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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN GROUP & HW-INDUSTRY
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Contributions to ARM• Falanx • Prof. Natvig supervised the
Falanx entrepreneurs Borgar, Edvard, Jørn and Mario in their 5th year projects and master thesis work.
• Part of the ”build-up phase” for Falanx, later acquired by ARM.
• More student projects supervised during the first Falanx years and later with ARM
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Contributions to ATMEL• Prof. Natvig has supervised ≈15
projects in cooperation with ATMEL over the last 10 years. Some of these became part of, or influenced ATMEL products.
• ≈ 200 employes in Trondheim.• Recent product is maXTouch
used in Samsung Galaxy S. • ATMEL has contributed to
NTNU with teaching, supervision of PhD-students, examination and lab-equipment.
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Other industrial cooperation
• Projects, MSc and PhD theses supervised by our group: – Nordic Semiconductor (Trondheim)– Energy Micro (Oslo)– ChipCon (Now TI) (Oslo)– Tilera (US)– FXI (Trondheim)– Yahoo! Inc (Trondheim) – Oracle (was ClustRa Sun Microsystems
MySQL) (Trondheim)– Powel AS (Trondheim)– 3D radar (Trondheim)– Intel (UK)– Numerical Rocks (Trondheim)– Miriam AS (Halden)– and more
• Other ICT companies in Trondheim area– Microsoft, Statoil research, EMGS, …
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Industry cooperation challenges
• Balance– Student: interests motivation– University: good projects education quality, reputation– Company: recruiting, ”getting things done”, innovation from
”young brains”, research results– Research group:
• Industrial relevance education quality, reputation, student recruiting
• Keep research focus quality• Recruiting to PhD research ”getting research done”• Balancing among companies good industry relations
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Cooperation instruments and opportunities
• Industry-PhD projects– 3-4 years PhD project, a qualified PhD student from company– 50% Norwegian Research Council, 50% company– Publication of papers necessarry
• Involve our group in EU-projects– Industry partners a crucial factor– Within our scientific core areas
• 5th year project (autumn) and master thesis (spring)– Discuss project with us, 1-2 months before start of semester
• Components, tools, evaluation boards etc. for our courses and student projects
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