Nibong Tebal, 11 November 2019 - Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Elektrik dan Elektronik (PPKEE) amat berbesar hati menerima kunjungan Profesor Dr. Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan, Naib Canselor Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Kunjungan ini bersempena lawatan dua hari beliau ke Kampus Kejuruteraan USM. Beliau yang baru memulakan tugas berkuatkuasa pada 4 Oktober 2019 mengambil peluang mendekati staf dan berkongsi hala tuju USM. 

Profesor Ir. Dr. Mohd Fadzil Ain, Dekan PPKEE sempat mengiringi beliau melihat tapak Projek 'EE Smart Farming' yang masih dalam pembinaan. Pembinaan projek ini dilakukan sepenuhnya oleh staf PPKEE dengan gabungan kepakaran yang ada serta sokongan semua pihak. 

Selain lawatan ke pusat-pusat pengajian, beliau juga turut menyertai perlawanan persahabatan bola sepak di antara Veteran USM FC menentang KKSSK FC. 

Nibong Tebal, 17^th October 2019 - A Guest Lecture (Industry in Class) was recently delivered by Mr Daniel Kho, SMIEEE of LogikHaus. The lecture entitled "FPGA and ASIC Digital Design Development" was conducted in BK3 as part of EEE378 Digital Electronics II course for 3rd year Electronic Engineering students.

The lecture covered an overview of the digital IC development process starting from the top-level mathematical modelling, front-end and back-end hardware design, and down to the bottom-level pre-silicon design verification stages. The hardware design topics include RTL design entry using Hardware Description Languages such as VHDL and SystemVerilog, logic synthesis, physical design layout covering automatic place and route (APR) and clock tree synthesis (CTS), and design optimisations in order to meet the design constraints. On the other hand, the pre-silicon design verification topics include functional simulations using standard methodologies like OS-VVM or UVM, formal netlist verification, and physical verification using static timing analysis (STA), thermal optimisation, etc.

Several concepts learnt during the course were also mentioned in the lecture such as logic design and minimisation, K-maps, arithmetic circuits, etc. highlighting their significance in a hierarchical design approach. We hope that the students gained deeper understandings from this guest lecture on the real application of the theories covered in the normal lectures.

We extend our thanks to Mr Daniel Kho for sharing his valuable knowledge and experiences. It was a great lecture given by a professional practitioner with over 16 years of industrial experience.