Join the first EE-NL Luncheon!

Join us for an engaging luncheon hosted by the EE-NL, featuring insightful speakers and a complimentary lunch! This event will bring together leaders in the EE-NL community to discuss the latest trends and innovations in Integrated Circuits. It’s a great opportunity to network, learn, and exchange ideas with fellow experts.

Speakers

Programme

TIME	SPEAKER	TOPIC
11:00	Opening
11:05	Alexandre Gabriel (NWO)	EE at NWO
11:15	Eugenio Cantatore (TU/e)	Recent advancements in systems combining large area and CMOS electronics
12:00	Lunch (Provided)
12:30	Bram Nauta (UT)	High Risk, No Gain
13:15	Closing

EE at NWO

NWO offers a variety of funding instruments, which can sometimes make it challenging to determine the most suitable option for your next research project. This presentation aims to give an insight to how EE is doing at NWO in some of the more popular calls.

Speaker bio:

Alexandre Gabriel has a background in telecommunications, with a focus on video coding and streaming, in which he has over seven years of experience spanning both research and industry. He currently serves as a Programme Officer at NWO, mainly overseeing projects related to semiconductors, industrial machinery, and antenna technologies. On top of this Alexandre is involved with the EE-NL group, the Electrical Engineering council.

Recent advancements in systems combining large area and CMOS electronics

Integrating Si CMOS with electronics built on flexible and large-area substrates enables innovative form factors and functionalities in sensors. This talk will present an overview of recent advancement in this field from the Emerging Technologies Lab of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Examples include wearable electrocardiogram detectors, biochemical sensors that are compatible with the ELISA standard, but offer unprecedented single-molecule sensitivity, and electromyography sensors on a foil, which can enable prosthetics applications.

Speaker bio:

Eugenio Cantatore is Full Professor in the Integrated Circuits group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads the Emerging Technologies Lab. His research focusses on the design and characterization of electronic circuits fabricated with emerging technologies, as well as the design of ultra-low power micro-systems for biomedical applications. One of his main interests is the design of flexible electronics fabricated on plastic foil, including sensors interfaces, analog-digital converters and transceivers. To provide a few application examples, these elements enable integrating sensors in wearables for improved well-being and seamless medical diagnostics. They can even be embedded in food packaging, making it possible to measure the quality of the groceries, and allowing people to keep food as long as it is effectively good to eat, avoiding waste. 

High Risk, No Gain

Moore’s law has pushed technology to a point where analog and RF circuits no longer benefit. So, this is a perfect moment to reconsider how we design these circuits. Thanks to the figure of merit race, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have experienced a tremendous win in power efficiency. However, these ADCs require a giant input voltage swing while the input signals to be converted, like from an antenna or sensor interface, are usually much smaller. Therefore, RF and analog front-ends are needed, which consume much more power than the ADCs to be driven. 

Let us re-think these analog front-ends. Can we still efficiently design these front-ends in future CMOS?  Do we really need so much linear amplification? Do we need active linear circuits at all? Shouldn’t we design analog circuits without amplifiers? A theoretical derivation will show that ditching amplifiers does make sense. However, big challenges remain to be solved. This may lead to a new research direction for the next decade! Or is it just an academic failure? Come and see!

Speaker bio:

Bram Nauta was born in Hengelo, The Netherlands. In 1987, he received the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree, both from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. In 1991, he joined the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems Department of Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1998, he returned to the University of Twente as a full professor, heading the IC Design group, and he was nominated as a distinguished professor in 2014.

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