The collaboration between the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton , England , and the Laboratory of Electronic Design Automation at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia, started in 1989. Prof. V. Litovski was granted a two-week visit to Southampton by the British Council office in Belgrade. The responsible staff member who took the decision was Dr. Christopher Briggs. During that visit an invitation to visit Niš was announced by Prof. Litovski to the research staff at ECS in Southampton. 1989
Prof. Litovski visited Southampton for the first time.
Prof. Zwolinski paid a return visit and gave a lecture related to hardware description languages.
1990
Prof. Robert Ivan Damper visited Niš and gave two separate lectures
- Testing of electronic circuits
- ANN application in pattern recognition
The second lecture was a part of the program of the "First International Neurocomputing Symposium", on November 15, 1990 .
Prof. Robert I. Damper chairing the symposium
In the same year the first project was approved by the British Council Office in Belgrade : ALIS No. 245. It was a three-year project that was discontinued in June 2002, because of the UN sanctions against Serbia . Thanks to that project Prof. Litovski, Prof. Zwolinski, and Prof. Damper made several exchange visits.
1991
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
Within the ALIS link 245 a six month scholarship was granted to Dejan Glozić, teaching assistant from Niš, to stay at the Middlesex University in London . This grant was extended by additional three months.
Thank to this stay several important results were achieved.
- An analogue integrated circuit was designed and produced by EUROCHIP.
- A design system for analogue circuit was developed and implemented.
- Long term collaboration with the Middlesex University was enabled.
This collaboration was kept warm until the year 2000 when, on the initiative of Srđan Milenković, a group of researchers from Niš (Predrag Petković, Dejan Maksimović, Bojan Anđelković, Milan Savić) went to Middlesex to learn integrated circuit design with the CADENCE software. Additional chips were designed and produced.
At the Middlesex University. From left to right: V. Litovski, S. Milenković, E. Bushehri, and P. Petković
S. Milenković, V. Litovski, and P. Petković
1992
A six-month scholarship was granted to Željko Mrčarica to visit ECS by the Foundation of The Serbian Delegate (Fond Srpskog Poslanika). He spent that time in learning electronic simulation supported by a simulation backplane.
1995
The first EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK ) project was granted under Grant No. GR/K54120 of June 12, 1995 , to Prof. Litovski.
Prof. Robert Ivan Damper obtained a "Special recognition" for the contribution to the development of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš.
1996
In December 1996 the book "VLSI Circuit simulation and optimization", written by Prof. Litovski and Prof. Zwolinski was published by Chapman and Hall. That book became a standard in electronic simulation. Some additional information can be found here.
Composition parts of the special issue of the IEEE Spectrum devoted to the future 100-million transistor chip.
1999
In July 1999 a second project was approved by the EPSRC. It was entitled "Modelling and simulation of actuators in implanted hearing aids using neural networks"
In October 1999 Prof. Litovski was elected Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton.
2000
Prof. Damper chaired the Small Systems Simulation Symposium (SSSS2000) held in Niš.
2001
Prof. Damper was elected a foreign member of The Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia and Montenegro .
2004
Prof. Zwolinski took part in the organization of the "International Colloquium on Higher Education in Electronics at the University of Niš "
2005
Prof. Zwolinski participated in the Small Systems Simulation Symposium (SSSS2005) held in Niš.