Electronic Circuits and Systems

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Université catholique de Louvain
Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL)
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM)
Electronic Circuits and Systems
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Embedded systems, smart devices, low-power, security and cryptography, digital and
analog/RF circuits, CMOS technology
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Sébastien ADAM
Expert valorisateur Région wallonne Nanotechnologies, Technologies de
l'Information et de la Communication
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Laboratory contact details
Laboratory Head
General Contact
Prof. Flandre Denis
 Maxwell building
Place du levant
B-1348 Louvain-LaNeuve
Belgique
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Main study areas and research topics
Low-power embedded systems: video and image processing, multi-core microprocessors, FPGAs, radiationhardened systems
Smart autonomous systems: Internet-of-Things devices, mixed-signal ultra-low-power systems, sensors
(temperature, image, gas, humidity), RFID, microcontrollers, memories, energy harvesting interfaces
Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology and circuits: nanoelectronics, ultra-low-power, RF/wireless communication
circuits, rad-hard circuits, 3-D and heterogeneous integration, bio-sensors
Physically security and lightweight cryptography: side-channel, tampering and fault attacks, secure protocols, sensor
networks, RFIDs
Last Research Project
STARflo+ (RW Biowin, biomedical), TRIADE (FP7, Aerospace), E-User (RW, RFID), EUROSOI+ (FP7, Low-power SOI),
MIMOCOM (RW, MIMO RF systems), S@T (RW Skywin, Radiation Hardness), Trappist (FNRS, Nuclear physics), NANOTIC
(RW, Autonomous wireless bio or chemical sensor network), SUNTUBE (Solwatt, photovoltaïc), SOI-HITS (FP7, gas
sensors), RPI (RW Mecatech, proton detectors), SCEPTIC (RW WIST, cryptography), CRASH (EU ERC, cryptography)
Industrial application fields
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Industrial application fields
Electronics
Microelectronics
Semiconductors
Photovoltaic and energy harvesting
Sensors
Cryptography
Technologies offers description
Internet-of-Things devices and systems-on-chip (SoCs), high-speed I/Os, power management for energy harvesting and
storage, 28/22nm CMOS circuits, Ultra-Wide-Band communication and positioning, CMOS imagers and bio-sensors
Development of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology; SOI circuit design: the lab also features best-in-class patented circuit
blocks to achieve smart power management. Those blocks allow drastic reduction of stand-by power consumption, which is
due to leakage current in nanoscale CMOS processes; Strong expertise with breakthrough patents in ultra-low-power
design of both analog and digital functions in nanoscale CMOS processes. The design aims at minimizing both active
energy and stand-by targeting all level of abstractions from technology development and circuit design, to system
integration.
Extraordinary engineering equipments
1000 m² clean room facilities (WINFAB) with major CMOS/MEMS processing equipments
Mainstream EDA tools and design kits from major external CMOS foundries
400 m² characterization and test facilities (WELCOME) for nanoelectronics components from devices to systems
Services proposal
SOI CMOS and MEMS processing
Characterization of electronics devices
Ultra-low-power circuit design expertise
Test and assesment of full electronic systems
Training proposal
Technical Training for the manufacture of electronic circuits, characterization, design and simulation
Existing collaboration
Cissoid (spin-off), intoPIX (spin-off), CEA-LETI (France), CISSOID (Belgium), ST-Microelectronics (France), CNM (Spain),
EADS (France), nSilition (Belgium), Thales (Belgium, France), SOI Industrial Consortium (USA), Oberthur Technologies
(France), Infineon (Germany), P.E. International (USA), Purdue University (USA), IMEC (Belgium, NL), CSEM (Switzerland),
Honeywell (Romania), Microsemi (UK)
Related Lab'Insight Event
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Related Lab'Insight Event
Transport et Logistique en milieu urbain
Organisé le lundi 9 décembre 2013 à l'Université de Mons
Ce rendez-vous Lab'InSight a été l'occasion pour les entreprises du secteur logistique de rencontrer des experts
universitaires et d'initier de nouvelles collaborations.
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