Overview SRC Funding Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (PI) Konrad Slind (Co-PI ) School of Computing University of Utah

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OverviewSRC FundingGanesh Gopalakrishnan
(PI)Konrad Slind (Co-PI ) School of
ComputingUniversity of Utah

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SRC Overview

• Semiconductor Research Corporation
• Outgrowth of MCC (Austin)
• Member companies include IBM, Intel, AMD,
  Cadence,
• Synopsys pulled out Sun never there
• Have periodic calls for whitepapers
• Keep submitting whitepapers addressing
  point-of-view of champions of those WPs
• When asked to submit a proposal, do so again
  knowing what they are looking for
• Finally get a 3-year ride for 80K / each year

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SRC Overview

• Once funded, one gets to submit deliverables
  reports
• Deck of cards shuffled every 3-years (e.g.
  Berkeley dropped once)
• Many tracks each track has a different style
• Annual reviews for renewal each year
• Excellent opportunity to meet the key players in
  VLSI and embedded
• Emphasis moving towards embedded software,
  low-level issues in VLSI, low-power,
• Best would be to try and aim for GSRC
• Must collaborate with ECE faculty also

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SRC Overview

• Recent Nano emphasis -- SRC / NSF collab
  (unfortunately filtered out at U level)
• Excellent opportunity to work with industrial
  folks
• Do an industrial sabbatical to further these
  connections
• Most likely they know abt you before you know abt
  them !!
• www.src.org
• Faculty funded at Utah Myers, and now me/slind
• Many SRC grad fellowships
• New fellowships targeting Ugs and under-rep
  groups
• Generally need to be associated with SRC-funded
  fac member