1. Thinking from the basic
I had spent my senior and master courses studying and researching theoretical physics. I have learned “thinking from the basic” from my teachers. My carrier of circuit design started when I joined Toshiba ULSI R&D center and expanded at Micron. Looking back to my work at the companies, I have had many problems to be solved in a limited time, but most of their solutions were not written in books. I made considerations from the basic to figure out possible solutions. Thus, what I have learned in my senior and master courses has contributed to my R&D at the companies. I believe that “thinking from the basic by yourself” is the most important thing for senior and master students to get into. I want to provide research education so that you can have such a thinking style when you finish your research at the lab.

2. Having others understand
Another important thing to make you professional is having others understand. You will need to effectively tell what you consider as problems, their possible solutions, the best one among them and the effectiveness of the final solution, to the others such as your colleagues in your team, your bosses or attendees at a conference. You can have lots of opportunities to present what you have learned and researched at round-table-discussions and conferences. Repeating will improve your presentation. Providing the presentation opportunities is my due.

3. Research education procedure
Senior students can learn how to research through circuit design from #1-5 below. Master’s students can complete entire process for design of low voltage integrated and microelectronic circuits including #6-7. The target for the senior students is designing a circuit, predicting its performance with just paper and pencil and analyzing the circuit behavior. The target for the mater’s students is experiencing entire process steps to get circuits performed as well as expected. They can learn why the silicon operates differently from the simulation. It is not so important which circuits/systems you have researched and developed or how well you have done that, but how deeply you have understood the issue and the circuits/systems solution. The most important thing is that you try to be professional at your own field based on the research education procedure you have experienced at the lab.
1)      Figure out a circuit that you want to design
2)      Understand the circuit operation
3)      Optimize it with paper and pencil
4)      Design one to meet circuit specification
5)      Simulate it with SPICE to verify the projected circuit performance
6)      Implement the circuit into silicon
7)      Measure and analyze the circuit operation

Teaching
“Differential equation” at Chiba university, Apr. – Sep., 2016.
“Integrated circuits engineering” at Hosei university, Oct. 2016 – Mar. 2017.
“Numerical simulation” at Shizuoka university, Apr. 2017 – Sep. 2017. 

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~
What becomes useful soon becomes useless soon. ~ Takeshi Hashimoto sensei ~