TUTORIAL 1

Lecturer

 Title

Franco Maloberti

 Sensor Electronic Interfaces

The tutorial is divided into two parts, the first is an introduction on basic concepts and definitions for sensor interface circuits, integrated microsystems basics, system partitioning. The second part discusses various front-end circuits for different kind of transducers (voltage output, current/charge output, resistive and capacitive sensors). Examples of implementations and experimental results are given.

 Date : 23 August 2009, Sunday

TUTORIAL 2

Lecturer

 Title

Yusuf Leblebici

Low-Power Design of CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems

1. Introduction to low power CMOS circuit design

2. Dynamic (switching) and leakage power consumption

3. Influence of technology scaling and nanometer CMOS

4. Minimizing energy consumption under performance constraints

5. Dynamic voltage-frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques

6. Physics and modeling of subthreshold operation in MOSFETs

7. CMOS logic operating in subthreshold regime

8. Benefits and limitations of subthreshold operation in view of increased leakage in nanometer CMOS technologies

9. Current mode operation for low power

10. Subthreshold source-coupled logic (STSCL) circuits

11. Complex logic gates using STSCL style

12. Two-phase pipelining to improve activity rate

13. Source-follower buffer drivers for large fanout

14. Design automation for standard-cell based STSCL design

15. Cell library creation, placement & routing techniques

 Date : 23 August 2009, Sunday

TUTORIAL 3

Lecturer

 Title

Leonardo Chiariglione

The tutorial will address issues of audio and video compression and of the layer that keeps these two data streams together. It will also address issues of digital representation of other types of data that are required by advanced application requirements.

 Date : 23 August 2009, Sunday

TUTORIAL 4

Lecturer

 Title

Sandro Carrara

“Biology is not simply writing information; it is doing something about it. A biological system can be exceedingly small. Many of the cells are very tiny, but they are very active” said Richard Phillip Feynman in his famous 1959 lesson at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So, we know that nanotechnology have to learn from biology how to do it small and very active. So, the best “Nanotechnology” is the “Nano-BIO-technology”. To show this, biological and organic building blocks in the nano-meters scale will be considered to highlight the advantages of “nano” in CMOS-Circuits/Sample interfaces for label-free diagnostic applications. 1D, 2D, and 3D nano-structures made with these blocks will be conceptually discussed and experimental investigations will be showed. Advantages of these nano-structures will be evaluated by comparison with not nano-structured materials. Applications to label-free diagnostic applications for metabolism, cancer markers, and DNA will be used to show enhanced performances as due to the nanotechnology. The bio-physics of the related Bio/CMOS interfaces will be deeply argued. Successfully examples resulting in increased sensitivity, specificity, and detection capability will be showed. Quantum effects take place at the nano-scale and, thus, theoretical aspects will be discussed on the showed experimental results. Finally, some innovative ideas about new applications of nano/bio/CMOS interfaces to point-of care and real-time diagnostics for personalized and cell therapies will be briefly presented.

 Date : 23 August 2009, Sunday (half a day)

TUTORIAL 5

Lecturer

 Title

Mohamad Sawan

Polystim Neurotechnologies Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

The growing number of chronic diseases such as cancer, the absence of specific and efficient treatments for several viral and bacterial diseases and the absence of efficient and fast method of monitoring has created the need of rapid identification and diagnosis. Laboratory-on-Chip (LoC) is an advanced method to produce real-time, multiple and highly sensitive analysis at the point-of-care, providing the results for physicians and patients. This multidisciplinary research approach calls for an integration of heterogeneous structures including microelectronic and microfluidic technologies as well as conventional biochemistry techniques. Standard CMOS process is an excellent candidate to realize such LoC systems offering the advantages of well-studied circuits and embedded sensors/actuators. This tutorial presents an overview of recent advances in the design and implementation of hybrid microfluidic CMOS systems for LoC applications. A CMOS-based LoC can be divided in three parts : microfluidic structure, biofunctionalized layers and microelectronic circuitry. CMOS process by offering an array of addressable coils or electrodes can play an essential role to generate programmable electrical or magnetic fields for dielectrophoresis, or magnetic manipulations. On the other hand, through this technology several embedded sensing techniques can be realized as reported in the literature. In this tutorial, the optical, thermal, ISFET, impedimetric and in particular capacitive sensors are presented for molecular/cellular applications

 Date : 23 August 2009, Sunday (half a day)