【電子所專題演講公告】

電子所擬於3/24(Mon.)邀請Professor Charles G. Sodini於臺大演講，演講資訊如下。

Title: System Drivers for Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design Research
Speaker: Professor Charles G. Sodini (MIT)
Date: 3/24(Mon.)
Time: 13:30-14:30
Place: BL 101

   Mixed signal circuit design research is often carried out using design requirements that are determined by a system driver.  One popular choice for system drivers is to use the latest evolving standards.  However, these systems are often constrained and prevent the experimentation with novel circuit and system concepts.  It has been our experience that the opportunity for innovation in mixed signal circuit design is enhanced when a system driver is conceived using state-of-the-art system concepts.  An example of such a driver is the Wireless Gigabit Local Area Network (WiGLAN) that was used as a system driver for communication circuit research from 1998-2006. The WiGLAN offers Gb/s data rates in the 5GHz band using the concept of adaptive modulation of sub-channels produced using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. To reduce the SNR required for a given bit error rate, the WiGLAN employs the use of multiple antennas to increase spatial diversity.  Each antenna requires its own independent receiver. A description of the WiGLAN and some of the research ICs that were designed with this system driver will be presented.

   A recent example of another system driver is an active mm-wave imaging system for automotive applications. Millimeter-wave radiation and detection offers the capability of two-dimensional imaging of vehicles within the range of approximately 50-100 meters. Active transmission of a known signal modulated to carrier frequencies at 77 GHz and higher act as the “illumination” of the vehicle to be imaged. The reflected signal is scanned by an array of receivers (e.g. 32x32) to receive a number of “looks” at the object. After down-conversion to approximately 1 GHz, digitization of the signal is performed. Advanced digital signal processing is used to obtain intensity measurement of a two-dimensional array of “pixels” on the vehicle.  It is expected that this system will guide mm-wave IC design for the next few years.

   Charles G. Sodini currently is the LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. His research interests focus on mixed-signal integrated circuit and system design.  He co-authored /Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach/, with Roger T. Howe, and is co-founder of SMaL Camera Technologies, a leader in imaging technology for consumer digital still cameras and machine vision cameras for automotive applications. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1983, Sodini was a member ofthe technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, working on MOS memory design.

   He is Chair of the Executive Committee for the VLSI Symposia and an IEEE Fellow. He was President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2002-2004) and General Chairman of the International Electron Device Meeting (1989). In addition, he served on the IEEE Electron Device Society Administrative Committee. Sodini holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

【公文公告】

【國立臺灣大學電機資訊學院與日本早稻田大學資訊生產系統研究院學生交換研修辦法】

一、主旨：

為拓展本院學生的國際視野，鼓勵本院學生前往日本早稻田大學資訊生產系統研究院研修，以期全面擴展國內具發展潛力年輕學子參與國際學術社群機會，特訂定本獎助辦法。

二、申請人資格：

F-course: 目前就讀本院研究所一年級或二年級者。
Standard course: 本院大學部應屆畢業生，欲申請碩士班者，及本院碩士班應屆畢業生，欲申請博士班者。

其他要求：
1. 大學或研究所階段成績優秀，有良好之研究能力及潛力者。
2. 有優良英語聽、說、讀、寫能力或具有較佳日語基礎者。
3. 家庭經濟狀況較佳，能保證赴日求學期間所需費用者。

三、F-course其他相關注意事項：

1. F-course學生於早稻田大學資訊生產系統研究院其間所取得之學分，可抵免台大電資學院畢業學分。合乎台大及早稻田大學碩士班畢業規定者，可同時取得雙方碩士學位。
2. 申請此計畫之學生，必須繳交本校註冊費，以保有台大學籍，以便於計畫結束後，獲得台灣大學之學位。
3. F-course學生，必須於出發前填寫「國立臺灣大學學生赴國外交換選修課程及學分採認表」，經系主任許可後，所選修之學分使得生效。學生返台後，需前往教務處辦理學分抵免。所修習之學分，雙方承認，唯學生共須修滿二十四學分，使得獲得台灣大學學位。
4. 學生於兩地所從事之研究內容若涉及智慧財產權相關事宜，則依個案訂定之。

四、名額：五名

五、授課語言：英語

六、留學費用：

1. 原則上需由學生自行負擔，但獲得老師推薦之學生將於第一年獲得早稻田大學資訊生產系統研究院所提供之60萬日幣之獎學金。
2. 約有三分之二的老師能夠提供學生每月10萬日圓之額外研究補助。

七、申請方式：

欲申請者，請至資訊系系辦公室(205室張雅婷小姐)及電機系系辦公室(110室梁麗燕小姐)領取申請書及相關資料，填妥後於97年5月20日中午12時前，送至資訊系205系辦公室張雅婷小姐辦理。

八、其他未盡事宜，請參照本院與日本早稻田大學資訊生產系統研究院交換計劃協議書。

【IEEE SSCS Taipei Chapter演講公告】

IEEE SSCS Taipei Chapter擬於3/21(五)邀請Dr. Kuang-Tsan Wu於台大演講

講題：The only 40 Gb/s coherent optical transmission systems
地點：臺灣大學電機二館124會議室
時間：九十七年三月二十一日(星期五)下午二點至四點

主辦單位：臺灣大學電子工程學研究所
　　　　　IEEE SSCS Taipei Chapter

Abstract : We present measurement results with the first commercial coherent 40Gb/s optical transport system.  This coherent 40 Gb/s design enables the use of low cost 10 GHz electro-optic components. With coherent detection, linear digital filters in the receiver are effective to combat chromatic dispersion, polarization dependent loss, polarization mode dispersion,  and hardware imperfections. Coherent 40 Gb/s signals can be overlaid on optical lines designed for 10 Gb/s and thereby provide customers with four times the capacity, still without the need for any optical dispersion compensation.

Nortel introduced in 2005 the 1s-generation eDCO (electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics) product in which all of the dispersion compensation is implemented with an ASIC in the transmitter. The coherent 40G system represents the Nortel’s 2nd-generation eDCO product.   The key element of the coherent system is the 20 million gate 90 nm CMOS ASIC used in the receiver which includes 4 ADCs and a DSP engine. The hardware engine implements all the control loops, including dispersion, polarization compensations, AGC, clock and carrier recovery, requiring 12 trillion integer operations per second.

With this ASIC successfully verified and integrated, we can now show real-time measurements of the 40Gb/s optical modem.  We will show that the strong performance of this system in the presence of dispersion and severe line degradations will allow, for the first time, ubiquitous deployment of 40 Gb/s over existing fibers.

About the Speaker : Kuang-Tsan Wu, B.S. (1975) and M.A.Sc. (1979) of National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Ph.D. (1986) of the University of Ottawa, Canada, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined BNR, Ottawa in 1987 and was the main system designer for the world’s 1st 512-QAM digital radio. He has been with Nortel Optical division (MEN now) since 1999 and involved in eDCO solutions, including world’s 1st transmitter dispersion precompensation and world’s only coherent 40G optical modem. He is working with other members of the team in applying digital modem techniques, control loops and FEC for future optical systems.

【台大-聯發科技無線研究實驗室演講公告】

台大-聯發科技無線研究實驗室特邀請Prof. Jan M. Rabaey (UC Berkeley) 蒞臨 舉辦演講

講題： Microscopic Wireless
時間：97年 4月 1日（二） 下午 4：00 -  5：00
地點： 國立台灣大學電機二館142會議室
主講人：Prof. Jan M. Rabaey (UC Berkeley)

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主辦單位：國立臺灣大學--聯發科技無線研究實驗室

協辦單位：IEEE SSCS Taipei Chapter
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