Electronic Systems on Chip

Committee Membership

CHAIR

Prof. Eric Monmasson (Ing, PhD) was born in Limoges, France, in 1966. He received the Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs d’Electrotechnique d’Electronique d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT), Toulouse, France, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Head of the Institut Universitaire Professionnalisé de Génie Electrique et d’Informatique Industrielle (IUP GEII), University of Cergy-Pontoise (UCP), Cergy-Pontoise, France. His current research interests, in the Laboratoire Systèmes et Applications des Technologies de l’Information et de l’Energie (SATIE, UMR CNRS 8029), are the advanced control of electrical motors and generators and the use of FPGAs for industrial control systems. Pr. Monmasson is a member of the steering committee of the European Power Electronics Association and of the n°1 Technical Committee of the IMACS. He is also a IEEE member and referee for IEEE Transactions, IEE Proceedings and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Special Issue on FPGA in Industrial Control Systems). He is the author or co-author of 3 chapter books and more than 70 scientific papers. Eric Monmasson has supervised 7 PhD degree and has examined another 7. He has also collaborated with several industrial partners such as THALES AES, HISPANO-SUIZA, HAPTION, TI France and he is currently responsible of an international research project of the Agence Universitaire Francophone that involves a syrian, a tunisian and a french universities. IEEE Member n°: 40255142. Address: IUP GEII, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, rue d’Eragny, Neuville-sur-Oise, F-95031 Cergy-Pontoise cedex, France. Tel. +33(0)134256902, Fax +33(0)134256901. Email: eric.monmasson@iupge.u-cergy.fr.

VICE-CHAIR

SPECIAL CONFERENCE SESSIONS SUBCOMMITTEE

Committee Vice-Chair and Subcommittee co-ordinator: Dr. Manus Henry is Deputy Director, Invensys University Technology Centre for Advanced Instrumentation at the Department of Engineering Science, the University of Oxford, where he has been a researcher since 1987. From  1990-1993 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and from 1997-2002 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. The central focus of his research is the development of theory and prototypes of self-validating (SEVA) sensors, a concept formulated at Oxford and which is now the subject of a British Standard (BS-7986:2001) specifying data quality metrics for industrial measurement and control systems.  Dr Henry is the chief architect of the digital coriolis mass flow meter, a SEVA prototype device, which has been commercialised by the Foxboro Company and has won various awards, including best new product at the ISA Show in 2002. Dr Henry won the IEE Control Division’s Achievement Medal in 1999 for his coriolis work. He has a long-standing interest in the use of FPGAs for industrial real-time measurement, and was an early user of the Handel-C language for specifying FPGA functionality. He has seven patents on self-validating sensors and digital coriolis flowmetering, and has authored over 30 scientific papers. Dr Henry has had a research partnership with Invensys companies since 1987, attracting over £5M funding. IEEE Member no: 80157944. Address: Invensys University Technology Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK. Tel +44 1865 273913, Email: manus.henry@eng.ox.ac.uk

Dr.Vito Nardi. Born in Naples, Italy, in 1968. Graduated in electrical engineering and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cassino, Italy, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He is currently assistant professor at the Department of Automation, Electromagnetism, Computer Science and Industrial Mathematics, University of Cassino, Italy, lecturing in: Programmable Controllers for electrical drives, Programmable Controllers for industrial automation and Electrical drives at the University of Cassino, Italy. His research activity deals with: direct torque control of induction motors; self-commissioning of electrical drives; supercapacitors application in electrical drives; virtual testing of PLC based control system. He has authored over 20 scientific publications. IEEE Member no: 85010491. Address: Via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (FR), Italy, Tel. +39 0776-2993694. E-mail: nardi@ieee.org

WEBSITE SUBCOMMITTEE

Webmaster: Dr. Andrei Dinu (BEng, MSc, PhD) completed his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK in June 2000 with a thesis concerning the sensorless control of induction motors using hardware implemented neural networks. He was appointed lecturer at the same university in August 2000 where he conducted research in the field of electrical drives control until 2003, when he decided to move to industry. He first worked as a design engineer for Datalink Electronics in Loughborough, UK and in 2004 he joined Goodrich Corporation as a control systems engineer. He is currently involved in R&D projects carried out in Birmingham, UK by the Electromagnetic Systems Technical Centre of Goodrich Corporation. IEEE Member no: 80148427. Address: Goodrich Engine Control Systems, Electromagnetic Systems Technical Centre, Faraday Building, York Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, B28 8LN, UK. Tel: 0121-6073978; Fax: 0121-6073777, Email: andrei.dinu@ieee.org

SPECIAL ISSUES / SECTIONS OF JOURNALS SUBCOMMITTEE

Subcommittee co-ordinator: Prof. Marcian CIRSTEA (MEng, PhD, CEng, MIET, SMIEEE) became a Member (M) of the IEEE in 1997 and a Senior Member (SM) in 2004. He completed a PhD at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in 1996, after obtaining a degree in electrical engineering from Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 1990. He is currently Head of Design and Technology Department at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, after previously working for De Montfort University, UK, and Transilvania University Brasov, Romania. His research focus is on digital circuit design, control systems for power electronics, holistic modelling of electronic systems, FPGA and ASIC design. Additional interests are in embedded systems, concurrent engineering, fuzzy logic, neural networks and automotive engineering. He has published several technical books and over 90 peer reviewed papers, he was Chairman of the IET East Midlands Branch Committee (2002-2004) and Member of the International Advisory Board of the Accellera Designers Forum (1999-2003). Prof. Cirstea has delivered five international courses / tutorials on VHDL Digital Controller Design Applied to Power Electronic Systems Modelling and FPGA Controller Prototyping. He is founder and Chairman of the 'Electronic Systems on Chip' Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Member of IET and Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Member of FEANI (European Engineer). Prof. Cirstea is also a referee for IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, IET Proceedings and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Three of his IEEE conference papers have received awards and he also received the IET Student Counsellor of the Year award in 2003. He has supervised 7 research degrees to completion and has examined another 8. He is external assessor for the EC Leonardo programme and for the EC TEMPUS programme. IEEE Member no: 40281688.
Address: Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK. Tel. +44-(0)1223-363271 ext.2184, Email: marcian@ieee.org.

Prof. Josep M. GUERRERO, Josep M. Guerrero (S'01-M'03) received the B.S. in telecommunications engineering, the M.S. in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. in power electronics, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1997, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From 1998 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Automatic Control Systems and Computer Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2004 he became a Senior Lecturer at the same university, where he teaches digital signal processing, control theory, and microprocessors. Since 2004 he has been the responsible of the Sustainable Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy research group at the Escola Industrial de Barcelona. His research interests include DSP/FPGA-based control, uninterruptible power systems, inverters for photovoltaic applications and wind energy conversion in microgrids. Dr. Guerrero is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS. He is the guest editor of the Special Issue of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS "Power Electronics for Wnind Energy" and the Special Section of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS "Uniniterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems". He organized and chaired sessions at several IEEE IECON, APEC, and PESC Conferences. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World and Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Escola Universitària d'Enginyeria Tècnica Industrial de Barcelona (EUETIB), Dept. Enginyeria de Sistemes Automàtica i Informàtica Industrial (ESAII), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Despatx UR1/SC08D, Compte d'Urgell, 187. 08036 Barcelona, SPAIN. Tel. +34 93-4137290 / +34 93-4137283, Fax. +34 93-4137401, Email: josep.m.guerrero@upc.edu

Dr. Jeen KHOR (BEng(Hons), PhD, CEng, MIEE, MIEEE) received his degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Leicester, UK, and his PhD from De Montfort University, UK, for his work on FPGA-based control systems for synchronous generators. He has published scientific papers and trade forum tutorials in the area of FPGA-based control systems, SoC designs, clock distribution methodology and network boot software systems. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IEEE as well as the IET. Jeen is currently with the Embedded and Communications Group at Intel (Malaysia) where he is involved in the design of system-on-a-chip products for embedded and communication applications. Prior to this, he was involved in Intel's network processor designs as well as networking software projects targeting the Asia Pacific market. IEEE Member no: 80262098.

Address: MCDC (PG12-Level 3), Intel Microelectronics, 11900 Penang, Malaysia. Email: jeenkhor@ieee.org

CONFERENCES / TRANSACTIONS PAPERS REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE

Subcommittee co-ordinator: Prof. Dan Nicula (MEng, PhD, MIEEE) is a professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. His research focus is on digital circuit SoC architecture design and implementation, structured ASIC, standard cell and FPGA implementation. Additional interests are in embedded systems and new VLSI design methods & technologies. He is a Member of IEEE. He is site manager at Brasov for eAsic Corporation US (www.easic.com) since 2000. He has 7 research contracts with Romanian and International companies. He has published 3 technical books, 33 scientific papers. His current courses are on subjects related to "Digital Logic", "HDLs and Application of Digital Systems", "EDA Tehniques for Digital Design", "VLSI Design", "Advanced Techniques for Digital Systems Design". IEEE Member no: 80150362. Address: Transilvania University of Brasov, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 29 Eroilor, 500036 Brasov, Romania. Tel: +40-268-414482 Tel./Fax +40-268-478705, Tel:+40-368-401082, +40-368-401083, Email: dan.nicula@vega.unitbv.ro, http://vega.unitbv.ro/~nicula,.

Bruno Allard (M'90, SM'02) is Professor at the INSA Lyon, Electrical Eng. Dept. Laboratoire Ampère, UMR 5005. Prof. Allard is also Member of IEEE PELS, IAS and IES, European Liaison Member for PELS between 1992 and 2000, Member At Large in PELS ADCOM (finishing 2007), Officer of Student Branch “Grand Lyon”, Member of PESC program committee and Member of IEEE Section France ADCOM. His research interests are at the boundary between power electronics and system integration. Basically his contribution to power management is two fold: building new schemes to spare consumption inside highly integrated systems and develop the power conversion systems required to run the schemes. System-on-Chip and Systems-in-Package are challenging technological environments. High temperature will also add more challenge in next future.

Paolo Mattavelli received the Dr. Ing. Degree (with honors) and the Ph. D. degree, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Padova (Italy) in 1992 and in 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Padova. In 2001 he joined the University of Udine, where he was an Associate Professor of Electronics from 2002 to 2005, leading the Power Electronics Laboratory of the DIEGM at the University of Udine, which he founded in 2001. Since 2005 he has been with the DTG of the University of Padova in Vicenza with the same duties. His major fields of interest include analysis, modelling and control of power converters and digital control techniques for power electronic circuits. He has co-ordinated several research and industrial projects (>20) in the field of power electronics. In 2005 and in 2006 he received the Prize Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Paolo Mattavelli is a member of IEEE Power Electronics, IEEE Industry Applications, IEEE Industrial Electronics Societies and active with some duties within these societies (AE for PELS Trans, IPCC Review Chair for IAS Trans., member at large of PELS Adcom, ...).

Christian Dufour is a Simulation Software Specialist and the principal director of Eletro-Mechanical Group at Opal-RT Technologies. In 2000, he received his Ph.D. degree from Laval University, Quebec. Before joining Opal-RT Technologies, he worked on the development of Hydro-Quebec's HYPERSIM real-time simulator as well as the MathWorks' SimPowerSystems blockset. His current research interests are mainly focused on numerical techniques related to real-time simulation of power systems and motor drives and the implementation of such algorithm on FPGA chips. He is the main author of ARTEMIS, a real-time plug-in for the SimPowerSystems blockset. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 conference papers and 4 Transactions papers.

Prof. Bogdan ‘Dan’ Willamowski – President of the Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Fellow, received his MS in computer engineering in 1966, PhD in neural computing in 1970, and Dr. Habil. in integrated circuit design in 1977. He received the title of full professor from the President of Poland in 1987. He was the Director of the Institute of Electronics (1979-1981) and the Chair the Solid State Electronics Department (1987-1989) at this University. He was Professor of the University of Wyoming (1989-2000). From 2000 to 2003 he was Associate Director of Microelectronics Research and Telecommunication Institute at University of Idaho and he was Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and in Computer Science Department at the University of Idaho. Currently he is Director of AMSTC – Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Auburn University. Prof. Wilamowski was with the Communication Institute at Tohoku University, Japan (1968-1970) and he spent one year at the Semiconductor Research Institute, Sendai, Japan as a JSPS Fellow (1975-1976). He was a visiting scholar at Auburn University (1981-1982 and 1995-1996), and a visiting professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson (1982-1984). He is currently the President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the Vice President of the IEEE Neural Network Society. He is also associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE IES Newsletter. Dr. Wilamowski is the author of 4 textbooks, more than 250 refereed publications, and 27 patents. He was the major professor for about 120 graduate students. His main areas of interest are: computational intelligence and soft computing, CAD development, solid-state electronics, mixed signal and analog signal processing, and network programming. Address: AMSTC, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5201, Tel.+1- 334-844-1629, Fax 334-844-1888/ -1809,  home 334-501-9092, wilam@ieee.org, http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~wilambm/

Prof. Chin-Long Wey is the Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Before joining NCU he was a tenured full professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, where he worked for 20 years. In 2001, he established two Fab-less design houses, JMicron Technology Corp, in Hsinchu Science-based Park, Taiwan, and JMicron USA Technology Corp., in Irvine, California, that develop and market high-speed serial link products. He received his BSc degree in Mathematics from NCU, Taiwan, in 1973, MSc degree in Computer Science/Math and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering both from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His research interests include Design for X-ability of Analog circuits (X-ability means testability, diagnosability, reliability, manufacturability, profitability, etc.); and Electronic design automation. His most recent researches are extreme-voltage and extreme-temperature stress test methodologies for gate-oxide reliability enhancement of mixed-signal/analog CMOS integrated circuits and multi-gigabit high speed-serial/low-power serial link semiconductor solutions. IEEE Member no: 04967386. Address: College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC, Tel: +8863-4279094, Fax: +8863-4273335, Email: clwey@ee.ncu.edu.tw

Miguel A. Aguirre (Ing, PhD) was born in Madrid, Spain in1963. He obtained the Industrial    l Engineering and PhD from the School of Engineering of the University of Sevilla, Spain, in the Electronic Engineering, Systems and Automation Department, in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

He is currently teaching Digital Microelectronics Design and Programmable Logic Design in the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Sevilla, as Assistant Professor. He has been invited teacher for post graduate courses in the University of Carlos III of Madrid (SPAIN), and University of Rio Cuarto (Argentina), teaching Programmable Logic and Hardware Description Languages Design. He is the author of more than 40 publications IEEE journals and conferences and  several patents.

Dr. Aguirre leads a research group at the University of Sevilla which activity is focused on the dependable design of embedded systems on programmable systems on chip and the radiation effects on digital devices integrated circuits and FPGAs. He developed the fault injection system using partial reconfiguration of SRAM-FPGAs named FT-UNSHADES, that is currently used by the European Space Agency. He is also involved in the development of embedded systems for real time video processing applied into Agro-industry quality selection machines. IEEE Member no:40355620. Address: Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica. c/Camino de los descubrimientos s/n E41092 Sevilla (SPAIN). Telf: +34 954487367 Email: aguirre@gte.esi.us.es

Dr. Marc Perron is the president of Alizem inc., a third-party provider of intellectual property cores (IP Cores) for FPGA-based power electronics applications, since 2006. In the past, he worked in the telecommunication industry (Motorola), power generation industry (General Electric) and transport industry (Bombardier) in which he designed robust position controllers for high-speed train electro-hydraulic actuators. Dr. Perron has graduated in both electrical engineering and business administration at Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Université Laval (Canada) on the topic of FPGA-based high efficiency motor drives. His research interests include: embedded systems architectures for power electronics applications, hardware implementation of neural networks, advanced PWM, fault detection and diagnosis of dynamic systems. IEEE Member #41437223. Address: Alizem inc, 1173, Boul. Charest Ouest Suite 300-5, Quebec City (Quebec), G1N 2C9 CANADA. Email: marc.perron@alizem.com.

Alin Tisan received a BSc in Physics in 1997 and MSc in Solid State Physics at the “Babes Bolyai” University from Cluj Napoca, Romania. Currently he is in the last year of his PhD at the Technical University of Cluj Napoca, in the field of auto reconfigurable pattern recognition systems implemented in FPGA with applications in odor recognition. Since 2001 he has been working at North University of Baia Mare and presently he is lecturer at the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department. His areas of interest include embedded systems design, implementation of artificial neural networks in field-programmable gate arrays, smart sensors, data acquisition and virtual instruments. IEEE Member no: 90403035

Juan J. Rodriguez-Andina received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Technology, University of Vigo. His research interests include the implementation of complex processing algorithms in field-programmable gate arrays and concurrent testing of complex systems, from digital to industrial electronics. Dr. Rodriguez-Andina is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as the General Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics. He is currently a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.