Powering the Next Trillion of Always-On Silicon Systems with Renewable Energy Sources Only – For a Greener and Smarter World
Dear Members,
We hope all of you are doing well and healthy,
Your Swiss Solid State Circuit Society chapter is please to host Prof. Massimo Alioto,
The topic of the lecture is : " Powering the Next Trillion of Always-On Silicon Systems with Renewable Energy Sources Only – For a Greener and Smarter World "
Please Join at 16:00 PM [CET] mute your headset or microphone.
We make a group picture in the begining for society report.
For the Q&A make sure to have your headset or a proper microphone.
The Agenda is as follow:
16:00 - 16:05 Welcome participants Teleconference set-up
16:05 - 17:15 Lecture
17:15 - 17:30 Questions / Discussion
Despite last minute announcement we look forward meeting you and having fruitful discussion.
Kind regards,
Taekwang Jang
For your IEEE Switzerland Solid State Circuit Society committee.
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- Date: 17 Dec 2021
- Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+01:00) Bern
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- Starts 14 December 2021 09:42 AM
- Ends 17 December 2021 03:45 PM
- All times are (UTC+01:00) Bern
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Massimo Alioto
Powering the Next Trillion of Always-On Silicon Systems with Renewable Energy Sources Only – For a Greener and Smarter
Recent semiconductor scaling trends continue to support the evolution of silicon systems
beyond the inevitable end of technology scaling, growing the deployment of intelligent and connect chips
towards the trillion range by the end of the decade. Such evolution vastly outranges any application ever
deployed by human beings, and its sustained growth is now fundamentally impeded by batteries as
conventional source of energy. From a silicon chip viewpoint, batteries at the trillion scale severely limit
advances in cost, form factor, system lifespan and chip availability over time. From a societal perspective,
batteries in the trillions threaten economic and environmental sustainability of the underlying scaling
trend, and hence its feasibility.
This talk introduces key concepts and silicon demonstrations of a new breed of always-on silicon
systems with ultra-wide power adaptation down to nWs, and no battery inside (or any other energy
storage, for that matter). Adaptation to the highly-fluctuating power profile of energy harvesters is shown
to enable next-generation pervasive integrated systems with cost well below 1$, size of few millimeters,
long lifetime well beyond the traditional shelf life of batteries, yet at near-100% up-time. The principles are
exemplified by numerous silicon demonstrations of sensor interfaces, processing, power management and
wireless communications, as well as of full systems. Ultimately, the technological pathway discussed in this
talk supports the sustained growth of applications leveraging large-scale deployments of silicon systems,
making our planet smarter. And greener too.
Biography:
Massimo Alioto is a Professor at the ECE Department of the National University of Singapore, where
he leads the Green IC group, the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area, and the FD-fAbrICS
center on intelligent&connected systems. Previously, he held positions at the University of Siena, Intel Labs
– CRL (2013), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2011-2012), University of California – Berkeley (2009-
2011), EPFL - Lausanne.
He is (co)author of 300+ publications on journals and conference proceedings, and four books with
Springer. His primary research interests include ultra-low power and self-powered systems, green
computing, circuits for machine intelligence, hardware security, and emerging technologies.
He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE
Solid-State Circuits Society, and was Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected
Topics in Circuits and Systems. Previously, Prof. Alioto was the Chair of the “VLSI Systems and Applications”
Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2010-2012), Distinguished Lecturer (2009-
2010) and member of the Board of Governors (2015-2020). He served as Guest Editor of numerous journal
special issues, Technical Program Chair of several IEEE conferences (ISCAS 2023, SOCC, PRIME, ICECS), and
TPC member (ISSCC, ASSCC). Prof. Alioto is an IEEE Fellow.
Email:
Address:Singapore