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SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recent Advances in Emerging STT-MRAM Memory
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
CTO / Founder / Director, Avalanche
Technology, Inc.
Glasgow East-104, NPS
Thursday, 25 Oct 2012 at 11:00 - 12:00
New product
applications for consumer, compute and mobile devices have an increasing
demand for a non-volatile memory (NVM) exhibiting higher speeds, extended
endurance and lower power consumption as existing solutions are not fully
capable to deliver on all of these attributes. Recent progress in the NVM
memory space and their key attributes will be presented. Of the group of
new NVMs, Phase-change RAM (PRAM), Field-switching MRAM (Field-MRAM),
Resistive RAM (RRAM) and Spin-torque based MRAM (STT-MRAM), STT-MRAM has
the most attractive combination of fast read and write speed (<10ns)
and high endurance (>1014) along with non-volatility. of the emerging NVMs, MRAM clearly stands out
especially for Military applications due to its RadHard
properties. Key recent developments in the MRAM memory technology are
highlighted.
In addition, the
product positioning of the spin-torque MRAM is discussed. While it is
currently being targeted for stand-alone commodity memory (replacing DRAM
and flash) as well as embedded memory (replacing embedded Flash in
MCU and embedded SRAM and embedded DRAM ), new market applications such
as solid state drives and embedded solutions in advanced System-on-Chips
(SoCs) are also being explored.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ranjan co-founded and has served as
Chief Technology Officer at Avalanche Technology since August 2006.
Prior, Dr. Ranjan served as the Executive
Director of R&D at Seagate where he led the technology development
which fueled a doubling of revenue to over $10B. His technology
pioneering efforts have led to the productization
of low-noise media perpendicular media and laser texturing. These
technologies are now widely used in storage devices which revolutionized
the data storage industry. Dr. Ranjan was
recognized by both the United States Congress and the Prime Minister of
India for his outstanding research in the field of magnetic recording,
where he holds over 75 patents. Prior, he directed Komag.s
R&D team, which under his direction pioneered the granular and
oriented media technology enabling revenue grow to over $600M. Dr. Ranjan received his PhD. in Material Science and
Engineering from Iowa State University on a full United States Department
of Energy scholarship. He received the prestigious SIMS-86 award from the
Instrument Society of America for his design of a transducer for
magneto-acoustic detection. Rajiv graduated from the India Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur as a Silver medalist in
the field of Metallurgical Engineering. He has published over 60 papers
in the magnetic recording field and has lectured at UC Berkeley, Stanford
University and Carnegie Mellon University on magnetic recording
technologies.
SPARCCS - Smartphone-Assisted Readiness, Command and Control System
Gurminder
Singh
Watkins Hall Rooms 275/285, NPS
Thursday, 19 Apr 2012 at 1200
Abstract
SPARCCS - Smartphone-Assisted Readiness, Command, and
Control System - uses smartphones in conjunction with cloud computing to
support distributed response to HA/DR (Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster
Response) and military missions. SPARCCS enables real-time situational
awareness among distributed teams of first responders while
simultaneously ensuring that the command centers receive accurate,
up-to-date reports from the field.
Bio
Dr. Gurminder Singh - Gurminder
Singh is a Professor of Computer Science
and Director of the Center for the Study of Mobile Devices and
Communications at the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS), CA. His primary area of focus is wireless and handheld
device technology. He is currently involved in research in Mobile Devices
and Wireless Sensor Networks. Prior to NPS, he was the President and CEO
of NewsTakes, Inc., a company specializing in
repurposing of multimedia content for delivery to wireless networks and
devices. He has been involved in this area for the last 10 years. Prior
to NewsTakes, Dr. Singh was Director at the
Kent Ridge Digital Lab (now I2R) where his
responsibilities included strategic directions for research, management
of research staff, and commercialization of intellectual property. He led
an R&D lab focused on a variety of research themes including video
and audio processing, PDAs for students, and online learning communities
for children. His lab contributed significantly to the formation of the
MPEG-7 standard. As a senior researcher in the lab, he was deeply
involved with research in networked media, user interface software, and
networked virtual worlds.
Dr. Singh has helped mentor and spin-off several start-ups in
wireless, internet and multimedia in recent years. He has been on the
management and advisory boards of start-up companies, and has advised
companies and VCs on business plans, intellectual property issues, and
management teams.
Dr. Singh has been involved with ACM and IEEE for many years in organizing
conferences, editing special issues of journals, and publishing in their
journals. He has published extensively and edited special issues of the
Communications of ACM, ACM Transactions on CHI, IEEE Multimedia and ACM
Multimedia Systems etc. Prof. Singh founded the ACM Virtual Reality
Software and Technology Conference in 1994 and co-chaired VRST 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Computing
Science from the University of Alberta, Canada.
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