[IEEE EDS Update] MIXDES 2019, Rzeszów (PL)

26th International Conference “Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems"'
MIXDES 2019 

By Marcin Janicki

On June 27–29, 2019, Rzeszów, Poland, the International Conference MIXDES 2019 took place. The event was organized by the Lodz University of Technology together with the Warsaw University of Technology. The conference was co-sponsored by Poland Section IEEE ED & CAS Societies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Section of Microelectronics and Electron Technology), and Commission of Electronics and Photonics of Polish National Committee of International Union of Radio Science—URSI. The 3-day conference program included 97 presentations from 28 countries. The following six general invited talks were presented during the conference plenary sessions:

• Advanced MOS Device Technology for Low Power Logic LSI Shinichi Takagi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Quantum Bits and Quantum Computing Architecture Farzan Jazaeri (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Towards Energy-Autonomous Integrated Systems Through Ultra-low Voltage Analog IC Design Viera Stopjaková (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)
• THz Technologies and Applications Thomas Skotnicki (Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, Poland)
• What is Killing Moore’s Law? Challenges in Advanced FinFET Technology Integration Arkadiusz Malinowski (GLOBALFOUNDRIES, USA)
• Yield and Reliability Challenges at 7nm and Below Andrzej Strojwąs (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

The sessions also included presentations in the frame of four special sessions:

• Compact Modeling for Nanoelectronics organized by D. Tomaszewski (Institute of Electron Technology, Poland) and W. Grabiński (GMC, Switzerland)
• Intelligent Distributed Systems organized by M. Drozd (LTC Sp. z o.o., Poland), R. Sztoch, P. Sztoch (FINN Sp. z o.o., Poland), B. Sakowicz and D. Makowski (Lodz University of Technology, Poland)
• Large Scale Research Facilities organized by A. Napieralski, W. Cichalewski (Lodz University of Technology, Poland)
• Thermonuclear Fusion Projects organized by S. Simrock (ITER, France), D. Makowski (Lodz University of Technology, Poland), D. Bocian and M. Scholz (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Poland

The next MIXDES 2020 Conference will take place in Wrocław, Poland. The Preliminary Call for Papers is available at http://www.mixdes.org/downloads/call2020.pdf. More information about the past and next MIXDES Conferences can be found at http://www.mixdes.org.

Edited by Mariusz Orlikowski

MIXDES 2019 Conference Secretary