About Analog Devices:
Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) designs and manufactures semiconductor products and solutions. We enable our customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure and connect.
http://www.analog.com
The Cadence® Academic Network links together universities, research institutes, industry advisors, and Cadence professionals to facilitate the sharing of technology expertise in the areas of verification, design, and implementation of microelectronic systems. Cadence enables global electronic design innovation in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics with advanced processor and interface IP. The Cadence Academic Network helps build strong relationships between academia and industry to promote the proliferation of these leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities renowned for their engineering and design excellence. The network facilitates this exchange of knowledge by co-organizing training, workshops, and technology days, providing professional services, and helping with educational material, in addition to providing access to the latest Cadence technologies.
http://www.cadence.com
About Institue of Systems Research:
The Institute for Systems Research is a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Since its beginnings as one of the National Science Foundation's original Engineering Research Centers in 1985, ISR has been at the international forefront of interdisciplinary research and education in the system sciences and systems engineering. ISR is home to nearly 80 faculty and other researchers from 14 departments and four colleges across the University of Maryland. ISR develops both basic solution methodologies and tools for systems problems in communication systems and networks; control systems and methodologies; neuroscience and biology-based technology; micro and nano devices and systems; robotics; design, operations and supply chain management; systems engineering methodologies; computing, speech, artificial intelligence, data mining.
http://isr.umd.edu/
About the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department
For over a century, The ECE Department within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland has established a tradition of excellence in research and education innovation. Led by 58 faculty members and many more research staff, the research programs of the department cover a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary activities in the areas of Communications and Networking, Signal Processing, Control, Robotics, and Dynamical Systems, Computer Engineering, Optics and Photonics, Circuits and Systems, Electronic Materials and Devices, Bioelectronics and Systems, and Applied Electromagnetics.
http://www.ece.umd.edu/
