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The two-year-old Bangalore Chapter, along with the IEEE Students branch of the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore, completed a three-day workshop on VLSI and MEMS 1–3 May 2003. The audience for the workshop included postgraduate students and faculty from different engineering colleges. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar from Texas Instruments, India, delivered seminars on “Introduction to VLSI,” “CAD tools,” and “VLSI architectures and applications.” Dr. P.R. Suresh from Texas Instruments, India, held a seminar on “Layout verification.” Dr. Navakanta Bhat from the Indian Institute of Science delivered seminars on “Subthreshold MOS circuit design” and “RF circuit design and MEMS.” Dr. DV. Poornaiiah from the Indian Telephone Industries gave a seminar on “VLSI for wireless communication.”