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Conference: FPGA Summit
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The FPGA Summit is the only practitioner-oriented conference dedicated entirely to FPGAs and their applications. Attend this conference from December 9-11, and use the discount code to save on your registration.
Consultants' Forum #1: The Contract
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Consulting contracts are an important but often overlooked aspect of consulting work. This presentation will be like a cooking class for consultants who want to cook up their own contracts, as well as to better understand how to review and modify clients' contracts. We all face the same core challenges whether we are a consultant, an engineer or a manager in a corporate environment. We would all like to be able to communicate so effectively with our customers or colleagues that we are able to influence them to our way of thinking. In this talk, Steven Cerri will give you his perspective on how to achieve this goal. MEMS (Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems), sometimes called Microsystems Technology (MST), encompasses the manufacturing technologies that enable the fabrication of micro-scale sensors and actuators. This talk will provide an introduction to MEMS, an overview of how MEMS products are made, and a review of current and future applications of this exciting technology.
Conference: AlwaysOn: GoingGreen
Monday, September 15, 2008
IEEE-CNSV is an Affiliate Partner for the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference, which runs from September 15-17. Members are eligible for a half-price discount for this cutting-edge greentech event.
Conference: Flash Memory Summit
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
IEEE-CNSV will have a booth on the Exhibit Floor at this event, allowing CNSV members with a great vehicle for publicizing their skills as well as the merits of our organization. CNSV members also receive special pricing for this conference, and two CNSV members will be awarded full conference admission as well. Many aspects of this event that are free, so register now on the conference website. IEEE-CNSV member Tom Coughlin will talk about writing his recently-published book Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide. Ron Laurie will present an overview of the new patent monetization ecosystem, and will highlight the areas in which domain expert support is needed. He will also discuss the effect of the current legal and economic environments on the growth and adaptation of the various business models, and how the exploding market for IP has created opportunities for technical and patent experts.
The Electronics in Flow Cytometry
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Flow cytometry is a technique for classifying and sorting blood cells. This presentation will discuss the embedded system design of the flow cytometers that are becoming increasingly important as tools for biological research and clinical diagnostics, particularly for the therapeutic monitoring of cancer, AIDS (measurement of CD4 T-Cells) and leukemia in patients. Consultants need to quickly understand previous technical developments associated with a proposed client project. A full literature search can reveal details unknown to the client and lead to better recommendations and solutions. This presentation will demonstrate how to use the IEEE's on-line database of journal and conference papers.
CNSV Event Details
The Electronics in Flow Cytometry
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:00 PM
KeyPoint Credit Union
2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051
William Tynes, Dwayne Yount, Becton, Dickinson and Co.
Free
No RSVP needed
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Program Slides

The measurement, classification and separation and of blood cells have become increasingly important as tools for biological research and clinical diagnostics. Blood cells by their very nature have markedly different characteristics. Their characteristics are obtained through differentiation during the normal physical development process of the organism. Like all cells, each type of White cell has unique cell surface antigens. These can be used to distinguish each type through the use of Fluorescent tagged antibodies to a particular surface antigen characteristic of the cell of interest. Flow cytometry can be used to separate the cells into categories of interest by exploiting this technique. BD flow cytometers are used for, among other things, the therapeutic monitoring of cancer, AIDS, and leukemia patients. For example, the measurement CD4 T-Cells has become a standard in the monitoring and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

This presentation will describe the various systems BD Biosciences offers for the analysis and sorting of blood cells and the electronic systems employed to make this possible. A high-level view of the electronic architecture will be presented. Components of the design covered will be: PMT photo detection, multi-channel analog to digital converts, digital delay adjustment for laser beam displacement, calculation of basic cell parameters, spectral overlap compensation, and real-time cell sorting decisions using parallel DSP processing.

About the Speaker
Bill Tynes has 35 years of experience in the field of Medical Diagnostic Systems. He is the Director of Systems Engineering at BD Bioscience in San Jose, CA. He was previously Senior Director of Systems and Hardware Engineering at Bayer Diagnostics in Tarrytown, NY, now Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. Bill received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and did graduate work at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins Universities and Moravian College in the fields of Electronics, Biotechnology and Computer Science respectively. He has contributed to the development and commercialization of more than a dozen medical devices, mostly in the field of clinical diagnostics.

Dwayne Yount started his career in analog and digital electronic design at Stanford University Medical Center when he designed the first automated infant hearing test for the otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat) department. Dwayne also designed and developed industrial process control systems at Measurex Corp. (now Honeywell), where he worked for 20 years. Dwayne joined BD Biosciences ten years ago to write DSP code for their next generation digital flow cytometers. He then became project lead and chief architect for the instrument's electronics. As design lead, he was granted a U.S. patent for a cell analyzer and sorter electronic design that included eight floating point DSPs and twenty high-speed ADCs.

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