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

P. JULIAN; ANDREAS G. ANDREOU

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Lugar: New Jersey; Año: 2014 p. 117

978-987-1907-86-1

The ninth edition of the ?Escuela Argentina de Microelectrónica, Tecnología y Aplicaciones?, is taking place in Mendoza, Argentina, hosted by ?Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Mendoza? Sixteen papers, out of twenty-eight initial submissions, and one invited paper were accepted to be presented at the conference and afterwards be published in IEEE Xplore. The revision process was rigorous and achieved a 57% acceptance rate. Paper topics include analog design, digital design, low power design, verification, radiation effects on MOS devices and circuits, signal processing, electronic systems, power electronics, communications and optoelectronics. Six student posters will be presented during the conference, encouraging young researchers to present their first works. All papers received between two and four 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 best paper and best student paper will be awarded. The Technical Program is also very diverse and rich. During the event, eighteen lectures will be delivered by experts from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, USA, and Belgium. 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, sixty (60) travel and lodging grants were provided to students from different provinces of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. We want to thank all sponsors for making this possible. Nearly one hundred students have registered, where 59% are undergraduate students and 41% are PhD and Master students. This year, six courses will be offered. One Basic course (19% of attendees) will cover basic topics on analog circuits, digital circuits, tools, device physics and design laboratories with Tanner EDA tools. Synopsys will deliver two advanced courses: The Advanced Digital course (19% of attendees) will provide an entry-level knowledge of digital design flow and advanced industrial tools & techniques for digital synthesis. The Analog Design short course will cover circuit design up to a full implementation using Synopsys Custom Designer tool. This year adds a course on Fault Tolerant Design (19% of attendees), another on Signal Processing with Reconfigurable Hardware (33% of attendees) and a third one on Advanced Topics in CMOS technologies (10% of attendees), covering technology evolution up to the 14nm node, transistor level design for ultra-low voltage circuits, Gm-C filters and data converters. We hope you enjoy the event and the city, and wish you an enriching experience. Pablo A. Salvadeo Pedro Julián ? Andreas G. Andreou