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. The objects 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 human and machinery resources. In addition a novel dispatching algorithm for the mixed LSI production is developed. The mixed production is inevitable in the system LSI fabrication. The new 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 Electro nics) Wavelet Analyses on the Electrocardiogram (with Fukushima Medical Universi ty) A new Approach for Logic Design (with Fujitsu Tohoku Electronics) Cooperative Co-evolutionally Hardware and its Application (Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research) VResearch on Parameter Extraction for VLSI Simulation (with NTT Laboratorie s) Research on Defect Analysis of the Implanted Silicon Layer (with NTT Labor atories)

Academic Activities

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Kazuyuki Saito, 2009. Member of the program committee of International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM)

Ph.D, Master and Graduation Theses

[hisada-01:2009]	Yukinori Minakawa. Graduation Thesis: Development of Biological Signals Measurement System and Cooperation with Analysis Software, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-02:2009]	Kazuhisa Watanabe. Graduation Thesis: Analysis Method for ECG Waveform with Respiratory Component, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-03:2009]	Yoshinori Kato. Graduation Thesis: Design of Heartbeat Sensing Circuit using Optical Sensor, University of Aizu, 2009. TThesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[hisada-04:2009]	Tatsuya Funada. Graduation Thesis: Analysis Method for Sleep Stage Estimation, University of Aizu, 2009. TThesis Advisor: Y. Hisada
[k-saito-04:2009]	Atsushi Tanaka. Graduation Thesis: Development of Easy-to-Use Software for Linear Programming, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito
[k-saito-05:2009]	Hiroshi Watanabe. Graduation Thesis: Research of Development of a Semiconductor Manufacturing Simulator Based on P3D, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito
[k-saito-06:2009]	Ayumi Suzuki. Graduation Thesis: Solving Sudoku Puzzles with Nine Tables, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito
[k-saito-07:2009]	Taiga Horiuchi. Graduation Thesis: Making dictionary to classify the result of questionnaire in Japanese, University of Aizu, 2009. Thesis Advisor: K. Saito


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