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Kevin Zhang

Minoru Fujishima

Seng-Pan U

Albert Wang

Hoi-Jun Yoo

Alice Wang

industry, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He offered guidelines for
researchers interested in starting
their own company.
On 25 July, Dr. Cor Claeys, IEEE Fellow, Electrochemical Society fellow,
professor at KU Leuven and IMEC,
presented the lecture, "Advanced Material and Device Aspects for Future
CMOS Technologies." He discussed
challenges of key process modules
used in advanced device processing
and also introduced the advantages
and challenges of Ge technology.
On 26 July, IEEE Fellow, chief architect, and fellow at Synopsys Dr. Yervant Zorian, gave a lecture, "Trends
and Solutions for Test and Reliability
in Advanced Technologies." He discussed hierarchical tests and testingrelated IEEE standards.
IEEE Senior Member and Texas
Instruments Fellow Alan Hastings
presented "The Art of Analog Layout" on 27 July. He introduced basic
steps in fabrication and talked about
important issues in layout, such as
mismatch and latchup.
On 28 July, Dr. Kevin Zhang, IEEE
Fellow and vice president of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Company (TSMC), gave the speech
"Design Challenges on Nano-Scale
COMS." He reviewed the current
technology landscape and discussed
new design challenges. Afterwards,
four of his colleagues introduced
TSMC's 16-nm technology in detail.
Dr. Albert Wang, IEEE Fellow and
professor at the University of California, Riverside, delivered a lecture, "How to Design Electrostatic
Discharge (ESD) Protection as an
Integrated Circuits (IC) Designer," on
31 July. He introduced every aspect
of from standards and ESD protection circuits to failure analysis and
technology influence. He also discussed ESD protection for radio frequency and high voltage.
On 1 August, Dr. Minoru Fujishima, IEEE Senior Member and
professor at the Hiroshima University, gave the lecture, "Ultimate HighSpeed Wireless Link." He introduced the
advantages of terahertz and discussed
some considerations for high-frequency complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) design. Dr.
Ruibing Dong, Fujishima's assistant,
introduced CMOS ultra-wideband
transceiver design in detail.

On 2 August, Dr. Hoi-Jun Yoo, IEEE
Fellow, professor at KAIST, delivered
his lecture, "Mobile Embedded DNN
(Deep Neural Network) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) System on Chip
(SoCs)." Dr. Yoo introduced some key
points in mobile/embedded DNNP
design. He also demonstrated SoC
projects done in his research group.
On 3 August, Dr. Seng-Pan U, IEEE
Fellow, professor of the University
of Macau, R&D director of Synopsys, gave the talk "Integrated Analog
Front-End (AFE) Design for Mobile
and Multimedia SoC" on 3 August.
He introduced AFE design for communication SoCs and audio codec
systems. He also discussed analogto-digital converter design.
On 4 August, Dr. Alice Wang, IEEE
Senior Member, assistant general
manager of Mediatek, gave the lecture "Low Power for Mobile Computing." She introduced some techniques
for power optimization and pointed
out future development directions
and opportunities for central processing unit design.
The summer school attendees
were very engaged and asked many
questions during these lectures. The

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