CESCA Continuing Education

Short Course Series
Registration

In collaboration with the Continuing and Professional Education
organization at Virginia Tech, CESCA is bringing a series of short,
two-and-a-half day courses on contemporary topics in electronic design.

The courses are taught by CESCA faculty, and will be offered at
Virginia Tech's Research Center in Arlington, VA. CESCA is offering the following
courses during summer 2012. The courses are open to industry and academics.
Click on the links below to learn more.


	Hardware Security: Building Tamper-resistant Cryptography Date: June 18-20, 2012 Instructor: Patrick R. Schaumont This course on hardware security introduces the key concepts in secure hardware design, including design techniques for finite-field arithmetic hardware and cryptographic implementations, implementation attacks and countermeasures. The lectures combine theory with practical hands-on sessions in a computer lab.
	Hunting for Software Bugs: Software Correctness and Security Date: June 20-22, 2012 Instructors: Sandeep K. Shukla and Michael S. Hsiao This course introduces the key concepts in software assurance - from the standpoint of functional correctness as well as security. Covers formal and informal methods for test and modeling, secure programming, and techniques to look for security bugs. The lectures combine theory with practical hands-on sessions in a computer lab.
	Small-scale Energy Harvesting: Principles, Practices and Future Trends Date: June 25-27, 2012 Instructor: Dong S. Ha This course reviews principles of energy harvesting as well as recent developments. Covers recent research efforts, commercial products available in the market, and future trends with possible applications. The lectures offer hands-on experiments with simulation and programming of energy harvesting designs.
	Hardware-Software Codesign on Platform FPGA's Date: June 27-29, 2012 Instructor: Patrick R. Schaumont This course describes hardware/software codesign methodologies using modern FPGA technologies. The lectures cover system-modeling and performance evaluation, performance optimization with programmable architectures, and hardware/software interfaces. The lectures combine theory with hands-on sessions in a computer lab.