Designing Mobile Robot Interfaces with 16-Bit Microchip Microcontrollers

Ahmet Bindal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles CA. His doctoral research was the material characterization of HEMT GaAs transistors. During his graduate studies, he was a research associate and a technical consultant for Hughes Aircraft Co. In 1988, he joined the technical staff of IBM Research and Development Center in Fishkill, NY where he worked as a device design and characterization engineer. He developed asymmetrical MOS transistors and ultra thin Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technologies for IBM. In 1993, he transferred to IBM at Rochester, MN, as a senior circuit design engineer to work on the floating-point unit of AS-400 main frame processor. He continued his circuit design career at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, where he designed 16-bit packed multipliers and adders for the MMX unit in Pentium II processors. In 1996, he joined Philips Semiconductors in Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the designs of instruction/data caches and various SRAM modules for the Trimedia processor. His involvement with VLSI architecture also started in Philips Semiconductors and led to the design of the Video-Out unit for the same processor. In 1998, he joined Cadence Design Systems as a VLSI architect and directed a team of engineers to design a self-timed asynchronous processor. After approximately 20 years of industry work, he joined the Computer Engineering faculty at San Jose State University in 2002. His current research interests range from nano-scale electron devices to robotics. Dr. Bindal has over 30 scientific journal and conference publications and 10 invention disclosures with IBM. He currently holds three U.S. patents with IBM and one with Intel Corporation. On the light side of things, Dr. Bindal is a model aircraft builder, violin maker, painter and an avid windsurfer for more than 30 years.

Ahmet Bindal 在加州大學洛杉磯分校獲得電機工程碩士及博士學位。他的博士研究專注於HEMT GaAs 晶體管的材料特性。在研究生期間，他曾擔任休斯飛機公司的研究助理和技術顧問。1988年，他加入了位於紐約州Fishkill的IBM研究與開發中心，擔任裝置設計與特性工程師，開發了不對稱MOS晶體管和超薄矽絕緣體(SOI)技術。1993年，他轉至位於明尼蘇達州羅徹斯特的IBM，擔任高級電路設計工程師，負責AS-400主機處理器的浮點單元設計。他在加州聖克拉拉的英特爾公司繼續他的電路設計生涯，為Pentium II處理器的MMX單元設計了16位元打包乘法器和加法器。1996年，他加入加州桑尼維爾的飛利浦半導體，參與Trimedia處理器的指令/數據快取和各種SRAM模組的設計。他在飛利浦半導體的VLSI架構工作也開始了，並設計了同一處理器的視頻輸出單元。1998年，他加入Cadence Design Systems擔任VLSI架構師，並指導一組工程師設計自定時異步處理器。經過約20年的產業工作，他於2002年加入聖荷西州立大學的計算機工程系。其目前的研究興趣涵蓋從納米級電子裝置到機器人技術。Bindal博士擁有超過30篇科學期刊和會議的出版物，以及與IBM的10項發明披露。他目前持有三項與IBM的美國專利和一項與英特爾公司的專利。在輕鬆的方面，Bindal博士是一位模型飛機製作者、小提琴製作人、畫家，並且熱愛風帆衝浪超過30年。