Graduate Student Wins DAC Award
Congratulations to Jason Bakos on the design competition award from the Design Automation Conference.
Jason placed second for his design of a prototype system for optoelectronic technology and will be receiving a $2500 award at the June DAC in New Orleans.
Students were to submit papers describing hardware that they have designed in their research or coursework. These hardware designs were then placed and judged in either the operational or conceptual design category. According to the DAC website:
- "The purpose of the Student Design Contest is to promote excellence in the design of electronic systems by providing competition between graduate and undergraduate students at universities and colleges. Submissions are judged by a panel of experts including members of the DAC Technical Program Committee and other representatives from the industry. Judging criteria includes originality, soundness of engineering, measured performance and the quality of the written submission."
Jason's design came about from his Ph.D. research and placed second in the conceptual design category. The abstract for Jason's winning paper is listed below.
Abstract:
Recent research has been conducted in the area of optoelectronic interconnection and packaging technology in order to proliferate the feasibility of extremely high bandwidth and low latency optoelectronic "multi-chip modules" (OE-MCMs). Our group's contribution to this area involves the use of rigid fiber bundle image guides serving as both interconnect and packaging for such a module. Our demonstration architecture for this technology is an OE-MCM that implements a 64-channel non-blocking fiber optic crossbar switch. Each OE-chip implements 64 channels of optical input and output that are guided within the MCM by an optic built from two segments of image guide. The focus of this paper is the design and layout of the chips which each serve as one of the three switching elements in this demonstration system.
More information is available on the DAC website:
http://www.dac.com/39th/studcon.html