WORKSHOP ON NANOELECTRONICS

Celebrating Altamiro Susin’s Contributions

Porto Alegre, Brazil

November 23, 2015

ABOUT

A special Workshop on NanoElectronics will be held in Porto Alegre on Monday, November 23. The Workshop is celebrating 35 years of contributions from Professor Altamiro Susin to the Microelectron- ics technology development in Brazil. Susin is a pionner in Brazil in the design of MOS digital circuits, like microprocessors, logic datapaths, DSP circuits, and later on systems-on-chip. Prof. Susin co-founded the UFRGS Microelectronics Design Group (GME) at Universidade Federal do RGS in 1983, while being part of the Graduate Program in Computing (PPGCC) founded in 1972. He was the first faculty focused on Microelectronics design at UFRGS to hold a Ph.D. degree (INPG Grenoble, 1981).
Susin co-founded the Graduate Program (PG) on Informatics (at UTPR), the PG in Electrical Engineering (at UFRGS), and the PG in Microelectronics (at UFRGS). He also counts also 40 years of continuous dedication to the EE Department at UFRGS in undergraduate teaching. Since the early 1980 ́s a large effort was made at Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in the field of ICs and integrated hardware/software systems design. Far reaching benefits came from the GME Group, for industry and academic professionals alike, and technology advances inspired at UFRGS on DSP, ICs, digital TV circuits, and more which became part of local Brazilian engineering. A large number of professionals work in Universities and companies all over Brazil, who have strong hardware skills which were shaped by Susin ́s inspiration as an Educator, an Engineer, and a Scientist in these fields.
The Workshop takes place at the Instituto de Informática (campus Vale) of the Universidade Federal do Rio do Grande do Sul. It is open to everyone enthusiastic about hardware design and about Prof. Susin ́s contributions to this community of professionals.

PROGRAM

  • 10:30 Prof. Enrico Magli (Politécnico de Torino) - Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

    Título: Compressive Information Processing for Large-scale and Distributed Systems
    Abstract
    This talk covers theory and applications of compressive sensing to modern information processing systems, focusing on large-scale and distributed information processing. I will first give a brief overview of compressive sensing, and then survey a number of new results and applications to different scenarios. I will describe new algorithms for compressive sensing in the framework of distributed systems and sensor networks, discussing centralized and distributed algorithms, as well as energy-saving techniques. The second part of the talk will cover applications enabled by compressive sensing. It will include large-scale camera identification for image copyright protection in social media sites; the use of compressing sensing as an encryption layer; and the use of the sparsity model for indoors localization.
    Short Bio
    Enrico Magli is currently an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests are in the field of compressive sensing, image and video coding, computer vision and security. He has published over 50 journal papers and 140 conference papers in these areas, several book chapters, and two patents. He is an associate editor of IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-MM, and EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2011 Transactions Prize Paper Award, and has received the 2010 Best Reviewer Award of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, and the 2010 and 2014 Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He has been general co-chair of IEEE MMSP 2013 and IEEE ICME 2015, and TPC co-chair of IEEE MMSP 2011, IEEE ICME 2012, VCIP 2012 and VCIP 2014. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

  • 14:00 Prof. Paul Jespers (Emeritus, Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

    Título: The Missing Manual
    Abstract
    The majority of textbook material on analog circuit design is based on the square-law model for MOS transistors. While this model remains useful for teaching, it has become too inaccurate for design in nano-scale CMOS. In circuit simulators, this problem has been solved using complex models equations with hundreds of parameters. Since these descriptions are impractical for manual use, designers tend to shy away from hand-analysis-based optimization and resort to a design style built on iterative and time-consuming “tweaking” in a simulator. The Missing Manual refers to a systematic design methodology that bridges the gap between simulation, hand analysis and script-based optimization. The approach hinges upon Spice-generated look-up tables containing the transistor’s equivalent model parameters (gm, gds, etc.) across a multi-dimensional sweep of the terminal voltages. We interpret and organize these data based on the transistor’s inversion level, employing gm/ID as a proxy and key parameter for design. When combined with other width-independent figures of merit (ID/W, gm/Cgg, gm/gds, etc.) thinking in terms of gm/ID (rather than gate overdrive) allows us to study the tradeoffs between bandwidth, noise, distortion and power dissipation in a normalized space. Since this entire flow is driven by Spice-generated data, we maintain close agreement between the desired specs and the circuit’s simulated performance.
    Short Bio
    Paul Jespers is Emeritus Professor of the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He was a guest at Stanford University and a visiting professor at U.C. Berkeley, in 1968 and 1991 respectively. He fulfilled a C.T.A. assignment for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in India during the 80’s. Between 1982 and 1994, he was invited several times at UFRGS cooperating with Prof Altamiro Suzin and Sergio Bampi. Presently he is writing a book on the gm/ID sizing methodology with Prof. Boris Murmann of Stanford Univ. His research interests concern analog CMOS circuits with emphasis on sizing methodologies and converters. Dr. Jespers is an IEEE Life Fellow and a former member of the IEEE Solid State Council and the Steering Committee of ESSDERC – ESSCIRC

  • 15:00 Dr. Marcelo Lubaszewski (CEITEC and UFRGS)

  • 15:40 Coffee break

  • 16:10 Prof.Altamiro Susin’s Contributions

  • 17:00 Panel: Planning the Future of the IT Industry in Brazil (Universities, Companies, Governments)

  • 18:20 Reception

LOCATION

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Instituto de Informática
Anfiteatro do Centro de Eventos, prédio 43413 (antigo 67)
Campus do Vale, Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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