Actas de la Séptima Escuela Argentina de Micro y Nanoelectrónica, Tecnología y Aplicaciones

PEDRO JULIAN; ANDREAS G. ANDREOU

EDIUNS/IEEE

Año: 2012 p. 135

978-9-8716-2093-7

The seven edition of the “Escuela Argentina de Microelectrónica, Tecnología y Aplicaciones”, is taking place in Córdoba, Argentina, hosted by “Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales” of “Universidad Nacional de Córdoba”. Eighteen papers have been selected out of thirty-five initial submissions, after a rigorous revision process, achieving a 51.4% acceptance rate. Paper topics include analog design, digital design, low power design, embedded systems, FPGA’s, verification, fault detection, pre-distortion, radiation effects on MOS devices and circuits, signal processing, MEMS, electronic systems and optoelectronics. Eight students posters will be presented during the conference, encouraging young researchers to present their first works. All papers received between three and nine reviews. We want to specially thank all reviewers for their hard work in providing useful feedback to improve the papers, as they are the key to maintain the technical quality of the proceedings. The Technical Program is also very rich. During the event, sixteen lectures will be delivered by experts from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and USA. Industry day will count with known Semiconductor, Design and EDA companies from around the world, plus representatives of Investment Funds and important national electronics companies. One of the targets of EAMTA is to help establish a technological platform in the country, and in doing this, we continue emphasizing the central role of students. Therefore, continuing with the tradition started in the first EAMTA, more than eighty (80) travel and lodging grants were provided to students from different provinces of Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Costa Rica. We want to thank all sponsors for making this possible. One hundred and seventy five (175) students have registered in the four tracks offered (76% are undergraduate students, 10% are PhD students and 5% are Master students). This year, four course tracks will be offered. One Basic Track (49% of attendees) will cover basic topics on analog circuits, digital circuits, tools, and design laboratories. An Advanced Digital Track (21% of attendees) will be delivered by Synopsys in order to provide an entry-level knowledge of digital design flow and advanced industrial tools & techniques for digital synthesis. An Analog Design track (12% of attendees) will cover an introduction to analog design, analog design for low power, Gm-C filters, MOS IC's for medical implantable applications and digital custom design for low power consumption. Finally, an extra and advanced Analog Track (11% of attendees) will be offered to complete the analog training of students based on a short course of high-speed optical transceivers and a tutorial of a complete analog custom design flow on Synopsys tools. We hope you enjoy the event and the city, and wish you an enriching experience.