CHiPTec News

Mar 08	Dr Anna Martini from the University of Trento, Italy visits Dr Tamath Rainsford for a month. She presented a seminar 'Wave Propagation in Random Media through a Percolation Model - Theory and Applications' on 18 March.
Feb 08	Ying Sun, Yikling Lim and Bin Guo are new CHiPTec postgraduate students.
Jan 08	Professor David Blaauw from University of Michigan is visiting CHiPTec for six months. He has done work in a very broad area of VLSI.
Nov 07	Dr Tamath Rainsford received the Stephen Cole the Elder Teaching Award. Congratulations Tamath!
	Dr. Said Al-Sarawi gave a presentation as part of the Sensors, Processing and Maths seminar series at the DSTO. The seminar is on the use of SAW devices for “Passive Wireless Sensors and Actuators” .
	Mr. Ed Bub of Geonautics International visited CHiPTec. Geonautics develops integrated electronic products for low enforcement agencies nationally and internationally.
	Zhining Lim, HDR student of CHiPTec, received an IEEE SA Section Travel Award to attend and give an oral presentation at the 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers in Monterey. He also visited Tensilica Inc in Santa Clara.
Oct 07	Mr. Zulfiqar Ali of Universiti Sains Malaysia visited CHiPTec for two weeks. He worked with Dr. Said Al-Sarawi on oversampling ADC using delta sigma approach.
	Prof. Adam Osseiran of Edith Cowan University visited ChiPTec for one week. He presented a Masters course on 'Microelectronic Testing and Design for Test'.
Jun 07	Prof. Jinho Choi of Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, University of Wales Swansea presented a short course "Iterative Signal Processing in Communications" on 29 June.
	Dan Kelly, HDR student of CHiPTec, visited PA Semi Inc in Santa Clara CA to do a six-month internship.
May 07	CHiPTec welcomes Dr. Tamath Rainsford as CHiPTec member. Tamath's research interests are in elecetromagnetic propagation modelling and bio-inspired artificial vison in VLSI implementation.
Mar 07	Prof. David M. Harris of Harvey Mudd College, USA visited CHiPTec for two weeks. He presented a seminar on 'Top Ten Ways to Fool the Masses about Circuit Performance'. During the visit, Prof Harris and his students collaborated with Dr Braden Phillips and his final year project students on MIPS microprocessor design.
Feb 07	James Kitchener and Lifang Lu are new postgraduate students
Dec 06	Dr. Andrew Beaumont-Smith of PA Semi, Inc visited CHiPTec and presented a seminar "Low-Power, High-Performance Architecture of the PWRficient Processor Family" on 22 December.
Dec 06	Prof. Edwin Chong of Colorado State University visited CHiPTec and presented a seminar "Decentralized Flow Control for Networked Tracking and Surveillance" on 20 December.