Technical Program
TUTORIALS / Sunday June 16, 2024
Block 1 – 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
T1: Efficient ways to lighten neural networks for circuits and systems
by Antoine Siebert, Guillaume Ferré, Bertrand Le Gal.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM / Room: Rivière Magog
T2: The Inverter: A Powerful Analog Building Block
by Glenn Cowan, Concordia University, Canada.
9:00 AM – 12:00 AM / Room: Rivière Coaticook
Block 2 – 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
T3: Mixed Signal Approaches to Machine Learning Hardware Accelerator for Inference Engines
by Bibhudatta Sahoo, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA.
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM / Room: Rivière Magog
T4: High-Fidelity Sensing and Manipulation of Brain Neurochemistry
by Pedram Mohseni, Case Western Reserve University, USA.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM / Room: Rivière Coaticook
T5: Test automatization through the IEEE 1687 (JTAG) interface
by Luc Romain, Siemens, Canada.
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM / Room: Rivière Coaticook
Sunday June 16, 2024
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration for Block 1 tutorials
Room: Foyer ABC
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Registration for Block 2 tutorials
Room: Foyer ABC
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Conference registration & Welcoming reception
Room: Foyer ABC
Monday June 17, 2024
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Conference registration
Room: Foyer ABC
8:30 am – 8:45 am
Opening Ceremony & Welcoming Remarks
Room: Sherbrooke BC
8:45 am – 9:30 am
Keynote I – What Does It Take to Operate a Quantum Processor? by Max Hofheinz
Session chair: Marc-André Tétrault – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Keynote II – Shaping the future : C2MI’s role in next generation technologies by Marie-Josée Turgeon
Session chair: Sébastien Roy – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
10:15 am – 10:45 am
Morning Coffee Break
Room: Foyer ABC
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Lecture Sessions A1L-A / Low Power Analog Design
Session chair: Manuel Barragan – Université de Grenoble
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Sessions A1L-B / Microsystems and Embedded Systems
Session chair: Yvon Savaria – Polytechnique Montréal
Room: Memphrémagog
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Room: Sherbrooke A
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Keynote III – Analog neuromorphic computing and applications in artificial intelligence by Pooya Ronagh
Session chair: Audrey Corbeil Therrien – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Lecture Sessions A2L-A / Novel Architectures and AI Applications
Session chair: Audrey Corbeil Therrien – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Sessions A2L-B / Communications Circuits and Systems
Session chair: Daniel Massicotte – UQTR
Room: Memphrémagog
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Afternoon Break
Room: Foyer Sherbrooke ABC
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Lecture session A3L-A / Women In Engineering
Session chair: Audrey Corbeil Therrien – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Tuesday June 18, 2024
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Conference registration
Room: Foyer Sherbrooke ABC
8:30 am – 9:15 pm
Keynote IV – CMOS industrial devices for silicon-based quantum computation by Eva Dupont Ferrier
Session chair: Pietro Maris Ferreira, Centrale-Supélec – U. Paris-Saclay
Room: Sherbrooke BC
9:15 am – 10:00 am
Lecture Session B1L-A / Quantum Electronics
Session chair: Eva Dupont-Ferrier – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Session B1L-B / Digital Circuits – Tests and Verification Tools
Session chair: Marc-André Tétrault – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Memphrémagog
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Morning Coffee Break
Room: Foyer Sherbrooke ABC
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Lecture Session B2L-A / Energy, Power Management and Sensor
Session chair: Ahmad Hassan – Polytechnique Montréal
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Session B2L-B / High-performance ADC circuits
Session chair: Yvon Savaria – Polytechnique Montréal
Room: Memphrémagog
11:30 am – 7:00 pm
Social activities & Lunch / Technological tour
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Gala Diner / “Le Grand Cru” boat tour
Wednesday June 19, 2022
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Conference registration
Room: Foyer Sherbrooke ABC
9:00 am – 10:15 am
Lecture Session C1L-A / Bio-inspired Sensing and Neuromorphic Computing Hardware
Session co-chairs: Gabriel Gagnon-Turcotte, Benoit Gosselin – Université Laval
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Session C1L-B / Circuits with Emerging Technologies
Session co-chairs: Erkan Isa – Fraunhofer EMFT
Room: Memphrémagog
10:15 am – 10:45 am
Morning Coffee Break
Room: Foyer Sherbrooke ABC
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Lecture Session C2L-A / Sensory Circuits and Systems
Session co-chairs: Dominique Morche –
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Session C2L-B / Radio Frequency Circuits
Session chair: Jean-Baptiste Begueret – Université de Bordeaux
Room: Memphrémagog
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Room: Sherbrooke A
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lecture Sessions C3L-A / Memory-in-Compute and Circuit Reliability for AI applications
Session chair: Audrey Corbeil Therrien – Université de Sherbrooke
Room: Sherbrooke BC
Lecture Sessions C3L-B / Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Session co-chairs: Benoit Gosselin – Université Laval, Pedram Mohseni – Case Western Reserve University
Room: Memphrémagog
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Afternoon Break
Poster Sessions C4P-C / Poster presentations I
Poster Sessions C4P-C / Poster presentations II
Session chair: Jean-Pierre David – Polytechnique Montréal
Room: 2nd Floor Hall
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Closing Ceremony – See you at NEWCAS2025 !
Room: Sherbrooke BC