Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 29/Oct/2025
9:00am
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10:00am
Keynote 3: t.b.d.
Chair: Dag T. Wisland, UiO
10:00am
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11:00am
Analog: High Frequency Circuits
Chair: Dag T. Wisland, UiO
 
10:00am - 10:20am

Post-Loaded Substrate-Integrated Waveguide Filter With Liquid Crystal-Based Frequency Tuning Operating at 6G Band

Sangjun Oh1,2, Sehwan Choi1, Seunggoo Nam1, Boyoung Lee1, Hojoon Lee1, Juseop Lee2

1: Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



10:20am - 10:40am

A Robust 90-nW Power-On Reset Circuit with Brown-Out Detection for RF Energy-Harvesting

Patrick Fath1, Harald Pretl2

1: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; 2: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria



10:40am - 11:00am

Delay-Switching Oscillator and Switching-Mode Power Amplifier in 65 nm CMOS for Isolation Crossing SWIPT

Lukas Huessen, Muh-Dey Wei, Renato Negra

HFE RWTH Aachen, Germany

Digital: FPGA Applications
Chair: Peeter Ellervee, Tallinn University of Technology
 
10:00am - 10:20am

A 28-GHz Monostatic OFDM-based ISAC System on RFSoC with Real-time Processing

Yizheng Wu1, Arif Rahmadian Arifianto2, Vishnu Unnikrishnan1, Anteneh Atumo Gebremariam3, Liang Liu2

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Lund University, Sweden; 3: Ericsson AB, Sweden



10:20am - 10:40am

Hardware Accelerated Synthetic X-ray Medical Image Generation Using HBM-based FPGAs

Sam Aanhane1, Per Knobs2, Rob de Jong2, Casper Cromjongh1, Zaid Al-Ars1

1: Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; 2: Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands



10:40am - 11:00am

System Level Acceleration of Banded Smith Waterman on FPGA

Christian Lanius, Ibrahim Burak Yorulmaz, Tobias Gemmeke

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

11:00am
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11:40am
Coffee and Posters 2
 

Grading Defects: Evaluating Approximate Circuits for Error-Tolerant Systems

Gianluca Martino1, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz2, Lutz Schammer1, Goerschwin Fey1

1: Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; 2: University of Bremen



Near-Threshold Voltage Massive MIMO Computing

Mikael Rinkinen1, Mehdi Safarpour1, Shahriah Shahabuddin2, Olli Silvén1, Lauri Koskinen1

1: University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Oklahoma State University, USA



Exploration of Short Floating-Point Numbers for Hardware-Friendly Digital Predistortion

Ziyi Yu, Talemwa Mubanda, Per Larsson-Edefors

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden



The PAE Cell: A Novel Multiple Outputs Logic Cell and Technology Mapping for eFPGA

Ryo Iwasaki, Kenshu Seto, Masahiro Iida

Kumamoto University, Japan



Towards Predictable Ultra-Low Latency End-Nodes with Hardware-Accelerated Abstract Timers

Antti Nurmi1, Henri Lunnikivi1, Per Lindgren1,2, Timo D. Hämäläinen1

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Luleå University of Technology, Sweden



Lightweight Multicast Interconnect for Time-Predictable Data Streams in MPSoCs

Maximilian Kirschner1, Henrik Scheidt2, Jürgen Becker2

1: FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany; 2: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany



An Ultra-low Power Bandpass Filter Bank with Input and Output Common-Mode Feedback in FD-SOI

Damian Panter1,2, Gabriel Lías Villar1, Erkan Nevzat Isa1, Amelie Hagelauer1,2

1: Department of Circuits and Systems, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, Munich, Germany; 2: Chair of Micro- and Nanosystems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany



Integrated Electroforming of Memristor Cells in Crossbar Arrays

Ricardo Heinen, Jonas Zoche, Ralf Wunderlich, Stefan Heinen

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



A 1.4V 260pW 1mm2 65nm CMOS Temperature/pH Sensing IC Featuring Voltage-Stacking Timer and Wireless Transmitter for Stomach-Acid-Charged Tablet-Type Digital Pills with Long-Term In-Body Monitoring

You Wu1, Kei Awano1, Ikuro Yamane2, Hiroaki Kitaike3, Masaya Kaneko3, Hisataka Maruyama4, Hiroshi Miyaguchi5, Shinya Yoshida5, Takumi Kobayashi6, Daisuke Anzai6, Takeshi Fujiyabu7, Natsuko Inagaki7, Kenji Takeda7, Toshiro Yamanaka7, Taichi Ito7, Hiroki Kawashima4, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro7, Fumihito Arai7, Koji Ohnishi2, Kiichi Niitsu7

1: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; 3: Meitec Corp., Kyoto, Japan; 4: Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 5: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; 6: Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan; 7: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan



Implementation of Drive Signal in DC-DC Converters for Chaos Synchronization

Daniils Surmacs, Sergejs Tjukovs, Romans Kusnins, Kristaps Gailis, Dmitrijs Pikulins

Riga Technical University, Latvia

11:40am
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12:40pm
Analog Circuits
Chair: Ilkka Nissinen, University of Oulu
 
11:40am - 12:00pm

Accurate Analysis of Switching Transients in the High-Frequency, Integrated Dual-Path Step-Down DC-DC Converter

Domenico Frassetto1, Stefano Cabizza2, Asif Karim3, Giorgio Spiazzi1, Andrea Bevilacqua1, Andrea Neviani1

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: Infineon Technologies Italia S.r.l.; 3: Infineon Technologies Austria AG



12:00pm - 12:20pm

A Power-Efficient Analog Integrated Neural Network for Multiple Sclerosis Disease Detection

Vassilis Alimisis1, Konstantinos Cheliotis2, Vasileios Moustakas2, Anna Mylona2, Andreas Papathanasiou2, Paul P. Sotiriadis2

1: Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece; 2: National Technical University of Athens, Greece



12:20pm - 12:40pm

Exploiting multi-VT FDSOI technology for improved area and energy trade-offs for ultra-low voltage Schmitt Triggers

Louisa Charlotte Nägle1, Snorre Aunet2, Ulrich Rückert1

1: Bielefeld University, Germany; 2: Norwegian Universityof Science and Technology, Norway

Special: AI in Circuits and Systems
Chair: Roshan Weerasekera, University of Bristol
 
11:40am - 12:00pm

Matrix-Vectorized Canonical Signed Digit Quantized Neural Networks for Efficient Forward Pass Simulation

Maria Khan, Jari Nurmi

Tampere University, Finland



12:00pm - 12:20pm

Automatic Verification of Analog and Mixed-Signal Neural Network Accelerators and Matrix Multipliers

Roland Müller1, Bijoy Kundu1, Jan Maximilian Vieregge1, Yogesh Patil1, Ralf Brederlow2

1: Fraunhofer Institut for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany



12:20pm - 12:40pm

Efficient Prompt Design for Resource-Constraint Deployment of Local LLMs

Aisvarya Adeseye, Jouni Isoaho, Seppo Virtanen, Mohammad Tahir

university of Turku, Finland

12:40pm
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1:40pm
Lunch
1:40pm
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2:40pm
Digital: Reliability and Resilience
 
1:40pm - 2:00pm

Small Packets, Big Challenges: Enhancing Reliability in High-Speed, Low-Latency Inter-FPGA Communication

Vida Sobhani, Jialan Zheng, Tobias Gemmeke

RWTH Aachen, Germany



2:00pm - 2:20pm

A Novel Layout–Circuit Co-Design Framework for Radiation Hardening in Nanoscale Technology

Aobo Cui, Eleonora Vacca, Luca Sterpone, Sarah Azimi

Politecnico di Torino, Italy



2:20pm - 2:40pm

A (145,128) DEC-TED BCH Decoder with Composite Field and Redundant Arithmetic

Hossein Hashemi Shadmehri, Christian Lanius, Tobias Gemmeke

Chair of Integrated Digital Systems and Circuit Design, RWTH Aachen University

Special: Efficient Ways to Develop Rust Firmware
Chair: Per Lindgren, LTU
 
1:40pm - 2:00pm

Optimizing Embedded Software Platform Development: A Multi-Stage MDA-Driven Approach to Firmware Generation for Multiple Programming Languages

Raphael Kunz1,2, Lijun Chen1,2, Stephanie Ecker1,3, Yash Ranjan1, Paritosh Kumar Sinha1, Wolfgang Ecker1,2

1: Infineon Technologies AG; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3: ChipGlobe GmbH



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Thoth: Rust-Driven Firmware and HDL Co-Design for Trusted IoT/UAV Systems

Mohamed El-Hadedy1, Wen-Mei Hwu2

1: California Polytechnic University, United States of America; 2: UIUC, USA



2:20pm - 2:40pm

All About Nothing: Towards Zero-Cost Hardware Accelerated RISC-V Interrupt Handling in Rust

Pawel Dzialo, Per Lindgren

Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden

2:40pm
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3:00pm
Coffee and Posters 2
3:00pm
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3:40pm
Special: Wireless Communications Circuits
Chair: Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

A 22nm Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array with Novel Features for Machine Learning and Digital Signal Processing

Waqar Hussain1, Alexandra Geciova1, Ralf Hekmann1, Henry Hoffmann2, Zohaib Hassan3, Jari Nurmi3

1: Nordic Semiconductor ASA, Norway; 2: Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 3: Wireless Research Centre, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland



3:20pm - 3:40pm

A 4-W Ka-Band High Efficiency 0.15 μm GaAs Stacked Power Amplifier Design

Batuhan Dinc, Mustafa Berke Yelten

Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye

3:40pm
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4:40pm
Panel Discussion: "Chips from Europe"
Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University
4:40pm
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5:00pm
Awards and Closing
Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University