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Palestrantes: Franco Maloberti (Department of Electronics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy) Presentation title : Technology Scaling and Low-Power Analog Design Presentation abstract : Modern and future ultra-deep-submicron technologies make challenging the analog design especially when supply voltage, power consumption, and resolution must match digital counterparts. The decrease of the supply voltage reduces the voltage headroom in analog circuits, the gate leakage current increases, the voltage gain decreases in planar bulk MOS transistors, 1/f noise deteriorate when using new high-k gate dielectrics. The consequences of the above limits are twofold: to remain a little behind the technology front and to push the analog digital interface toward the digital domain. However, a global digital world is impossible because signals of the real world are analog. Therefore, the trend is to focus on the interfaces: A/D and D/A, and minimize the analog pre-processing. Nevertheless, for achieving a suitable resolution it is necessary to design op-amps or OTA with an acceptable gain, and to obtain comparators with good sensitivity and low offset, thus facing in addition to the above the problem of correcting or compensating for the transistor and passive components mismatches. Technologists alleviate only some of the mentioned problems, as they must optimize analog and digital features; instead, it is often necessary to invent new circuit topologies and design techniques. An additional challenge comes for portable and nomadic applications that require very low power consumption while maintaining acceptable resolution and linearity: the mobility request involves performing complex functions with a limited power refueling. Moreover, in case of autonomous operation no power is specifically provided and the system must have the capability to acquire the power that needs and modulate its activity depending on the available power budget. After briefly reviewing suitable processing and data-converter algorithms the presentation discusses in some detail design method and various tricks for optimizing the power effectiveness. The above design directions determined many research results, mainly in the data converter field, with silicon implementation that are briefly examined and discussed. Presentation title : Research in Microelectronic: fun or innovation boost? The recent use of knowledge for generating economical and social advantages is changing the paradigm of research activity, especially in the microelectronic field. Since the results of research have a direct impact on high-tech products it is necessary to change the approach and the researchers attitude. Before the activity was aimed at satisfying the intellectual curiosity but now there is an increasing push from the market. However, the short-term activities can be perilous and contrasted by scientists that commit a rigorous cultural independence and become skeptic on the real importance of industrial links. The key is to find the right balance between basic  and applied activity and to find the right strategy for inspiring activity that is good for progress . This talk discusses the recent shift in the microelectronic research and presents some possible approaches to favor the right personal attitude and national strategies that properly face the new scenario. Short bio : Franco Maloberti received the Laurea Degree in Physics (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Parma, Parma Italy, in 1968 and the Dr. Honoris Causa degree in Electronics from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (Inaoe), Puebla, Mexico in 1996. He was a Visiting Professor at ETH-PEL, Zurich in 1993 and at EPFL-LEG, Lausanne in 2004. He was Professor of Microelectronics and Head of the Micro Integrated Systems Group University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy and the TI/J.Kilby Analog Engineering Chair Professor at the Texas A&M University. He was also the Distinguished Microelectronic Chair Professor at University of Texas at Dallas. Currently he is Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy. His professional expertise is in the design, analysis and characterization of integrated circuits and analogue digital applications, mainly in the areas of switched capacitor circuits, data converters, interfaces for telecommunication and sensor systems, and CAD for analogue and mixed A-D design. He has written more than 370 published papers, four books and holds 26 patents. He was in 1992 recipient of the XII Pedriali Prize for his technical and scientific contributions to national industrial production. He was co-recipient of the 1996 Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.) Fleming Premium for the paper "CMOS Triode Transistor Transconductor for high-frequency continuous time filters." He has been responsible at both technical and management levels for many research programs including ten ESPRIT projects and has served the European Commission as ESPRIT Projects' Evaluator, Reviewer and as European Union expert in many European Initiatives. He served the Academy of Finland on the assessment of electronic research in Academic institutions and on the research programs  evaluations. He served the National Research Council of Portugal on a Board for the research activity assessment of Portuguese Universities. Dr. Maloberti was Vice-President, Region 8, of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society from 1995 to 1997 and an Associate Editor of IEEE-Transaction on Circuit and System-II in 1998. He received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 CAS Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the IEEE Millenium Medal. He was the President of the IEEE Sensor Council (2002-2003). He is a member of the BoG of the IEEE-CAS Society (2003-2005). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE-TCAS II, member of the Editorial Board of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, and Fellow of IEEE.