IEEE CASS Tour Mexico 2017

August 21 to 24, 2017


INAOE, Puebla, August 21

Institute Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City , August 22

Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, August 23

Intel, Guadalajara, August 24


ORGANIZATION

Organizers:
Lorena Garcia, Colombia
Roberto Murphy, Mexico
Arturo Sarmiento Reyes, Mexico
Juan Sanchez, Mexico
Ricardo Reis, Brasil
Felipe Uribe, Mexico
Marco Antonio Gurrola Navarro, Mexico
Ramón Morales, Mexico

PROGRAM

Monday, 2 PM, August 21, 2017
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14:00 - Opening

14:15 - Visualization Tools - Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • Speaker: Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
  • Abstract: EDA (electronic design automation) tools paved the way for the integration of billion of components in a single integrated circuit. However, many tools still rely on text interfaces. The use of visualizations tools can help not only to provide a visual output of an EDA tool but also to show how a tool is performing in terms of quality of results. A good graphic output can be useful to improve algorithms or develop new ones. The talk is illustrated with several examples, specially, some placement visualization tools are shown and it is provided a perspective how these visualization tools contributed to the improvement and development of new algorithms developed by our group.
  • Bio: Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. Since 1981, he is a professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and a leader of the Microelectronics Group. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 500 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011), representing R9. He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011 and 2012, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI (sponsored by CASS in Brazil) and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil, that now is co-sponsored by IEEE CAS chapter. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Ricardo also participates in many Latin-American research activities. Prof. Reis is a member of the IEEE since 1981 and senior member since 2006. He is also member of the ACM, founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). The main research topics are physical design automation, circuits tolerant to radiation effects, IC design methodologies, low power design and microprocessors architecture.

15:15 - CASS Talk - Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)

  • Speaker: Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)
  • Abstract: La sociedad de IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) es una organización dedicada a la teoría, análisis, diseño, herramientas, e implementación de circuitos y sistemas. En esta charla presentaremos los principales beneficios de ser miembros, las actividades que se realizan y las maneras de involucrarse a través de los capítulos locales.
  • Bio: Lorena García es Decana Asociada de Ingeniería Electrónica e Ingeniería de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Bogotá, Colombia). Ingeniera Electrónica de la Universidad del Norte (2006) y Magister en Ingeniería Electrónica y de Computadores de la Universidad de los Andes (2008), con experiencia en docencia y direción universitaria en Instituciones como la Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada y Universidad Sergio Arboleda. Actualmente es miembro del Board of Governors de IEEE Circuits and Systems Society y coordinadora del comité de premios y reconocimientos de IEEE Educational Activities Board.

16:15 - break

16:30 - Case Study: Presentation of CASS Rio Grande do Sul Chapter

17:00 - Discussion and Planning of Activities for Mexican Chapters

18:00 - Closing Remarks

Tuesday, 2 PM, August 22, 2017
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14:00 - Opening

14:15 - Using of Transistor Networks to Reduce Power and Delay. - Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • Speaker: Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
  • Abstract: EDA (electronic design automation) tools paved the way for the integration of billion of components in a single integrated circuit. However, many tools still rely on text interfaces. The use of visualizations tools can help not only to provide a visual output of an EDA tool but also to show how a tool is performing in terms of quality of results. A good graphic output can be useful to improve algorithms or develop new ones. The talk is illustrated with several examples, specially, some placement visualization tools are shown and it is provided a perspective how these visualization tools contributed to the improvement and development of new algorithms developed by our group.
  • Bio: Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. Since 1981, he is a professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and a leader of the Microelectronics Group. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 500 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011), representing R9. He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011 and 2012, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI (sponsored by CASS in Brazil) and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil, that now is co-sponsored by IEEE CAS chapter. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Ricardo also participates in many Latin-American research activities. Prof. Reis is a member of the IEEE since 1981 and senior member since 2006. He is also member of the ACM, founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). The main research topics are physical design automation, circuits tolerant to radiation effects, IC design methodologies, low power design and microprocessors architecture.

15:15 - CASS Talk - Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)

  • Speaker: Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)
  • Abstract: La sociedad de IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) es una organización dedicada a la teoría, análisis, diseño, herramientas, e implementación de circuitos y sistemas. En esta charla presentaremos los principales beneficios de ser miembros, las actividades que se realizan y las maneras de involucrarse a través de los capítulos locales.
  • Bio: Lorena García es Decana Asociada de Ingeniería Electrónica e Ingeniería de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Bogotá, Colombia). Ingeniera Electrónica de la Universidad del Norte (2006) y Magister en Ingeniería Electrónica y de Computadores de la Universidad de los Andes (2008), con experiencia en docencia y direción universitaria en Instituciones como la Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada y Universidad Sergio Arboleda. Actualmente es miembro del Board of Governors de IEEE Circuits and Systems Society y coordinadora del comité de premios y reconocimientos de IEEE Educational Activities Board.

16:15 - break

16:30 - Case Study: Presentation of CASS Rio Grande do Sul Chapter

17:00 - Discussion and Planning of Activities for Mexican Chapters

18:00 - Closing Remarks

Wednesday, 1:30 PM, August 23, 2017
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13:30 - Opening

13:45 - Trends on Micro and Nanoelectronics - Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • Speaker: Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
  • Abstract: The talk starts with a short presentation of Electronics and Microelectronics evolution. Than it will be presented a set of several trends in the design of micro and nanoelectronics circuits, including architectural issues, variability and sources of variability, EDA tools, physical design issues, printability, design of transistor networks, Layout Strategies, Regularity, 3D circuits, flexible electronics, new devices, Stretchable Silicon, Fault Tolerance, Tolerance to Radiation Effects, Factory Integration, ... The talk try to motivate the audience to explore the upcoming challenges in the field.
  • Bio: Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. Since 1981, he is a professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and a leader of the Microelectronics Group. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 500 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011), representing R9. He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011 and 2012, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI (sponsored by CASS in Brazil) and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil, that now is co-sponsored by IEEE CAS chapter. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Ricardo also participates in many Latin-American research activities. Prof. Reis is a member of the IEEE since 1981 and senior member since 2006. He is also member of the ACM, founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). The main research topics are physical design automation, circuits tolerant to radiation effects, IC design methodologies, low power design and microprocessors architecture.

14:45 - Antenas Integradas - Roberto Murphy (INAOE, Mexico)

  • Speaker: Roberto Murphy (INAOE, Mexico)
  • Abstract: The main objective of this talk is to present to the audience a broad panorama of integrated antennas, especially compatible with CMOS processes. It covers basic antenna design aspects and figures of merit, and goes on to present some of the most relevant published works related to antennas for high frequency applications, from frequencies of a few GHz to the THz regime. The talk is geared to an audience that needs not to be well acquainted with antenna design or technology, but has some knowledge of integrated circuits and high frequency electronics.
  • Bio: Roberto S. Murphy-Arteaga (M´92, SM´02) received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from St. John’s University, Minnesota, and got his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the National Institute for Research on Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), in Tonantzintla, Puebla, México. He has been a researcher at INAOE since 1988. Since then, he has presented over 100 talks at scientific conferences, directed nine Ph.D. theses, 15 M.Sc. and 2 B.Sc. theses, published more than 140 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and newspapers, and is the author of a text book on Electromagnetic Theory. He is currently a senior researcher with the Microelectronics Laboratory. Dr. Murphy’s research interests are the physics, modeling and characterization of the MOS Transistor and passive components for high frequency applications, especially for CMOS wireless circuits, and antenna design. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society, the President of ISTEC, a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI).

15:45 - Break

16:00 - CASS Talk - Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)

  • Speaker: Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)
  • Abstract: La sociedad de IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) es una organización dedicada a la teoría, análisis, diseño, herramientas, e implementación de circuitos y sistemas. En esta charla presentaremos los principales beneficios de ser miembros, las actividades que se realizan y las maneras de involucrarse a través de los capítulos locales.
  • Bio: Lorena García es Decana Asociada de Ingeniería Electrónica e Ingeniería de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Bogotá, Colombia). Ingeniera Electrónica de la Universidad del Norte (2006) y Magister en Ingeniería Electrónica y de Computadores de la Universidad de los Andes (2008), con experiencia en docencia y direción universitaria en Instituciones como la Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada y Universidad Sergio Arboleda. Actualmente es miembro del Board of Governors de IEEE Circuits and Systems Society y coordinadora del comité de premios y reconocimientos de IEEE Educational Activities Board.

17:00 - Case Study: Presentation of CASS Rio Grande do Sul Chapter

17:30 - Discussion and Planning of Activities for Mexican Chapters

18:30 - Closing Remarks

Thursday, 9:45 AM, August 24, 2017
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9:45 - Opening

10:00 - Using of Transistor Networks to Reduce Power and Delay - Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

  • Speaker: Ricardo Reis (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
  • Abstract: Most of the circuits designed nowadays use much more transistors than it is needed. The increasing leakage power and routing issues are an important reason to optimize the number of transistors, as leakage power is related to the amount of transistors. Also, the replacement of a set of basic gates by a complex gate reduces the number of connections to be implemented using metal layers as well the number of vias. The reduction of the number of connections to be implemented using metal layers helps to improve routing and also helps to improve reliability. To cope with this goal, it is needed to provide tools to automatically generate the layout of any transistor network.
  • Bio: Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. Since 1981, he is a professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and a leader of the Microelectronics Group. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 500 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011), representing R9. He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011 and 2012, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI (sponsored by CASS in Brazil) and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil, that now is co-sponsored by IEEE CAS chapter. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Ricardo also participates in many Latin-American research activities. Prof. Reis is a member of the IEEE since 1981 and senior member since 2006. He is also member of the ACM, founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). The main research topics are physical design automation, circuits tolerant to radiation effects, IC design methodologies, low power design and microprocessors architecture.

11:00 - IoT - Ramón Morales (Intel, Mexico)

  • Speaker: Ramón Morales (Intel, Mexico)
  • Abstract: En Intel a través de la innovación informática, empujamos los límites de la tecnología inteligente y conectada haciendo posibles experiencias sorprendentes para cada persona en la Tierra. Creemos que la tecnología debe evolucionar constantemente para hacer más cosas posibles y todas las cosas más fáciles, más inteligentes y más conectadas que nunca. IoT es visualidad por nuestra parte en tres etapas: la primera, conectar todo lo que no está conectado; la segunda, convertir todos los datos recabados mediante IoT en información y por último, volver inteligentes los dispositivos. Nuestra misión es utilizar el poder de la ley de Moore para traer dispositivos inteligentes pequeños y conectados a cada persona de la tierra.
  • Bio: Ramón Morales es actualmente el Director de Innovación por parte del Intel Guadalajara Design Center. Es Ingeniero Electrónico con especialización en Comunicaciones; cuenta con una Maestría en Tecnologías para la Educación. En este momento se encuentra a unos meses de terminar su Doctorado en el área de Innovación en Tecnologías Educativas. Con más de 25 años de experiencia en la industria informática, Ramón Morales se unió a Intel en 1999, después de haber estado a cargo del área de seguridad informática en Samsung California. Cubriendo diferentes roles gerenciales en Intel, ha teniendo la oportunidad de dirigir equipos multidisciplinarios en más de 20 países y regiones. Teniendo una vasta experiencia en tecnología, procesos de innovación y tecnología educativa; ha creado y dirigido centros de Innovación y Diseño, en donde nuevas tecnologías de punta han surgido; como el concepto de las netbooks o equipos para educación como la Intel® classmate PC. Actualmente, a través de diferentes iniciativas tiene la responsabilidad de escalar la visión de Intel en IoT, Cloud, Inteligencia Artificial entre otras nuevas tecnologías. Finalmente, tiene la oportunidad de ser el Vicepresidente de Innovación por parte de la CANIETI, sede Occidente, en donde en conjunto con su rol en Intel tiene la misión de fomentar el talento mexicano y las innovaciones que nuestro país está brindando al mundo.

12:00 - Cross-domain modelling of memristor and applications - Arturo Sarmiento Reyes (INAOE, Puebla, Mexico)

  • Speaker: Arturo Sarmiento Reyes (INAOE, Puebla, Mexico)
  • Abstract: This talk presents an overview of the research on modelling, characterization and applications of memristors and memristive sytemsthat have been carried out at INAOE in the last years. The talk spans from the fundamentals to the latest applications developed forthe working group a INAOE. On the top of this, a series of future lines of research and applications is given.
  • Bio: Arturo Sarmiento-Reyes received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in 1994. He was assistant researcher within the Electronics Laboratory at the TUDelft from 1989 to 1995. Since 1996 he is a Full Researcher at the Electronics Department of the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico, and currently he serves as Head of the Electronics Department. His topics of interest are design automation, nanoelectronic device modeling, and nonlinear circuits.

13:00 - Almuerzo

14:30 - Visit to Intel

15:00 - CASS Talk - Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)

  • Speaker: Lorena Garcia (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)
  • Abstract: La sociedad de IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) es una organización dedicada a la teoría, análisis, diseño, herramientas, e implementación de circuitos y sistemas. En esta charla presentaremos los principales beneficios de ser miembros, las actividades que se realizan y las maneras de involucrarse a través de los capítulos locales.
  • Bio: Lorena García es Decana Asociada de Ingeniería Electrónica e Ingeniería de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Bogotá, Colombia). Ingeniera Electrónica de la Universidad del Norte (2006) y Magister en Ingeniería Electrónica y de Computadores de la Universidad de los Andes (2008), con experiencia en docencia y direción universitaria en Instituciones como la Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada y Universidad Sergio Arboleda. Actualmente es miembro del Board of Governors de IEEE Circuits and Systems Society y coordinadora del comité de premios y reconocimientos de IEEE Educational Activities Board.

16:00 - Break

16:15 - Discussion and Planning of Activities for Mexican Chapters

17:30 - Closing Remarks

LOCATION

Monday, 2 PM, August 21, 2017

INAOE
Auditorio del Centro de Información
Luis Enrique Erro # 1, Tonantzintla, Puebla, México

Tuesday, 2 PM, August 22, 2017

Institute Politecnico Nacional - IPN
Graduate School, ESIME Culhuacan
Av. Santa Ana 1000, Col. San Francisco Culhuacan - Mexico City, MEXICO

Wednesday, 2 PM, August 23, 2017

Universidad de Guadalajara
Auditorio Antonio Alatorre
División de Electrónica y Computación, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías Blvd. Marcelino García Barragan #1421, esq. Calzada Olímpica Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

Thursday, 2 PM, August 24, 2017

INTEL
Intel Guadalajara Design Center
Avenida del Bosque 1001, Col. El Bajío - Zapopan, Jalisco

REGISTRATION

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INAOE, Puebla
INP, Mexico City
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Intel, Guadalajara

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