Viet Nam National University-HCM City will
host the second Analog Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Contest 2011 (AICD-2011)
for students of many universities across the country from April 4 to June 25.

The
contest this year, themed Design and Layout of the Switching Regulator, promotes
analog IC design activities among students and the training of engineers in
analog design to meet industry demand.

Participants will be offered free training to use powerful tools in analog IC
design from the leading company Synopsys.

Students
will participate in seminars about power management, analog IC design issues and
trends of analog IC design worldwide, presented by major companies in the analog
IC design field, including Singapore-based Synopsys Asia Pacific and the US
Analog Device.

They
will also have an opportunity to speak with experts in the field during the
training and seminar periods.

The
contest is an opportunity for students to learn about advanced technologies and
dedicated tools in analog IC design, and to improve communication and
presentation skills in English.

The
contest will take place in Ha Noi, HCM City and Da Nang. The training courses
and the final round will be held in HCM City.

Two
leaders of each project team in Ha Noi and Da Nang will receive free transport,
including a return air-ticket, and accommodations during the training and the
award ceremony events in HCM City.

Analog
IC design offers solutions for many basic issues of electronic devices such as
power dissipation, temperature effect and speed of operation.

In
addition, analog ICs provide an important solution of power management for
current electronics equipment.

In Viet
Nam, Analog IC market is growing rapidly and the industry requires more
competent engineers. But the country lacks research in the field. The first
AIDC-2010 contest was held last year.

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Nam News