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[Legacy Report] CASS Networking Visit: IEEE Techno Summit 2017 in Srilanka

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Under the New CASS Networking program driven by Prof. Nishio, the IEEE CAS Chapter of Hyderabad Section visited the IEEE Sri Lanka section which does not have a Circuits and Systems Society Chapter. The background of this visit is that CAS Hyderabad has in previous years build a very strong network with CAS chapters of Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and when Prof. Nishio announced the New CASS Networking program where a CAS chapter team would visit an IEEE Section in a different country that did not have a CASS Chapter, Dr. Arif Sohel, Vice Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section took up this very interesting challenging of promoting Circuits and Systems Society at Sri Lanka. Dr. Sanath Jayawardene, Chair, IEEE Section Sri Lanka came forward very positively and agreed to host the Hyderabad section team.

The team of IEEE Hyderabad Section comprised of Dr. Arif Sohel, Vice Chair, CAS Hyderabad, Mr. A.G. Krishna Kanth, Secretary, CAS Hyderabad and two students – Mr. Mohammed Ali and Mr. Apuroop. The team arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the afternoon of 1 December 2017. Mr. Nadarajah Dheynoshan was the coordinator of the event from IEEE Sri Lanka Section. He had publicized the event in the Sri Lanka Section as a IEEE Techno Meet Up being organised at the Mini Auditorium of University of Colombo and it was very well received by the IEEE community. There were 140 registrations of which 80 persons participated for the event, inspite of bad weather caused due to cyclone Ockhi.

The Technical session started at 4.00PM with the Introduction of the Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Hyderabad Section and activities of CAS Hyderabad Chapter being given by Dr. Arif Sohel for 15 minutes. He briefed all the student members who represented a wide spectrum of 12 universities of Sri Lanka on the benefits of starting a CASS Chapter. This was followed by a 45 minute Technical Talk by Dr. Arif Sohel on “Energy Harvesting Circuits for IoT – A research perspective” which was received very enthusiastically by the audience. This was followed by Hi Tea break for 15 minutes in which tea and snacks were served to all participants with the courtesy of CAS Hyderabad Section.

The post tea break session was a one hour talk by Mr. A.G. Krishna Kanth, Secretary, CASS Hyderabad on the topic “Analog IC Design for Automotive Industry”. Mr. Krishna Kanth took the audience with the complete IC Design flow from concept to silicon with Automotive Industry as the key perspective. This was followed by a 10 minute presentation by Mr. Mohammed Ali, a P.G student of Hyderabad Section on “Design of Data Path unit for FFT processor” and another 10 minute presentation on "CMOS Proteric Design for Schmitt Trigger" by Mr. Apuroop Reddy, a U.G. Student of Hyderabad Section.

The session concluded with a vote of thanks by Mr. Nadarajah, Execom member of IEEE Sri Lanka section. There was a good post session interaction with the IEEE Student execom members of various schools, who enquired about the process of starting the CASS chapter. Dr. Arif will communicate the complete process of “How to start a CASS Student chapter” to the interested schools through email. The session concluded at 7.00PM.