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    JUNE 18, 2008
       
    7:30am - 8:30am REGISTRATION
       
    8:30am - 9:30 am Opening Session
    Welcome message : Andre Ivanov (UBC), IMS3TW General Chair
    Program Introduction : Bozena Kaminska (SFU), IMS3TW Program Chair
      Invited Keynote:
    Chip Scale Integrated Photonic Sensing Systems 
    Nan M. Jokerst, Lin Luan, Matt Royal, Sabarni Palit, Talmage Tyler, Martin A. Brooke (Duke University)
       
    10:00am - 11:00pm SESSION 1
    RF and GHz Design-For-Test and Diagnosis
    Chair :  Terry Lee (SST Wireless)
      PFD Output Monitoring for RF PLL BIST
    Anna ASQUINI (STMicroelectronics), Franck BADETS (STMicroelectronics), Salvador MIR (TIMA), Jean-Louis CARBONERO (STMicroelectronics), Laroussi BOUZAIDA (STMicroelectronics)
      Picosecond Delay Adjustment for 12.8 Gbps Multiplexed Testing
    David KEEZER (Georgia Tech), Dany MINIER (IBM Canada), Patrice DUCHARME (IBM Canada)
      GPRS-Based Remote Sensing System for Humidity and Temperature Using CoolRunner-2 CPLD
    Wael EL-MEDANY (Fayoum University)
       
    11:30am – 12:30pm SESSION 2
    Accelerometers : Test and Calibration
    Chair : Farid Golnaraghi (SFU)
      Auto-calibrated Capacitive MEMS Accelerometer
    LUIS ROCHA (U. do Porto), Lukas MOL (Delft U. of Technology), Edmond CRETU (U. British Columbia), Reinoud WOLFFENBUTTEL (Delft U. of Technology), Jose MACHADO DA SILVA (INESC Porto)
      Evaluation of a fully electrical test and calibration method for MEMS capacitive accelerometers
    Norbert DUMAS (LIRMM), Florence AZAIS (LIRMM - CNRS / U. Montpellier 2), Frédérick MAILLY (LIRMM), Pascal NOUET (LIRMM)
      Characterization and Testing of MicroElectroMechnical Accelerometers
    Jacob ABRAHAM (U. Texas)
       
    2:00pm - 3:30pm SESSION 3
    Microsystems in biomedical applications
    Chair : Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal
      Design and Test of a Miniature 2.45GHz Antenna for Implantable Medical Devices
    Xueyi Yu, Guolin Li, Lingwei Zhang and Zhihua Wang
      Biomedical Circuits: New Challenges for Design and Test
    Serge Bernard, U. Montpellier
      Bacteria Growth Monitoring Through A CMOS Based Capacitive Sensor
    Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh, Mohamad Sawan, Arghavan Shabani, Mohammed Zourob, Vamsy P. Chodavarapu (Ecole Polytechnique, and McGill University, Montreal)
       
    4:00pm - 5:30pm SESSION 4
    Testing microfluidic devices
    Chair : TBD
      Adventures in Surface Microfluidics
    Karan KALER, (U. Calrary)
      Design considerations for robust suspension-based microfluidic systems for biomedical applications
    Benjamin Mustin and Boris Stoeber (UBC)
      Fluidic characterization for microfluidic interconnects
    Bonnie GRAY, Seema JAFFER, Stephanie WESTWOOD (SFU)
       
    5:30pm - 6:30pm RECEPTION
       


    JUNE 19, 2008
       
    8:30am – 4:00pm SESSION 5
    POSTER SESSION
      Built-In Self-Test for Direct-Conversion Digital LCR-METERS
    Vadim GEURKOV (Ryerson University)  
      Electromagnetic simulation using the numerical inversion of Laplace Transform Method (NILT)
    Said GHNIMI, Science Faculty of Tunis
      Wireless sensor network
    Chukwueke UMETITI (Wisdom School of Computer Studies)
      A Triaxial Accelerometer Calibration Method Using Six Unidentified Tilt Angles
    Seong-hoon Won, Farid Golnaraghi (SFU)
      Simultaneous Optical and Fluorescent Microscopic Measurement of Drug Retention in Single Cancer Cells
    Yuchun CHEN, Paul LI (SFU)
      Testing of Combinational Majority and Minority Logic Networks
    Faizal KARIM, André IVANOV, Konrad WALUS (UBC)
      Flash Memory Testing under High Temperature Variation
    Nima SADEGHI, Shahriar MIRABBASI, André IVANOV (UBC)
      Design for testing SU-8 and PDMS based hybrid glucose sensor
    Jasbir PATEL, Bozena KAMINSKA, Bonnie GRAY, Byron GATES (SFU)
       
    8:30am - 9:30am SESSION 6
    Optical and Photonics Testing
    Chair :  A. Chatterjee (Georgia Tech)
      Closing the testing gap between CMOS and photonics
    Adam OSSEIRAN (Edith Cowan University)
      A Custom CMOS Sensor for Pyramidal Adaptive Optics Syste
    Kuldip MODHA, Ian STOCKFORD (The University of Nottingham)
      Design and modeling of a MEMS-based tunable optical nanoantenna
    Long QUE, Zhongcheng GONG, Tae-woo LEE (Louisiana State University)
       
    9:30am - 9:50am SESSION 7
    Practical Case Study
    Chair : Marcelo Lubaszewski (UFRGS, Brazil)
      Acoustic System for Online Wiring Test on Aircraft
    Zhou XU, Denis KOLTSOV, Shimul SAHA, Andrew RICHARDSON (Lancaster University), Alistair SUTHERLAND (BCF Design)
       
    10:00am – 11:00am SESSION 8
    Bio-Chemical sensors testing
    Chair : Joan Figueras, UPC, Spain
      Fault Modelling and Test Development for Continuous Flow Microchemical Sensor Systems
    Ian BELL, Tom MYERS (Univeristy of Hull)
      High Resolution DNA Label-Free Detection System based on Capacitive Biosensor
    Daniela DE VENUTO (Politecnico di Bari), Bruno RICCò (University of Bologna)
      A HYBRID BACTERIA AND MICROPARTICLE DETECTION PLATFORM ON A CMOS CHIP
    Zhao LU, Jaouad EL-FOULADI, Sylvain MARTEL ,Yvon SAVARIA (Ecole Polytechnique)
       
    11:30am –12:30pm SESSION 9
    Fault Tolerance and diagnosis for microfluidic devices
    Chair : Yvon SAVARIA (Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal)
      A Novel Diagnosis and Recovery Technique for Multiple Faults in Digital Microfluidics Biochips
    B.S JOSHI, Arindam MUKHERJEE, Arun RAVINDRAN, Daniel DAVIDS (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
      A Droplet Routing Technique for Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Devices
    Hans KERKHOFF, Xiao ZHANG, Frits VAN PROOSDIJ (University of Twente)
      Fault Diagnosis for Lab-on-Chip Using Digital Microfluidic Logic Gates
    Yang ZHAO, Krishnendu CHAKRABARTY (Duke University)
       
    2:00pm – 3:00pm SESSION 10
    Needs and Necessities for Biodevices
    Chair : Mani Soma, U. Washington
      Infrastructure for Mixed SignalS in Biology and Medicine
    Bernard Courtois (CMP), B. Charlot (IES/MITEA), G. Di Pendina (CMP), L. Rufer (TIMA)
     

    A Modular Platform for Proof-of-Concept Development of Microsystems Based on Microfluidic Technology
    Rob MALLARD (CMC MICROSYSTEMS)
    Presentation and Hands-on Demonstration

       
    3:30pm – 4:20pm   SESSION 11
    Testing the Waters
    Moderator: Krishnendu CHAKRABARTY, Duke University
    Organizer: Bonnie Gray, Simon Fraser University
      Integrated microfluidic systems for cell culture and characterization
    Karen Cheung (UBC)
      Fluid mixing achieved in a microreactor chip
    Samar HAROUN, Paul LI (SFU)
       
    4:20pm – 5:30pm ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
    Testing the Waters                            
     

    Participants:
    Karan Kaler  (U. Calgary)
    Rob MALLARD (CMC MICROSYSTEMS)
    Paul Li (SFU)
    Karen Cheung (UBC)
    Bonnie Gray (SFU)

       
    SOCIAL EVENT


    JUNE 20, 2008
       
    9:00am – 10:00am SESSION 12
    Converter Test and Calibration
    Chair : TBD
      Calibrating Capacitor Mismatch and Comparator Offset for 1-Bit/Stage Pipelined ADCs
    Xuan-Lun HUANG, Jiun Lang HUANG (National Taiwan University)  
      Exploring the Dynamics of Embedded ADC through Adapted Digital Input Stimuli
    Xiaoqin SHENG, Hans KERKHOFF (University of Twente), AMIR C ZJAJO (NXP Semiconductors Research), Guido GRONTHOUD (NXP Semiconductors
      A New Approach for Nonlinearity Test of High Speed DAC
    Chun-Wei LIN, Sheng Feng LIN, Shih Fen LUO (National Yunlin University of Science & Technology)
       
    10:30am – 11:00am SESSION 13
    Embedded Tutorial
      ESD Protection for Mixed-Signal Circuits – Design or Test Problem?
    Manoj SACHDEV, Hossein SARBISHAEI, Sumanjit Singh LUBANA
       
    11:00am – 12:30pm SESSION 14
    RF and SIP Test
    Chair : TBD
      Efficient Low-Cost Test Technique for Wireless Polar Transmitter’s
    Rajarajan SENGUTTUVAN, Deuk LEE, Abhijit CHATTERJEE (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      Estimation of Test Metrics for AMS/RF BIST Using Copulas
    Ahcène BOUNCEUR, Salvador MIR (TIMA Laboratory)
      A Low-Cost Test Approach for Embedded RF Passive Circuits
    Abhilash GOYAL, Madhavan SWAMINATHAN (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      An Approach to Model-based Testing of Mixed-signal SiPs
    Reik MUELLER (TU-Dresden), Carsten WEGENER (Infineon Technologies AG), Hans-Joachim JENTSCHEL (TU-Dresden)
       
    1:30PM – 2:30pm SESSION 15
    Reliability and Design-For-Reliability
    Chair: Salvador Mir (TIMA)
      Reliability of wireless on-chip interconnects based on carbon nanotube antennas
    Partha PANDE (Washington State U.), Alireza NOJEH (UBC), Amlan GANGULY (Washington State U.), Benjamin BELZER (Washington State U.), André IVANOV (UBC)
      Reliability Issues in Flash Memories:
    Olivier GINEZ (L2MP), Jean Michel PORTAL (Laboratoire L2MP/Polytech-UMR-CNRS-6137), HASSEN AZIZA (L2MP Laboratory)
      Thermally-Coupled IC Interconnect Networks
    Andrew LABUN (University of British Columbia - Okanagan)
       
    3:00pm - 4:00pm SESSION 16
    Robust Actuators
    Chair: TBD
      Two-layer Sliding Mode Control of Pneumatic Position Synchro System
    Hong ZHAO (China University of Petroleum, Beijing)
      Adaptive ZPETC Method for Dual-Stage Actuator Controller Design In Miniaturized Optical Disc Drive
    Stone CHENG (National Chiao-Tung University), Po-Chien CHOU (National Chiao-tung U.)
      Dual Robust Controller Design for High Power PMSM drive
    Stone CHENG (National Chiao-Tung University)
       
    4:00pm CONCLUDING REMARKS