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IEEE SSCS Israel Chapter Hosts Online Lecture by DL Prof. Wicht

O n 16 J u n e 2 0 2 0 , I E E E S o l i d State Circuits Society (SSCS) Dist i ng u ish e d L e c t u r e r ( DL) P r of.
Bernhard Wicht, Leibniz University
Hannover, Germany, presented his
seminar " Analog Building Blocks of
dc-dc Converters " online for the
SSCS Israel Chapter. In his lecture,
Wicht covered the design of dc-dc
converter building blocks, such as
power switches and gate drivers,
and their supply, level shifters, erDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2020.3021929
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SSCS DL Bernhard Wicht.

ror amplifiers, and control loop and
current-sensing techniques. He explained how system behavior and
power management performance

depend on implementation at the
circuit level.
The seminar was hosted and coorganized by the Advanced Circuits
Research Center (ACRC), Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
More than 170 participants from the
semiconductor industry and academia attended the lecture. Wicht's
expertise and in-depth knowledge
of the topic made this conversation
interesting and informative for the
participants. The presentation was
followed by a Q&A session, when
many interesting questions were
asked, and there was a thoughtful
and energetic discussion.

-Solon Spiegel,
IEEE SSCS Israel Chapter
-Shahar Kvatinsky,
Associate professor, Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, and member,
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Israel Chapter

Prof. Wicht discusses dc-dc converters during his online presentation for the SSCS Israel Chapter.

-Masha Schuster,
ACRC associate director,
Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology

IEEE SSCS Turkey Chapter Hosts Webinar

On 13 August 2020, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Societ y (SSCS)
Turkey Chapter held a webinar
with Prof. S.K. Ramesh, California
State University, Northridge. Ramesh presented " IEEE's Role and
Perspective from ABET " and " Accreditation and Quality of Engineering Education. "

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