CAS4IIoT

Module 1: Silicon is the New Steel: The End of Moore’s Law and the Beginning of the Terascale Age

Prof. Thomas Lee received his degrees from MIT, where his 1989 thesis described the world’s first CMOS radio. He has been at Stanford University since 1994, having previously worked at ADI, Rambus and other companies. He’s helped design PLLs for AMD’s K6-K7-K8 and DEC’s StrongARM CPUs, and has founded or cofounded several companies, including the first 3D memory company, Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk), and IoE companies ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip) and Ayla Networks. He is an IEEE and Packard Foundation Fellow, has won “Best Paper” awards at CICC and ISSCC, was awarded the 2011 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the board of Xilinx, served as Director of DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office, holds ~60 patents, and has written several textbooks. He owns 100-200 oscilloscopes, thousands of vacuum tubes, and kilograms of obsolete semiconductors. No one, including himself, quite knows why.

Module 2: Energy Efficient Nyquist-Rate ADCs

Dr. Klaas Bult received an MSc. and a PhD. degree from Twente University in 1984 and 1988 respectively. From 1988 to 1994 he worked as a Research Scientist at Philips Research Labs. In 1996 he joined Broadcom full-time as a Director, responsible for Analog and RF Circuits for embedded applications in broadband communication systems. In 1999 he became a Senior Director and started Broadcom’s Design Center in Bunnik, The Netherlands. In 2005 he was appointed Vice President and CTO of Central Engineering. As of 2016 he’s an independent consultant Analog IC Design, operating from The Netherlands. Klaas Bult is an author of more than 60 international publications and holds more than 60 issued US patents. He is a Broadcom Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, was awarded the Lewis Winner Award for outstanding conference paper on ISSCC 1990, 1992 and 1997, was co-recipient of the Jan Van Vessem best European Paper Award at ISSCC 2004 and the Distinguished paper Award of ISSCC 2014.

Module 3: Sigma-Delta ADCs for IoT – Basics and Innovations

Prof. José M. de la Rosa has been with the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, which is in turn part of the Spanish Microelectronics Centre of the Spanish National Research Council, where he heads a research group on micro/nanoelectronic circuits and systems. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electronics and Electromagnetism, University of Seville. He has co-authored five books, 10 book chapters, and over 200 international peer-reviewed publications. He was a recipient of the 2012 and 2013 Best Associate Editor Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2017 to 2018. He is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TCAS- II and has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TCAS – I.

Module 4: Data Converter enabled FPGA for Wideband Communications

Dr. Bruno Vaz received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from New University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a AMS System Architect at Xilinx, Inc., where he has led the design and development of high-speed ADCs. Before joining Xilinx, he was with Wolfson Microelectronics and his past industrial experience also includes S3 Group and Acacia Semiconductors. His research interests include analog and mixed-signal IC design, digitally assisted ADCs and analog design optimization. Dr. Vaz is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC).

Module 5: Electrostatic energy harvesting and its conditioning for IoT applications

Prof. Elena Blokhina was, from 2005 to 2007, a Research Scientist at Saratov State University, where she was involved in the analysis and modelling of microwave devices. Since 2007, she has been with University College Dublin, Ireland, where she is currently the Research Manager of the Circuits and Systems Research Group and a Lecturer with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Dr. Blokhina is currently a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, where she is also one of the officers of the committee. She was elected to serve on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2013 to 2015, and re-elected from 2016 to 2018. She is currently the Chair of Young Professionals and Women in Circuits and Systems. She served as a Guest Editor for Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IoPScience). She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TCAS — I.

Module 6: Neuromorphic architectures for Edge Artificial Intelligence Computing.

Prof. Alex P. James is currently the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. He is currently involved in brain-inspired circuits, memristor circuits, and algorithms and systems. He has a sustained experience of managing industry and academic projects in board design, VLSI and pattern recognition algorithms, and semiconductor industry. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Kazakhstan subsection. He is also an Associate Editor of Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, the IEEE Access, the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, U.K.

Module 7: ASICs: Custom SoCs for the IoT Era

MSc. João Marques is the Director of S3 Portugal, which is S3 Semiconductors’ Centre of Excellence for Data Converters. He is leading the Centre since 2013 and he was involved in tens of successful designs, both for IP and ASIC products. He has over twenty years’ experience in the semiconductor industry and he has held various technical and management positions. He holds one US Patent on Data Converters. Before joining S3 Semiconductors, he worked in companies including Chipidea Microelectronics (currently Synopsys), Integration Associates Inc. and Silicon Laboratories Inc. He holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

Module 8: Design & Silicon Technologies for Power Efficiency Optimization in IoT SoC Designs

Dr. Manuel Mota joined Synopsys in 2009 as a Product Marketing Manager and is responsible for the DesignWare Data Converter, Analog Audio and Bluetooth IP product lines. He brings more than 15 years of technical and marketing experience to his position. Prior to Synopsys, Manuel held product marketing, business development, and IP design positions at MIPS Technologies and Chipidea Microelectronica. Manuel holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Lisbon Technical University which he completed while working at CERN (Switzerland) as a Research Fellow. He has authored multiple technical papers and presented in several technical conferences on analog and mixed signal design.

Module 9: LiveDEMO – Power Management Unit for Industrial IoT

Prof. João Pedro Oliveira is currently Professor of Electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Nova University of Lisbon and also he assumed a position of Senior Researcher at the Centre of Technology and Systems-CTS, where he has been involved in the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits in deep nanoscale CMOS technology. In 2003 he co-founded the MOBBIT Systems SA, where he was responsible for the development (HW+SW) of several mixed-signal smart sensorial interactive systems. João P. Oliveira is a member of IEEE Circuits and Systems (CASS), Solid-State Circuits (SSCS), IEEE Communications (COMSOC), and of the Computer Societies.

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