October 24-27, 2021
Sponsored by PSMA and IEEE PELS

he 2021 Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) Workshop is scheduled to be held as a hybrid event from October 24, through October 27, at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia PA.

For information regarding registration and workshop partner opportunities please visit http://pwrsocevents.com/registration-2/

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

A team of world-renowned experts, innovators and pioneers of the Power Supply on Chip technology has assembled the technical program for the nine technical sessions following the single-track format of past power supply on chip workshops.

• Plenary Session - Jose Cobos, University Polytechnic Madrid
• Systems and Applications - Francesco Carobolante, IoTissimo
• Topologies and Control - Bruno Allard, Université de Lyon
• Wideband Gap Integration - Brian Ma, University Texas Dallas
• Integrated Capacitors & Energy Storage - Medhi Jatlaoui, Murata
• Integrated Magnetics - Masahiro Yamaguchi, Tohoku University Japan
• System Integration Manufacturing and Packaging - Baoxing Chen, Analog Devices
• Granular Power - Santosh Kulkarni, Dialog Semiconductor
• Posters - Minjie Chen, Princeton University

There will be thirty-one lecture style presentations presenters from academic, research and industry sectors for the technical areas. The ninth technical session, a poster session on the evening of Monday October 25, will encompass the seven technical disciplines of the workshop. The poster session will provide the attendees the time to interact informally and learn more about new technologies being developed from researchers and product developers.

The Plenary Session will provide insights regarding the role of GaN, packaging architectures and integrated voltage regulators in the powering of electronics. The plenary presenters are Isik Kizilyalli, Associate Director of Technology of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy ( ARPA-E), Ravi Mahajan, Intel Fellow and Director of Pathfinding for Assembly and Packaging Technologies for 7-nonometer silicon and beyond, and Tim Phillips, founder and Chief Executive Officer of EmPower Semiconductor.

The technical program schedule is available at http://pwrsocevents.com/program-schedule-quickview/

The program includes three "in-person" only events.

The first "in-person only" event will be during the evening on-site check in time on Sunday October 24. There will be a seminar on "Social Networking for Engineers" presented by Ada Cheng a market consultant with AdaClock and Anagenesis and sponsored by the PSMA Industry-Education Committee in partnership with IEEE PELS. This session is open to students, young professionals and even seasoned professionals who are registered for the workshop who want to gain insights and guidance on making meaningful connections with others. Please see the separate article in this issue on the PSMA/ PELS Educational Series for more information on this session.

The second in-person only event will during the late afternoon on Monday October 25 and will be a "Trends and Opportunities" panel session moderated by Sunit Rikhi of Rockley Photonics, Inc. who retired from Intel in 2015 with more than thirty years of foundry experience. The panel includes experts from markets analysis, venture capitalist, integrated device manufacturers, small start-up component manufacturers and semiconductor fab organizations.

The third in-person only event will be a 'Roadmap for Power Integration Discussion" co-moderated by Francesco Carobolante of IoTissimo and Hanh-Phuc Le of the University of California at San Diego. The roadmap discussion will include inputs from a panel of technologists as well as from the audience. The roadmap discussions will be shared as part of  the technical roadmap activities of IEEE and PSMA on power integration.

Continuing the tradition of the enthusiasm, market relevance and success of past workshops, we are looking forward to the International Power Supply-on-Chip (PwrSoC) Workshop 2021 in Philadelphia, PA. This workshop will highlight the technology and market application developments since the most recent in-person PwrSoC workshop in Taiwan during October 2018 and to create a vision of power supply on chip activities for the next five to fifteen years.

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

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

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

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