Day 1

●      9:30 AM: Registration

●      10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Brief introduction to the conference, logistics, and acknowledgments.

●      10:45 AM – 11:35 AM: Keynote Talk 1 Speaker: Dr. Wenke Weinreich (Fraunhofer IPMS)

Title: European Pilot Line APECS – Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration for Electronic Components and Systems.

●      11:35 AM – 12:55 PM: Special Session 1 Session chair: Huamin Li

Emerging materials, devices, circuits, and processing for beyond-CMOS nanoelectronics and heterogeneous integration 

SS1_1. 11:35 am -11:55 am: Invited: Harnessing Ion Dynamics on 2D Materials: Innovations for Next-Generation Neuromorphic Applications

Ke Xu (Rochester Institute of Technology)

SS1_2. 11:55 am -12:15 pm: Invited: Strain Engineering 2D Van der Waals Devices

Stephen Wu (University of Rochester)

SS1_3. 12:15 pm -12:35 pm: Invited: Addressing Throughput and Scalability Challenges in Time-domain Neuromorphic Computing

Hagar Hendy, Elaine Greenfield, Huayuan Han, Jacob O’Donnell, Ke Xu, Cory Merkel, Tejasvi Das (Rochester Institute of Technology)

SS1_4. 12:35 pm -12:55 pm: Location-Controlled Chemical Vapor Deposition of MoS2 for High-Performance Field-Effect Transistor Arrays

Chu-Te Chen, Anthony Cabanillas, Fei Yao, Huamin Li (State University of New York at Buffalo)

·      12:55 PM – 1:55 PM: Lunch Break

●      1:55 PM – 2:45 PM: Keynote Talk 2 – Speaker: Dr. Samuel Pagliarini (CMU)

Title: REPQC: Reverse Engineering and Backdooring Hardware Accelerators for Post-quantum Cryptography

·       2:45 PM – 4:05 PM:  Contribution Session 1 Session Chair: Kelly Ockunzzi

New Design and Testing Technologies

CS1_1. 2:45 pm – 3:05 pm: An Energy Efficient Crossbar MAC Array with 128 Conductance State ECRAM devices

Huayuan Han, Jason Inman, Mark Indovina, Amlan Ganguly, Tejasvi Das, Ke Xu (Rochester institute of technology)

CS1_2. 3:05 pm – 3:25 pm: On the Design and Fabrication of PATH-based In-Memory Computing Multipliers

Jinam Modasiya (University at Albany), Venkata Kamineni ( University of Florida ), Muhammad Rashed ( University of Texas at Arlington ), Maximilian Liehr ( NY CREATES ), Sumit Jha (Florida International University), Rickard Ewetz (University of Florida), Nathaniel Cady ( University at Albany )

CS1_3 (22). 3:25 pm – 3:45 pm: A 17mV Load Transient Highly Efficient Low Ripple Split Inductor based Buck Converter using Novel Ramp Generation

Asish Jaldu, Megha T S, Laqueta N, Harshitha G R, Rashmi Seethur (PES University)

CS1_4 3:45 pm – 4:05 pm: SARHD: A 6T-SRAM based Side-Channel Attack Resilient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Architecture

Md Rubel Sarkar, Shirazush Salekin Chowdhury, Govind Sunil Kumar, Yang Yi (Virginia Tech)

●      4:05 PM – 4:20 PM: Coffee Break

●      4:20 PM – 5:20 PM: Special Session 2 Session Chair: Tejasvi Das

Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design and Test

SS2_1: 4:20 pm – 4:40 pm: Invited: Watermarking Superconducting Electronic Circuits in Classical and Quantum Computers

Ayisat Adedokun, Yerzhan Mustafa, Selçuk Köse ( University of Rochester )

SS2_2: 4:40 pm – 5:00 pm: Invited: A 7nW, 55 µm2 DC Process Monitor with Linear Temperature Tracking

Ramana Ranganatham, Roberto Ramos-Brito, Tejasvi Das (Rochester Institute of Technology)

SS2_3: 5:00 pm – 5:20 pm: Invited: Testing Strategies for Ferroelectric BTO Films and BTO-IGZO Ferroelectric FETs for Analog Memory Applications

Nicholas Haehn, Connor Socolik, Vamshi Kiran Gogi, Siddharth Barve (University of Cincinnati MIND Lab ), Joshua Mayersky ( Tokyo Electron ), Amber Reed, Kevin Leedy (Air Force Research Lab), Rashmi Jha (University of Cincinnati MIND Lab )

●      5:20 PM – 6:30 PM: Long Break (Taking Group Pictures)

●      6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Welcome Reception

●      7:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Panel Session Coordinator: Eugene Atwood (IBM)

Title: AI Power and Security Impacts: Wide-Bandgap, RF, Power Electronics and Chiplets

Panelists: Dr. Wenke Weinreich, Dr. Samuel Pagliarini, Dr. David Z. Pan, Dr. Dean Sullivan

Day 2

●      7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast

●      8:00 AM – 8:15 AM: Conference Introduction

Brief introduction of the conference, logistics, and acknowledgments.

●      8:15 AM – 9:15 AM: Keynote Talk 3 – Speaker: Professor David Pan

Title: Toward Agile and Intelligent Analog/RF IC Design Automation

●      9:15 AM – 9:25 AM: Coffee Break

●      9:25 AM – 10:25 AM: Keynote Talk 4 Speaker: Dr. Moitreyee Mukherjee Roy (IBM) Title: Opportunities and challenges in the Era of chiplets

●      10:25 AM – 10:35 AM: Coffee Break

●      10:35 AM – 11:00 AM: Special Guest Talk Dr. Douglas Merrill (V-GaN Tech Hub)

Title: The Vermont Gallium Nitride Tech Hub: Creating an ecosystem to attract and develop high power and high frequency microelectronics innovators

●      11:00 AM – 12:20 AM: Special Session 3 Session Chair: Tian Xia

Wideband Gap Technology

SS4_1: 11:00 am – 11:20 am: Invited: 28/39 GHz Dual-Band GaN Power Amplifier Design

Swarup Chakraborty, Tian Xia (University of Vermont)

SS4_2: 11:20 am – 11:40 am: Invited: Effect of Growth Conditions on the Performance of Vertically Conducting b-Ga2O3 Diodes on 4H-SiC Substrate.

Nifat Jahan Nipa* Kai Fu^#, Tahir Hassan*, Lee Dongkyu*, Botong Li^#, Iftikhar Ahmad, University of South Carolina*, The University of Utah^#

SS4_3: 11:40 am – 12:00 pm: Investigating the Limitations of Desat Protection for WBG Semiconductors: Conjoint Effects due to the Parasitic Inductances, Junction Temperature and Dynamic Drain-Source Resistance

Annoy Kumar Das, Tian Qiu, Zheyu Zhang ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute )

SS4_4: 12:00 pm – 12:20 pm: Invited: Optimum Design of GaN Superjunction Devices in the Presence of Charge Imbalance

●      Monzurul Alam (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)

●      12:20 PM – 1:20 PM: Lunch Break

●      1:20 PM – 2:40 PM: Poster Session Session Chair: Deniz Rende

●      2:40 PM – 2:50 PM: Break

●      2:50 PM – 4:10 PM: Special Session 4 Session Chair: Eric Hunt-Schroeder

Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design and Test

SS3_1: 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM. Invited: A Generative-Model-Assisted Optimizer for Restoring Transmission Performance

Junting Deng, Ethan Chen, Vanessa Chen ( Carnegie Mellon University )

SS3_2: 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM. Invited: Design for Testability of a CMOS Dynamic Bias Comparator for Through-Wafer Two-Photon Absorption Pulsed-Laser Testing

Andrew Ash (Oklahoma State University), Ickhyun Song (Hanyang University), John O’Hara, John Hu ( Oklahoma State University )

SS3_3: 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM. Invited: Phase Signal Classification with Reservoir Computing

Md Rubel Sarkar, Shirazush Salekin Chowdhury, Jeffrey S. Walling, Yang Yi (Virginia Tech)

SS3_4: 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM. Invited: Mixed Signal Approaches to Machine Learning Hardware Accelerator for Inference Engines

Bibhu Datta Sahoo, University of Buffalo

●      4:10 PM – 4:20 PM: Coffee Break

●      4:20 PM – 5:40 PM: Special Session 5 Session chair: Umer Hassan

Bioelectronics & Micro/Nano Devices w/ AI Integration

SS5_1: 4:00 pm – 4:20 pm: Invited: Microelectronics Differential Impedance Spectrometry System: Modeling and Noise Analysis for Biomedical Sensing Applications

Muhammad Nabeel Tahir, Umer Hassan (Rutgers the State University of New Jersey)

SS5_2: 4:20 pm – 4:40 pm: Invited: Thin-Film Hall Sensors for Detecting Micron-Scale Magnetic Particles using a Computational Study

Harshitha Govindaraju, Umer Hassan (Rutgers University)

SS5_3: 4:40 pm – 5:00 pm: 44. Invited: Wafer-Scale 2D MoS2 Transistors Utilizing Location-On-Demand Selective Synthesis

Anthony Cabanillas, Chu Te Chen, Fei Yao, Huamin Li (SUNY at Buffalo)

SS5_4: 5:00 pm – 5:20 pm: ECG-Driven Automatic Personality Trait Identification

●      Timothy Sweeney-Fanelli, Justin Au-Yeung, Naveenkumar Venkataswamy, Masudul Imtiaz (Clarkson University)

·       5:40 PM – 6:30 PM: Long Break (Taking Group Pictures)

●      6:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Conference Banquet

Dinner and networking. Service awards and best poster award announcement.

Day 3

●      7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast

●      8:00 AM – 8:50 AM: Keynote Talk 5 Speaker: Dr. Qiaoyan Yu (NSF)

Title: Research and Education Opportunities in NSF SaTC Programs

●      8:50 AM – 9:50 AM: Special Session 6 Session chair: Zain UI Abideen

Emerging Issues in Hardware and System Security

SS6_1: 8:50 am – 9:10 am: Invited: Towards Fuzzing Hardware as Hardware

Ruochen Dai, Michael Lee ( University of Florida ), Patrick Hoey ( University of Massachusetts Lowell ), Weimin Fu, Xiaolong Guo (Kansas State University), Shuo Wang ( University of Florida ), Dean Sullivan (University of New Hampshire), Tuba Yavuz ( University of Florida ), Orlando Arias (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

SS6_2: 9:10 am – 9:30 am: Invited: Securing the Interconnect in Heterogeneous 3DICs: Threats and Emerging Solutions

Dipal Halder, Sandip Ray (University of Florida)

SS6_3: 9:30 am – 9:50 am: Invited: Analyz-N: Toolset for hardware security vulnerability detection and mitigation

Travis Meade, Raj Dutta ( Silicon Assurance )

●      9:50 AM- 10:00 AM Coffee Break

●      10:00 AM – 11:20 AM: Special Session 7 Session chair: Dean Sullivan

Emerging Issues in Hardware and System Security

SS7_1: 10:00 am – 10:20 am: Invited: AI-assisted sensing for system security enhancement using user biometric data

Xianglong Feng (Miami University)

SS7_2: 10:20 am: – 10:40 am: Invited: Constructing Secure Hardware Datasets to Support the Application of Large Language Models in Hardware Domain

Xiaolong Guo, Weimin Fu ( Kansas State University )

SS7_3: 10:40 am – 11:00 am: Invited: NIST 800-22 Statistical Validation of SRAM-based PUFs for Hardware Security

Zain Ul Abideen (Carnegie Mellon University)

SS7_4: 11:00 am – 11:20 am: CAPRI6: A Solution for Fault Root Cause Detection

DILLIBABU SHANMUGAM, Zhenyuan Liu, Patrick Schaumont, (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

●      11:20 AM – 11:30 AM: Break

●      11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Contribution Session 2 Session chair: Paul Reuter

New Design and Verification

CS2_1: 11:30 am – 11:50 am: LVS Rule File Connectivity Network: A Novel LVS Rule File Qualification for Enhanced Connectivity and Parasitic Extraction in Advanced Semiconductor Designs

JAEYOUNG SO, HEEJAE LIM, MINHO JUNG, JIMIN YEO, YUNSEONG LEE, YONGSEOK LEE, JIYOUNG SHIN (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS), AHMED SALEH, MOHAMED ALIMAM (SIEMENS EDA )

CS2_2: 11:50 am – 12:10 pm: Design and Fabrication of a Memory Test Vehicle (MTV) for Emerging Memory Devices

Rajas Mathkari *, Jinam Modasiya*, Karsten Beckmann^# (NY CREATES and University at Albany^#), Natalya Tokranova*, Maximilian Liehr^#, Nathaniel Cady* (University at Albany*)

CS2_3: 12:10 pm – 12:30 pm: Emerging Non-Volatile Memories based on Ferroelectric AlScN and Testing Approaches

Vamshi Kiran Gogi, Siddharth Barve, Rashmi Jha(University of Cincinnati)

●      12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

●      1:30 PM – 2:50 PM: Contribution Session 3 Session chair: Brion Keller

Power Electronics and Emerging Technologies

CS3_1: 1:30 pm – 1:50 pm: A Hebbian Learning based Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware Accelerator with ReRAM

Wolfgang Hokenmaier, Darin Daudelin, Ewan McNeil, Ryan Jurasek (Green Mountain Semiconductor, Inc.)

CS3_2: 1:50 pm – 2:10 pm: Invited: Single Stage AC-DC Bidirectional Converter Topologies for Solid State Transformer

Pritam Das, SUNY Binghamton

CS3_3: 2:10 pm – 2:30 pm: Google Coral Dev Board Micro Implementing Custom Models for Use in AI Vision Projects

Connor Blais (Clarkson University)

CS3_4: 2:30 pm – 2:50 pm: Revolutionizing IC Testing Methodology with Hybrid TPI to Achieve Superior Test Coverage and Design Optimization

Yadukrishnan Gopinathan, Subramanyam A, Saravanan Arulmozhi, Renold Sam, Vethamuthu Edward Alaises (Microchip Technology Inc.)

●      2:50 PM – 3:05 PM: Closing Remarks and Awards

Summary of the conference, acknowledgments, and best student paper award.