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Workshop for Undergraduates

For VT undergraduates, MICS provides an annual one-week-long IC workshop, including "clean room visit", "AI chip", "Memory technology, memistor, and stt-mram", "FPGA design", and "CAD/EDA tool introduction".  

UPWARDS Workshop 2025 for VT Freshman

The second workshop was successfully held from Feb. 9th to Feb. 26th. Professors and students from the MICS lab and the ECE department provided new undergraduate students with diverse, engaging, and hands-on seminars.

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On February 9th, students from UPARDS@VT introduced the IC Workshop 2025 event to the newly arrived ECE students. A large number of undergraduate students attended this introduction.

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 "Clean Room & Emerging Memory Technologies"  on Feb. 17th.

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 "AI & Machine Learning with Neuromorphic Computing"  on Feb. 18th.

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 "Field Programmable Gate Array"  on Feb. 19th.

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 "EDA Tools for IC Design"  on Feb. 20th.

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 "Introduction to ASIC"  on Feb. 21st.

UPWARDS Workshop 2024 for VT Freshman

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The first event of UPWARDS clean room visit was held on March 4th by Mr. Donald Leber. Students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments were given an insightful walkthrough of the clean room facilities, including demonstrations of the equipment and training on its use.

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On Mar. 19th, Dr.Yi and students in UPWARDS@VT gave an introduction of the coming IC workshop to the freshman. There will be 5 sections: "Artificial Intelligence Chips", "Clean Room Visit", "Memory, Memristor, STT-RAM", "Field Programmable Gate Array", and "Computer-Aided Design/ Electronic Design Automation Tools".

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 "Computer-Aided Design/ Electronic Design Automation Tools"  on Mar. 25th.

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 " "Memory, Memristor, STT-RAM""  on Mar. 26th.

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 "Clean Room Visit"  on Mar. 27th.

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 "Artificial Intelligence Chips"  on Mar. 28th.

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 "Field Programmable Gate Array"  on Mar. 29th.