• I am spending an year with Controlnet India Pvt Ltd. Located in Goa, Controlnet is an ASIC Design Services Company. It completed 3 years on March 26, 2001. The contact address is: C.P. Ravikumar, Controlnet, L-44, Unit-1, STP, Verna Industrial Estate, Verna, Goa 403722. My e-mail here is ravikumar@controlnet.co.in
• VLSI Design and Test Workshops (2001) are being held in Bangalore during August 16-18, 2001 at the JN Tata Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore. Information about this event is available at http://vlsi_india.tripod.com

“Olds” from year 2000

• We held two events, the VLSI Design and Test Workshops (2000) and the VLSI Education Day (2000) in August 2000 in New Delhi. Information about these are available at http://vlsi_india.tripod.com. If you are interested in VLSI activities in India, I would invite you to become a member of vdat@egroups.com. 
• Motorola made an equipment grant to IIT Delhi, Department of Electrical Engineering recently. The grant consists of 12 microcontroller kits based on HC08 microcontroller. I am teaching the Computer Technology Lab for UG students (EE307p) and Computer Technology Lab for PG Students (EE705) based on these kits. We are grateful to Dr. Srinivasa of Motorola and Ashok Chandak of Motorola who made this possible. I would also like to thank Abhijit Mahendroo, Nipoon Malhotra, Deep Gupta, Nirjhar Goel, Pushkar, and Anuj Goel who spent the summer of 2000 doing experiments on the kits and helped me develop the lab course. Their efforts are embodied in the web page http://ee307p.tripod.com
• Short course on Introduction to VLSI Design and CAD was held in IIT Delhi in January 2000

I coordinated this 6-day short course and taught it jointly with Prof. Anshul Kumar, Prof. M. Balakrishnan, Prof. B. Bhaumik, and Prof. G.S. Visweswaran. Anup Gangwar and Rajat Sadana helped me with the lab software. The course was organized especially for Virage Logic, Noida.

(Snap shot taken at the closing ceremony of the short course, held in the Nilgiri Hostel. Prof. Anshul Kumar, Alok Singh, and C.P. Ravikumar. Also seated is a little guest who accompanied CPRK.)

• Short course on Programming in PVM and MPI was held in December 1999

I coordinated the 5-day course and taught it jointly with Dr M.N. Gupta. I was assisted by students: M.M. Sufyan Beg, Jimmy Louis, Dheeraj Nigam, and Anubhav Srivastava. The course was held mainly for scientists of SAG, DRDO.

• Short Course on Fault-Tolerant Real-time Systems

I and Prof. Vinod Chandra jointly coordinated a short course on Fault-tolerant Real-time Systems for industrial participants.  The course duration was Oct 25-Nov 4, 1999.  Participants came from Indian Railways, CDOT, CRL (BEL), HFCL, and WEBFIL. There were 25 participants in all. Apart from faculty from the EE Department at IIT Delhi, the following guest faculty were involved.
    K. Johari, CRL (BEL), Ghaziabad
    A. Khandelwal, CDOT
    Hemant Kumar, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA
    V. Mitra, HFCL
    Andrew. Saks, Intel Malaysia
    Anand Srivastava, CDOT

• EE398S (Professional Practices)

 I coordinated the EE398S course (Professional Practices) during the Spring semester (1999).  The aim of the course is to impart knowledge of There were seminars given by Bob Pease (Natsem), Rajamohan Varambally (ST Microelectronics, India), Saugat Sen (Cadence Design Systems, India), Pradeep Dubey (IBM SRC, India), Rubin Parekhji (Texas Instruments, India), Sumit Gupta (UC Irvine), Thomas Major (Philips Software Center, Bangalore), Ranjan Bhaumik (Nuclear Science Center), and S.C. Dutta Roy (IIT Delhi). All the seminars were sponsored by IEEE Delhi Chapter and the IEEE Joint Society on Circuits & Systems and Control. We thank all the speakers and IEEE.