Agenda

Micro electronics colloqiuim

• Thursday, 23 May 2019
• 15:30-17:00
• EEMCS faculty, restaurantzaal

Kamran Souri

MEMS Revolutionizing Timing Future

Abstract

SiTime Corporation, a market leader in MEMS timing offers MEMS-based silicon timing system solutions. With over 1 billion devices shipped, SiTime is revolutionizing the timing industry and supports expediting new technologies such as IoT and 5G networks. In this talk, Dr. Souri will present an overview of SiTime's MEMS technology and the basic architecture of typical products. This will be followed by a discussion of the various innovations that have been needed to achieve differentiated performances which outperform quartz. Lastly, there will be a discussion of the technical challenges involved with productizing MEMS timing devices.

Kofi Makinwa

Next Generation CMOS Temperature Sensors

Abstract

Today, CMOS Temperature sensors are predominantly based on parasitic bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). This is because such sensors can achieve high accuracy (< 0.1C error) after a single room-temperature calibration. Although resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve higher resolution and energy-efficiency, they usually require multi-point calibration to reach similar levels of accuracy. Recently, we have shown that temperature sensors based on silicided poly resistors are an exception to this rule. They can achieve excellent accuracy (< 0.2°C from -55°C to 125°C) after a one or two-point calibration, as well as state-of-the-art energy-efficiency and resolution.

Overview of Microelectronics Colloquium