Monthly E-nesletter

ISSUE-9

The Faculty of Electrical, Electronics & Computers Engineers

∗ The new Central Library of MUET

PAGE # 2 ∗ Students Action Committee (SAC)

PAGE # 3 ∗ Internship at Siemens

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∗ Field Programmable Gate Arrays PAGE # 10

∗ Campus News

PAGE # 7 ∗ Photos of Month

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PATRONS: Dr. B.S Chowdry; Dr. Aftab A.Memon; DR. Mukhtiar A. Unar

CONTENTS...

Mehran UET, Pakistan

THE FEECE-TEAM Name Designation Roll # Mr. Fahim A. Umrani Editor Mr. Aakash Makhijani Sub-Editor 06TL02 Mr. Raheel Junejo General Co-ordinator 05ES113 Mr. Saad Kalwar Sub-Editor 07TL21 Mr. Jawad Saeed Sub-Editor 06TL48 Mr. Salman Ahmed News Editor BM 08TL16 Ms. Maya Kella Sub-Editor 07ES72 Mr. Umair Mujtaba News Editor TL 07TL16 Mr. Noman Palijo Sub-Editor 06TL60 Ms. Zunera Aziz Sub-Editor 07TL88 Mr. Kapal Dev News Editor ES 07ES60 Mr. Moiz Rahman Sub-Editor 08TL06 Ms. Bushra Ale Sub-Editor 07TL36

THE NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY THE NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY THE NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY THE NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY OF MUETOF MUETOF MUETOF MUET

AAAA library I s a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses such a collection, or both. The library may be public or institutional.

In almost every institute of world, students are provided with the facility of library. That has two main purposes, first and most important is that students may have some place to spend their leisure in studying or some research work. The other purpose is that the students may get the books issued from there for a particular time.

Talking about the old Central Library of MUET, many of the students had even not bothered to get the library card due to few reasons. One of the reasons was that they had seen the crowd inside over each other trying hard for getting books. The amount of books was also very small as compared to the number of students. If any one had to get the books issued, he would have to get at the cost of leaving his classes and be in library for whole day. There was also a very good and silent room for studying and passing leisure in reading books or any other creative activity for the hard working students.

.But the main problem with that library was its location. One can say that the library was located in a corner of campus. Only the students of Electrical, Civil, Mechanical and C.R.P could use it regularly. For the students of other departments it was not so easy to go to library and use it at any time because they had to cover a long distance to reach there. This was one of the major reasons that most of the students of IT departments did not use the library

Now as the new Central Library has been inaugurated, it is located in the centre of campus so students from any department can come and use their time in some creative activity. There are various floors dedicated for each work. Ground floor is only for book returning. 1st floor is dedicated for the students who are interested in reading books. There is a huge hall with separate portions for boys and girls. A very good number of books on almost every subject are available with electronic catalogue system. Now students don’t need to rush towards mid-point after being free from classes because it’s a very good place and students will really love to sit there and utilize their time. 2nd floor is for book issuing. Book issuing system is also new and nice. Now students don’t need to wait whole day for their turn to get the books but they just have to go and search for books themselves. If some one finds the books, can get issued easily.

BY Saadullah Kalwar 07TL21

As the library has just started working, its timing is 9am – 2 pm. But we hope it will soon be opened in evening as well so that the hostellers can utilize it more effectively. There is no any photo copying, printing and scanning facility at the moment. We request higher authorities to please consider such things so that students may get as more as possible from the Library for which they had been waiting for years.

STUDENT ACTION COMMITTEES STUDENT ACTION COMMITTEES STUDENT ACTION COMMITTEES STUDENT ACTION COMMITTEES

Contributed By Mr. Fahim Umrani, Ms. Zunera Aziz (07TL88) Mr. Umair Mujtaba (07TL16) Mr. Saad Kalwar (07TL21)

There is a need for effective student representation in our educational institutes. We have a long way to go in this regard. As students in our education institutes virtually spent dormant life. It seems that their sole purpose is to get (not earn) degree and grab good job to make money. We should realize that this should be changed. We need to establish Student Action committees which can uphold the core values of providing a platform for every student voice and help enhance the quality of student life. It should consistently be able to deliver tangible results and strive to continue to fulfill that responsibility. Student Action committee should be a party that learns from the past, acts in the present, and builds for the future. We are glad that some students of our departments from Faculty of electrical, electronics and computer engineering, MUET have already taken initiatives in the form of “M.U.S.T Forum” which is running and flourishing as the time passes. However, to keep such committees alive, we need to institutionalize them and the first step in that direction would be to kill the typical “lack of participation” attitude from our students and faculty members. We need to devise a strategy which not only ensures the increased participation of students but also increases the usefulness of such forums/committees. Keeping this in mind, we in this article would like to introduce the readers what actions have already been taken to establish such committees and also propose future plans. But first let’s start from the scratch by introducing what are Student Action Committees (SACs)? What are SACs? SACs -- These committees formed by the students are a representation of those individuals who want to mould their student life in a better way. These organizations/committees work on a number of activities including student supervising, newsletter publications, seminar placements, book fairs, project fairs, fund raising, establishing blood banks and more. 'Student societies often aim to facilitate a particular activity or promote a belief system; although some (explicitly) require nothing more than that a member is a student. Some are not affiliated with a specific university and/or accept non-university students.'

(Courtesy: www.wikipedia.org)

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Importance of SACs The activities of a student should not only be confined to books. There are a number of activities that the student should engage himself into, which would help him and other students as well. To initiate such a committee, the first thing that the student should realize is the thing which he is best at. Either its leadership, management, problem solving, or a lot of other factors could be taken into consideration. By establishing a student action committee, an individual is actually nourishing his personality, the environment and providing his services to other individuals in a better way. This would enhance his confidence, leadership skills, time management skills, problem solving, team management and a number of other elements. These committees provide a platform to students to engage in a number of projects that are hard to initiate on standalone basis. For example, a student cannot initiate a blood bank all by himself, he has to engage a lot of other people in his project. This is where the need of an effective Student Action Committee arises. MUST -- A Student Action Committee at Mehran UET! Mehran University’s students have brought some revolutionary ideas that shape in M.U.S.T forum. MUST is a non-political body and most of its agenda and activities are concerned with the campus life of the students. The acute and primary task of M.U.S.T forum is to understand the student’s educational needs and provide them the solutions of respective subject’s problems. M.U.S.T forum is currently in its infant stages but progressing with the support of all teachers of concerned departments, ef-forts of its members and appreciable student’s corporation of various disciplines. Organizational Structure of the MUST forum

M.U.S.T forum has now targeted the students of 09 & 08 batches of Electronics, Telecommunication, Bio-medical & Software engineering departments and providing its maximum services to troubleshoot the different problems of students. It will be heading throughout the MUET in near future. M.U.S.T forum has finally laid down its foundation and managed to hold its 1st general meeting, comprising of all the members from their respective departments, in which the constitution containing the core aims and objects of the forum were put forward in front of all members for an open debate. All members were taken in confidence and finally different responsibilities were distributed amongst the nominated members who have been actively participating since the organization’s birth. The members of the M.U.S.T forum being students themselves are very well aware of the difficulties that a student encounters and have keen interest and will in solving those problems. Aims and objectives of MUST We are the interface between the students and the administration and we work together to identify and address concerns that affect the students directly and indirectly. It represents the interests of the students and participates in discussions and decisions that affect the student community. ª To represent and voice for the student’s of Mehran UET. ª To help student’s of MUET in developing academic skills. ª To help student’s of MUET in developing their professional skills. ª To help student’s of MUET in coping the life at campus problems. To organize, participate and encourage extra-curricular activities for and by the Students. Current Projects Following are some projects that the MUST forum has already initiated in each of its chapters: + Committee on Learning Assistance: M.U.S.T forum has initiated a team that is dedicated in providing the learning assistance by conducting lectures in those subjects in which a student finds difficulties within the university premises in the free hours (specially for junior batches). ο InfoTech: The idea is to aware the students (specially from junior batches) about different projects & thesis that are under development. A file will be brought on the wall which will list all the projects/thesis currently being worked on and it will also suggest new final year project or mini project ideas based on latest and innovative technologies for them to consider. ο Group Discussions: M.U.S.T forum realizes to build a consensus among all the students. Keeping in view that the forum is designing a strategy to initiate a program of group discussions among all the willing students, the topic will be pasted on the student’s notice board a week before so the students willing to participate can prepare themselves to have a debate on the topic. In the similar manner, small seminars can also be organized. + FEECE e-Newsletter: M.U.S.T forum has dedicated a team of its volunteers which regularly

releases an e-newsletter under the supervision of Sir Fahim Umrani on the 15th of every month through an online yahoo group “sar_muet”. Following the directions of Sir Fahim, steps are being taken to make the newsletter available to students through the library and through the notice boards in hard form.

Future Projects • Student's Life Committee: Many students come to MUET scare of ragging and bullying but when the left they often have tears in their eyes. But they all start loving this institute in hard way. We aim to stimulate the process of enjoying campus life as quickly as possible. The core objective of this committee is to help the student’s quickly familiarize with the campus life of MUET and make him/her part of our big family! ο Establish Blood bank where each student will be requested to provide his/ her details of Blood group and contact address so that they can be approached in the times of emergency – Already started working. ο Accommodation Committee where the volunteers/officials will accumulate the first hand information of how to apply for hostel rooms in MUET and contact details for private property lenders in Jamshoro/Hyderabad. ο Recreational Committee where the volunteers/officials will organize one-day or multi-day tours during Weekends, Mid-terms, winter or summer vacations. And also make efforts to organize Sporting events (inter-departmental or interuniversity or even at higher level). This recreational committee should NOT need any financial support and has the potential to sustain it. As throughout world (and don't forget we too are part of this world) students pay themselves for Tours and participation in Sporting Events. Of course when they will organize they will get all sorts of benefits and Discounts from University and of course the owners of touring spots. • Event Organizing Committee where the officials will take efforts to organize Workshops/ Seminars/Conferences/Extra Classes/Quiz, Book fairs, debate or Project Competitions. • Student’s Money Matters Committee where the members will

accumulate the information for different scholarships and every student will be able to get necessary information from one point. In this regard, 2KES Scholarship Foundation supporting students financially has agreed to closely work with MUST to bring this foundation under the umbrella of Students Money Matters Committee. For further details about the foundation please visit:

http://fahimumrani.googlepages.com/2kesscholarshipfoundation

• MUET’s Women Affair Female students’ or the staff of MUET faces

most problems than any body else, ranging from access to proper transport, obnoxious hooting, stalking to sexual harassment and gender discrimination. We believe that some of those problems can be resolved if we coordinate and organize. Keeping this in mind MUST forum has decided to form a committee exclusively for the Women at MUET. We also hope that the female staff teaching and otherwise will also honor us by becoming part of this committee.

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We also intend to engage closely with Student Welfare de-partment and MUET’s Sport department to work together for the welfare of Students. We are confident in hoping that seeing our passion and determination the officials of SWD and Sports section will encourage and cooperate with us in best possible manner. MUST forum is now being officially registered by the coop-eration of Chairman ES Sir Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry. For that we are ever grateful to him. We, as representative of the MUST forum, would also like to thank our Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Rajput for consider-ing our request to legalize this forum. We would also like to request the higher authorities to stretch out their hands for their essential cooperation and to help us so that we can extend this forum to other departments as well and cover the whole university. We would like to end this article thanking you for reading and with the following quote “Self improvement can be achieved but not with a quick fix. It is long arduous journey of personal experiences and discoveries – Lisa Simpson – The Simpsons”

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∗ A condolence was made on the sad demise of final year student Asadullah Abbasi by all the teachers, staff and administration members organized a peace rally which started from the main entrance gate of MUET and ended at the main administration block.

∗ The first general meeting of “Mehran University Students Team’ held in Telecom department. M.U.S.T is now looking forward for future programs

CAMPUS NEWS

INTERNSHIP AT SIEMENSINTERNSHIP AT SIEMENSINTERNSHIP AT SIEMENSINTERNSHIP AT SIEMENS BY Kapal Dev 07ES60 Edited By Ms. Maya 07ES72

Nowadays, everyone is crazy for doing internship in vacations, so was I this summer. Let me share my perception about what an internship is. It is actually a process in which a student or recent graduate gets practical training under expert’s supervision. Interns are usually university students, but they can be post graduate adults as well, seeking skills for a better career. An internship may be paid, unpaid or partially paid (in the form of a stipend). Paid internships are most common in the medical, architecture science, engineering, law, business (especially accounting and finance), and technology and advertising fields Internships may be part-time or full-time; typically they are part-time during the university year and full-time in the summer. I did internship this summer (b/w June- July) at SIEMENS, where I got a chance to enhance my practical knowledge and abilities. Siemens usually send interns to project working site, in order to get maximum benefit but, unfortunately they couldn’t manage that for me due certain reasons. Siemens is working in almost six to seven cities of Pakistan i-e, Karachi, bhitshah, Sehwan etc. I have visited different sections there like automation, infrastructure and transformer section. After visiting these sections I have got some practical knowledge but it would have been better if they have taken me to their project working site but still I must say something is better than nothing. Here are few pictures of automation and infrastructure departments, which I visited.

Many universities give awards that financially support students over the summer in lieu of full-time internships so that they can develop their entrepreneurial skills. Previously MUET was not part of it but it is good to know that now and onwards it will support through the platform of IEEE-MUET students chapter. Internship may or may not contribute in order to get a handsome job nowadays but it is always a good experience. It’s always good to see actual work environment of companies that will help us a lot in future and will not let us face any type of problem. Different teachers suggested me that “you must do at least, one internship during your four years bachelor’s life and also do some useful courses/workshops related to our field”. NOTE: if any body wants to do internship in Siemens, he/she must have following things and go through this process: You must have university letter, CV and two passport size photos.

Above documents must be submitted to Rana Fahid Rasheed in HR department.

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The History of Programmable Logic

By the late 70’s, standard logic devices were the rage and printed circuit boards were loaded with them. Then someone asked the question: “What if we gave the designer the ability to implement different interconnections in a bigger device?” This would allow the designer to integrate many standard logic devices into one part. In order to give the ultimate in design flexibility Ron Cline from Signetics (which was later purchased by Philips and then eventually Xilinx) came up with the idea of two programmable planes. The two programmable planes provided any combination of ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ gates and sharing of AND terms across multiple OR’s. This architecture was very flexible, but at the time due to wafer geometry's of 10um the input to output delay or propagation delay (Tpd) was high which made the devices relatively slow.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s)

In 1985, a company called Xilinx introduced a completely new idea. The concept was to combine the user control and time to market of PLD’s (Programmable Logic Devices) with the densities and cost benefits of gate arrays. A lot of customers liked it - and the FPGA was born. Today Xilinx is still the number one FPGA vendor in the world.

An FPGA is a regular structure of logic cells or modules and interconnect which is under the designer’s complete control. This means the user can design, program and make changes to his circuit whenever he wants. And with FPGA’s now exceeding the 10 million gate limit (Xilinx Virtex-II is the current record holder), the designer can dream big.

With the introduction of the Spartan range of FPGA’s we can now compete with Gate Arrays on all aspects - price, gate and I/O count, performance and cost! The new Spartan IIE will provide up to 300k gates at a price point that enables Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP) replacement. For example a Reed Solomon IP Core implemented in a Spartan II XC2S100 FPGA has an effective cost of $9.95 whereas the equivalent ASSP would cost around $20.

There are 2 basic types of FPGAs: SRAM-based reprogrammable and One-time programmable (OTP). These two types of FPGAs differ in the implementation of the logic cell and the mechanism used to make connections in the device. The dominant type of FPGA is SRAM-based and can be reprogrammed by the user as often as the user chooses. In fact, an SRAM FPGA is reprogrammed every time it is powered-up because the FPGA is really a fancy memory chip! (That’s why you need a serial PROM or system memory with every SRAM FPGA).

In the SRAM logic cell, instead of conventional gates there is instead a Look Up Table (LUT) which determines the output based on the values of the inputs. (In the “SRAM logic cell” diagram above you can see 6 different combinations of the 4 inputs that will determine the values of the output). SRAM bits are also used to make connections. One-time programmable (OTP) FPGA’s use anti-fuses (contrary to fuses, connections are made not “blown” during programming) to make permanent connections in the chip and so do not require a SPROM or other means to download the program to the FPGA. However, every time you make a design change, you must throw away the chip! The OTP logic cell is very similar to PLD’s with dedicated gates and flip-flops.

Acronyms PLD Programmable Logic Devices ASSP Application Specific Standard Product SRAM Static Random Access Memory OTP One Time Programmable PROM Programmable Read Only Memory LUT Look Up Table SPROM Serial Programmable Read Only Memory Signetics was once a major player in semiconductor manufacturing.

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