The technical sessions are preceded by two short course tutorials on Monday, October 10th.
Short course attendees will receive course materials for both short courses, continental breakfast and lunch.
There is a fee for participation in the Monday Short Course Tutorials. Our registration fees are available on our Registration page.

Energy-efficient computing hardware design for the IoT devices

Chair: Mingo Seok, Columbia University

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Energy Efficient RF,Analog, and Digital Computation and Communication

Energy-efficient computing hardware design for the IoT devices
This tutorial will introduce recent and important techniques to design computing hardware in
near/sub-threshold digital circuits for creating the ultra-low-power IoT devices.

Integrated power conversion for IoT devices
Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le
Overview: Analytical analysis of switched-capacitor voltage converter and optimization Circuit techniques and design methodology to improve efficiency for integrated power management in practical examples:

• High power density converter
• Power management for ultra-low power system
• Wireless power for bio-medical implants
• Future prospects and conclusion

Near/sub-threshold digital circuit design techniques
Prof. Massimo Alioto

• Energy/power limits in VLSI systems
• Applications and practical constraints
• Responsiveness vs. sustained performance
• Minimum-energy operation: design perspectives
• Guidelines for sub- and near-threshold microarchitectures
• Sub- and near-threshold SRAM circuits
• Conclusions

Variation-adaptive near/sub-threshold digital VLSI
Prof. Mingoo Seok

• Challenges, sources, and impacts
• Static techniques – gate level
• Static techniques – sequencing techniques
• Dynamic techniques – Canary based
• Dynamic techniques – in-situ error detection and correction
• Conclusions

Role of SOI Technologies in low power IOT, Analog & mm Wave applications and RF Switch & Low Noise Amplifier Design

Chair: Alex Fish, Bar Ilan University

The tutorial will focus on SOI technologies and will discuss how SOI helps in low power IOT and high speed RF/mm Wave applications. The tutorial will also focus on design challenges of < 6GHz RF Switch and Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) on RFSOI technology and benchmark RFSOI based Switch & LNA performance with bulk CMOS & BiCMOS technologies. There’ll be two parts of the tutorial

SOI Technologies for low power IOT and RF/mm Wave applications
Bert Fransis & Anirban Bandyopadhyay

• Introduction of Fully Depleted Silicon on Insulator (FDSOI) Technology
• Overview of low power IOT applications
• Role of FDSOI technology and benchmarking with bulk & FinFET Technologies for low power IOT
• Overview of mm Wave applications and implications of different phase array architectures on Silicon technologies
• Introduction of Partially Depleted Silicon on Insulator (PDSOI) Technology
• Roles of FDSOI & PDSOI on component & system performance of mm Wave radio interface
• Conclusions

Design challenges of RF Switch on RFSOI & LNA design on RFSOI and performance benchmark with Bulk CMOS & BiCMOS technologies
Randy Wolf

• Evolution of RF switch within cellular front end module (FEM)
• Figure of Merits (FOM’s) and design challenges for cellular & WiFi Switches
• Specifications of different RF Switches and role RFSOI technology
• Typical sub-6 GHz applications (GPS, cellular, WiFi) and specifications for LNA’s
• Basic LNA theory
• Design considerations of LNA for GPS, cellular & WiFi
• Role of RFSOI and benchmarking with SiGe based LNA performance