This year, Professor Massimo Alioto’s Green IC group from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has achieved an unprecedented number of six accepted papers at VLSI Symposium on Circuits (one of the two sections of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)). These six contributions demonstrate new silicon chip capabilities ranging from the first intelligent image sensor able to operate when powered by renewable energy sources only, to in-memory multi-level Physically Unclonable Functions for unique silicon chip fingerprinting, light-based wake-up receivers with lowest power reported, and event-selective computer vision chips reducing the power of neural networks by 100 times.
Along with the ISSCC, the VLSI Symposium on Circuits is a leading indicator of research and development in the field of advanced solid-state circuits in the world. The VLSI Symposium and ISSCC are the top scientific venues where innovation in circuit design is presented worldwide. They are both widely known to be the “olympics” in integrated circuit design innovation both in academia and semiconductor industry. This is the first time a Singaporean research group in silicon chip design has such a strong presence at VLSI Symposium, placing NUS CDE at the center stage of the global community in circuit design.
