Kickoff meeting for ExCom. Tentative Agenda: Introductions Financial reporting for 2024- Bob PSD for 2025 Region 5 Congress and Student Competitions in in Wichita, Kansas, March 28-30. Process for approving sponsoring requests from members New Initiatives Others ( please send other agenda items.) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/463516
Meeting for general administration and operation of the Black Hills Subsection. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/464034
Abstract: It is computer architecture of my design, of the RISC variety. It is an effort to achieve high code density, deterministic execution and a uniform base for diversity. The 16-bit instructions are now running on a FPGA board, with specifications for the 24 & 32-bit instructions written. The basic template is written and it is straightforward to add more instructions. That said, I would welcome help: do trade-off studies (resource utilization and performance) on each additional instruction. Assembler, compiler and other help is very much needed. As a sneak preview, the architecture supports four data sizes and four data types. Those interested can do experiments on: Different word sizes (16, 18, 24, 32, 36, 42 ...) Different data types (unsigned, two's complement, sign & magnitude, IEEE 754, POSIT, PT-floats, 16-bit fixed point logarithms ...) Different implementations (single cycle, pipelining, multiple issue, out-of-order … microarchitectures) BIO: Jim Brakefield became interested in computer architecture upon encountering the IBM 1620 and the CDC 1604 in his first semester of college. He went on to get degrees in Applied Math, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. His work experience was primarily real-time embedded software and circuit board design. As a second career he pursued FPGAs and VHDL. He has one patent and has given many talks on a variety of STEM topics. Room: BSIC 203, Bldg: Blank Sheppard Innovation Center (BSIC), which is behind Richter Math-Engineering Center (#22) in the map, One Camino Santa Maria, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78228
IEEE PI2 Austin, January 28, 2024, Tech Meeting In-Person 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern at Balcones Country Club: 8600 Balcones Dr. Austin, TX 78750 Abstract: The growth of electrification and of data centers has accelerated the demand for electric power reliability. For decades military bases have been 10 MW to 50 MW power systems whose continuous reliable operation is critical to US security. This has provided valuable experience at levels of power of today's microgrids. This talk highlights the challenges faced by the Department of Defense in ensuring power for critical infrastructure on military installations and its impact on mission accomplishment and national defense. Details: Dinner and soft beverages will be provided for those with reservations. If you do not have a reservation you will not be able to eat. Cost, to defray the room, dinner and refreshments cost: Thank you in advance: IF REGISTERED IN ADVANCE (Before February 18, 2025) Members and Non-Members: Select Register & Pay now, $25.00 Paypal from your credit card when registering - you do not need a Paypal account to use it. Click through to the credit card/debit page. OR Select Register Now and Pay Later and pay $25.00 cash or credit/debit with Square at the meeting. Please register in advance before February 18th (skip the payment) IEEE Student Members: Free (must register in advance before February 18th with your IEEE member number) Skip the payment All registrants After February 18th, 2025: Pay $30.00 at the the meeting in cash Attendees must be registered before the event for food accommodations. Unfortunately, we are charged more for the meals after the advance registration date For PDH hours, please email the PI2 Secretary, Charles Goertz at HaleyHirschfeld.org or [email protected]. Speaker(s): General Kenneth Eickmann, Bldg: Balcones Country Club, 8600 Balcones Club Dr., Austin, Texas, United States, 78750
Civil Air Patrol Missouri Wing Commander, Jen Smith, along with MOWG Chief of Staff, Mike Toedebusch, will be delivering an in-depth presentation covering various aspects of the Civil Air Patrol’s capabilities. This presentation will explore how Civil Air Patrol and MOVE could collaborate during disaster response efforts, providing a coordinated and effective approach to emergency situations. Additionally, the session will highlight the opportunities available through the Cadet Program and the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) initiatives within CAP, showcasing the organization’s commitment to fostering future leaders and advancing critical skills. Co-sponsored by: IEEE-USA MOVE Program Speaker(s): Colonel Jen Smith, Lt Col Mike Toedebusch Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/463436
[] Dr Kootsookos, IEEE Connecticut Section Chair. Dr Kootsookos will describe his career preparation. He will conduct a deep dive of his field as an expert in patent arbitration providing source code reviews. He is a teacher of telecommunications, signal & image processing, circuit analysis, digital hardware, and various software engineering courses at the University of New Haven, Fairfield University, Central Connecticut State University, and CT State Community College, Middlesex in the US and the Australian National University and University of Queensland in Australia. He is a Researcher: Signal processing research: more than 40 papers in conferences and international journals in signal, video, and image processing; Full life-cycle systems engineering: requirements, analysis, design, verification, validation, delivery; Quality processes worked with: IS09001-2000, CMMI, ACE (UTC’s Achieving Competitive Excellence). Speaker(s): Dr. Peter James Kootsookos, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456326
Speaker(s): Vish, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/467521
The UTSA Robotics and Automation Student Chapter will host a make-and-take event where attendees will get hands-on experience assembling a THT (through hole) circuit board and programming a microcontroller to act as a human interface device with a computer. Participants are encouraged to bring their own computer but there will be a few on hand if people cannot bring their own. In addition to building and taking home your own functional project, participants will also gain insight into how UTSA RAS organizes and runs our "Make-and-Take" events —perfect for those interested in learning event planning and technical workshops. Park in the lot between Ximenes Ave. and Ransom Rd. and walk around to the AET Building entrance. Download a map using the MEDIA button below. This will be an evening meeting and there will be plenty of parking spaces. Pizza will be provided by the LSS RAS Chapter. Everyone is encouraged to come and tour the labs and see the projects in progress. Agenda: 6:00 pm - The labs are open, brief business meetings for the LSS and UTSA RAS Chapters 6:15 pm - Pizza arrives 6:30 pm - Board assembly and microcontroller programming 8:00 pm - Adjournment Room: AET 1.202, Bldg: Applied Engineering and Technology Building, UTSA, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78215
Cyber law specialist, Sarah Anderson, speaks on the legal actions developing around Artificial Intelligence. Speaker(s): Sarah, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/462497
In novel, beyond Von Neumann, computational approaches the use of magnons (or quanta of spin waves) is particularly promising due to the small intrinsic energies of individual magnons (μeV), the possibility of using phase, in addition to magnitude, as a state variable, and the possibility to control the magnon dispersion properties in a magnetic sample by varying the direction and magnitude of the bias magnetic field . However, the use of magnons in advanced and neuromorphic computing is severely limited by the existing linear methods of magnon excitation, which are based on current-driven inductive transducers which have poor energy efficiency due to Ohmic losses, and are unable to effectively excite ultra-short exchange-dominated magnons. Here we propose to use a resonator-like energy-efficient gate, based on the effect of voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) , as a new type of antenna for parametric excitation and reception of exchange-dominated magnons of a submicron wavelength, having a well-defined phase. When a pumping voltage V of a microwave frequency is applied to a resonator-like VCMA gate, the parametric excitation of two short-wavelength counter-propagating half-pumping-frequency magnons and will occur The magnetic anisotropy under the gate will be changed, causing partial reflections of the excited magnons at the both gate boundaries. The excited magnons, then, will have a well-defined phase, that is determined by the phase of the pumping voltage and by the reflection properties of the VCMA resonator. The wavenumber of the excited magnons could be large, and unrelated to the gate size, as it is determined only by the pumping frequency, and the magnon dispersion law . The same resonator-like VCMA gate can also act as a receiver of propagating short-wavelength magnons that will create a standing wave under the gate with double the magnon frequency. This standing wave of the frequency will be detected using a parametric confluence process opposite to the parametric splitting process (1) used for the excitation of magnons at the input VCMA gate. Our calculations show that the reflection of the excited magnons at the gate boundaries reduces the excitation threshold up to two times (in the case of full reflection ). The calculated excitation threshold for the VCMA gate is presented in Fig. 1. In our calculations we used geometric parameters that are typical for VCMA experiment made on Fe/MgO heterostructures (see e.g. : thickness of the Fe waveguide , thickness of dielectric layer , waveguide width , and the length of the pumping gate . Our preliminary numerical calculation performed for the simplified model of a voltage-biased VCMA gate (see Fig. 1) have demonstrated that the proposed method of parametric excitation and reception of ultra-short-wavelength magnons is realistic, and can be implemented in experiment to generate phase-modulated magnon signals of sub-micron wavelength with high energy efficiency in the GHz and sub-THz frequency ranges. A. Mahmoud, F. Ciubotaru, F. Vanderveken, A. V. Chumak, S. Hamdioui, C. Adelmann, and S. Cotofana, "Introduction to spin wave computing," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 128, no. 16, p. 161101, 2020. P. Khalili Amiri and K. L. Wang, "Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy in spintronic devices," SPIN, vol. 02, no. 03, p. 1240002, 2012. R. Tomasello, R. Verba, V. Lopez-Dominguez, F. Garesci, M. Carpentieri, M. Di Ventra, P. Khalili Amiri, and G. Finocchio, "Antiferromagnetic Parametric Resonance Driven by Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy," Physical Review Applied, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 034004, 2022. Co-sponsored by: UCCS Speaker(s): Andrei Slavin Room: A204, Bldg: Osborne Center for Science and Engineering, 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80918, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461172
Monthly meeting of EMB Chapter, jointly with LMAG, with a tour. Meal will be box lunch. Please note when you register if you prefer vegetarian box lunch. There is a $15.00 charge for each registrant. Guests and non-members charge is $20.00 and Students are $5.00. Remainder of the tab will be picked up by the EMB. Speaker(s): Paul Morton, Agenda: 12:30pm: Welcome 12:45pm: Lunch 1:15pm: Tour 2::00pm: adjourn Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory, 1077 Central Pkwy S #200, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78232
