Prof. Taekwang Jang (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) will give a talk on “Energy Efficient Circuits Beyond what have been believed as the Fundamental Limits”.
The talk will take place on Mon June 19, 2023 at 5-6PM. All interested researchers, students and designers from industry are more than welcome to join.
The details on the logistics and the talks are provided in the following.
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SPEAKER: Prof. Taekwang Jang – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
DATE: 19 June 2023, Monday
TIME: 5pm to 6pm
VENUE: E3-06-09 seminar room
ABSTRACT: As circuit designers, we are entering an exciting new era where innovations in circuits are the key enablers for reshaping the future. With the emerging trends in Machine Learning, Internet-of-Everything, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Autonomous Driving, 6G Communication, Quantum Computing, and many more cutting-edge technologies, circuit designers are required to make drastic improvements in accuracy, speed, and energy efficiency.
Yet, as the CMOS circuit theories and design methodologies have been optimized and matured over the past five decades, we often encounter what so believed as the fundamental limit that confines the maximum achievable performance of a circuit. This may lead us to believe that no meaningful improvements can be made to it. However, such a limit is sometimes restricted to a specific topology or methodology, i.e., not so fundamental, the circuit may still have the potential to improve even by order of magnitude. As examples, I will explain our recent designs of 1) an on-chip high-power-density DC-DC converter 2) a noise-efficient sensor interface, and 3) a wide-bandwidth phase-locked loop that exceed previously believed limitations.