualified and dedicated group.

Yehya Ghallab and Dr. Wael Badawy gave a tutorial on Circuit and Systems for Lab-on-Chip Integration at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005) in Japan in May and will be giving an encore at the International Workshop on System-on-a-Chip (IWSOC 2005) in Banff later this month.

Damon Holmes (MSc) and Chris Holdenried (PhD) have graduated and moved to Industry jobs. Damon is now at Nortel in Calgary, and Chris has joined Snowbush Electronics in Toronto.

The new version of ATIPS’ increasingly widely used Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) circuit design software now includes multi-layer capabilities, a completely new graphing dialog with multi-radix viewing, data bus creation capabilities, and alternative cell appearances for multi-layer design.

Konrad Walus, Mike Mazur, Gabriel Schulhof, Dr. Graham Jullien, and Dr. Vassil Dimitrov, received the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled, "Quantum Cellular Automata: Using CAD to Investigate a Future Nano-electronic Technology," at the Micronet Annual Workshop located in Ottawa.

Dr. Graham Jullien gave a keynote talk to the 2005 North-East Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS2005) in Québec. The presentation, entitled “CAS: where are we headed? (SOC, Microsystems and other technologies)” discussed the future of microsystems design and showcased the work of the ATIPS Laboratory.

Dr. Graham Jullien and Ryan Glabb presented an invited paper on Rapid-Prototyping of SoC designs to the IEEE NEWCAS conference in June 2005, “The Rapid Prototyping SoC Co-design of a Proprietary Key Agreement Protocol”.

For more information regarding this news item, please see the Centre for Microsystems Engineering homepage.

Mr. Rohit Newaskar, a graduate student in the M&ME Department, will present a seminar "Experimental Characterization of Geometric Features in MEMS".

Date and time: March 9 (Wednesday), at Noon; Location: CCIT 209.

Light lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Swavik Spiewak (spiewaks@enme.ucalgary.ca) by Tuesday, March 8.

The QCADesigner simulation tool has had an amazing growth since its initial release in April 2002 (Download Trend). This trend indicates that up to 600 downloads per month by the middle of 2005. Presently we have a total of over 2100 downloads! This is in large part to the highly anticipated release version 2.0 which will be available some time in November 2004. QCADesigner release version 2.0 incorporates many new features and will represent a new level in QCA simulation.

For more information on QCADesigner go to the official QCADesigner webpage.

Konrad Walus, a Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary, was presented the Leaders of Tomorrow Award. Mr. Walus has been invited to write what has been described as, "the definitive textbook on his work into an emerging nanoelectronic technology that has the potential to replace classical micro-electronic technology, the foundation of every computer device".

Pictures from the ASTech Foundation Awards Gala may be viewed here.

Graduate student Jeff Keilman received the Micralyne Microsystems Design Award at the MR&DCAN 2004 student award competition (TEXPO 2004) held in Ottawa on September 30, 2004.

The award is given to the competitor whom demonstrates the most novel and industrially relevant research results in the areas of MEMS, microfluidics, materials research and system-related developments that include research in these areas.

Mr. Keilman received the award for his poster presentation which demonstrated a novel integrated dielectrophoresis electrode array capable of separating and moving particles. His poster was entitled, "A Dielectrophoretic Bio-Analysis Platform Using Lexel Arrays".

Happy 60th Birthday to Dr. Jim Haslett!

For the second year in a row, Khad Wahid has received the Graduate Faculty Council Scholarship. This year (2004-2005) there were only 2 scholarships available for international students.

Konrad Walus received a Best Presentation Award at the University of Calgary's 2004 Annual Graduate Student Research Conference.

Guest speaker Dr. Bayoumi will present a VLSI seminar titled "INTEGRATION: Challenges and Opportunities" on Friday April 16, 2004 in Room 446 of the ICT Building. The seminar will begin at 2:00pm. There will be limited seating so come early.

Prof. Magdy Bayoumi
Director Centre for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

From large systems composed of coarse grain components to System on Chips based on fine grain components, the main challenge is integrating different technologies and paradigms to have well coordinted systems. I will present several examples of integration developed by our VLSI group at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies.

Check out our new tutorial on quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) HERE. The tutorial is written for people with no previous knowledge on this interesting new nanotechnology.

ATIPS Lab researcher and RFIC group member, Jonathan Yeboah has received the Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship in recognition of outstanding academic performance in the first year of his M.Sc. program.

Congratulations, Jonathan!

Dr. Navid Yazdi will present a seminar titled "MEMS-Based Integrated Microsystems for Inertial Sensing and All-Optical Networks" on Friday April 2, 2004 in Room 516 of the ICT Building. The seminar will begin at 2:00pm.

Readers of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, please be sure to download the special interactive simulations from our article, "Loading the Bases".

Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni was selected by engineering students for the ESS Teaching Excellence Award in 2nd Year Engineering.

The award is given yearly to instructors displaying enthusiastic and effective teaching.

Khan Arif Wahid, received a M.Sc. with distinction for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis on December 17th, 2003.

Khan's MSc thesis was focussed on the implementaion of Daubechies Discrete Wavelet Transforms using Algebraic Integers. During the two years of work, Khan published 2 journal articles and 4 conference papers on his research.

Khan will start his Ph.D. right away in the area of image processing, digital hardware design, and FPGA implementaions.

Holly Pekau, a PhD student under Dr. Jim Haslett's supervision in the RF IC Industrial Research Chair Program in The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, has been awarded an "Outstanding Student IC Designer" award by Analog Devices Inc. whose corporate headquarters are located in Norwood Massachussetts, USA.

The award will be presented in the form of a cheque for $1500 US funds at a luncheon meeting during the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Fransisco, February 15-19, 2004. Holly has several years of industrial experience designing RF integrated circuits, first at Analog Devices Inc, Communications Division, Wilmington Massachussetts, from 1997 to 1999, then with IBM Microelectronics in the Boston Design Center from 1999 to 2002. She also spent 6 months in the La Gaude Design Center, France during the last half of 2001. Holly, whose family resides in Calgary, received her BSEE degree with honours from McGill University, and her MSEE degree from Northeastern University in Boston.

Since joining the RFIC research group in Calgary, Holly has been working on the integrated circuit design of a high data rate Wireless Local Area Network receiver terminal in collaboration with the TRLabs Wireless Research Center in Calgary. Holly currently holds an NSERC PGSB scholarship and a provincial government iCORE scholarship to support her PhD research work.

Konrad Walus received the Micronet Best Paper Award which described his research work in developing the Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) development tool QCADesigner for emerging nano-technologies.

K. Walus, V. Dimitrov, G.A. Jullien, W.C. Miller, "QCADesigner: A CAD Tool for an Emerging Nano-Technology", Micronet Annual Workshop 2003, Oct 1-2, Toronto, ON.

ATIPS Laboratory member and Quantum Cellular Automata researcher, Konrad Walus, has officially been chosen a finalist for the prestigious ASTech "Leaders of Tomorrow" award. The winner of this award will be announced at the ASTech Gala to be held November 7, 2003 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary.

Congratulations, Konrad!

ATIPS researchers continued their success at the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO last week, winning 2 of 3 awards for the second year in a row.

Bogdan Georgescu won the CMC CAD/Componentware Award while Mohammed Sayed and Mehboob Alam won the prestigious Strategic Microelectronics Council Industrial Collaboration Award. The awards are for winning poster displays and each carry a cash prize of $3000 to be used for conference travel.

Bogdan Georgescu's winning poster submission had an unlikely beginning. Initially not admitted into TEXPO, CMC kept him in mind and eventually made room but with one caveat - there was no space for him in the award competition.

After "Bogie" was unable to obtain a refund for his travel arrangements he decided to attend anyways and eventually prevailed upon CMC organizers to allow him to compete for an award. His troubles not yet over, Bogdan was forced to scramble when last minute changes to his poster resulted in a plotter jamming, just hours before his flight to TEXPO. The troubles were eventually resolved and Bogie did make his flight on time.

Special thanks to CMC TEXPO organizers for considering Bogdan's entry and congratulations to all the winners and attendees.

Ph.D. student, Khan Arif Wahid will be traveling to Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology in July to present an invited digital signal processing (DSP) seminar.

In April, ATIPS Ph.D. student, Khan Arif Wahid, received the University of Calgary's Graduate Faculty Council Scholarship, one of only four awarded to international students this year.

Congratulations, Khan!

Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni recently joined the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Group for his post-doctoral fellowship. Prior to joining the group, Dr. Devabhaktuni received a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Doctoral Level from Carleton University (Spring Convocation, June 12-14).

Welcome, Vijay, to the RFIC group and ATIPS community!

A Class 100 cleanroom facility, which will enable ATIPS researchers to fabricate, integrate and characterize their designs is now officially under construction. This 350 square foot facility will contain equipment such as a flip-chip bonder, atomic force microscope, scanning electron microscop and more. For further information about this facility please contact Konrad Walus or track the lab's progress in our construction photo album!

ATIPS Lab Member Chris Holdenried has been awarded the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship. This a presitgious award that recognizes promising graduate students pursuing a graduate degree in microwave engineering.

Congratulations Chris!

ATIPS Laboratory and RFIC Group member Joshua Nakaska has been awarded an Alberta Government Graduate Student Scholarship for academic excellence during the first year of his M.Sc. program at the University of Calgary.

Michael Lynch, of the ATIPS-RFIC group, successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis on February 7th, 2003. His thesis is titled Silicon Germanium Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits for a 17 GHz Wireless Network.

The thesis focuses on the development of radio receiver ICs for TRLabs' Gigabit Radio Wireless LAN. Radio receiver specifications, simultaneous noise and power matching techniques, a 17 GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) and a 17 GHz direct down-conversion mixer are presented within the work.

"This is a great end to two-and-a-half years of hard work," Michael said afterwards. "Access to fantastic resources and people at TRLabs and here in the ATIPS laboratory really helped me in achieving this goal. I would especially like to thank my supervisor Dr. Jim Haslett for his support of my research." Michael's future plans are to find an Analog/RF design position within Canada's IC design industry.

RFIC Researcher and ATIPS Lab member, Chris Holdenried, has been honoured by the University of Calgary for his work on logarithmic amplifiers with the J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award.

The Alberta Ministry of Innovation and Science has developed a television campaign to help promote awareness of Alberta 's innovations in science and technology. Alberta's researchers, entrepreneurs, and students tell the public "What's new" and "What's cool" in these 30-second spots.

Chris Holdenried and Michael Lynch, two ATIPS lab members, were invited to take part in this endeavour. "It's important to show the public the many advances in science and technology that are taking place right here in the province" comments Lynch. "Additionally, making the clips was a lot of fun."

There are eight different clips are available for viewing in AVI format at the ministry's website. Michael and Chris are featured in clips 1 and 7 respectively.

Visit the Alberta Minitry of Innovation and Science website to see the spots.

The iCORE/NSERC/TRLabs Industrial Chair has been awarded to the ATIPS lab's Dr. Jim Haslett for the development of a research program called the Wireless Science and Technology Initiative. iCORE, NSERC, TRLabs and the University of Calgary have committed $3.42 million for the project.

Find out more about the Industrial Chair from this iCORE press release or learn about Dr. Haslett's background at his ATIPS community page or the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Group.

The ATIPS Lab's Konrad Walus presented his paper "Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Carry-Look-Ahead Adder and Barrel Shifter" recently at the IEEE Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Conference in Dallas, Texas.

The paper was co-authored during the summer with ATIPS summer intern Anoop Vetteth from the Indian Institute of Technology. More information regarding the paper and related research is available at the QCA Designer website and Mr. Walus' personal webspace.

ATIPS lab members are coming home from TEXPO 2002 having collected two of the three awards handed out at the annual competition organized by the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation.

Chris Holdenried has been awarded the CMC Componentware/CAD award, while Konrad Walus has won the Micralyne Microsystems Design Award. Congratulations to them both!

ATIPS Lab member and Ph.D. candidate Chris Holdenried has been awarded the prestigious Canadian Microelectronics Corporation Componentware/CAD award at this year's CMC TEXPO in Ottawa.

This award is awarded to the competitor who "demonstrate[s] novel use of microelectronic components produced by Canadian suppliers and/or the development of novel applications relevant to Canadian industry."

Congratulations to Chris!

ATIPS Lab member and M.Sc. student Konrad Walus has been awarded the prestigious Micralyne Microsystems Design Award at this year's CMC TEXPO in Ottawa.

This award is awarded to the competitor who "demonstrates the most novel and industrially relevant research results in the areas of: MEMS, Microsystems, Materials research or system-related developments that includes research in the above areas."

Congratulations to Konrad!

The ATIPS Lab's own Vassil Dimitrov will be lecturing on Computational Complexity Problems in DSP at the Helsinki University of Technology the week of May 20-24, 2002.

Course material will be available online shortly. Find out more by visiting the HUT graduate studies page.

QCADesigner is the product of an ongoing project to create a powerful free simulation and design tool for Quantum Dot Cellular Automata. Focus has been placed on an easy-to-use interface and many powerful design+simulation features.

The QCADesigner simulator is available for FREE download.

Find out more by visiting the project homepage.

The International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications is approaching! This first annual workshop will be held at The Banff Centre - nestled in the Canadian Rocky Mountains - in beautiful Banff, Alberta.

Scheduled for July 6-7, this event will provide a forum for discussion of new developments, recent progress, and innovations in the design and implementation of System on Chip for Real-Time processing. Find out more about the IWSOC at the IWSOC website.

If you are interested in seeing Dr. Graham Jullien's talk in the iCORE Distinguished Lecturer Series (www.icore.ca) but would like to view the presentation at a larger size than that available in the archived webcast, you can now download the original presentation files (available for PC and Mac).

Please note that this is not a Powerpoint slide presentation. If you encounter difficulties in following the presentation, try to follow the mouse movements and clicks in the webcast.

For those who wish to follow the presentation on its own, general rules are:

• Clicking on the main title will back up a slide
• Clicking on the ATIPS logo will return to the main menu (or previous topic)
• A flashing iCORE logo indicates a divergent topic that can be followed

If you encounter any difficulties, please let us know. Thank you for your interest!

Sazzadur Chowdhury from the University of Windsor will be offering a comprehensive Intellisuite tutorial today.

The tutorial will run from 9 to 5 in the ATIPS lab. Everyone is invited!