New horizons for electronic systems: Devices, design methods and application areas

Giovanni di Michelli
EPL (Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lauzanne)

Three new game changers enable the design of emerging electronic systems: the use of new devices and materials, the combined integration of circuits and sensors and the application of new design methods and tools that support the correct composition of complex systems from regular components. These ingredients are crucial to design electronic systems in various key areas, such as precision medicine, the Internet of Things, and environmental monitoring/protection.

I will first present the landscape of emerging areas, such as cyber medical systems. Then I will describe enhanced-functionality devices exploiting new materials and geometries, their application into circuits that provide direct data acquisition from the environment by fusing sensors and circuits, as well as new design methods and tools for the creation of complex systems.

I will conclude by presenting some examples from the Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program for engineering complex systems for health care and the environment.

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About the speaker:

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). More detail is available HERE.

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Giovanni di Michelli EPFL