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Report of 4th national symposium

 VLSI & Embedded system

At Goa University, Goa.

Dated: 5th February 2010

The conference was organized by the VSI Goa Chapter and Electronics department of Goa University. The Symposium was inaugurated by the Dr. C. P. Ravikumar, Secretary VSI India and was presided over by Prof. Dileep Deobagkar, Vice Chancellor Goa University. Dr. Rajendra S. Gad introduced the dignitaries to the delegates.

Dr. Ravikumar in his inaugural remark said that VSI India is open for such collaborative programs all over India. Prof. Deobagkar, Vice Chancellor correlated the theme of symposium i.e. Very Large Scale Integration to that of Very Large Society Integration. He elaborated on having integration of Small group to large groups for better performance of System. Mr. Deepak Chodankar, President, VSI Goa-Chapter mentioned that the event will helps students and researchers in the region of Goa and will expose them for the frontiers in the fields of Technology. Mrs. Komala, Secretary gave vote of thanks.

 All together 98 participant attended the 4th national symposium on VLSI & Embedded system at the Goa University.

There were two tutorial session for the benefit of researchers and students in the upcoming areas of Technologies. Dr. C. P. Ravikumar, Texas Instruments India  was a keynote speaker and presented on the topic “From Semiconductor Devices to VLSI Systems-on-Chip - An unparalleled story of innovation”. Mr. Gopal Gangadharan , ALTERA Country Manager , Bangalore, presented on the topic “Altera 40nm Programmable Logic Devices Leadership”.

The Symposium had two technical sessions i.e. Session I: VLSI and Session II: Embedded System. All together 10 oral papers and 9 Poster presented during the event.

 The oral paper session I was chaired by Dr. R. K. Kamat, Reader, Electronics, Shivaji University, Kolhapure and session II by Dr. A. M. Khan, Reader, Electronics, Mangalore University, Mangalore. The review of paper was carried out by Dr. C. P. Ravikumar, Texas Instruments & Dr. Antonio Mascareinhas, Scientist, MICD, NIO, Goa. The oral presentations were judge by Mr. Prashant Deshpande, Smart-link, Verna, Goa; Mr. Gajanan Navelkar Scientist, MICD, NIO, Goa; Mr. Anil Raikar, Persistence Pvt. Ltd, Verna Goa.

Mr. Gopal Gangadharan, Altera Country Manager was chief guest for the Valedictory function. Dr. Mohan M. Sangodkar, Registrar Goa University, presided over the function. Mr. Anil Raikar was special invitee. Mr. Gopal expressed that Goa University is doing excellent job in the areas of Embedded System design. Dr. Mohan Sangodkar said that in the Globalized world, India and China are upcoming economies. He also said that India is having sizable young generation and said higher education, knowledge & Service sectors can play role in leading India in near future. Prof. Gourish M. Naik, Convener of the Symposium and Head of Department said over a ten years of period Electronics program at the Goa University has done commendable progress as seen by more and more funds pumping in for research from several funding agencies.

Vote of Thanks given by Dr. R. S. Gad, Co-ordinator of the Symposium.

Following presenters were selected for the best paper awards.

Oral Session

 1st  Place : “Soft core based embedded platform for Non Invasive Glucose Analysis”

By Mr. J. S. Parab, Electronics , Goa University , Goa , India

 2nd Place : “Implementation of the Demosaic block of digital pipeline onto a FPGA”

By Mrs. S. Pandit, EEE, GEC, Goa

 3rd Place : “Cryptographic Co-Processor – A Platform Based Approach”

By Mrs. S. L. Mahaddalkar, ETE, GEC, Goa

Poster Sessions : Consolation Prizes

1. “DVL aided Inertial navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicle using Kalman filtering ”

By Arun Nherakkol, VIT University, Vellor.

2. “Strip based resistive Glucometer using ARM LPC 2138”

By Gourish Naik, Electronics , Goa University

3.  “Implementation of JTAG based boundary –scan circuit for testing of core logic on an FPGA”

By Sonia Kuwelkar, ETCE, GEC, Goa

4. “A novel approach to evolve 2 bit adder”

By D. B. Vernekar, ETC, GEC, Goa.

5.  “Simulation and Implementation of a GPS based Navigation aid using Microcontroller”

By Rejeesh R. S. ECE, PCCE, Goa

6.  “3-D Surface Modelling”

By M. Desai, ECE, PCCE, Goa