Successful 2020 Corridor Webinar Series Introduced PwrSoC to a Wider Audience

he Power Supply on Chip corridor webinar series sponsored by the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) and IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) was held during the first two weeks of November 2020. This webinar series, made possible by the financial support of PSMA, had a goal  of bridging the 2018 PwrSoC workshop and the 2021 PwrSoc Workshop that was rescheduled. due to the COVID19 impact on the ability of attendees to travel and to attend a live event. The 2021 PwrSoC Workshop is scheduled to be held in-person from October 24, through October 27, at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia PA.

The (PwrSoC) corridor webinar series consisted of three two-hour sessions. Each webinar session addressed technology developments since the 2018 workshop that may well be ready for commercialization by the time of the 2021 workshop. Each session focused on a different set of applications and technology advances. The sessions were held on November 5, November 10, and November 12. Each session consisted of three presentations and a panel Q&A that lasted about 30 minutes, reflecting the webinar attendees' interest in the presentations and appetite for additional information on the technologies that are being developed.

The agendas of the webinar sessions were as follows:

The growing awareness and interest of PwrSoC enabling technologies was evidenced by the large number of registrations realized for the webinar series, more than double the number of attendees at previous workshops. The virtual webinar series enabled participation by those who are interested in PwrSoC but may not have been able to travel to attend the past in-person workshops.

Mark Allen the general chair for 2021 PwrSoC workshop noted "… the technical breadth and market awareness of the presenters and the session chairs clearly identified many of the technical advances and expanding applications and opportunities since the 2018 workshop, paving the way to a noteworthy and comprehensive workshop agenda in 2021…"

International Power Supply-on-Chip (PwrSoC) Workshop 2021

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.

The technical program chairs for the 2021 International Power Supply-on-Chip (PwrSoC) Workshop are 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 technical program chairs for the 2021 workshop are 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.

• 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
• Sys Integ Manufacturing and Packaging - Baoxing Chen, Analog Devices
• Granular Power - Santosh Kulkarni, Dialog Semiconductor
• Posters - Minjie Chen, Princeton University

The planning of the technical program, supporting activities as well as identifying workshop partners to contribute to its success are in process. If interested in being 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 this recent webinar series and past workshops, we are looking forward to the International Power Supply-on-Chip (PwrSoC) Workshop 2021 in Philadelphia, PA. during the week of October 24 thru 27 2021 bringing to light the technology and market application developments since the most recent in-person PwrSoC workshop in Taiwan during October 2018.

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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