PhD student Trevor Odelberg’s low power circuits help us make sense of our environment while reducing battery waste.

PhD student Matthew Belz will work to develop jamming-resistant radar systems for autonomous vehicles.

Sylvester’s innovations in ultra-low-power computing led to the Michigan Micro Mote, the world’s smallest computer.

Part of the team that brought us the world’s smallest computer in 2015 brings the future of computing technology into the present.

It will now be possible to study brain activity when timing is important, such as the consolidation of memory.

Prof. David Wentzloff’s paper examining the trends and techniques to achieve ultra-low power receivers was honored by the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Blaauw’s innovations in low-power computing led to development of the Michigan Micro Mote, the world’s smallest computer.

PhD student Hsiang-Wen Chen, who works to improve integrated circuits, was awarded the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship.

Kim takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle challenges in heterogeneous classes of energy-efficient and versatile communication systems.

The intensive workshop brings together outstanding women who are graduate students or postdocs interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

Pioneering computer technology that is spurring innovation and disruption across industries has earned David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award.

Circuit elements that store information in their electrical resistances enable a brain-like form of computing, storing and processing information in the same place.

Terahertz and sub-terahertz imaging can provide superior results in some biomedical imaging, spectroscopy, and water saturation detection.

The Michigan Micro Mote gets a new gallium arsenide solar cell for added power and adaptability.

Researchers built the first visual SLAM processor on a single chip that provides highly accurate, low-power, and real-time results.

Capturing cancer cells from blood samples offers a non-invasive way to observe whether the cancer is disappearing or whether it is becoming resistant to the treatment.

Movellus is a U-M startup founded by alumni Dr. Mo Faisal (now CEO) and Dr. Jeff Fredenburg (now VP of Engineering).

Researchers built the first millimeter-scale transmitter and antenna that can talk Bluetooth Low Energy with ease.

Zhang is recognized with the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship for his work designing hardware solutions that could help support computer vision and machine learning.

Prof. Robert Dick and advisee Ekdeep Singh Lubana developed a new technique that significantly improves the efficiency of machine vision applications

Prof. Zhang receives outstanding evaluations from students and opens their imagination to research in the field of VLSI circuits and systems.

DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

U-M team will serve as model for nimble and innovative system-on-chip design.

The speedy and efficient system-on-chip could unify wireless communication.

Six-month hardware design process will be turned into 24-hour automated task.

Kim’s research is expected to impact the future design and wireless operation of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices

The latest from IBM and now the University of Michigan is redefining what counts as a computer at the microscale.

Millimeter-sized computers log the temperature and pressure from deep within oil wells.

Fred Buhler founded Aweslome to provide custom-build chips for a broad range of applications, including machine learning, neural networks, security, and circuits testing.

This award recognizes the paper published 15 years ago (2002) that has had the biggest impact on the field

Beigné is a senior scientist at the “most innovative research organization”

Professors Blaauw and Sylvester showcase capabilities of tiny computing

Movellus Circuits won $25,000 in the University Research Highlight and People’s Choice categories

Prof. Blaauw was a key member of the team that developed the world’s first millimeter-scale computer, known as the Michigan Micro Mote (M3).

This platform has enabled a variety of sensors that can fit inside the human body, made possible by several breakthroughs in ultra-low power computing.

With a radio specifically designed to communicate through tissue, researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering are adding another level to a computer platform small enough to fit inside a medical grade syringe.

Avish conducts research on ultra-low power and battery-less integrated circuits.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

Ambiq Micro, Crossbar, Inc., and PsiKick, are leading the way in ultra-low power chip design, pioneering computer memory, and ultra-low power wireless sensor platforms.

The goal of the project is to augment the transmission of audio and video with the sense of touch.

Flynn has achieved important breakthroughs in the performance and energy efficiency of analog-digital interfaces.

The grant is part of a new $12.5M initiative by the National Science Foundation to encourage computing innovations for a sustainable society.

Dr. Hanson is the co-founder of a startup semiconductor company that plans to lead the low-power revolution in electronics by powering the Internet of Things.

The IEEE Daniel E. Noble award is a Technical Field Award, which is among the highest awards given.

The chips’ extreme energy efficiency enables them to be powered without a battery from harvested energy sources like vibration, thermal gradients, and more.

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

Wentzloff aims to remove the necessity of a power outlet or even a battery to power miniature sensors.

“Many of these people have known each other for years; it’s a great time to catch up.”

Lu plans to design and fabricate a computer chip based on so-called self-organizing, adaptive neural networks.

Bharan’s research focusses on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable high-performance computing.

Zhang’s research is in the area of low-power and high-performance VLSI circuits and systems.

Congratulations to the award-winning faculty members and to the DAC for 50 years!

The project proposes to produce a parallel heterogeneous 3D near-threshold computing system with unprecedented energy efficiency.

He is a pioneer in the field of ultra-low power processor design, especially for the smallest computing devices in existence.

“We designed an ultra-low power optical wake-up receiver with a novel front-end circuit and communication scheme suitable for miniature wireless sensor node applications.”

Giridhar’s research has an emphasis on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable, high-performance computing.

Both research papers discuss ultra low-power chip design and millimeter-scale computing.

His research addresses critical needs in the area of wireless communication for the growing field of ubiquitous, energy-autonomous sensing devices.

The specifications for the projects were close to the state of the art. Congratulations to the winning groups!

Roberts is helping to develop low-power sensor nodes that will be worn on the body to detect certain medical conditions.

The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.

The program aims to create wearable systems that monitor a person’s environment and health in search of connections between pollutants and chronic diseases.

The project involved designing new boards and writing test software, as well as writing software to control instruments and some integrated circuit design.

The students, lead by Prof. Michael Flynn, competed for cash prizes—the two winners were chosen by Analog Devices.

“Without McCorquodale’s vision, unwavering persistence, and leadership in the face of decades of thinking to the contrary, CMOS oscillators would not exist today.”

The two winning teams designed an energy harvesting circuit for implantable devices and sensor networks, and a high efficiency audio amplifier for mobile applications.

Congratulations to these amazing faculty members!

Freyman is studying Electrical Engineering and is a member of the Michigan Integrated Circuits Laboratory.

Ambiq Micro could revolutionize ubiquitous computing, with energy-efficient microcontrollers that are 10 times more energy efficient than conventional microprocessors.

Lee is currently working closely with his colleagues to build an ultra-low power wireless sensor platform.

This research is expected to have a fundamental and long term impact on a diverse set of applications ranging from energy conservation to health care.

Congratulations to the winning students!

U-M faculty have developed what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system, with applications in radio communication and wireless sensing.

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

The authors analyzed performance and accuracy for a variety of dynamic thermal analysis techniques and used their findings to develop a new analysis technique. Congratulations!

The proposed research addresses the frontiers of error-correction coding and very-large-scale integration by advancing algorithms and circuit techniques.

“We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects,” stated Dr. Naraghi.

Until now, ubiquitous computing has been hampered by the size of necessary batteries—but Ambiq Micro is changing that, with their energy-efficient micro-controllers.

According to IEEE, “the grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.”

The resulting 65nm CMOS test chip achieved an energy efficiency of 21 pJ/bit making it a promising candidate for low-power, high-performance applications.

“Imagine a microprocessor so tiny and long lasting that it can be implanted in the eye of a glaucoma sufferer to measure the progress of the disease.”

The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices.

Congratulations to Jeong, Park, and Yoon!

The research funded by Google involves redesigning servers and data centers to improve their energy efficiency.

Wentzloff is working to develop a wireless 3D interconnection fabric that can provide communication channels and crossbar routing.

The paper explores logic and memory circuit topologies for a new type of transistor in development at IBM.

The fellowship will support Fojtik’s work on a processor that can recover from timing errors and run without margining for worst case operating conditions.

The award recognized research that is “at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact.”