Activities

Workshops

• 1. Two days Workshop on ''System Design Flow Using Zynq'' was organized on 28th and 29th June 2016. The event was conducted in association with CoreEL Technologies, Pune by resource person Mr. Mayur Deshmukh (Senior Application Engineer, CoreEL Technologies, Pune. ) Coordinated by Mrs. V. K. Harpale.

• 2. Two days state Level Workshop on ''Design and simulation of Low power Integrated circuits using HPSICE at Deep Submicron Technology'' was organized under QIP (Quality improvement Program) of SPPU (Savitribai Phule, Pune University), Pune cheduled during 26th and 27th February 2016. Coordinated by Mrs. V.S.Bendre and Mr. U. R. Shirode.

• 3. One day workshop on ''Exploring Signal Processing'' was organized on 30th March 2016 for TE and ME Students and all staff members by Mrs. Rajani P.K., Mrs. Swati Jagtap and Mrs. M.H.Murai along with BE and ME Students

• 4. Mrs.Rajani.P.K, Mrs.SwatiJagtap, and Mrs.Ashwini Shinde along with BE and ME students organized a one day workshop for TE and ME (E&TC) students and all staff members titled ''Exploring Signal Processing" on 13th February 2015 in ME(E&TC) Lab under Signal Processing SIG.

• 5. RC Workshop: 26th to 28th Sept. 2014 A Three Days workshop on ''Reconfigurable Computing'' was organized under the SIG (VLSI and Embedded Systems) of E&TC Dept. for ME faculty, students and researchers across Pune. Dr. S. U. Bhandari was the speaker. The event was coordinated by Prof. V. K. Harpale and Prof. D. S. Khurge. All first Year PG Students actively participated in the organization of event.

• 6. Workshop for ME E&TC Students to aware and guide them in the available resources in the Department in the area of signal processing. It is also to motivate and encourage them to do MiniProject/Project in the field of signal processing using DSP Processor, MATLAB and Simulink. Organized on 24th Sept. 2013.

• 7. RC Workshop: 19th to 21st Sept.. 2013 A Three Days workshop on ''Reconfigurable Computing'' was organized under the SIG (VLSI and Embedded Systems) of E&TC Dept. for ME faculty, students and researchers across Pune . Dr. S. U. Bhandari was the speaker. The event was coordinated by Prof. V. K. Harpale and Prof. V. S. Bendre. All first Year PG Students actively participated in the organization of even.

• 8. Latex Workshop: The SIG VLSI and Embedded Systems, has successfully organized Workshop on Latex for the faculty and PG students of E & TC Dept. on 10thOct. 2013. No. of Participants for the workshop was 30 (14 Faculty + 16 PG Students). Dr. J. S. Umale & Dr. S. U. Bhandari conducted the workshop. It was coordinated by Mrs. V. S. Bendre & Mrs. Pavithra S.

VLSI Week/ VED-QUEST

This unique activity provides PG students an opportunity to listen experts and understand industry requirements. Various experts from different domains are invited to guide student on various research topics, project opportunities, industry culture and entrepreneurship prospects. Department conducts this activity every year for PG students.

A Week Program on ''VLSI and Embedded Systems Week-2013'':

Five days event ''VLSI and Embedded Systems Week '' is conducted in association with various industries under the SIG (VLSI and Embedded) , for the students of T.E.,B.E. and M.E. The event was convened by Mrs. Sheetal Bhandari and coordinated by Prof. V.K.Harpale and Prof. A. S. Pawar. various sessions organized during these three days as follows:

Sr. No.	Date	Time	Event Details
1	11th Feb 2013	11.00am to 12.00 pm	Inauguration of Event and Inauguration of Poster Presentation
2		12.00pm to 1.00pm	Keynote on ''Opportunities in VLSI and Embedded Systems '' by Niranjan Pol, LSI, Pune.
3		2.00pm to 3.30pm	Seminar on '' Partial Reconfiguration '' by Prof. S.U.Bhandari
4		3.45pm to 4.45pm	Poster Presentation Competition
5	12th Feb 2013	11.00am to 12.00 pm	Guest Lecture on ''Recent Trends in Embedded Systems'' by Mr. Prashant Chowdhary, Raychem RPG
6		12.00pm to 1.00pm	Seminar on ''Evolution of FPGA'' By Prof. A.A.Shrivastava
7		2.00pm to 3.30pm	Elimination round of Technical Quiz
8	13th Feb 2013	9.00am to 10.30 am	Guest Lecture on '' Career in Embedded Software Verification and Validation:'' By Mr.Yogesh Pawar, John Deere Ltd. Pune
9		10.30am to 12.00pm	Seminar on '' Backend Tools '' By Prof. A.M.Ekbote and Prof. Pavitra S.
10		1.00pm to 3.00pm	Final of Technical Quiz
11	14th Feb 2013	12.00pm to 1.00pm	Digital Design using VHDL Competition
12		1.45pm to 2.45pm	Seminar on'' Evolution of ARM family '' By Prof. A.S.Pawar
13		2.45pm to 3.45pm	Guest Lecture on '' Design challenges with shrinking transistor size '' By Mr. Vaibhav Kolgoankar, MARVEL Ltd.,Pune
14	15th Feb 2013	11.00am to 12.00 pm	Seminar on ''Multi core processor Architecture '' By Prof. V.K.Harpale
15		12.00pm to 1.00pm	Guest Lecture on ''Embedded Linux'' by Tushar, SPJ Systems,Pune
16		2.00pm to 3.30pm	Valedictory Function

VED-Quest 2014

A three days event ''VED-Quest-Quenching thirst of Embedded and VLSI Technocrat'' was organized for the students of M.E.VLSI and Embedded Systems under VLSI and Embedded SIG activity from 11th to 13th April 2014. Eleven participants from other colleges also attended the event along with internal students. The event was convened by Dr. S. U. Bhandari and coordinated by Prof. V.K.Harpale and Prof. A. S. Pawar. Students were provided with industry interface through various sessions organized during these three days as follows:

• Journey From Project To Product, Mr. Manish Patil. RLARD
• Changeology: A Transformation To A Win Win Situation., Mrs. Radhi Nair.
• Memory Design And Optimization Techniques, Mr. Rama Krishna , Xilinx,Hydrabad
• Embedded System Design Using System-On-A-Programmable-Chip, Mr. Parikshit Godbole , C-DAC,Pune

Workshop was also included with various demonstrations such as

• Demonstration Of ''OMAP Soc''
• Visual TCAD & GENIUS 3D Device Simulator Tools Flow
• Xilinx System Generator And Chip Scope Pro Tool Flow

VED-Quest 2016

''VED-Quest-Quenching thirst of Embedded and VLSI Technocrat'' was organized for the students of M.E.VLSI and Embedded Systems under VLSI and Embedded SIG activity from 8th to 9th July 2016. The objective of the workshop to bring together expert and expertise from various industries. This workshop will explore project and research opportunities in current VLSI and embedded systems. The event was coordinated by Prof. V.K.Harpale and Prof. A. A. Shrivastav and convened by Dr. S.U. Bhandari. Students were provided with industry interface through various sessions organized during these two days as follows:

Day, Date	Event / Seminar
Friday, 8th July 2016	Seminar On ''Opportunities in RFIC and Memory Design'' By Renuka Wekhande, from RFIC Solutions Inc.
	Seminar On ''Opportunity of Research in Electronics Engineering Stream'' by Shailesh Gadhe, NCL, Pune.
	Demonstration Of ''System Generator and its implementation on FPGA'' By Mayur Deshmukh, CoreEL Tech. Ltd. Pune
Saturday, 9th July 2016	Seminar On ''Project prospective in Image and Video Processing'' By Mr. Amit Nahar, Sr. Design Engineer- Team Lead at IFM engineering pvt. ltd.
	Seminar on '' Project opportunities in VLSI and Embedded System'' By Mr. Pankaj Pachlore, Marvell Semiconductor, Pune
	Demonstration Of ''Opportunities in Internet of Things'' By Mr. Muktak Kanaskar Tech Lead IoT at FIXSOL (Fidel SofTech. Pvt. Ltd.), Pune
	Demonstration Of ''Implementation on Advanced Zynq FPGA using ZED Board '' By Shashank Pujari, Electronics Dept., SPPU Pune

Guest Lectures

Guest Lectures provide an opportunity to students to learn from experts. Department is instrumental in arranging guest lectures from experts. The list of guest lectures is exhaustive. Have a look at few....

1. ''Mind Mapping Techniques for Product Development '' delivered by Mrs. V.Y. Bhalerao, Mechanical Dept. on 14th April 2017.

2. A Hands-on-training session series on front-end design tools by Prof. S. S. Pujari was organized during 24/01/2017 to 28/03/2017. Design flow using ISE and Vivado tools and implementation on ZED board and Virtex-5 was covered in this series.

3. A Guest Lecture on " IPR and awareness of filing procedure with sample case studies' by Dr. M. T. Kolte was conducted on 08/03/2017. with an objective of providing knowledge about process of IPR and motivate the students for innovative ideas.

4. A Guest Lecture Series on ''CMOS Technologies: Fabrication steps and their challenges'' was organized from 30th January 2017 to 13th February 2017. The sessions were conducted by Mr. U. R. Shirode and Mr. A. S. Gadhe.

5. Session on 'Tool flow of System Generator and Chipscope'' was conducted by Mrs. A. M. Lalge on 6th January 2017 respectively.Session on 'Simulink for Embedded Applications', was conducted by Mr. M. M. Narkhede on 05th January 2017.

6. A session on 'College to Corporate' was conducted by Mrs. A. A. Shrivastava on 5th January 2017 with an objective of inculcating skills and ethics of corporate culture into the students.

7. A Guest Lecture Series on ''Understanding the research process from Problem Identification to Intellectual Property Rights'' was organized from 10th October 2016 to 15th November 2016.

a) ''Identifying the Research Problem and ways to do literature survey'' was explained by Dr Kishor Kinage.
b) ''How to read the scientific paper in view of literature survey?'' was conducted by Mrs. Rajani.P.K.
c) "Latex with User interface-LYX" was explained by Dr. Pravin R Futane. D. "Introduction to Patent Filing and its significance" and "Bringing research into product" by Mr.U.R.Shirode and Mr.Ajay Gade.
d) ''Copyright and Plagiarism'', was delivered by Dr. S. V. Shinde

8. ''Modeling of CMOS devices'' delivered by Dr. G. C. Patil, VNIT, Nagpur on 10th October, 2016.

9. ''Mind Mapping Techniques for Product Development '' delivered by Mrs. V.Y. Bhalerao, Mechanical Dept. on 7th April 2016.

10. '' Timing Tactics in Digital Design'' by Dr. Shaila Subbaraman, WCE, Shivaji University on 10th Oct. 2015

11. Guest Lecture series from 9th September to 27th Octomber 2015 on '' Understanding the research process from Problem identification to IPR'' and was conducted by resourse faculties Dr. J.S.Umale, Dr. N.R. Deore, Dr. S.D. Thepade, Dr. A.R. Roy, Dr. S.V.Shinde and Mrs. Rajani P.K.

12. '' GUI Building in MATLAB and Developing Simulink Applications'' by Prof. M. M. Narkheded on 27th August 2015.

13. ''Blackfinn Processor'' by Mr. Amit Nahar, Wavelet Group, Pune on 21st April 2014.

14. ''Operational Amplifiers Design and Issues'' by Prof. Ketan Raut, VIIT, Pune on 24th Feb.2014 and 8th April 2014

15. ''Multilayerd perceptron and Back propogation'' by Dr. Rajesh Ghongde, VIIT, Pune on 8th Oct.2013.

16. ''The changing face of VLSI'' by Dr. Dipankar Nagchaudhary, Ex-Prof & Head, EE, IIT, Delhi on 6th Sept.2013

17. A Guest Lecture was organized on ''Real time system design around FPGA'' by Prof. S. S. Pujari, Director, IIIT, Sambhalpur, Orrisa on 7th Sept.2013 for PG- VLSI & Embedded Systems students and faculty members.