PISCATAWAY, NJ  – Dr. David Kung has been named chair of the IEEE Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC), effective July 1. During the transition, he will work with Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo, DATC’s chair and partner with IBM Venture Capital Group. 
 
DATC is a technology member organization of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) and provides a forum where researchers, developers, users and students can exchange ideas.
 
Dr. Kung is currently the senior manager of the design automation department at IBM Research. “David brings a tremendous wealth of research and management experience to DATC, along with impressive accomplishments in the electronic design automation field,” said Dr. Carballo.

AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments (NI) introduced its design and prototyping platform, NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) II+.
 
The single, integrated system incorporates an onboard 100 MS/s oscilloscope that is reported to sample nearly 100 times faster than the previous version, NI ELVIS II. The oscilloscope allows users to gain tangible exposure to high-frequency measurement techniques and filter designs.
 
Features include several add-on boards, providing the study of control, telecommunications and embedded systems and microcontrollers. Users can learn sensor physical properties and application techniques and limitations through the Quanser QNET-014 sensor board add-on. The QNET-013 add-on provides aerospace application fundamentals of motion control, dynamics and kinematics.