Chapter Awards 2014

The RS chapter gained IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Chapter Award 2014.
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Chapter Award recognizes the CASS chapter with the best yearly activities. The award is based on best yearly activities in the categories of chapter-sponsored technical activities, increase in membership and participation in BOG meetings.

Events and Conferences

EMicro 2014

Microelectronics School
Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
May 3-9, 2014

Several members of the Rio Grande do Sul CASS Chapter participated in the organization of EMicro 2014 in Alegrete.

The XVI School of Microelectronics South had a series of advanced talks from international speakers, which aimed to present and discuss various advanced topics with emphasis on state-of-the-art microelectronics. It was also offered an introductory course in Integrated Circuit design with the aim of presenting the basic design flow as well as its stages and particularities, to industry professionals, teachers and students who wanted to learn more about this area of technology.

INDIN 2014

12th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
July 27-30, 2014
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Several members of the Rio Grande do Sul CASS Chapter participated in the organization of INDIN 2014 in Porto Alegre.

IEEE INDIN is the premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications.

Previous conferences in the series were held in Banff Canada (2003), Berlin Germany (2004), Perth Australia (2005), Singapore (2006), Vienna Austria (2007), Daejeon Korea (2008), Cardiff UK (2009), Osaka Japan (2010), Lisbon Portugal (2011), Beijing China (2012) and Bochum, Germany (2013).

SBCCI 2014

27th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design
Aracaju - Sergipe - Brazil
September 1st to 5th, 2014

Several members of the Rio Grande do Sul Chapter are helping in the organization of SBCCI 2014 in Aracaju.

SBCCI is an international forum dedicated to integrated circuits and systems design, test and CAD, held annually in Brazil. The 27th SBCCI will take place at Aracaju, Brazil.

The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers in the areas of computer-aided design, design and test of integrated circuits and systems. The scope of the symposium includes technical sessions, tutorials and panels, as well as exhibition and working group meetings.

IMS3TW 2014

19th Annual International Mixed-Signal, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop
September 17-19, 2014
Porto Alagre - Brazil

The Rio Grande do Sul CASS Chapter cosponsored the IMS3TW2014 in Porto Alegre.

The rapid pervasion of micro/nanoelectronics into various application fields like biology, chemistry, mechanics, optics, etc. is fostering unprecedented types of heterogeneous integrated systems and associated interfaces between these previously largely separate domains. Microsystems that combine advanced sensors and actuators with embedded, high-performance microprocessors are enabling an endless list of new applications in life sciences, aerospace, the environment, communications, etc. The design and test of such heterogeneous systems presents formidable challenges. In particular, as the inherent quality and reliability of the fundamental building blocks generally decreases with scale, the number of test and design-for-test, diagnosability, -manufacturability, -reliability considerations grows rapidly and their importance soars. The test of such systems is a multidimensional challenge that grows in criticality with increased levels of integration. Test requirements often only implied that individual or multiple signals of a specific nature needed to be observed or monitored. For heterogeneous systems, a mixture of different types of signals observed and/or monitored at different levels of integration or packaging, will need to be the focus of test procedures, for both low and high volume levels of production. In addition to the mixture of signals, a mixture of processes will need to be developed and implemented to encompass signal sensing, conversion and conditioning. Reliability assessment and external and/or self-diagnosis and -repair will become critical facets of such systems.

Two decades ago, the IEEE Mixed-Signal Test Workshop (IMSTW) was inaugurated as a forum focused on test and design issues related to electronic systems with digital and analog components. In view of accelerated developments in heterogeneous system design and production, IMS3TW was expended in 2008 to include new topics that address test, design for test, reliability and manufacturability of today's sensors and sensor-based systems, as well as emerging devices and systems. Renamed to include sensors and systems, IMS3TW aims to bring together a community of researchers working on the next-generation of devices, circuits and systems. This year, IMS3TW will continue to address the traditional technology spectrum of IMS3TW, in particular all aspects of analog, mixed-signal, and RF testing, but with increased attention to all aspects of current design complexity (e.g., parametric variability, power consumption, temperature effects). To guaranteeing design robustness for the new generation of nanoelectronic devices, we need to exploit self-monitoring functionality (such as self-test/-calibration), allowing the circuit or system to adapt to varying circuit parameters or functional demands. The sensors focus of the workshop will highlight all aspects of built-in sensors for device adaptation, MEMS, and biomedical applications such as lab-on-chip and implantable devices.

Invited Talks

Sylvie Renaud 
IMS, Université de Bordeaux, France

Research in BioElectronics
15:30, May 12, 2014
UFRGS, Porto Alegre

Gustavo Wilke 
Intel, Hillsboro, USA

Power Delivery Network Analysis
April 23th, 2014, 3:30 PM
UFRGS, Porto Alegre

Prof. Carlos Saavedra 
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Low-Noise Mixers
March 21, 2014, 17:00
UFRGS, Porto Alegre

Frequency Converters for Digital Communications
March 21, 2014, 15:30
UFRGS, Porto Alegre

Book: Circuit Design For Reability

It was published the book “Circuit Design for Reliability” which content is originated from the First IEEE CASS Summer School organized in Region 9.
Editors: Ricardo Reis, Yu Cao, Gilson Wirth

The First IEEE CASS Summer School 2010 is the first of a series of Summer Schools planned to happen in Region 9, moving each year between latin-american countries. Each summer school will be dedicated to a different state-of-art subject and should given origin to a book on the subject by an international publisher. This first edition will taken place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, hosted by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS. This event will provide students and researches with a grounding in the core subjects related to Physical Design of Reliable Circuits. The school is intended for graduate students and researches or for researches from neighboring disciplines, as well as for industrial researchers and practitioners who want to find out more about this area. The lectures at the school are leading CASS international researchers in their own fields and their couse subjects strongly reflect the research work for which they are well known.