Celebrating Vietnam Science and Technology Day 2019, the 15th year anniversary and the 20th traditional day, VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) organized the summer school on "Analog, mixed-signal design and RFICs" at E3 building from May 7 to May 11, 2019.

Dr. Xi Jiang – the expert from Synopsys giving his presentation on Analog, mixed-signal design, RF ICs, etc. using Synopsys tools.

    The workshop was attended by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Pham Bao Son, the Vice-Rector of VNU-UET and Assoc.Prof. Dr. Tran Xuan Tu, the Head of Department of Science, Technology, and International Relations. 

    The summer school is a specific training program for IC design, under FIRST Project sponsor for UET to implement the proposal entitled “Investigate and develop an Internet-of-Things dual band transmitters for agriculture”, which belongs to "Foreign Talents STI Proposals". VNU Key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB) is responsible for professional tasks.

     In 2018, SISLAB started their proposal by organizing the FIRST Workshop on IoT for Agriculture/Smart cities: from chip design to applications. Following the framework of FIRST Talent project, in 2019, SISLAB collaborates with Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center, University of California, Davis (USA), University of Technology Sydney and Synopsys to organize this summer school. Dr. Xi Jiang hosted the training course and giving his presentation on Analog, mixed-signal design, RF ICs, etc. using Synopsys tools.

The Vice Rector Pham Bao Son delivering his opening remarks

     Delivering his opening remarks, the Vice Rector Pham Bao Son emphasized that the summer school is in the chain of celebrating UET’s 15th year anniversary and 20th traditional day events. As a result of science and technology development, by 2025, the Internet of Things (IoT) connections will reach 100 billion and have more than $11 trillion impact on world economies. The Asia Pacific region captured around 58.3% of the IoT revenue. IoT has an incredibly wide range of applications such as agriculture, environmental monitoring, e-health, intelligent transportation systems, military, and industrial plant monitoring. Analog, mixed-signal and optimal designs are new trends to meet requirements on price, productivity along with power consumption of IoT applications. These fields are the competence of both UET and SISLAB in IoT applications to high-tech agriculture. The Vice Rector affirmed that the training course would share knowledge to researchers and students to implement a system from simulating ideas to layout, then create integrated IC for fabrication. 

     In 2018, thanks to the approval of Ministry of Science and Technology and World Bank, the Project Management Unit of "Fostering Innovation through Research, Science and Technology (FIRST)" Project and VNU-UET signed the Sponsor Agreement on sponsorship for foreign talented scientists (Component 1a) from SISLAB’s proposal.  This component sponsor is to encourage foreign talented scientists including overseas Vietnamese to visit Vietnam, collaborate with Vietnamese scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs, and conduct science, technology and innovation missions.

     Within the framework of the proposal “Investigate and develop an Internet-of-Things dual band transmitters for agriculture”, SISLAB collaborate with Prof. Pham Huynh Anh Vu from Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center, University of California, Davis – one of well-known research centers with regard to RF IC and MM IC design, in order to research and design IP cores for IoT dual band transmitters. In addition, this proposal is also participated by experts from Qualcomm, US (Dr. Arvind Keerti) and scientists from University of Technology Sydney, Australia (with the help of Joint Technology and Innovation Research Center).