Conferència: “Energy‐Efficient Circuit Design for IoT Applications”

Abstract

Internet‐of‐Things comprise many applications with the common goal to connect all “things”, with computers (internet) and people (communications). This talk addresses IoT systems that have to be very energy efficient while still having the capability to locally process signals, either in analog or digital domain, and communicate wirelessly. It will cover techniques and strategies used in the design of analog, digital and RF circuits: These techniques will be illustrated with use cases.

Jorge Fernandes was born in Lisbon in 1966. He received the Degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1989, and the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Habilitation degrees from the same university in 1993, 2000, and 2010, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with
the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2000 and in 2018, and Columbia University, New York, USA, in 2008. He is a Full Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IST (staff since 1991) and currently the Vice‐President of ECE Department. He was in the board of directors of
INESC‐ID from 2013 to 2021 and is currently the coordinator of the Nano‐Electronic Circuits and Systems research area. His current research interests include analog, mixed signal, and RF circuits, with an emphasis on autonomous sensor circuits and low‐power RF frontends. He was the chair of the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2022‐23; the General Co‐chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2015 and the Technical Program Chair for IEEE ESSCIRC/ESSDERC in 2023.