Imec tech teases feats at ISSCC 2011
Another technical paper will detail ‘Scaldio’, a reconfigurable transceiver that eliminates the need of surface acoustic wave filters. The imec approach is claimed as a breakthrough towards fully reconfigurable radios. The requirements of the antenna filters ahve ben relaxed without comprimising the transceiver’s operation adhering to multiple wireless standards including 4G 3GPP-LTE.
In organic electronics progress, imec together with researchers from the Holst Center and TNO will detail a functional 8-bit microprocessor made by organic thin-film transistors processed directly onto flexible plastic foil.
In adition, ISSCC keynoter Jo De Boeck, Senior Vice President imec/Holst Centre will cover imec’s take on wireless personal healthcare and touch upon imec’s Human++ research program, which is developing technologies for body-area networks. De Beck will deatil the next-generation multisensory "smart" patch, which promises to become a prime driver for a technology roadmap that will contain radical steps in efficienct system energy consumption, signal acquisition, signal conditioning, and wireless data transmission.
"There is rapid progress in-close and in-depth interactions between the medical and the electronics community illustrated by the worldwide healthcare-related trials with wireless sensors in body-area-network configurations," according to De Boeck. "With every new generation of technology and application algorithms, wearable wireless systems become less obtrusive and more autonomous."
imec representation on a evening panel session on wireless sensor network (WSN) systems will be shared by other researchers from Dust Networks, University of Michigan, Tohoku University & Memsas and CEA-Liten. The panlists aim to figure out why the WSN business is not booming and try to understand what additional innovations may be necessary to boost WSN adoption.
Hugo De Man from imec will join Takayasu Sakurai of University of Tokyo and Mark howoritz of Stanford University in an ISSCC inaugural plenary technology-roundtable event to discuss the opportunities to achieve the next order-of-magnitude reduction in energy consumption across various domains, including analog, digital, RF, and memory. Other distinguished panelists will include Jack Sun of TSMC, consultant Dan Dobberpuhl, Kiyoo Itoh of Hitachi, Philippe Magarshack of STMicroelectronics, Asad Abidi of University of California, Los Angeles, and Hermann Eul of Infineon Technologies.
This year’s International Solid State Circuit Conference is being held in San Francisco on February 20-24.
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