Virtual Education Events at ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2020

Given this uncertain situation, the organizing committee of ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2020 in Grenoble and its Steering Committee, have decided to propose a new format for coming conference, which will include a NEW and Virtual Education Event series being developed for September 14th 2020 consisting of 13 educational sessions (workshops and tutorial) comprising invited presentations by leading academic and industrial experts and technologists. All related technical program details are also available online: https://www.esscirc-essderc2020.org/educationals

1. TUTORIAL | Quantum Computing: Myth or Reality?

Chairs: M. Vinet (CEA) and Farhana Sheikh (Intel)
Full content duration ~6h

2. WORKSHOP | Emerging Solutions for Imaging Devices, Circuits and Systems

Chairs: Matteo Perenzoni (FBK) and Albert Theuwissen (Harvest Imaging)
Full content duration ~6h

3. WORKSHOP | Non-Volatile Memories: Opportunities and Challenges from Devices to Systems

Chairs: Gabriel Molas (CEA) and Mahmut Sinangil (TSMC)
Full content duration ~6h

4. WORKSHOP | New 5G integration solutions, and related technologies (from materials to system)

Chairs: Nadine Collaert (imec) and Stefan G. Andersson (Ericsson)
Full content duration ~6h

5. WORKSHOP | Advances in device technologies for automotive industry (power devices, SiC, GaN)

Chairs: Ionut Radu (Soitec) and Stefaan Decoutere (IMEC)
Full content duration ~6h

6. WORKSHOP | Embedded monitoring and compensation design for energy or safety constrained applications

Chairs: Sylvain Clerc (ST) and Keith Bowman (Qualcomm)
Full content duration ~4h

7. WORKSHOP | Edge AI and In-Memory-Computing for energy efficient AIoT solutions​

Chairs:  Andreas Burg (EPFL) and Marian Verhelst (KUL)
Full content duration ~6h

8. WORKSHOP | Ab-initio simulations supporting new materials & process developments

Chairs: Denis Rideau (ST) and Philippe Blaise (Silvaco)
Full content duration ~3h

9. WORKSHOP | RISC-V cooking session

Chairs: Bora Nikolic (BWRC)
Full content duration ~3h

10. DISSEMINATION WORKSHOP |  Toward sustainable IOT from rare materials to big data

Chairs:  Thierry Baron (CEA, LTM/UGA) and Audrey Dieudonné (UGA)
Full content duration ~3h

11. DISSEMINATION WORKSHOP | High Density 3D CMOS Mixed-Signal Opportunities

Chair: Philipp Häfliger (UiO)
Full content duration ~3h

12. MOS-AK WORKSHOP | Compact/SPICE Modeling and its Verilog-A Standardization

Chair: Wladek Grabinski (MOS-AK) and Daniel Tomaszewski (ITE Warsaw)
Full content duration ~6h

13. IPCEI on Microelectronics: Innovative Technologies for Shaping the Future

Chairs: Dominique Thomas (ST), Klaus Pressel (Infineon), Rainer Pforr (Zeiss)
Full content duration ~6h

[online] Verilog-AMS Quick Reference and Tutorials

Verilog-AMS is a hardware description language that can model both analog and digital systems. The official description of the Verilog-AMS language is contained in the Verilog-AMS Language Reference Manual.

This site is designed to be your quick reference guide for Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS. The reference material is not complete at this point, but is still quite usable. Over time the reference material should fill out and be supplemented with useful application notes and annotated models that will help you learn to use Verilog-A/MS more effectively. The emphasis is very much on analog and mixed-signal modeling. If you are looking for information on synthesis or the obscure corners of the Verilog language, you must look elsewhere

• Verilog-AMS Quick Reference
• The Verilog-AMS Language
• Verilog-AMS Tutorials
• Glossary
• Index
• Search

Both Ken & Henry at Designer’s Guide Consulting aim to make www.VerilogAMS.com your everyday source for information on Verilog-A/MS. Please take a look around, and tell your friends and co-workers. If you have questions about Verilog-AMS, feel free to ask them on
the forum at designers-guide.org.

ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2014 - Full conference program is now available

The technical program, tutorial program, and workshop program of ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2014
are now available at  ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2014  website: http://www.esscirc-essderc2014.org 

Please remember to register to the conference and book a hotel room at before June 20, after 
which we cannot guarantee that you will find a hotel room at our rebated prices.

The event is technically co-sponsored by the
    IEEE Electron Device Society,
    IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society
    IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

We hope to see you in Venice

Best Regards  Gaudenzio Meneghesso
ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2014  General Chair

Roberto Bez and Paolo Pavan
ESSDERC 2014 TPC Chairs

Pietro Andreani and Andrea Bevilacqua 
ESSCIRC 2014 TPC Chairs


JOINT PLENARY TALKS 
Scott DeBoer, Micron, ID, USA, A Semiconductor Memory Manufacturing and Development Perspective
Thomas H. Lee, Stanford University, CA, USA Terahertz Electronics: The Last Frontier 
Fabio Marchiò, STMicroelectronics, Italy, Automotive Electronics: Application & Technology Megatrends
Walter Snoeys, CERN, Switzerland, How Chips Helped Discover the Higgs Boson at CERN
An Steegen, IMEC, Belgium, Logic Scaling Beyond 10nm, a Power-Performance-Area-Cost Trade-off 
Sehat Sutardja, Marvell Semiconductor, CA, USA Tremendous Benefits of Moore’s Law Have Yet to Come

ESSCIRC PLENARY TALKS
Hooman Darabi, Broadcom Corporation, CA, USA Blocker Tolerant Software Defined Receivers

Un-Ku Moon, Oregon State University, OR, USA Emerging ADCs
Kathleen Philips, IMEC-Holst Centre, The Netherlands Ultra-Low Power Short Range Radios

ESSDERC PLENARY TALKS
Umesh Mishra, UCSB and TRanphorm, CA, USA,  GaN-based solutions from KHz to THz 

Eric Pop, Stanford University, CA, USA, Energy Efficiency and Conversion in 1D and 2D Electronics
Takao Someya, University of Tokyo, Japan Bionic Skins Using Flexible Organic Devices

ESSCIRC TUTORIALS

Power Management for SoCs (Full Day), Organizer: Christoph Sandner, Infineon, Austria
High Performance Amplifiers (Half Day), Organizer: Angelo Nagari, STMicroelectronics, France
Phase Noise: from Fundamentals to Circuit Aspects (Half Day) Organizer: Christian Enz, EPFL, Switzerland

ESSDERC TUTORIALS
CMOS Technology at the nm Scale Era (Full Day) Organizer: Maud Vinet, CEA LETI, France

RRAM: from Technology to Applications (Half Day) Organizer: Bogdan Govoreanu, IMEC, Belgium 
3D: from Technology to Applications (Half Day) Organizer: Pascal Vivet, CEA LETI, France

ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Workshops
Beyond-CMOS for advanced More Moore and More than Moore applications 
Organizers: Francis Balestra and Enrico Sangiorgi, Sinano Institute - Grenoble INP/CNRS, France
MOS-AK: Over Two Decades of Enabling Compact Modeling R&D Exchange   
Organizer: Wladek Grabinski, MOS-AK Group (EU),
Status of the GaN and SiC based device development   
Organizer: Enrico Zanoni, University of Padova, DEI, Italy
THz-Workshop: Millimeter- and Sub-Millimeter-Wave circuit design and characterization   
Organizer: Thomas Zimmer, University Bordeaux, France
Marie Curie ATWC   
Organizer: Rinaldo Castello, University of Pavia and Marvell, Italy

14 Free Resources To Learn About MOSFETs

Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) are commonly used for amplifying or switching electronic signals. They have a wide usage in the field and learning about these is crucial for any electronic engineer. So, with that in mind, here are 14 resources that will get you up and running!

[Tutorials, Videos, Free Reference Materials at efytimes.com]