Computer Devices Laboratory

Kazuyuki Saito Professor	Yasuhiro Hisada Assistant Professor

The Computer Device Laboratory (CDL) focuses on education and research on VLSI technologies, devices, and their related area. Education: For the undergraduate students; Physics of Semiconductor Devices (K. Saito) Principles of VLSI Devices and Process Technologies (K. Saito) Japanese Writing (K. Saito) Information and Industries (K. Saito) Introduction to Programming (Y. Hisada) Electronic Circuits (Y. Hisada) For the graduate students ULSI Technologies (K. Saito) Research: The main objectives of the research in CDL are to develop new environment for VLSI design, diagnoses, and manufacturing. These will be an intelligent manufacturing of VLSIs including a statistical representation, a physical representation, and an expert system representation of the environments. Theobjects of representations are not restricted in the devices and physical technologies, but will cover from the manufacturing system modeling to the yield enhancement and reliability of VLSI. Currently, a new system to estimate resources for the semiconductor manufacturing has developed. The system has been used in the semiconductor companies for monthly planning of their humanandmachinery resources. In addition a novel dispatching algorithm for the mixed LSI production is developed. The mixed production is inevitable in the system LSI fabrication. Thenew dispatching algorithm, named pseudo periodical priority dispatching, is superior to FCFS in setup frequency, and in response time, and to SPT in tardiness. Therefore, the algorithm will be promising to reduce the cost in the future semiconductor manufacturing. Research Projects have been performed in CDL are as follows: Research on the Product-mix VLSI Manufacturing (Grant-In-Aid For Scientific Research) Low Power VLSI Technologies New Dispatching Method for VLSI Manufacturing Manufacturing System Modeling and Simulation Tool based on Petri Net Optimization of Resources for VLSI Production (with Fujitsu Tohoku Electronics) Wavelet Analyses on the Electrocardiogram (with Fukushima Medical University) A new Approach for Logic Design (with Fujitsu Tohoku Electronics) Cooperative Co-evolutionally Hardware and its Application (Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research) Research on Parameter Extraction for VLSI Simulation (with NTT Laboratories) Research on Defect Analysis of the Implanted Silicon Layer (with NTT Laboratories)

Unreferred Papers

[k-saito-01:2004]

Hiroaki Iwao and Kazuyuki Saito. Simplification of Color Petri net modeling for the Semiconductor Manufacturing System. In 219th SICE Tohoku Research Meeting, number 1, 2004.

Grants

[k-saito-02:2004]

Kazuyuki Saito. Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research, 2003-2004.

Academic Activities

[k-saito-03:2004]

Kazuyuki Saito, 2004. ISSM Paper Selection Committee

Patents

[k-saito-04:2004]

Kazuyuki Saito. 3-D Topography Simulation Registered PAT No.3416893 Japan, 2004.

Ph.D. and Other Theses

[hisada-01:2004]	Yasuhiro Suzuki. Graduation Thesis: A Support System for Talecare, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-02:2004]	Tatsuya Anzai. Graduation Thesis: Development of wireless pointing device, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-03:2004]	Daisuke Yamazaki. Graduation Thesis: Development of A Biological Signal Measurement System, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-04:2004]	Ryusuke Tanikawa. Graduation Thesis: Analysis Software using Wavelet Transform for Electrocardiogram, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-05:2004]	Hiroaki Iwao. Master Thesis: Modification of Color Petri Net for Modeling and Designing The Semiconductor Manufacturing System, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito, Sub-referee: Y.Hisada
[hisada-06:2004]	Motoki Sakai. Master Thesis: Discrimination of Canine Acute Stress Related Behaviors with Motion Capture Data, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito, Sub-referee: Y. Hisada
[k-saito-07:2004]	Ayamichi Takanami. Graduation Thesis: A study of the Toyota Manufacturing System, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.
[k-saito-08:2004]	Norihiro Takumi. Graduation Thesis: Verification of the Utility of SPL for Low Power Consumption, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.
[k-saito-09:2004]	Tsutomu Akama. Graduation Thesis: Verification of Validity of P3D by Comparison with First-In-First-Out Algorithm, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.
[k-saito-10:2004]	Yuusaku Tokoro. Graduation Thesis: A System to Control Home Electric Appliances from outside by E-mail, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.
[k-saito-11:2004]	Daisuke Taira. Graduation Thesis: A Study on Structure and Type for Cellular Manufacturing System, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.
[k-saito-12:2004]	Yusuke Kono. Graduation Thesis: Holonic Manufacturing System, University of Aizu, 2004. Thesis Advisor: Saito, K.

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