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<div class="WordSection1"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C1">Sent on behalf of Prof. Kaushik Sengupta</span></i></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:red">**Refreshments at 1 pm and a chance to talk with speakers **</span></i></b></p>
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<img id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D1269C.1A9D38C0" alt="cid:image002.png@01D12619.798B8680" height="49" width="66"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> IEEE SSCS Lehigh/Princeton/Columbia Chapters
Present</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C1">
</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><img id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1269C.1A9D38C0" alt="cid:image004.jpg@01D12619.798B8680" height="47" width="84"></span><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C1"></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C1">Distinguished Lecture Colloquia, December 2015</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.3pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof<b>. </b>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jan Van der Spiegel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Pennsylvania</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><img src="cid:image010.jpg@01D126AA.A5E4DBF0" align="right" height="98" hspace="12" width="85"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talk
Title</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:<b> Bio-inspired Polarization Imagers - Making the invisible visible</b></span></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thursday, December 3, 2015<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Time:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">1:30 – 2:45 p.m.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Location:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Engineering Quadrangle, Room B205</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Olden Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Princeton, NJ 08544</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Biology provides us with fascinating examples of intelligent, low power, and highly efficient sensory systems. With the advances in CMOS technology, it has become feasible to build
microelectronic systems that mimic some of the key features found in biology.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This talk will focus on CMOS vision sensors for polarization imaging. We will review briefly the concepts of polarization and how it is used by various
species in nature to enhance their vision or to aid with navigation and communication. Inspired by the biology we have explored polarization for a variety of applications to detect features that are hard to see or even invisible to the human eye. More recent
results from the literature including the use of polarization imaging for disease detection will be reviewed. Motivated by the potential advantages of polarization imaging, we have developed a CMOS imager that combines the pixel array with micropolarizers
and on-chip processing. Details of the design and polarizer optimization will be described.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof<b>. </b>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Francesco Svelto,
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Università di Pavia, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talk Title</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:<b> On the design of circuits for frequency synthesizers at MM-waves in
</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><img src="cid:image011.jpg@01D126AA.A5E4DBF0" alt="foto Frank" align="right" height="99" hspace="12" width="83"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ultra
scaled CMOS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thursday, December 3, 2015<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Time:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">3:00 – 4:15 p.m.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Location:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Engineering Quadrangle, Room B205</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Olden Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Princeton, NJ 08544</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.5in" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Transceivers for wireless communications at millimeter-waves
are becoming pervasive in several commercial fields. Taking advantage of a cut-off frequency of hundreds of GHz, CMOS technology is rapidly expanding from Radio Frequency to Millimeter-Waves, thus enabling low-cost compact solutions. The question we raise
in this talk is whether scaling is just providing advantages at mm-waves or not. We present experimental data of single devices, comparing 65nm and 32nm nodes in a wide-frequency range. In particular, switches used in VCOs for tank components tuning, MOM and
AMOS capacitors, inductors. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">f<sub>T
</sub>and f<sub>MAX</sub> <span style="color:black">increase though slower than in the past,
</span>r<sub>on</sub>*C<sub>off</sub><span style="color:black">, a figure of merit for switches, improves correspondingly. As a consequence, wide-band circuits benefit from scaling to 32nm. As an example, a frequency divider-by-4, based on differential pairs
used as dynamic latches, realized in both technology nodes and able to operate up to 108GHz, is discussed. On the contrary, passive components do not improve and eventually degrade their performances. As a consequence, a conventional LC VCO, relying on tank
quality factor, is not expected to improve. In this work we discuss a new topology for Voltage Controlled Oscillators, based on inductor splitting, showing low noise and wide tuning range in ultra-scaled nodes.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Prof. Borivoje Nikolić</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of California, Berkeley</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talk Title</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:<b>
<span style="color:#222222">Resilient, Wide-Voltage-Range RISC-V Processors in 28nm Technologies</span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;background:white"><img src="cid:image012.jpg@01D126AA.A5E4DBF0" alt="Borivoje_Nikolic (1)" align="right" height="100" hspace="12" width="85"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thursday, December 3, 2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Time:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">4:30 – 5:45 p.m.</span>
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Location:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Engineering Quadrangle, Room B205</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Olden Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Princeton, NJ 08544</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> This talk presents a design of an energy-efficient
microprocessor that implements several techniques for operation in a very wide voltage range. A particular implementation is based on an open Berkeley RISC-V architecture. To enable agile dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, with high energy efficiency
the design implements an integrated switched-capacitor DC-DC converter. A custom-designed SRAM-based cache operates in a wide 0.45-1V supply range. Techniques that enable low-voltage SRAM operation include 8T cells, assist techniques and differential read.
Architectural resiliency techniques include the use of error correction and dynamic column redundancy. The processor is implemented by using an agile design methodology.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Contact Info: Nagi Naganathan,
</span><a href="mailto:nagisub@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">nagisub@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> or Kaushik Sengupta,
</span><a href="mailto:kaushiks@princeton.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">kaushiks@princeton.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
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