ABSTRACT: 

To date, Gallium Nitride (GaN) processes have been considered as the preserve of infrastructure and military applications requiring high power and performance. However, due to increasing demands of higher data throughputs and features, it is consumer and user equipment which will most benefit from the increased efficiency and power density of these high performance processes. However, the challenges of low voltage operation need to first be overcome, in addition to other technical and commercial barriers.

This presentation will highlight the high performance low voltage operation of a GaN on Silicon device and how, together with optimum circuit topologies, it can readily address the future challenges of sub 7GHz (FR1) and mmWave (FR2) user equipment applications.

Authors*: C. Clifton1, C. Mimis1, A. Lawrenson1, Katsuhiko Takeuchi2, Kunihiko Tasai2, Katsunori Yanashima2

1 SSS-E Technology Exploration,
2 SSS Analog LSI Business Division Analog Device Development Department

BIOGRAPHY: 

Title

• Head Technology Exploration Dept, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe (SSS-E), Sony Europe B.V.  (since May 2023)

• Deputy Head of Sony Sweden R&D Labs (since 2020)

Managing large R&D teams focused on semiconductor and consumer businesses primarily in the fields of sensing, positioning and communications

Experience

• 2020- 2023; Deputy Head of Technology Exploration Dept, SSS-E. Sony Europe. Technology Exploration Dept  activities include RF Semiconductor Design, Sensor Fusion & SW Development, new radio development, telecomms system R&D, standardization for 3GPP/5G and IoT areas. New business development and Sony Developer Program also forms part of Technology Exploration Dept

• 2010-2020: CTO & Head of Technology Office, Semiconductor & Electronic Solutions (SES), Sony Europe. Working on 4G and 5G Telecomms, RF Semiconductor development, System Engineering and Developer Platforms

• 2018: Appointed as Chair of 2021 Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, a central part of the European Microwave Conference

• 2017- 2020: Board member of ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)

• 2004-2010: Concurrent roles heading up Sony Europe LCD design centre and Sony manufacturing software solutions

• 2004-2010: Technology Officer, Sony Semiconductor & Electronic Solutions

• 2000: Appointed as Director of Sony Semiconductor Europe wireless division with responsibility for cellular phone product design and business

• 1997: Joined Sony as Manager for MMIC applications then in 1998 Senior Manager for wireless semiconductor development

• 1987-1997: Several roles relating to RF Systems & Semiconductor development. Chief design engineer at GEC Marconi III-V semiconductors, head of radio engineering at DSC Communications (now Airspan) wireless product development

• 1985-: BSc honours degree in physics (1985), MPhil (1987) in RF Electronics followed by PhD in RF Electronics

Research

• Chris has authored and co-authored around 50 journal publications, conference presentations and workshops as well as numerous patents, mostly in the area of radio frequency design. Frequent key note speaker at RF and Telecomms conferences

ABSTRACT: 

Photonic integration has emerged as a key enabling technology, primarily for data comms but also for interconnects, biosensors and LIDAR for automotive. Consequently a value chain is being developed analogous to that of the electronic IC industry, which includes chip design, characterization, packaging and the availability of multi-wafer project runs for prototyping. Moreover, the large bandwidths that are made possible by photonic integrated devices also enable applications in microwave photonics. In particular, photonic synthesis of microwave and mm-wave signals is especially attractive since it offers better phase noise performance compared to conventional electronic oscillators. This talk will focus on the development of indium phosphide photonic integrated circuits for future high-throughput reconfigurable satellite payloads. 

BIOGRAPHY: 

Stavros Iezekiel (S’88–M’90–SM’00) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Leeds. From 1993 to 2006, he was with the University of Leeds, where he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics and as the Director of Learning and Teaching in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He is currently with the University of Cyprus, leading the research activity in microwave photonics and space photonics. Prof. Iezekiel is Director of the EMPHASIS Research Centre (an interdepartmental research centre targeting electronics, microwaves, photonics and sensing). Between 2010 and 2014 he was President of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. In 2011 he was an Invited Professor at ESIEE Paris. 

His current research focuses on integrated microwave photonics and photonic generation of microwaves with applications to high-throughput satellite payloads, in addition to development of photonic integrated circuits for LIDAR. He has published over 170 papers and edited a book in microwave photonics. Prof. Iezekiel received the 1999 IEE/NPL Measurements Prize for his work in microwave photonic measurements. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation from 2009 to 2019, and is a Fellow of the IET and Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

ABSTRACT: 

Mobile autonomous devices use sophisticated algorithms to automatically navigate diverse physical environments in a safe manner. Guaranteeing system safety while optimizing resource-usage of an autonomous device’s computer is an outstanding challenge. Runtime verification helps provide robustness by monitoring application execution at runtime. These systems operate in dynamic environments, requiring self-aware runtime management to maximize lifetime while enforcing safe execution. Safe execution and lifetime management require consideration of performance and efficiency, two conflicting objectives. Existing research has explored algorithmic safety guarantees, software offloading, and energy-efficient hardware, but no work has coordinated all of the approaches to maximize resource-efficiency within safety bounds. We present past and current work undergone in this domain as part of the Information Processing Factory Project, a partnership between UCI, Tech. U. Munich, and Tech. U. Braunschweig under joint funding by the US NSF and the German DFG agencies.

BIOGRAPHY: 

Fadi Kurdahi received his PhD from the University of Southern   California in 1987. Since then, he has been a faculty at the   Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCI, where he   conducts research in the areas of Computer Aided Design and design methodology of large scale   systems. He served as the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies of the Samueli School of Engineering 2017-2022, and since 2012 as the Director of the Center for   Embedded & Cyber-physical Systems (CECS), comprised of world-class researchers in the general area of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems. He served on numerous editorial boards, and was program chair or general chair on program committees of several workshops,  symposia and conferences in the area of CAD, VLSI, and system design.   He received the best paper awards for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI in  2002, ISQED in  2006 and ASP-DAC in 2016, and other   distinguished paper awards at DAC, EuroDAC, ASP- DAC and ISQED. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus award from his Alma Mater, the   American University of Beirut in 2008. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS.