Following the two presentations on Automotive EMC Design and Test topics, Rodrigo Rodriguez, Engineering Leader, EMC Team, with Tesla will moderate a LIVE Q&A session with our industry expert speakers noted below.

Mr. Rodriguez has been in the EMC field for over 18 years; he is currently the engineering leader for the EMC team at Tesla responsible for product design and validation testing of electric vehicles and energy products. Before joining Tesla, he worked for nine years as the EMC Architect in the MRI division at GE Healthcare. He also worked at Continental Automotive (formerly Siemens Automotive) starting as a Hardware Design Engineer developing body electronic modules for six years; right after that, he focused on EMC design and validation testing for automotive electronic modules for body and powertrain controllers; he was also in charge of the EMC laboratory at Continental in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr. Rodriguez holds a Master of Engineering - Electromagnetics from University of Illinois at Chicago. He is based at the Tesla facility in Fremont, California.

IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter April Meeting and Seminar

Join us for a (virtual) talk from Dr. Stefano Pellerano of Intel on Wednesday, April 28. The seminar will be held from 4:30pm to 5:30pm (PDT) via a Virtual format. Please register for the meeting link and information.

Abstract:

In the last few years, the interests in quantum computing has increased substantially within the EE community. A significant engineering effort is required to bring the quantum computing outside the physics research labs into potential future commercialization. Beside the fabrication of reliable qubits, other challenges such as control electronics, interconnect and packaging must be solved before a fault tolerant quantum computer can be scaled to a large number of qubits. This talk will take an IC designer perspective to briefly introduce few of the basic concepts of quantum computing, focusing on some aspects of the control systems required to manipulate and read-out quantum states of qubits. It will then try to address why and how mixed-signal and RFIC design combined with large scale integration has the potential of accelerating the implementation of a fault-tolerant scalable quantum computer.

Speaker Biography:

Stefano Pellerano received the Laurea Degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2000 and in 2004, respectively. During his Ph.D., his activity was focused on the design of fully integrated low-power frequency synthesizers for WLAN applications. In 2003 he has been a consultant with Agere Systems (former Bell Labs) in Allentown, PA. Since 2004 he has been with Intel Labs, in Hillsboro, OR. He is now Principal Engineer leading the Next Generation Radio Integration Lab, where he drives several research activities focused at enabling radio circuit integration in deeply-scaled CMOS technologies. His main research contributions include MIMO transceivers for WiFi, digital PLLs, high-efficient digital architectures for polar and outphasing transmitters, mm-wave radio transceiver and phased-array systems, and low-power radios. For the last few years, he has also been exploring cryogenic CMOS integrated electronics for qubit control in fault tolerant scalable quantum computers. Stefano has authored or co-authored more than 50 IEEE conference and journal papers, one book chapter and more than 15 issued patents. He served as the Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium in 2018 and 2019 respectively and he is now part of the RFIC Executive Committee. He is currently serving as the Wireless Subcommittee Chair for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC).

Abstract:

Globalization has made the semiconductor industry more susceptible to trust and security issues. Hardware Trojans, i.e., malicious modification to electronic systems, can violate the root of trust when the device or systems are fabricated/assembled in untrusted facilities. As the imaging and failure analysis tools excel in the resolution and capability, physical inspection based methods become more attractive in verifying such trust issues. On the contrary, such physical inspection methods are opening new capabilities for an adversary to extract sensitive information like secret keys, memory content or intellectual property (IP) compromising confidentiality and integrity. Different countermeasures have been proposed, however, there are still many unanswered questions. This talk will focus on the state of the art physical inspection/assurance methods, the existing countermeasures, related challenges to develop new countermeasures and a research roadmap for this emerging field.

Women in Engineering read 6 books a year. Each title is given a two-month period in which to complete the manuscript. The WIE members meet online monthly to discuss and enjoy each other's perspectives. This book club event will be in collaboration with the Women Who Code Book Club.