Co-sponsored by: jlagrotta@gmail.com Philip McCoy will present a paper on The MIPS I6500-F Microprocessor - Functional Safety for ADAS Applications     Speaker(s): Philip McCoy, Agenda: 6:00-6:30 pm Networking Time 6:30-6:45 business Meeting 6:45 -8:30 Main Presentation   Location: DeskChair workspace 201 East 4th Street Loveland, Colorado 80537

Co-sponsored by: jlagrotta@gmail.com The MIPS I6500-F Microprocessor - Functional Safety for ADAS Applications Autonomous driving and other emerging applications of Artificial Intelligence demand increasing levels of computing performance in safety-critical systems.  Chip companies address this market by building System-on-Chip (SoC) designs around compute engines such as CPUs, DSPs, GPUs and application-specific accelerators, which are often sourced from third-party suppliers in the form of RTL-level synthesizable IP.  Designing a synthesizable CPU IP for functional safety (and obtaining certification to standards such…

Transformer Purchasing Important Things We Need To Know This presentation covers the goals when creating transformer specifications and the transformer purchasing process. Mainly, how to minimize the total owning cost that meets the requirements of long lasting relatively trouble free transformers, while increasing the knowledge base of the utility. Each step of the purchasing process from design review through insulation moisture verification and testing are reviewed, and how the relationship with the manufacturer develops during the process. Speaker(s): Scott Marshall,…

Time for another of our quarterly Life Members Affinity Group Get Together Luncheons. With all of the interest these days in drones, and the problems that have been experienced with them at several major airports worldwide, our topic for this meeting is to hear about some of the recent work going on within the Denver University Unmanned Systems Research Institute developing techniques for detection, tracking, and identification of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.  Please note that this meeting will be held…

Students form teams and using parts from various sources come up with the best robot. Last year pieces of a microwave were used along with CD's for wheels to form a working robot. It is great fun, but they would like help from seasoned engineers. Most volunteers spend several hours with the students. You do not have to sign up for the full day. If you have some motors,wheels,controllers or anything else that might be useful in robot building please…

Co-sponsored by: Lanbing Shan The Denver Section would like to invite you to join us for the latest presentation in our Dine and Learn series! Come join your fellow IEEE members and local engineers for a fun filled evening of appetizers, networking, and dinner, while we discover exciting new innovations in technology. Once a month one of your local Denver IEEE Societies will host the event and bring in a unique speaker related to their field to present. This provides…

The focus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) at the former Homestake Mine in Lead/SD is being the host site for a multitude of world class experiments in nuclear and particle physics. These include the dark matter search experiments LUX and LZ, the underground particle accelerator CASPAR which studies nuclear processes occurring in the sun's core, and the neutrino experiments Majorana Demonstrator and DUNE, which is poised to become the largest experiment on US soil.  Speaker(s): Dr. Juergen Reichenbacher,…

Co-sponsored by: James Gowans Many organizations have or are considering moving from on premise back office systems such as, Human Capital Management (HCM), Financial Management Systems (FMS), Supply Chain Management systems (SCM), to systems that are available in the Cloud such as Software as a Service (SaaS). This presentation will present research findings from 1,600 organizations on what back office systems they are using, why they are making a change and some misconceptions about both. Many are moving to SaaS…

Why? Enhance the visibility and familiarity of our organization’s leadership. Enable meaningful dialogue between our leadership and members. Open up a communication channel for members to communicate directly with IEEE leadership.   What?   The IEEE Presidents Forum is a Town Hall type event which provides an opportunity for the participants to ask questions directly from the IEEE leadership, learn about the organization and discuss what IEEE does well. This year’s Presidents Forum will see the participation of José M.…

Meeting for general administration and operation of the Black Hills Subsection Location: 218 E. New York Street Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

Co-sponsored by: jlagrotta@gmail.com Chris Kelly is an Applications Engineer for Keysight Technologies in Loveland and holds MS degree from Colorado State University.Chris has been with HP, Agilent and Keysight since 1983, and spent 33 years in R&D designing 14 successful products in Data Acquisition, Digital Multimeters and Signal Sources fields and is named inventor on 6 US patents.Presently Chris is an Applications Engineer working on Wireless Coexistence measurements, primarily for IoT devices.He holds a Amateur Extra class ham radio license…

Co-sponsored by: jlagrotta@gmail.com Dr Gerado Brucker will speak on Mass Spectrometer measurement technology in a vacuum.  MKS Instruments, Inc. (Granville-Phillips Products), Longmont, CO   Chief Technology Officer for Pressure Measurement and Process Solutions Groups Chief Scientist for the Granville-Phillips Products Group Member of the Office of Technology representing the Pressure and Vacuum Measurement and Integrated Process Solution Groups, Chief Scientist for the Granville-Phillips Product Line in Longmont, Colorado.   Speaker(s): Dr. Gerardo Brucker, Agenda: 6:00-6:30 pm Networking Time 6:30-6:45 business Meeting 6:45…

The American Control Conference (ACC) is an annual 3-day meeting that brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners in all areas related to the engineering and science of control systems.  IEEE Control Systems Society participating as a sponsor of this event.