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The explosive growth in the size of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and the concomitant increase in compute intensity over the past few years is unsustainable without significant innovation across the stack. A non-von Neumann computational approach using in-memory compute is a paradigm shift that can deliver significant improvements in performance and energy efficiency for data-centric AI applications. Among the many memory options being evaluated, phase change memory (PCM) devices are attractive given their non-volatility, analog tunability &amp; maturity of the technology. However, these devices also suffer from many non-idealities. This talk details innovations across materials, algorithms and architecture to address challenges posed by PCM device non-idealities to accelerate AI inference and training jobs.

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Device, Architecture, and Algorithms Co-optimization for Scalable Analog Compute Technology

deep learning with analog ai

in-memory compute

phase change memory

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For almost eight decades, the Device Research Conference (DRC) has brought together leading scientists, researchers and students to share their latest discoveries in device science, technology and modeling. Notably, many of the first public disclosures of key device technologies were made at the DRC. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the DRC—the longest running device research meeting in the world. As we commemorate this meeting, the high-caliber technical sessions will be highlighted by plenary talks and invited talks by international research pioneers and leaders behind modern electronic technology.

Given the ongoing global health concerns associated with COVID-19 (Coronavirus), the DRC leadership has decided to hold the 2021 Device Research Conference in a virtual (online) format. This follows an enormously successful 2020 DRC held virtually, in which we had record attendance and worldwide participation of more than 875 attendees from 33 countries.

The 2021 Conference will feature:

* Informative, timely short courses in rapidly developing fields
* Oral and poster presentations on electronic/photonic device experiments and simulations
* Plenary and invited presentations given by worldwide leaders
* Evening “rump” session
* Strong student participation and Student Paper Awards

DRC is held in coordination with the Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), which will occur the same week, from June 23-25. As has happened in person in past years, in 2021, the virtual DRC and EMC sessions on the shared day, Wednesday, June 23, will be open to all attendees from both conferences. This recognizes the strong interaction between device and electronic materials research and provides fruitful exchanges of information between attendees of both Conferences. For information on the 63rd Electronic Materials Conference, please visit the [EMC 2021 website.](https://www.mrs.org/63rd-emc/)

2021 DRC individual presentation videos will become available in Underline at the end of each technical session. A recording of each full live session with Q&A will be posted later during the conference. To facilitate re-viewing of recorded talks and sessions, the DRC Underline site will remain open through 11:59pm (US EDT) on July 7th. DRC Conference registration will remain open at www.mrs.org/drc-2021/registration through June 30th.

Thank you for joining us at the 2021 Device Research Conference!

**General Chair**
 Zhihong Chen, Purdue University

**Technical Program Chair**
 Becky (R.L.) Peterson, University of Michigan

**Technical Program Vice-Chair**
 Gregg Jessen, BAE Systems

You can register for the 79th Device Research Conference with the following link. https://www.mrs.org/drc-2021

DRC 2021

For almost eight decades, the Device Research Conference (DRC) has brought together leading scientists, researchers and students to share their latest discoveries in device science, technology and modeling. Notably, many of the first public disclosures of key device technologies were made at the DRC. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the DRC—the longest running device research meeting in the world. As we commemorate this meeting, the high-caliber technical sessions will be highlighted by plenary talks and invited talks by international research pioneers and leaders behind modern electronic technology.

The explosive growth in the size of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and the concomitant increase in compute intensity over the past few years is unsustainable without significant innovation across the stack. A non-von Neumann computational approach using in-memory compute is a paradigm shift that can deliver significant improvements in performance and energy efficiency for data-centric AI applications. Among the many memory options being evaluated, phase change memory (PCM) devices are attractive given their non-volatility, analog tunability & maturity of the technology. However, these devices also suffer from many non-idealities. This talk details innovations across materials, algorithms and architecture to address challenges posed by PCM device non-idealities to accelerate AI inference and training jobs.

technical paper

The aim of ESSCIRC and ESSDERC is to provide an annual European forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in solid-state devices and circuits.
The level of integration for system-on-chip design is rapidly increasing.

This is made available by advances in semiconductor technology. Therefore, more than ever before, a deeper interaction among technologists, device experts, IC designers, and system designers is necessary. ESSCIRC and ESSDERC are governed by a common Steering Committee and share Plenary Keynote Presentations and Joint Sessions bridging both device and circuit communities.

Highlights:
* 3 joint keynote presentations
* 3 keynote presentations ESSCIRC
* 3 keynote presentations ESSDERC
* Invited papers with overall coverage of all aspects of advanced devices and circuits
* Presentation of IEEE and ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Awards
* Educational Events

JOINT PLENARY talks live broadcast: September 13, 2021 
ESSCIRC and ESSDERC KEYNOTE talks live broadcast: September 15, 2021 
LIVE Q&A INTERACTIVE sessions for all Conference Technical sessions: September 14 – 16 – 17, 2021 
LIVE Q&A INTERACTIVE sessions for all Educational Events: September 20-21-22, 2021 
(on demand videos available from September 6 until November 30, 2021)

**Please see here for the [ESSCIRC Guide](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10dghzuv4aQBty4QfTIY9Q8hXyqsue8Le/view?usp=sharing), [ESSDERC Guide](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10dx9y2tm9cHPDa4upNUYjfXCf44aPry5/view?usp=sharing), and the [Program at a Glance](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eU0OLTXEpiNzI5hkqv4mSr43T8cedPP/view?usp=sharing)**

Please register for educational events at the following link: https://www.registerme.eu/event/esscirc-essderc-2021/

Please register for the ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Educational Events to join the event.

The Educational Events of ESSCIRC ESSDERC 2021. 

Commercial 5G services have been launched globally. Study and development for technologies toward the evolution of 5G are ongoing, taking into account issues in early 5G services and emerging market needs. In parallel, research focused on technologies and services beyond 5G and 6G is accelerating throughout the world. This presentation will explain NTT DOCOMO's views and our latest activities on 5G evolution and 6G.

5G evolution and 6G: benefits and challenges

In this presentation, background and motivation will be explained for mmW/THz wireless communication as well as basics of phased-array theory. The theoretical limitation and possible direction of mmW/THz wireless communication is discussed with a THz phased-array transceiver implemented by 65nm CMOS.


Millimeter-wave/THz Phased-Array Transceiver for Beyond 5G

There is a rapidly increasing interest in beyond-5G and 6G wireless networks for the next-generation communication and sensing platform. It is envisioned that the upper mm-Wave and sub-THz frequencies (e.g. 100GHz to 240GHz) spectrum will be the major spectrum of interest due their abundant available bandwidth (BW) to achieve the “holy grail” of 1Tb/s wireless network throughput. It is also expected that large-scale arrays with massive elements will be a necessity and ubiquitously to provide huge array gains and compensate for the high-frequency path loss.
However, a major challenge at the physical layer for these beyond-5G and 6G networks is the lack of energy-efficient, wideband, and ultra-compact frontend electronics, in particular power amplifiers, at high mm-Wave/sub-THz. This is even more problematic for large-scale densely-packed arrays, where thermal management becomes a severe issue. Further, next-generation wireless links demand ultra-wideband modulations and high efficiency, while radar/imaging/sensing systems require large instantaneous BW. Despite of decades of research on integrated power amplifiers, most of these efforts have focused on RF and mm-Wave PAs, while high mm-Wave/sub-THz PAs entail distinct challenges at both device and circuit levels. In this talk, we will review the current state of the art of the high mm-Wave and sub-THz frequencies PAs, including PAs in both silicon and III-V technologies. A variety of challenges and performance limitations will be outlined. Then, we will present several recently published mm-Wave/sub-THz PA designs as examples to showcase the present capabilities. Future technology trends and potential devices/circuits solutions will be discussed as well.


Millimeter Wave and Sub-THz Power Amplifiers ― Enabling Technologies for Beyond-5G and 6G Wireless Networks

Future wireless standards require RF-sampling data converters to enable flexible multi-band operation over several GHz of instantaneous bandwidth. Efficient hardware organization in multi-antenna systems additionally requires co-integration of potentially many ADCs and DACs in a single chip with powerful data processing in the most advanced CMOS technologies. Besides the data converters, also a very high-quality clock generation, as well as calibration infrastructure must be integrated alongside the data converters. In this presentation we look at design examples of high-performance building blocks for such systems that have been implemented in one of the latest CMOS generations, with special emphasis on the digital assistance aspect in a DSP-heavy environment.

DSP-assisted RF-sampling data converters for 5G soft radio and beyond

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands offer enormous bandwidth that is unparalleled, compared to the bandwidth available at lower microwave bands. This bandwidth has significant impact on the performance of wireless systems. The larger the channel bandwidth, the higher the throughput of wireless communication systems, and the higher the resolution of radar sensor systems. 
For the development of mmWave and THz wireless systems, advanced packaging platforms are required for system-integration of the ICs, antennas and other components required for system functionality. However, these platforms, also called antenna-in-package (AiP) platforms in published literature must meet some key requirements.
In this talk, the packaging requirements for mmWave and THz wireless applications are extensively discussed.


Packaging requirements for mmW & THz wireless applications

This talk will discuss the challenges to design and implement THz circuits in CMOS, as well as a discussion on applications. It will give an overview of the research results in this field by the MICAS group of KU Leuven, Belgium

THz circuits and applications

This presentation provides an overview of InP HBT integrated circuit technologies for mmWave and THz applications. Transistor and circuit performance will be reviewed with an emphasis on power amplifiers at mmWave and sub-THz frequencies. Heterogeneous integration techniques using wafer-scale 3D integration and device-scale microtransfer printing are also described.

InP technologies for mmW & THz wireless applications

The terahertz frequency range provides abundant bandwidth (25GHz ~ 50 GHz) to achieve ultra-high-speed wireless communication and enables data rates up to and above 100 Gbps. In this talk, I will present our early work on THz imaging and sensing with CMOS and SiGe HBTs. I will then present 6G wireless transceivers and discuss their performance and link impairments. I start with link budget considerations and address design trade-offs with respect to the used technology. The radio front-ends are manufactured in a SiGe BiCMOS 0.13um technology and operate at a tunable carrier of 220–260 GHz. The modules achieve data-rates from 20 to 100 Gbps with an EVM from 7% to 17% at a 1-meter distance using 16-QAM. I will further present our work on polarization diversity MIMO systems above 200 GHz. The MIMO link is established using a circular dual-polarization Tx and a dual-polarization Rx module. The polarization-diversity (left-handed circular polarization and right-handed circular polarization) is provided by a lens-coupled circularly polarized on-chip antenna. With this system, two independent data-streams of 55 Gb/s each were transmitted in parallel over a 1-meter line-of-sight distance, achieving an aggregated record data-rate of 110 Gbps.

SiGe HBT devices/circuits for mmW & THz wireless applications

Enabling the efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) has becoming increasingly important to enable the deployment of DNNs on a wide range of platforms, for a wide range of applications. To address this need, there has been a significant amount of work in recent years on designing DNN accelerators and developing approaches for efficient DNN processing that spans the computer vision, machine learning, and hardware/systems architecture communities. Given the volume of work, it would not be feasible to cover them all in a single talk. Instead, this talk will focus on *how* to evaluate these different approaches, which include the design of DNN accelerators and DNN models. It will also highlight the key metrics that should be measured and compared and present tools that can assist in the evaluation.

How to Evaluate Efficient Deep Neural Network Approaches

As we march towards the age of “ubiquitous intelligence”, we note that AI and Machine learning are progressively moving from the Cloud to the Edge devices. The success of Edge-AI is pivoted on innovative circuits and hardware that can enable inference and limited learning, in hardware-constrained ultra-low-power (uW to mW) systems – an area of active research. In this talk, I will discuss the promises and outlook of Edge-AI and their applications in Autonomous Systems; and elaborate on some of our recent work on enabling such systems in sensor nodes and robotics. While some of these systems extend our understanding of statistical machine learning, a large class of circuits and systems are inspired by the information representation in the brain. I will talk about the design of such circuits and systems with an emphasis on the impact of mixed-signal circuits, near-memory and in-memory compute architectures, as well as algorithm-hardware co-design to realize the most energy-efficient Edge-AI ASICs for the next generation of smart and autonomous systems.

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