In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 24 – 27, 2021
Sponsored by PSMA and IEEE PELS

he seventh edition of the biennial International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) originally scheduled for October 25 thru October 28 2020 has been re-scheduled to October 24 thru October 27, 2021 due to concerns of the impact of COVID19 on the expected ability of attendees to travel to and attend a live event. The workshop is still scheduled to be held at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia PA The value of workshop has always been recognized as an event that brings together global academic and industry experts to formally and informally discuss issues to advance and productize power supply on chip technologies.

Plans are being developed for a condensed virtual event to take place in the November 2020 timeframe to keep the discussions and forums active and current for power supply on chip applications and technologies that have taken place since the previous workshop in 2018 and are on track to provide some updates before the next live workshop in 2021.

The technical program committee is working to put together a program of uncompromised caliber and value to include at least one presentation from each of the eight technical lecture presentation sessions. Several presentations will be assigned to each of several webinar sessions which will be less than two hours each during the month of November 2020. There will be a panel question and answer session for the technical presentations of each individual webinar event. Each webinar session will not close until all the questions submitted for that webinar event are answered. In response to the general chair Mark Allen's guidance to  " … address options that will help the virtual program try to approach some of the interaction that have made the live workshops so successful in the past …", the technical program is also identifying other features to maintain a level of interaction across a global community which is an integral part to the success of the workshop series.

The workshop is the leading international forum for the discussion of the challenges and opportunities in technology, business and supply chain, with intent on advancing the miniaturization and integration of power conversion and power management solutions. The workshop features presentation and dialog sessions of advanced technologies with global academic and industry experts aimed at miniaturizing power management solutions through system architecture, circuits and topology, packaging, and passive components. The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) and IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) are joint sponsors for the  workshop.

Throughout its history, the workshop has spotlighted advanced technologies to build granular power supplies and compelling demonstrations of commercialized products that make a clear case for PwrSoC and PSiP technologies becoming more prominent and mainstream.

The technical program chairs for the workshop are Prof Hanh-Phuc Le of University of California at San Diego and Matt Wilkowski of EnaChip. Hanh-Phuc and Matt have both been presenters, session chairs and program chairs for past Power Supply on Chip workshops. A team of world-renowned experts, innovators and pioneers of the Power Supply on Chip technology has been assembled to chair the workshop's nine sessions.

The planning of the technical program, supporting activities as well as identifying workshop partners to contribute to its success are in process. If interested to be a workshop partner, please contact the workshop financial chair, Trifon Liakopoulos, at the following e-mail address: trifon@enachip.com

Continuing the tradition of the enthusiasm, market relevance and success of past workshops, we are looking forward to the virtual corridor event in October 2021 bridging discussions and developments since the most recent workshop in Taiwan during October 2018, while progressing along the path to PwrSoC 2021 in Philadelphia, PA.

General Chair:
Dr Mark Allen  mallen@seas.upenn.edu

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Matt Wilkowski mwilkowski@enachip.com
Prof. Hanh-Phuc Le hanhphuc@ucsd.edu

For more information about previous and coming PwrSoC events, visit http://pwrsocevents.com.

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