IMS3TW 2008 - Call for Participation

Registration Deadline TODAY, June 6, 2008!

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Scope -- Key Dates -- Venue -- Workshop Registration -- Advance Program -- More Information -- Committees

Scope

IMSTW expands to IMS3TW

One and a half decade ago, the IEEE Mixed-Signal Test Workshop (IMSTW) was inaugurated as a forum focused on test and design for test issues related to systems encompassing digital and analog electrical signals. In view of accelerated developments in heterogeneous design and production, in 2008 IMSTW will increase its scope to include new topics focusing on challenges and solutions associated with test, design for test, reliability and manufacturability of heterogenous types of systems in emergence or envisaged in the near to longer terms. Renamed to include sensors and systems, the new IMS3TW aims to bring research and technical expertise for the next generation of devices, circuits and systems. IMS3TW will continue to address the traditional technology spectrum of IMSTW, in particular all aspects of analog, mixed-signal, and RF testing, but with increased attention to all aspects of design complexity (e.g., increased parameter variability, power consumption, temperature effects). Guaranteeing design robustness for the new generation of nanoelectronic devices may need to exploit self-monitoring functionality (such as self-test/-calibration), allowing the circuit or system to adapt to varying circuit parameters or functional demands. Built-in sensors can play a crucial role to facilitate device adaptability.

Primary Topics of Interest include:

Test & Design for (on/off-line) Test	Verification & Design for Verification
Reliability & Design for Reliability	Monitoring/Diagnosis & Design for Debug/Diagnosis
Fault and Error Modelling & Simulation	Fault Tolerance

Pertaining to the following systems or underlying technologies:

Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits Biomedical Circuits & Systems	Lab-on-Chip MEMs
RF & Wirelessly Controlled Devices	Microfluidics
Optoelectronics & Photonics	Heterogeneous Systems
Drug Delivery Microsystems	Implantable Devices

Key Dates

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Workshop advance registration deadline: June 6, 2008!

The Venue

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The Workshop will take place in the Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside in the city of Vancouver. Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia. It's surrounded by water on three sides and is nestled alongside the Coast Mountain Range. Vancouver is home to spectacular natural scenery and a bustling metropolitan core, and boasts one of the mildest climates in Canada.

Workshop Registration

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The registration for the IMS3TW08 event is now open. Advance registrations can be received until the 6th of June, 2008. More details can be found on the website at http://www.lirmm.fr/~w3mic/IMS3TW08

Advance Program

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Wednesday -- Thursday -- Friday

June 18 , 2008 (Wednesday)

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	OPENING SESSION
	Welcome Message: Andre Ivanov (UBC), IMS3TW General Chair Program Introduction: Bozena Kaminska (SFU), IMS3TW Program Chair
	Invited Keynote: Chip Scale Integrated Photonic Sensing Systems Nan M. Jokerst, Lin Luan, Matt Royal, Sabarni Palit, Talmage Tyler, Martin A. Brooke (Duke University)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Session 1 - RF AND GHZ DESIGN-FOR-TEST AND DIAGNOSIS Chair: Terry Lee (SST Wireless)
	PFD Output Monitoring for RF PLL BIST Anna ASQUINI (STMicroelectronics), Franck BADETS (STMicroelectronics), Salvador MIR (TIMA), Jean-Louis CARBONERO (STMicroelectronics), Laroussi BOUZAIDA (STMicroelectronics)
	Picosecond Delay Adjustment for 12.8 Gbps Multiplexed Testing David KEEZER (Georgia Tech), Dany MINIER (IBM Canada), Patrice DUCHARME (IBM Canada)
	GPRS-Based Remote Sensing System for Humidity and Temperature Using CoolRunner-2 CPLD Wael EL-MEDANY (Fayoum University)

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Session 2 – ACCELERAMETERS: TEST AND CALIBRATION Chair: Farid Golnaraghi (SFU)
	Auto-calibrated Capacitive MEMS Accelerometer LUIS ROCHA (U. do Porto), Lukas MOL (Delft U. of Technology), Edmond CRETU (U. British Columbia), Reinoud WOLFFENBUTTEL (Delft U. of Technology), Jose MACHADO DA SILVA (INESC Porto)
	Evaluation of a Fully Electrical Test and Calibration Method for MEMS Capacitive Accelerometers Norbert DUMAS (LIRMM), Florence AZAIS (LIRMM - CNRS / U. Montpellier 2), Frédérick MAILLY (LIRMM), Pascal NOUET (LIRMM)
	Characterization and Testing of MicroElectroMechnical Accelerometers Jacob ABRAHAM (U. Texas)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Session 3 – MICROSYSTEMS IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS Chair: Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal
	Design and Test of a Miniature 2.45GHz Antenna for Implantable Medical Devices Xueyi Yu, Guolin Li, Lingwei Zhang and Zhihua Wang
	Biomedical Circuits: New Challenges for Design and Test Serge Bernard, U. Montpellier
	Bacteria Growth Monitoring Through A CMOS Based Capacitive Sensor Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Mohamad Sawan, Arghavan Shabani, Mohammed Zourob (Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal)

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Session 4 – TESTING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES Chair: TBD
	Adventures in Surface Microfluidics Karan KALER, (U. CalGary)
	Design Considerations for Robust Suspension-based Microfluidic Systems for Biomedical Applications Benjamin MUSTIN and Boris STOEBER (UBC)
	Fluidic Characterization for Microfluidic Interconnects Bonnie GRAY, Seema JAFFER, Stephanie WESTWOOD (SFU)

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM WELCOME RECEPTION

June 19, 2007 (Thursday)

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM	Session 5 – POSTER SESSION
	Built-In Self-Test For Direct-Conversion Digital LCR-Meters Vadim GEURKOV (Ryerson University)
	Electromagnetic Simulation Using The Numerical Inversion Of Laplace Transform Method (NILT) Said GHNIMI, Science Faculty of Tunis
	Wireless Sensor Network Chukwueke UMETITI (Wisdom School of Computer Studies)
	A Triaxial Accelerometer Calibration Method Using Six Unidentified Tilt Angles Seong-hoon WON, Farid GOLNARAGHI (SFU)
	Simultaneous Optical And Fluorescent Microscopic Measurement Of Drug Retention In Single Cancer Cells Yuchun CHEN, Paul LI (SFU)
	Testing Of Combinational Majority And Minority Logic Networks Faizal KARIM, André IVANOV, Konrad WALUS (UBC)
	Flash Memory Testing Under High Temperature Variation Nima SADEGHI, Shahriar MIRABBASI, André IVANOV (UBC)
	Design For Testing SU-8 And PDMS Based Hybrid Glucose Sensor Jasbir PATEL, Bozena KAMINSKA, Bonnie GRAY, Byron GATES (SFU)

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Session 6 –OPTICAL AND PHOTONICS TESTING Chair: A. CHATTERJEE (Georgia Tech)
	Closing The Testing Gap Between CMOS And Photonics Adam OSSEIRAN (Edith Cowan University)
	A Custom CMOS Sensor For Pyramidal Adaptive Optics System Kuldip MODHA, Ian STOCKFORD (The University of Nottingham)
	Design And Modeling Of A MEMS-Based Tunable Optical Nanoantenna Long QUE, Zhongcheng GONG, Tae-woo LEE (Louisiana State University)

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM	Session 7 – PRACTICAL CASE STUDY Chair: Marcelo Lubaszewski (UFRGS, Brazil)
	Acoustic System For Online Wiring Test On Aircraft Zhou XU, Denis KOLTSOV, Shimul SAHA, Andrew RICHARDSON (Lancaster University), Alistair SUTHERLAND (BCF Design)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Session 8 - BIO-CHEMICAL SENSORS TESTING Chair: Joan Figueras, UPC, Spain
	Fault Modelling and Test Development for Continuous Flow Microchemical Sensor Systems Ian BELL, Tom MYERS (Univeristy of Hull)
	High Resolution DNA Label-Free Detection System Based on Capacitive Biosensor Daniela DE VENUTO (Politecnico di Bari), Bruno RICCò (University of Bologna)
	A Hybrid Bacteria and Microparticle Detection Platform on a CMOS Chip Zhao LU, Jaouad EL-FOULADI, Sylvain MARTEL ,Yvon SAVARIA (Ecole Polytechnique)

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Session 9 - FAULT TOLERANCE AND DIGNOSIS FOR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES Chair : Yvon SAVARIA (Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal)
	A Novel Diagnosis and Recovery Technique for Multiple Faults in Digital Microfluidics Biochips B S JOSHI, Arindam MUKHERJEE, Arun RAVINDRAN, Daniel DAVIDS (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
	A Droplet Routing Technique for Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Devices Hans KERKHOFF, Xiao ZHANG, Frits VAN PROOSDIJ (University of Twente)
	Fault Diagnosis for Lab-on-Chip Using Digital Microfluidic Logic Gates Yang ZHAO, Krishnendu CHAKRABARTY (Duke University)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Session 10 - NEEDS AND NECESSITIES FOR BIODEVICES Chair: Mani Soma, U. Washington
	Infrastructure for Mixed SignalS in Biology and Medicine Bernard Courtois (CMP), B. Charlot (IES/MITEA), G. Di Pendina (CMP), L. Rufer (TIMA)
	A Modular Platform for Proof-of-Concept Development of Microsystems Based on Microfluidic Technology Rob MALLARD (CMC MICROSYSTEMS) Presentation and Hands-on Demonstration

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM	Session 11 - TESTING THE WATERS Moderator: Krishnendu CHAKRABARTY, Duke University Organizer: Bonnie Gray, Simon Fraser University
	Integrated Microfluidic Systems for Cell Culture and Characterization Karen Cheung (UBC)
	Fluid Mixing Achieved in a Microreactor Chip Samar HAROUN, Paul LI (SFU)

4:20 PM - 5:30 PM	ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON TESTING THE WATERS
	Participants: Karan Kaler (U. Calgary) Rob MALLARD (CMC MICROSYSTEMS) Paul Li (SFU) Karen Cheung (UBC) Bonnie Gray (SFU)

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM SOCIAL EVENT: Boat Cruise in Vancouver Harbour

June 20, 2007 (Friday)

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Session 12 - CONVERTER TEST AND CALIBRATION Chair: TBD
	Calibrating Capacitor Mismatch and Comparator Offset for 1-Bit/Stage Pipelined ADCs Xuan-Lun HUANG, Jiun Lang HUANG (National Taiwan University)
	Exploring the Dynamics of Embedded ADC through Adapted Digital Input Stimuli Xiaoqin SHENG, Hans KERKHOFF (University of Twente), AMIR C ZJAJO (NXP Semiconductors Research), Guido GRONTHOUD (NXP Semiconductors)
	A New Approach for Nonlinearity Test of High Speed DAC Chun-Wei LIN, Sheng Feng LIN, Shih Fen LUO (National Yunlin University of Science & Technology)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Session 13 - EMBEDDED TUTORIAL
	ESD Protection for Mixed-Signal Circuits – Design or Test Problem? Manoj SACHDEV, Hossein SARBISHAEI, Sumanjit Singh LUBANA

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Session 14 – RF AND SIP TEST Chair: TBC
	Efficient Low-Cost Test Technique for Wireless Polar Transmitter’s Rajarajan SENGUTTUVAN, Deuk LEE, Abhijit CHATTERJEE (Georgia Institute of Technology)
	Estimation of Test Metrics for AMS/RF BIST Using Copulas Ahcène BOUNCEUR, Salvador MIR (TIMA Laboratory)
	A Low-Cost Test Approach for Embedded RF Passive Circuits Abhilash GOYAL, Madhavan SWAMINATHAN (Georgia Institute of Technology)
	An Approach to Model-based Testing of Mixed-signal SiPs Reik MUELLER (TU-Dresden), Carsten WEGENER (Infineon Technologies AG), Hans-Joachim JENTSCHEL (TU-Dresden)

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Session 15 – RELIABILITY AND DESIGN-FOR-RELIABILITY Chair: Salvador Mir (TIMA)
	Reliability of Wireless On-chip Interconnects Based on Carbon Nanotube Antennas Partha PANDE (Washington State U.), Alireza NOJEH (UBC), Amlan GANGULY (Washington State U.), Benjamin BELZER (Washington State U.), André IVANOV (UBC)
	Reliability Issues in Flash Memories: Olivier GINEZ (L2MP), Jean Michel PORTAL (Laboratoire L2MP/Polytech-UMR-CNRS-6137), HASSEN AZIZA (L2MP Laboratory)
	Thermally-Coupled IC Interconnect Networks Andrew LABUN (University of British Columbia - Okanagan)

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Session 16 – ROBUST ACTUATORS Chair: TBD
	Two-layer Sliding Mode Control of Pneumatic Position Synchro System Hong ZHAO (China University of Petroleum, Beijing
	Adaptive ZPETC Method for Dual-Stage Actuator Controller Design In Miniaturized Optical Disc Drive Stone CHENG (National Chiao-Tung University), Po-Chien CHOU (National Chiao-tung U.)
	Dual Robust Controller Design for High Power PMSM Drive Stone CHENG (National Chiao-Tung University)

4:00 PM CONCLUDING REMARKS

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General Information

André Ivanov
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Tel.: +1 604.822.6936
E-mail: ivanov@ece.ubc.ca

Program Information

Bozena Kaminska
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Tel. : +1 778.782.6855
E-mail: kaminska@sfu.ca

Committees

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Organizing Committee

General Chairs
A. Ivanov, U. British Columbia, Canada

Program Committee Chair
B. Kaminska, Simon Fraser U., Canada

Program Vice Chairs
Signals: A. Chatterjee, Georgia Tech, USA; S. Mir, TIMA, France
Sensors: K. Chakrabarty, Duke U., USA
Systems: M. Sawan, Ecole Poly., Canada
Panels: K. Arabi, Qualcomm, USA

Finance Chair
M. Lubaszewski, UFRGS, Brazil

Publicity Co-Chairs
B. Courtois, CMP, France
F. Azais, LIRMM, France

Publications Chair
D. de Venuto, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Local Arrangements
E. Cretu, U. British Columbia, Canada
K. Takahata, U. British Columbia, Canada
B. Stoeber, U. British Columbia, Canada

Program Committee (to include)
J. Abraham, U. Texas, USA
K. Arabi, PMC Sierra, Canada
F. Azais, LIRMM, France
I. Bell, U. Hull, UK
J. Carbonero, ST Microelectronics, France
L. Carro, UFRGS, Brazil
T. Cheng, UCSB, USA
S. Demidenko, U. Monash, Malaysia
J. Figueras, UPC, Spain
G. Force, Texas Instruments, USA
R. Genov, U. Toronto, Canada
B. Grey, Simon Fraser U, Canada
J. Machado da Silva, U Porto, Portugal
C. Metra, U. Bologna, Italy
J.-L. Huang, National U. Taiwan, Taiwan
J. Huertas-Diaz, IMSE-CNM/CSIC, Spain
D. Keezer, Georgia Tech., USA
H. Kerkhoff, MESA/U. Twente, Netherlands
L. Milor, Georgia Tech., USA
F. Novak, Josef Stefan Inst., Slovenia
A. Osseiran, Edith Cowan U., Australia
A. Zjajo, NPX, Netherlands
M. Renovell, LIRMM, France
A. Richardson, U. Lancaster, UK
A. Rueda, U. Sevilla, Spain
Y. Savaria, Ecole Poly., Canada
S. Sattler, Infineon, Germany
M. Slamani, IBM, USA
M. Soma, U. Washington, USA
B. Straube, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS, Germany
S Sunter, LogicVision, USA.
P. Teixeira, INESC, Portugal
C Wegener, Infineon, Germany

For more information, visit us on the web at: http://ims3tw.tttc-events.org

The 14th International Mixed-Signals, Sensors, and Systems Test Workshop (IMS3TW 08) is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC), and organized by University of British Columbia.