NEWCAS 2015: 13TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL NEWCAS CONFERENCE 2015
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, June 7th Monday, June 8th Tuesday, June 9th Wednesday, June 10th

Sunday, June 7th

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08:30-10:00 Session 1A: Tutorial 1 - Injection Locked Oscillators: Applications, Modeling, and Design - Part I
Location: Amphitheatre 001
08:30
Injection Locked Oscillators: Applications, Modeling, and Design PART I (abstract)
08:30-10:00 Session 1B: Tutorial 2 - FDSOI Technology - Part I - Body Biasing techniques in UTBB
Location: Room 002
08:30
FDSOI Technology - Part I - Body Biasing techniques in UTBB (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2A: Tutorial 1 - Injection Locked Oscillators: Applications, Modeling, and Design - Part II
Location: Amphitheatre 001
10:30
Injection Locked Oscillators: Applications, Modeling, and Design - Part II (abstract)
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 3A: Tutorial 3 - Full Software Radio Circuits and Systems: Design by Mathematics in 28nm FDSOI Technology and Application to 5G Standard - Part I
Location: Amphitheatre 001
13:30
Full Software Radio Circuits and Systems: Design by Mathematics in 28nm FDSOI Technology and Application to 5G Standard - Part I (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 3B: Tutorial 4 - Substrate Integrated Waveguides: from PCB to Microelectronics Technologies - Part I
Location: Room 002
13:30
Substrate Integrated Waveguides: from PCB to Microelectronics Technologies - Part I (abstract)
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 4A: Tutorial 3 - Full Software Radio Circuits and Systems: Design by Mathematics in 28nm FDSOI Technology and Application to 5G Standard - Part II
Location: Amphitheatre 001
15:30
Full Software Radio Circuits and Systems: Design by Mathematics in 28nm FDSOI Technology and Application to 5G Standard - Part II (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 4B: Tutorial 4 - Substrate Integrated Waveguides: from PCB to Microelectronics Technologies - Part II
Location: Room 002
15:30
Substrate Integrated Waveguides: from PCB to Microelectronics Technologies - Part II (abstract)
18:00-21:00Welcome reception - La Bastille
Monday, June 8th

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09:10-10:10 Session 6: Plenary Lecture J. Sifakis
Location: Auditorium
09:10
The Internet of Things – The Ultimate ICT Revolution (abstract)
10:10-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 7A: Phase Locked Loops and Circuits for Optical Communications
Location: Auditorium
10:30
An Ultra-low Power Charge-Pump PLL with High Temperature Stability in 130 nm CMOS (abstract)
10:48
A 20 Gbps Voltage Mode Transmitter with a High-Frequency Signal Boost in 28nm CMOS Technology (abstract)
11:06
Low Voltage CMOS Charge Pump with Excellent Current Matching Based on a Rail-to-Rail Current Conveyor (abstract)
11:24
A Novel Optical Integrate and Dump Receiver for Clocking Signals (abstract)
11:42
Time-Domain Simulation of Quantization Noise Mixing and Charge Pump Device Noise in Fractional-N PLLs (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 7B: EDA/CAD tools
Location: Room 222
10:30
A Black-Box Approach to RF LNA Design (abstract)
10:48
Modeling & PVT Characterization of arbitrary ordered VSCP- PLL using an Efficient Event-Driven Approach (abstract)
11:06
Hybrid Encoded QDI Combinational Circuits (abstract)
11:24
A Workaround to the Higher Order Derivative Issue of Threshold Voltage Based MOSFET Models (abstract)
11:42
A Low-Cost Validation Setup for the Thermal Modelling of Electronic Devices (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 7C: DSP and Multimedia Circuits and Applications
Location: Room 224-225
10:30
An Automated Ear Identification System Using Gabor Filter Responses (abstract)
10:48
DPDK and MKL; Enabling Technologies for Near Deterministic Cloud-based Signal Processing (abstract)
11:06
Enhancing a HEVC Interpolation Filter Hardware Architecture With Efficient Adder Compressors (abstract)
11:24
A Synthesizable Time to Digital Converter (TDC) with MIMO spatial oversampling method (abstract)
12:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 8A: Noise and Random Phenomena in Analog Circuits
Location: Auditorium
14:00
Design of an STT-MTJ Based True Random Number Generator Using Digitally Controlled Probability-Locked Loop (abstract)
14:18
High-Speed Analog Processing for Real-Time Fault Location in Electrical Power Networks (abstract)
14:36
A New Method for kTC Noise Analysis in Periodic Passive Switched-Capacitor Networks (abstract)
14:54
A Fully Integrated 5.78 GHz Array of two Differential Oscillators Coupled Through a MOS transistor Network (abstract)
15:12
Analysis of the Effects of Clock Imperfections in N-Path Filters (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 8B: Digital Circuits and Architectures for Processing
Location: Room 222
14:00
Singular Value Decomposition FPGA Implementation for Tactile Data Processing (abstract)
14:18
Approximate Adder Synthesis for Area- and Energy- Efficient FIR Filters in CMOS VLSI (abstract)
14:36
Power-Efficient Hardware Architecture for Computing Split-Radix FFTs on Highly Sparsed Spectrum (abstract)
14:54
A Curve Fitting Approach for Non-Iterative Divider Design with Accuracy and Performance Trade-off (abstract)
15:12
A 4×4-bit Multiplier LSI Implementation of Two Phase Clocking Subthreshold Adiabatic Logic (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 8C: Energy Harvesting: from Devices to Systems
Location: Room 224-225
14:00
Low Power On-Chip Load Tracking-Zero Compensation Method for Low Dropout Regulator (abstract)
14:18
RF powered Integrated System for IoT Applications (abstract)
14:36
A New Digital Locking MPPT control for Ultra Low Power Energy Harvesting Systems (abstract)
14:54
Tunnel FET device characteristics for RF energy harvesting passive rectifiers (abstract)
15:12
Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction for Multiple Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (abstract)
15:30-16:30Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 9A: Poster Session I
Location: Petit Salon
15:45
A Novel Ultrasound Imaging Technique for Portable and High Speed Imaging (abstract)
15:45
A Two-Step Layout-in-the-loop Design Automation Tool (abstract)
15:45
Quantitative Comparison of Lossless Video Compression for Multi-Camera Stereo and View Interpolation Applications (abstract)
15:45
ESD sensitivity investigation on P3HT thin film transistors (abstract)
15:45
Low Complexity On-Chip Distributed DC-DC Converter for Low Power WSN nodes (abstract)
15:45
FPGA Design of High Throughput LDPC Decoder based on Imprecise Offset Min-Sum Decoding (abstract)
15:45
Bandwidth Enhancement of Planar EBG Structure Using Dissipative Edge Termination (abstract)
15:45
Adaptive and Digital Blind Calibration of Transfer Function Mismatch in Time-Interleaved ADCs (abstract)
15:45
Balancing Test Cost Reduction and Measurements Accuracy at Test Time (abstract)
15:45
Optimization of Spectral Resources Allocation in a Context of RF Network on Chip (abstract)
15:45
Zero-Power Mismatch-Independent Digital to Analog Converter (abstract)
15:45
Miniature Antenna for Breast Tumor Detection (abstract)
15:45
A Novel Hardware Accelarator for the HEVC Intra Prediction (abstract)
15:45
Digital distortion compensation for wideband direct digitization RF receiver (abstract)
15:45
A space grade camera for image correlation (abstract)
15:45
Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access with Discrete Cosine Transform Type-I (abstract)
15:45
Finite GBW Compensation Technique for CT Delta-Sigma Modulators with Differentiator Based ELD Compensation (abstract)
15:45
A 40Gb/s 27mW 3-tap Closed-loop Decision Feedback Equalizer in 65nm CMOS (abstract)
15:45-17:00 Session 9B: Meiji University Students'workshop
Location: Petit Salon
15:45
Evaluation of BER in Different Location of Relay Nodes in Cooperative Transmission for Reliable Wireless Communication in Interference-Limited Environment (abstract)
15:45
1.0V analog FIR filter design using inverters and gilbert cells with 28-nm FDSOI process (abstract)
15:45
Design of a Hysteretic Control COT Buck Converter (abstract)
15:45
Effect of Aliase in a Direct Sampling Mixer with Complex Poles (abstract)
15:45
Matching Circuits of Tapped Delay Line for the Transversal Filter (abstract)
15:45
8GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillators with MOS varactor in 0.18-um CMOS Process (abstract)
15:45
A Study on Human Body Detection while Walking by using SISO-UWB Radar in an Indoor Environment (abstract)
15:45
Link budget study of a radio relay system using unmanned aerial vehicles (abstract)
15:45
Examination of Differential Amplifiers Based on Logic Gates (abstract)
15:45
Improvement of temperature characteristics of current mirror using subthreshold P-MOSFET (abstract)
15:45
920MHz Indoor Propagation Measurement and Evaluation for Wireless Sensor Networks (abstract)
15:45
Low power RF receiver front-end evaluation in 28nm UTBB FDSOI (abstract)
15:45
Run-time Energy-Efficiency Optimization with Embedded Body-Bias Generator in 28nm UTBB FD-SOI Technology (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 10A: Special Session Circuits and Systems for Medical Applications
Location: Auditorium
16:30
Low-Power Radar Techniques for Remote Sensing and Detection of Vital Signs (abstract)
17:10
A wireless fully implantable ECoG recording medical device WIMAGINE®: from the design of an integrated circuit toward a clinical trial (abstract)
17:40
Advanced Active Implantable Medical Devices how to get the best trade off between research needs and clinical usability (abstract)
16:30-18:20 Session 10B: Special Session On-chip Measurements for Characterization, Testing, and Calibration of Analog Front-ends and mmW Devices
Location: Room 222
16:30
Self-healing of RF Circuits using Built-in Non-intrusive Sensors (abstract)
16:48
150 GHz load pull measurements on BiCMOS 55nm SiGe:C HBT using in situ tuner (abstract)
17:06
Calibration and Characterization Techniques for On-Wafer Device Characterization (abstract)
17:24
Embedded Instruments for Enhancing Dependability of Analogue and Mixed-Signal IPs (abstract)
17:42
Integrated Test Concepts for In-Situ Millimeter-Wave Device Characterization (abstract)
18:00
Substrate-Coupling effect in BiCMOS technology for millimeter wave applications (abstract)
18:45-21:00Cocktail - Visit of the Grenoble Museum
Tuesday, June 9th

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09:00-10:00 Session 11: Plenary Lecture C. Fourtet (SigFox)
Location: Auditorium
09:00
The technical challenges of future IoT networks and their consequences on modem’s and SoC’s design (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 12: Poster Session II
Location: Petit Salon
10:00
An Adaptive Magnetically-Coupled Wireless Power Transmission System (abstract)
10:00
Attack on a Chaos-Based "True" Random Bit Generator (abstract)
10:00
SystemC AMS Modeling of a Sensor Node Energy Consumption and Battery State-of-Charge for WSN (abstract)
10:00
Hardware design of a Neural Processing Unit for bio-inspired computing (abstract)
10:00
Impact of Small Antenna on Linear Power Amplifier Performance in a Co-design Approach (abstract)
10:00
Low-Power Hybrid STT/CMOS System-on-Chip Embedding Non-Volatile Magnetic Memory Blocks (abstract)
10:00
New TSV-Based Applications: Resonant Inductive Coupling, Variable Inductor, Power Amplifier, Bandpass Filter, and Antenna (abstract)
10:00
A high-Q Tunable Grounded Negative Inductor for Small Antennas and Broadband Metamaterials (abstract)
10:00
Reduced model for the comprehension of the operation of a thermo-mechanical energy harvester (abstract)
10:00
A Probabilistically Analysable Cache Implementation on FPGA (abstract)
10:00
A Capacitively Phase-Coupled Low Noise, Low Power 0.8-to-28.2GHz Quadrature Ring VCO in 40nm CMOS (abstract)
10:00
CMOS Voltage Regulator for RF Energy Harvester (abstract)
10:00
Single-Switch Inductorless Power Management Circuit for Electrostatic Vibration Energy Harvesters (abstract)
10:00
Electret-based Aeroelastic Harvester and its Self-starting Battery-free Power Management Circuit (abstract)
10:00
Design and Implementation of a Closed-Loop Controller for a Self-Adaptive IEEE 802.15.4 DBB (abstract)
10:00
Optimized Temperature Profile Based Pulse Generator for Innovative Phase Change Memory (abstract)
10:00
Dispersion Characteristics of Multilayered Anisotropic Microwave Circuits Independently of the Optical Axis Polarization (abstract)
10:00
Low Complexity Fast Filter Bank-based Channelization in L-DACS1 for Aeronautical Communications (abstract)
10:00
A Linear Constant Current LED Driver without off-chip Inductor and Capacitor (abstract)
10:00
Application-Specific Shared Last-Level Cache Optimization for Low-Power Embedded Systems (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 13A: Timing Variations and Resiliency
Location: Auditorium
10:30
A General Scheme for Noise-Tolerant Logic Design Based on Probabilistic and DCVS Approaches (abstract)
10:48
Variability Budget in Pulsed Flip-Flops (abstract)
11:06
An Elastic Timer for Wide Dynamic Working Range (abstract)
11:24
Local Variations Compensation with DLL-based Body Bias Generator for UTBB FD-SOI technology (abstract)
11:42
Performance Evaluation of FinFET-Based FPGA Cluster Under Threshold Voltage Variation (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 13B: Modeling, Design and Conditioning of Sensing Devices
Location: Room 222
10:30
A time-integration based quenching circuit for Geiger-mode avalanche diodes (abstract)
10:48
High resolution, low offset Vertical Hall device in Low-voltage CMOS technology (abstract)
11:06
Optimized operation and temperature dependence of a direct Light-to-Time converter (abstract)
11:24
A New Enhanced PSPICE Implementation of the Equivalent Circuit Model of SiPM Detectors (abstract)
11:42
A Single Photon Avalanche Detector in a 180 nm standard CMOS technology (abstract)
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 14A: Wireless Transmitters and Receivers
Location: Auditorium
13:30
Design considerations for Low Noise Transconductance Amplifiers in 28nm UTBB-FDSOI (abstract)
13:48
A 2.41 GHz ISM Receiver using an IQ VCO-Mixer (abstract)
14:06
A Switched-Capacitor Controlled Digital-Current Modulated Class-E EER Transmitter (abstract)
14:24
A 1V 830μW Full-band ZigBee Receiver Front-end with Current-reuse and Gm-boosting Techniques (abstract)
14:42
Semi-digital FIR DAC for Low Power Single Carrier IEEE 802.11ad 60GHz Transmitter (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 14B: Mixed Signal Circuits
Location: Room 222
13:30
Additive Companding Implementation to Reduce ADC Constraints for Multiple signals Digitization (abstract)
13:48
Q-enhancement with on-chip inductor optimization for reconfigurable delta-sigma radio-frequency ADC (abstract)
14:06
A Low Jitter Digital Phase-Locked Loop With a Hybrid Analog/Digital PI Control (abstract)
14:24
Cycle-Slipping Pull-In Range of Bang-Bang PLLs (abstract)
14:42
Colored Clock Jitter Model in Audio Continuous-Time ΣΔ Modulators (abstract)
15:00-15:20Coffee Break
15:20-16:50 Session 15A: Voltage References and Power Converters
Location: Auditorium
15:20
EMI Resisting MOSFET-Only Voltage Reference Based on the ZTC Condition (abstract)
15:38
A 0.6V-Supply Bandgap Reference in 65 nm CMOS (abstract)
15:56
Rail-to-Rail Multiphase Supply Insensitive Voltage Controlled Oscillator for Low Power Converters (abstract)
16:14
A Power-Efficient Wide-Range Signal Level-Shifter (abstract)
16:32
Dual-phase 18V 280μA Charge Pump with Active Switches and Passive Level Shifter for Low-Voltage Capacitors (abstract)
15:20-16:50 Session 15B: Special Session Approximate Computing
Location: Room 222
15:20
Approximate Computing with Unreliable Dynamic Memories (abstract)
15:38
Energy-Efficient Digital Design through Inexact and Approximate Arithmetic Circuits (abstract)
15:56
A Scalable Model for Timing Error Prediction under Hardware and Workload Variations (abstract)
16:14
Near-Threshold Computing for Very Wide Frequency Scaling: Approximate Adders to Rescue Performance (abstract)
16:32
Stochastic Computation With Spin Torque Transfer Magnetic Tunnel Junction (abstract)
18:30-23:30Gala Dinner Château de Sassenage
Wednesday, June 10th

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09:00-10:30 Session 17A: Microwave and mm-wave Circuits
Location: Auditorium
09:00
A Compact 67 GHz Oscillator in 65nm CMOS (abstract)
09:18
81-86 GHz VCO for Backhaul application with S-CPS based differential Inductor in BiCMOS 55nm Technology (abstract)
09:36
Ultra Low Power RF Cross-Coupled VCO Design in the Subthreshold Regime with High Immunity to PVT Variations in 130nm CMOS technology (abstract)
09:54
A Novel Tunable Impedance Transmission Line for mm-Waves Applications (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 17B: Building Blocks for Biomedical Applications
Location: Room 222
09:00
A high PSRR, ultra-low power 1.2V curvature corrected Bandgap Reference for Wearable EEG application (abstract)
09:18
CMOS DIFFERENTIAL NEURAL AMPLIFIER WITH HIGH INPUT IMPEDANCE (abstract)
09:36
Integrated Differential High-Voltage Transmitting Circuit for CMUTs (abstract)
09:54
A 1-V, 6-nW Programmable 4th-order Bandpass Filter for Biomedical Applications (abstract)
10:12
Analysis of Peak Currents in Integrated Synchronous Rectifiers (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 17C: Analog-to-Digital Converters
Location: Room 224-225
09:00
At Speed Digital Gain Error Calibration of Pipelined ADCs (abstract)
09:18
A Power-Efficient 14-bit 250MS/s Pipelined ADC (abstract)
09:36
A Digital Blind Background Calibration Algorithm for Pipelined ADC (abstract)
09:54
Low-Power 3rd order Sigma Delta Modulator in CMOS 90-nm for sensors interface applications (abstract)
10:12
A Low-Power, 9-Bit, 1.2 ps Resolution Two-Step Time-to-Digital Converter in 65 nm CMOS (abstract)
10:30-10:50Coffee Break
10:50-11:50 Session 18: Plenary Lecture B. Nauta
Location: Auditorium
10:50
Circuit Techniques for next Generation Wireless Communication (abstract)
11:50-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 19A: Circuits for Wireless Communications
Location: Auditorium
13:30
Inductorless Low Power Wideband LNA in 130 nm CMOS (abstract)
13:48
Low-Energy CMOS Common-Drain Power Amplifier for Short-Range Applications (abstract)
14:06
Ultra-WideBand Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Commutable Phases for BPSK Implementation (abstract)
14:24
Considerations for High-Speed Configurable-bandwidth Time-interleaved Digital Delta-Sigma Modulators and Synthesis in 28 nm UTBB FDSOI (abstract)
14:42
Efficiency Enhancement Using Adaptive Bias Control for 60GHz Power Amplifier (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 19B: Systems for Biomedical Applications
Location: Room 222
13:30
Cloud-based Orthognathic Surgical Planning Platform (abstract)
13:48
Auto Tuning System for a Half Bridge Resonant Converter Using a Synchronous Switched Capacitor (abstract)
14:06
A Novel Multichannel Analog-to-Time Converter Based on a Multiplexed Sigma Delta Converter (abstract)
14:24
A 2µW Biomedical Frontend with ADC for Self-powered u-Healthcare Devices in 0.18µm CMOS (abstract)
14:42
Ultra WideBand RADAR System for Human Chest Displacement (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 19C: Special Session Control Techniques for Adaptive Computing Systems
Location: Room 224-225
13:30
Energy-efficient control through power mode placement with discrete DVFS and Body Bias (abstract)
13:48
Adaptive Computing in Real-Time Applications (abstract)
14:06
Autofocus performance realization using automatic control approach (abstract)
14:24
A distributed synchronization of all-digital PLLs network for clock generation in synchronous SOCs (abstract)
14:42
WSN Power Management with Battery Capacity Estimation (abstract)
15:00-15:20Coffee Break
15:20-16:50 Session 20A: Digital Design and Modeling
Location: Auditorium
15:20
Impact of short-channel effects on velocity overshoot with hydrodynamic transport (abstract)
15:38
Priority-Select Arbiter: An Efficient Round-Robin Arbiter (abstract)
15:56
Self-Timed Circuits FPGA Implementation Flow (abstract)
16:14
Power Gain Estimation of an Event-driven Wake-Up Controller dedicated to WSN’s Microcontroller (abstract)
15:20-16:50 Session 20B: Filters and Transconductors
Location: Room 222
15:20
Subthreshold Operation of Nauta's Operational Transconductance Amplifier (abstract)
15:38
A 30MHz 28dBm-IIP3 3.2mW Fully-Differential Sallen-Key 4th-Order Filter with Out-of-Band Zeros Cancellation (abstract)
15:56
Digitally Controlled Transconductor Based on a Quantum Transconductance (abstract)
16:14
Self calibrating High sensitivity Ultra-low power Envelope detector (abstract)
16:32
0.7-V Bulk-Driven Three-Stage Class-AB OTA (abstract)
15:20-16:50 Session 20C: Sensing Systems Integration
Location: Room 224-225
15:20
Analysis and Design of Ka-Band SoC Radiometer for Space Detection of Solar Flares (abstract)
15:38
Sub-picoampere, 7-decade current to frequency converter for current sensing (abstract)
15:56
Continuous calibration of Rogowski coil current transducer (abstract)
16:14
Efficiency improvement of high rate integrated Time Correlated Single Photon Counting systems by incorporating an embedded FIFO (abstract)
16:32
All-digital MEMS tuning-fork self-excited vibration control by phase-relation using TAD-based ADPLL (abstract)