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Berkeley. He offered a perspective on
work related to the IoT toward what
could be a holistic application of the
future: the Human Intranet, a platform
of wearable devices that enables
wellness and wellbeing. At the end of
the day, the speakers assembled for a
panel, " IoT: Today, Tomorrow, and the
Day After Tomorrow. " For one hour,
there were lively, open discussions
about edge AI and its implementation,
focusing on processing units before
progressing to a research ecosystem
to foster industry growth in the (edge)
AI-plus-IoT (AIoT) space. Participants
discussed human-related and centroid
AIoT solutions, concluding by
asking the panelists for their opinions
about what the AIoT will look like
and the function it will serve in 2031.
The six invited keynote speakers
gave their talks via live streaming on
15 September. They covered topics
of interest to the design and devices
communities, as in the following:
■ Maurits Ortmanns, professor, Ulm
University, Germany, " Wideband
and Low-Power Delta-Sigma ADCs:
State of the Art, Trends, and Implementation
Example "
■ Carlo Samori, professor, Politecnico
di Milano, Italy, " Digital PLLs: The
Modern Timing Reference for Radar
and Communication Systems "
■ Ali Sheikholeslami, professor, University
of Toronto, Canada, " The
Power of Parallelism in Stochastic
Search for Global Optimum "
■ Pierre Magnan, professor, ISAESUPAERO,
France, " The Essential
Contribution of CMOS Imaging
Technologies to Earth Observation
Applications "
■ Mark Rodwell, professor, University
of California, Santa Barbara,
United States, " Transistors for
100-300GHz Wireless "
■ Shimeng Yu, professor, Georgia Institute
of Technology, United States,
" Compute-in-Memory: From Device
Innovation to 3D System Integration. "
All the sessions were attended by
participants from ESSCIRC and ESSDERC
community. The 49 technical
paper sessions equally covered the
16 conference tracks. Live Q&A
sessions for each paper provided
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an opportunity for the audience to
listen to short overviews, ask questions,
and join discussions.
Regarding the educational week, we
proposed a broad panel of workshops,
as the virtual format did not impose constraints
on the availability of physical
rooms. This was something new, introduced
in 2020: while before the pandemic,
the conference could offer only
six educational events, we proposed
13. Each offered at least eight talks
from experts and included the following
(https://www.esscirc-essderc2021
.org/educational-events):
1) " Emerging Solutions for Sensors
and Imagers " ; chairs: Robert Henderson
(University of Edinburgh)
and Mirjana Banjevic (Sensirion)
2) " Devices and Circuits Enabling
the Path Towards 6G " ; chairs:
Stefan Andersson (Ericsson) and
Nadine Collaert (Imec)
3) " Edge AI and In-Memory-Computing
for Energy Efficient AIoT
Solutions " ; chairs: Ali Khakifirooz
(Intel) and Mahmut Ersin
Sinangil (TSMC)
4) " Atomistic Simulations Supporting
New Materials and Process
Developments " ; chairs: Philippe
Blaise (Silvaco) and Denis Rideau
(STMicrolectronics)
5) " Toward Sustainable IOT From
Rare Materials to Big Data " ;
chairs: Audrey Dieudonné (Need
for IoT/UGA), Thierry Baron
(Need for IoT/CNRS), Pascale Caulier
(SiNANO Institute), and Francis
Balestra (SiNANO Institute/
CNRS/Grenoble INP)
6) " High Density 3D CMOS Mixed-Signal
Opportunities " ; chair: Philipp
Häfliger (University of Oslo)
7) " IPCEI on Microelectronics: Innovative
Technologies for Shaping
the Future " ; chairs: Dominique
Thomas (STMicrolectronics), Gerhard
Doell (Zeiss), and Klaus Pressel
(Infineon)
8) " Programmatic Analog IC design:
Back to the Future? " ; chairs:
Mirjana Videnovic-Misic (Silicon
Austria Labs) and Thomas
Brandtner (Infineon)
9) " SOI Technology and Design Challenges
for RF and mm-Wave: From
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Front-End Modules to SoC " ; chairs:
Yvan Morandini (Soitec) and Eric
Mercier (CEA)
10) " Devices and Circuits for ElectroOptics " ;
chairs: Filip Tavernier
(KU Leuven) and Wouter Diels
(Fraunhofer)
11) " Circuit and Systems for RF/mmWave
Sensing " ; chair: Vojkan Vidojkovic
(TU Eindhoven)
12) " Hardware Security " ; chairs: Makoko
Ikeda (Tokyo University)
and Nele Mentens (KU Leuven)
13) " From InP Bipolar Transistors to
Analog Front-End Integrated Circuits:
Innovations in Devices, THz
Measurements, Compact Modeling,
and Circuits " ; chairs: Cristell
Maneux (IMS Bordeaux) and Virginie
Nodjiadjim (III-V Lab).
The variety of these workshops as
well as the interesting topics attracted
a large number of virtual participants
and stimulated enthusiastic discussions.
Overall, more than 400 virtual
participants attended these events.
For the full conference, there were
650-plus virtual attendees, with more
than 350 people joining on the opening
day.
Finally, on 22 November, we announced
the winners of the Best
Paper Awards in six categories. They
were as follows:
■ Best Joint Paper 2021: " 4.6μm Low
Power Indirect Time-of-Flight Pixel
Achieving 88.5% Demodulation
Contrast at 200MHz for 0.54MPix
Depth Camera, " by Tubert et al.,
STMicroelectronics
■ Best Student Joint Paper 2021: " Cryogenic
Characterization and Modeling
of 14 nm Bulk FinFET Technology, "
by Chabane et al., IBM Research
■ Best ESSDERC Paper 2021: " Complementary
Two-Dimensional (2-D)
MoS2 FET Technology, " by Estrada
et al., Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
■ Best ESSDERC Student Paper 2021:
" VERILOR: A Verilog-A Model of
Lorentzian Spectra for Simulating
Trap-Related Noise in CMOS Circuits, "
by Tataridou et al.,
IMEPLaHC,
University Grenoble Alpes,
University Savoie Mont Blanc,
CNRS, and Grenoble INP
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