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The High-Performance Low-Power (HPLP) lab: the VMEC Scholar activities will be conducted in the HPLP lab which provides all the necessary infrastructure for IC and system design and testing, space, equipment, and computing for all IC design and verification activities, including custom and semicustom design flows. Thisservers running CAD software packages from all major EDA vendors including Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics: https://engineering.virginia.edu/high-performance-low-power
Additionally, the UVA ECE Department has facilities that include 3500 square feet of clean room space equipped withall of the processing equipment necessary to fabricate state-of the-art semiconductor devices, from epitaxialgrowth through die separation. Additional facilities are available for the electrical, optical and RF characterization of solid-state materials, devices and circuits. Significant laboratory space is also available for use in microwave andelectro-optic device characterization.
Responsibilities: the VMEC scholar will be challenged intellectually by working side-by-side with PhD graduate students in the HPLP lab. During the internship the VMEC scholar will work on projects in the areas of AI/ML hardware, low-power VLSI design, IoT at the edge hardware and printable electronics.
Requirements: Currently attending a 4-year undergraduate degree program at a university in Virginia or accepted to a 4-year undergraduate program from a community college in Virginia.
https://engineering.virginia.edu/high-performance-low-power/hplp-research-areas
VMEC mentor: Mircea R. Stan, ECE dept., Rice Hall 512, Charlottesville, VA 22904, mircea@virginia.edu
https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/mircea-r-stan
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