BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190315T022027Z UID:7EA9CE36-54CA-4E62-9785-A204D761FBC6 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T201500 DESCRIPTION:Abstracts: The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) poses stringent requirements on the energy consumption and has hence become the primary driver for low-power analog and RF circuit design. Implementation of increasingly complex functions under highly constrained power and area budgets\, while circumventing the challenges posed by modern device techno logies\, makes the design of low-power RF CMOS radios ever more challengin g. The power consumption of GHz short-range radios such as the ones used i n BTLE has been significantly reduced in the last decade\, but seems to le vel off at a few mW. This is still much too high to allow for continuous-t ime operation and duty cycling the radio is unavoidable in order to reach the tens of µW power consumption required for a multi-year autonomy. Duty -cycling unavoidably introduces some energy overhead that is wasted during turn-on and turn-off times. On the other hand\, since there will be many radios that will share the same media\, in order to avoid network congesti on\, the transmit times have to be made shorter by increasing the peak dat a rate. This results in the energy overhead becoming dominant. The use of PLL-free synthesizer using an RF MEMS frequency reference enables to minim ize the wake-up and shutdown times to a few µs and hence minimize the ene rgy-overhead. We will start with an introduction showing the requirements of IoT nodes with a focus on power consumption. We then will present how h igh-Q MEMS resonators can be used to further reduce the power consumption of low-power radios. After presenting the main features of high-Q MEMS res onators including bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators\, we will show how s everal fundamental RF building blocks can benefit from them. Then we will present possible PLL-free transceiver architectures that take advantage of the very low phase noise and feature very short start-up time to greatly reduce the overhead energy.\n\nChristian Enz\, PhD\, Swiss Federal Institu te of Technology (EPFL)\, 1989. He is currently Professor at EPFL and Dire ctor of the Institute of Microengineering (IMT) and head of the IC Lab. Un til April 2013 he was VP at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtech nology (CSEM) in Neuchâtel\, Switzerland where he was heading the Integra ted and Wireless Systems Division. Prior to joining the CSEM\, he was Prin cipal Senior Engineer at Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems )\, Newport Beach\, CA\, where he was responsible for the modeling and cha racterization of MOS transistors for RF applications. From 1992 to 1997\, he was an Assistant Professor at EPFL\, working in the field of low-power analog CMOS IC design and device modeling. In 1989 he was one of the found ers of Smart Silicon Systems S.A. (S3)\, where he developed several low-no ise and low-power ICs\, mainly for high energy physics application at CERN . His technical interests and expertise are in the field of ultra low-powe r analog and RF IC design\, wireless sensor networks and semiconductor dev ice modeling. Together with E. Vittoz and F. Krummenacher he is the develo per of the EKV MOS transistor model and the author of the book "Charge-Bas ed MOS Transistor Modeling - The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design" (Wiley\, 2006). He is the author and co-author of more than 220 scientifi c papers and has contributed to numerous conference presentations and adva nced engineering courses. He is an IEEE Fellow and an individual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). He has been member of s everal technical program committees\, including International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and European Solid-State Circuits Conference ( ESSCIRC). He has served as a vice-chair for the 2000 International Symposi um on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)\, exhibit chair for the 20 00 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and chair of th e technical program committee for the 2006 European Solid-State Circuits C onference (ESSCIRC). He has been an elected member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Administrative Committee (AdCom) from 2012 to 201 4 and the Chair of the IEEE Solid-State Chapter of West Switzerland. (http ://people.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/people?id=105059&op=bio&lang=en&cvlang=en)\n\nCo -sponsored by: Farhad Mafie\n\nSpeaker(s): Professor Christian Enz\, \n\nA genda: \nDay: Thursday\, February 21\, 2019\n\nTime: Registration & Netwo rking 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.\n\nPresentation 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.\n\nQ &A and Networking 8:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.\n\nFee: Free for all the IEEE & SSCS members\, students\, engineers in transition\, technologists\, as wel l as those who are exploring to join IEEE & SSCS in the future.\n\nRoom: 2 nd Floor Conf Room \, Knobbe Martens\, 2040 Main St\, Irvine\, California\ , United States\, 92614 LOCATION:Room: 2nd Floor Conf Room \, Knobbe Martens\, 2040 Main St\, Irvin e\, California\, United States\, 92614 ORGANIZER:IEEE.OC.SSCS.RSVP@Gmail.com SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Ultra Low-power and Fast Wake-up MEMS-based Radios for the IoT URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/188029 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Abstracts: &nbsp\;</strong>The eme rgence of the Internet of Things (IoT) poses stringent requirements on the energy consumption and has hence become the primary driver for low-power analog and RF circuit design. Implementation of increasingly complex funct ions under highly constrained power and area budgets\, while circumventing the challenges posed by modern device technologies\, makes the design of low-power RF CMOS radios ever more challenging. The power consumption of G Hz short-range radios such as the ones used in BTLE has been significantly reduced in the last decade\, but seems to level off at a few mW. This is still much too high to allow for continuous-time operation and duty cyclin g the radio is unavoidable in order to reach the tens of &micro\;W power c onsumption required for a multi-year autonomy. Duty-cycling unavoidably in troduces some energy overhead that is wasted during turn-on and turn-off t imes. On the other hand\, since there will be many radios that will share the same media\, in order to avoid network congestion\, the transmit times have to be made shorter by increasing the peak data rate. This results in the energy overhead becoming dominant. The use of PLL-free synthesizer us ing an RF MEMS frequency reference enables to minimize the wake-up and shu tdown times to a few &micro\;s and hence minimize the energy-overhead. We will start with an introduction showing the requirements of IoT nodes with a focus on power consumption. We then will present how high-Q MEMS resona tors can be used to further reduce the power consumption of low-power radi os. After presenting the main features of high-Q MEMS resonators including bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators\, we will show how several fundamenta l RF building blocks can benefit from them. Then we will present possible PLL-free transceiver architectures that take advantage of the very low pha se noise and feature very short start-up time to greatly reduce the overhe ad energy.</p>\n<p><strong>Christian Enz\, </strong>PhD\, Swiss Federal In stitute of Technology (EPFL)\, 1989. He is currently Professor at EPFL and Director of the Institute of Microengineering (IMT) and head of the IC La b. Until April 2013 he was VP at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Micr otechnology (CSEM) in Neuch&acirc\;tel\, Switzerland where he was heading the Integrated and Wireless Systems Division. Prior to joining the CSEM\, he was Principal Senior Engineer at Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconduc tor Systems)\, Newport Beach\, CA\, where he was responsible for the model ing and characterization of MOS transistors for RF applications. From 1992 to 1997\, he was an Assistant Professor at EPFL\, working in the field of low-power analog CMOS IC design and device modeling. In 1989 he was one o f the founders of Smart Silicon Systems S.A. (S3)\, where he developed sev eral low-noise and low-power ICs\, mainly for high energy physics applicat ion at CERN. His technical interests and expertise are in the field of ult ra low-power analog and RF IC design\, wireless sensor networks and semico nductor device modeling. Together with E. Vittoz and F. Krummenacher he is the developer of the EKV MOS transistor model and the author of the book "Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling - The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design" (Wiley\, 2006). He is the author and co-author of more than 22 0 scientific papers and has contributed to numerous conference presentatio ns and advanced engineering courses.&nbsp\; He is an IEEE Fellow and an in dividual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). He ha s been member of several technical program committees\, including Internat ional Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and European Solid-State Cir cuits Conference (ESSCIRC). He has served as a vice-chair for the 2000 Int ernational Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)\, exhibi t chair for the 2000 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCA S) and chair of the technical program committee for the 2006 European Soli d-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). He has been an elected member of th e IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Administrative Committee (AdCom ) from 2012 to 2014 and the Chair of the IEEE Solid-State Chapter of West Switzerland. (http://people.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/people?id=105059&amp\;op=bio&a mp\;lang=en&amp\;cvlang=en)</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><strong>Day:</ strong> &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nb sp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; <strong>Thursday\, February 21\ , 2019</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Time:&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>&nbsp\;&nbsp\ ;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nb sp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Registration &amp\; Networking &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; 6:00 &nbsp\;p.m. &nbsp\;&ndash\; &nbsp\;6:30 &nbsp\;p.m.</p>\n<p><strong> Presentation&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\ ;6:30 &nbsp\;p.m. &nbsp\;&ndash\; 8:00 &nbsp\;p.m.</strong></p>\n<p>Q&amp\ ;A and Networking &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\ ;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; 8:00 &nbsp\;p.m. &ndash\; &nbs p\;&nbsp\;8:15 &nbsp\;p.m.</p>\n<p><strong>Fee:&nbsp\;</strong>Free for al l the IEEE &amp\; SSCS members\, students\, engineers in transition\, tech nologists\, as well as those who are exploring to join IEEE &amp\; SSCS in the future. <strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR