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extraction capability. The second
work proposes a split-phase flipping capacitor that achieves energy
extraction efficiency for capacitive
piezoelectric energy harvesting by
splitting the capacitor usage into
multiple phases. After the talk, an

interactive session was held, during
which Zhiyuan answered questions
and shared his experiences.

-Fujiang Lin and Patrick Yue,
advisors, SSCS USTC Student
Branch Chapter

-Muhammad Hunain Memon,
chair, SSCS USTC Student
Branch Chapter

IEEE SSCS-EDS Joint South Brazil Chapter Launches
Webinar Series of Distinguished Talks

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
(SSCS) and IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Joint Chapter in South Brazil
was founded in June 2019. It has members and activities covering the three
southernmost states of Brazil, a geographic region with 29 million people.
In June 2020, a series of Distinguished
Talk webinars was initiated and organized by the Chapter, and eight were
held through November 2020.
The webinars included the following presentations:
■■ " ULP Circuits for the Internet of
Things, " by Jorge Fernandes, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e
Computadores-Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal
■ ■ " Systematic Design of Analog
ICs, " by Paul Jespers, Université
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
■■ " Optical Receivers in CMOS, " by
Filip Tavernier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
■■ " Nanoelectronic Characterization
Using CAFM, " by Mario Lanza,
Suchow University, China

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" Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Limits, " by Marcel Pelgrom, Delft University, The Netherlands
■■ " Analog Processing by Digital Circuits, " by Paolo Crovetti, Polito,
Italy
■■ " Microfluidic Circuits and Antennas in Millimeter-Wave, " by C. Saavedra, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
■■ " Design of Operational Amplifiers
for Advanced Analog-to-Digital
Converters, " by J. Silva-Martinez,
Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas, United States.
Webinars are available on the
South Brazil Chapter YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/sscseds
southbrazil). There were more than
1,500 views of the webinars during
the four months since the series
started.
■■

33rd Symposium on ICs and System
Design in Campinas, Brazil, jointly
organized by IEEE, the Association
for Computing Machinery, and the
Brazilian Microelectronics Society.
Prof. O's talk was " Opening Terahertz for Everyday Applications. "
The event, in its 33rd edition, had
260 registrants.

Microelectronics Schools
Organized
SSCS, EDS, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society members joined forces
in Brazil to organize two microelectronics schools in the South Brazil
Region in 2020. These educational
activities, drawing large student
audiences, were held online 27-30
April 2020 during EMICRO, an event
held annually since 1999 in the Rio
Grande do Sul state, and during
the Parana state's Microelectronics
Days, 7-9 October 2020.

SSCS President Kenneth O Gives
the Keynote at an Online Event
Prof. Kenneth K. O (University of
Texas at Dallas, United States),
SSCS president, was a keynote
speaker on 27 August 2020 at the

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