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eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables

Sponsored by Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative

Event Details:

One of the key challenges for wearables is that one-size-fits-all does not work. Most of the focus on customization and personalization of the wearables has been on the software and data analysis fronts. The hardware (sensors, readout, signal conditioning and processing, etc) is typically common across all the units of specific version of specific wearables. Human body has inherent variability from person to person as well as across different sites on the body. Thus, the hardware should ideally be customized across persons and across sites of body to ensure that high quality data can be captured. However, customization of hardware is constraint by high time and cost required and the trade-offs involved in customizability, cost, performance and power. This talk will present imec’s work in thin film ASICs that can enable hardware customization at lower cost and manufacturing turn-around times as well as enable flexible and skin-conformable form factors.

Prashant Agrawal received his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015 and MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics at Imec Belgium. Prior to this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Imec between 2015-18 during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He worked as Senior R&D Engineer in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at Imec (Belgium) between 2014-2015 and as Technical Staff Member in the HPC Group at IBM Research India between 2006-2009.

About imec:

Imec (imec-int.com) is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.

As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 97 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, and offices in China, India and Japan. In 2018, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 583 million euro.

Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Government of Flanders), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.), imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd), imec India (Imec India Private Limited), and imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).