On 21 October 2019, the three-day 12th International Workshop on the Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits and the 6th Juanhu Lake Salon was launched at the Multimedia Hall on the International Campus (IC), Zhejiang University (ZJU). The conference was being held in China for the first time since its inception in 1999. Professor Fu Qiang, Assistant President of Zhejiang University, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Vice Dean of the International Campus, ZJU, Mr Cao Guoliang, Mayor of Haining Municipal Government, many other leaders, and more than 180 other experts and scholars from home and overseas attended the conference attended the meeting. Professor Li Er-ping, Vice Dean of Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, ZJU chaired the conference.
Professor Fu gave a warm welcome to the guests and expressed the determination of the IC to strengthen international academic exchanges and cooperation and become a model of international education cooperation.
Mayor Cao introduced some basic information about the development of Haining in recent years. He spoke about the support of the Haining Municipal Government for the development of the semiconductor industry and its importance.
Etienne Sicard, a founding scientist of Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits (IC EMC) Research and Standards and professor of the University of Toulouse, France, Professor Zhang Yueping from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Professor Joungho Kim of the Korea Advanced Science and Technology Research Institute and Thomas Steinecke, founding scientist of IC EMC Research and Standards in Germany, and chief scientist of Infineon Technologies gave keynote reports in order.
From 21 to 23 October, different parallel sessions of the conference which focused on the main theme as well as seminars, oral reports, and poster presentations were also outstanding. Experts and scholars from all over the world shared their research topics and achievements, and they exchanged information on, and discussed, the latest developments in the field of international electromagnetic compatibility. They also provided many constructive suggestions, and offered guidance, to colleagues engaged in IC EMC research. There were 184 registered participants in the conference, 51 of whom were from overseas. The conference received 136 articles, including 91 articles from China and 45 from overseas.
Achievements in terms of operating frequency and integration of semiconductor technology are constantly creating new challenges in IC EMC, which must necessarily be addressed at both integrated circuits and system level. Keeping up-to-date is of paramount importance to be successful in this field. Since the inception of the 1st International IC EMC Workshop in Toulouse, France, in 1999, it has been held variously in Europe and once in Japan. The 12th EMC COMPO was held in China for the first time and proved to be a great success, highly praised by the participants.
Article | Zhou Liming
Photography | Xia Ping, Jin Xiufang, Zhang Yi
Translation | Shu Yue