Sponsored by PSMA and IEEE PELS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 25 – 28, 2020

he seventh edition of the biennial International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC) workshop returns to North America on October 25 thru October 28 2020 to be held at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia PA.

PwrSoC is the leading international forum for the discussion of the challenges and opportunities in technology, business and supply chain, intent on advancing the miniaturization and integration of power conversion and power management solutions. The workshop will feature 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 financial and technical sponsors for the  workshop.

Over the last 10 years, the Workshop has been held around the world on three different continents, at locations including Cork, Ireland (2008, 2010), San Francisco, CA (2012), Boston, MA (2014), Madrid, Spain (2016), and Hsinchu, Taiwan (2018).

In 2020, the workshop returns to North America at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA centrally located on the I95 corridor of the US east coast. The PwrSoC 2020 will be chaired by an experienced team with Prof. Mark Allen as the General Chair and Matt Wilkowski and Hanh-Phuc Le as the Technical Program Co-Chairs.

The 2020 PwrSoC Workshop will continue the single-track format so that attendees have access to all the latest developments in systems and integration, active and passive components, system integration, packaging and manufacturing, granular power topologies and control.

The technical presentation sessions will be a combination of lecture style presentations and interactive panel question and answer dialog sessions. These will be complemented by an interactive poster session on a wide range of perspectives from emerging system and application requirements, research initiatives and industry commercialization.

Throughout its history, the PwrSoC workshops have spotlighted advanced technologies to build granular power supplies and compelling demonstrations of commercialized products that make a clear case for PwrSoC (Power Supply On Chip) and PSiP (Power Supply in Package) technologies becoming more prominent and mainstream.

Mark Allen has pointed out "The venue of Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania offers a unique opportunity to pursue advanced component and device fabrication technologies towards supporting market applications on the horizon being developed elsewhere on campus." Supporting the ambition to identify the solutions that PwrSoC and PSIP technology can contribute towards new applications, there will be an opportunity to tour various labs on the campus of UPENN including the GRASP Lab (robotics, automation, sensing & perception applications), Penn Electric Racing (electric vehicles) in addition to the facilities of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology

A panel session will be introduced this year to explore the circumstances and thresholds to connect technology's emerging trends and developments with market opportunities and associated technology investments.

The planning of the technical program, supporting activities as well as identifying workshop partners to contribute to its success are all in process. If you are interested to be a workshop partner, please contact the workshop treasurer, Trifon Liakopoulos, at the following e-mail address: trifon@enchip.com
With the intention of continuing the tradition of the enthusiasm, market relevance and success of past workshops, we are looking forward to another successful PwrSoC 2020 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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