1 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN GROUP & HW-INDUSTRY

2 Contributions to ARM Falanx Prof. Natvig supervised the Falanx entrepreneurs Borgar, Edvard, Jørn and Mario in their 5th year projects and master thesis work. Part of the ”build-up phase” for Falanx, later acquired by ARM. More student projects supervised during the first Falanx years and later with ARM

3 Contributions to ATMEL Prof. Natvig has supervised ≈15 projects in cooperation with ATMEL over the last 10 years. Some of these became part of, or influenced ATMEL products. ≈ 200 employes in Trondheim. Recent product is maXTouch used in Samsung Galaxy S. ATMEL has contributed to NTNU with teaching, supervision of PhD-students, examination and lab-equipment.

4 Other industrial cooperation Projects, MSc and PhD theses supervised by our group: –Nordic Semiconductor (Trondheim) –Energy Micro (Oslo) –ChipCon (Now TI) (Oslo) –Tilera (US) –FXI (Trondheim) –Yahoo! Inc (Trondheim) –Oracle (was ClustRa  Sun Microsystems  MySQL) (Trondheim) –Powel AS (Trondheim) –3D radar (Trondheim) –Intel (UK) –Numerical Rocks (Trondheim) –Miriam AS (Halden) –and more Other ICT companies in Trondheim area –Microsoft, Statoil research, EMGS, …

5 Industry cooperation challenges Balance –Student: interests  motivation –University: good projects  education quality, reputation –Company: recruiting, ”getting things done”, innovation from ”young brains”, research results –Research group: Industrial relevance  education quality, reputation, student recruiting Keep research focus  quality Recruiting to PhD research  ”getting research done” Balancing among companies  good industry relations

6 Cooperation instruments and opportunities Industry-PhD projects –3-4 years PhD project, a qualified PhD student from company –50% Norwegian Research Council, 50% company –Publication of papers necessarry Involve our group in EU-projects –Industry partners a crucial factor –Within our scientific core areas 5th year project (autumn) and master thesis (spring) –Discuss project with us, 1-2 months before start of semester Components, tools, evaluation boards etc. for our courses and student projects