IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Summer 2016 - 79

SSCS Malyasia Chapter Holds Technical Talk
on the Internet of Things

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Malaysia Chapter held a
technical talk on 29 April 2016. The
talk, "IoT and Low-Voltage Analog
Design for Wireless Applications,"
was presented by Prof. S.S. Jamuar
of the University of Malaysia Perlis. An overview of the Internet of
Things (IoT) and the importance of a
low-voltage, low-power design technique was presented. Prof. Jamuar
gave attendees a brief overview of
current trends in the development
of low-voltage design techniques
for analog circuits in wireless applications. He also presented different analog design techniques and
how these techniques are expected
to find use in analog circuits used
in IoT components. The talk was well
attended by people from both industry and academia.

Prof. Jamuar presents his research to lecture attendees at the University of Malaysia Perlis.

Abstract
Social, mobile, cloud, and information (SMCI) have made a multifold
change in the characteristics of human behavior and their actions in
this decade. The platform for effective interactions is provided by social and mobile. The cloud delivers
the computational and information
delivery infrastructure. The nexus
of forces that evolved through the
convergence and mutual reinforcement of SMCI in combination with
the IoT is unlocking an incredible
opportunity to connect everything
to gether, giving rise to the new
digital industrial economy by combining the physical and the virtual
world. Digitalization has entered every
part of the business model and its
opera tions through these forces. It
provides a platform to reach the customers and constituents, optimize
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Date of publication: 2 September 2016

production in the physical plant, and
A brief overview of current trends in
find new ways to generate revenue or
the development of low-voltage design
deliver services. The
techniques prevalent
gap between ideas and
today for analog cirProf. Jamuar
actions is being rapcuits in the wireless
gave attendees a
idly reduced through
applications was disbrief
overview of
near‐global connectivcussed, as was the decurrent trends in
ity, pervasive mobilsign techniques used for
the development
ity, industrial‐strength
analog signal processof low-voltage
computational servicing blocks. Different
design techniques
es, and access to vast
analog design technifor analog circuits
amounts of informaques, which are being
in wireless
tion and opportunities
implemented on sepaapplications.
to analyze and act on.
rate building blocks of
It is expected that, by
a wireless system, such
the year 2020, there
as a low-noise ampliwill be up to 30 billion devices confier (LNA), mixer, variable gain amplinected with unique Internet Protocol
fier, voltage-controlled oscillator, filter,
addresses (a sixfold increase in the conand variable gain LNA, was presented.
nected devices from the year 2009),
These techniques are expected to find
and most of the connected devices will
use in most analog circuits in IoT compobe products.
nents emphasizing low-power consumpThis talk presented an overview of
tion especially in wireless applications.
the IoT and the importance of a low-Abira Sengupta
voltage, low-power design technique.

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