Three satellite workshops dealing with emerging disciplines, such as Polymer Electronics, Bioelectronics and Application-specific Design for ESD Protection Structures, will complement the Conference Programme. In addition, two ESSCIRC-related workshops devoted to High Performance Data Converters and Electrical Issues on SoC and SoP Design will be offered to the Conference attendees. The workshops will be held on Monday, 23 September, preceding the Conference, and on Friday, 27 September, following the Conference ESSDERC and ESSCIRC are keeping separate Technical Program Committees but will share a number of keynote presentations in plenary sessions. Also, delegates registered for either Conference, are encouraged to attend any of the available parallel sessions. They will be:

Electronic Devices Manufactured with Organic Materials: from a Research Challenge to Opportunity for New Products. 
Organized by E. Cantatore, Philips, The Nederlands.
Monday 23 September 2002

The program of the workshop on organic electronic devices will cover a full day on Monday, September 23rd 2002. Aim of this workshop is to provide the attendee with up to date information on a wide range of research activities in the field of organic devices. Topics of the lectures will be: physics of monocrystalline, disordered and photo-emissive organic semiconductors, state of the art technology of electronic and opto-electronic organic devices, organic TFTs modelling and organic circuit design. Also, the workshop will provide a forum to stimulate the discussion among the lecturers and with the attendees on the new application domains that organic electronic and opto-electronic devices open up.

09.00    Opening: aim and structure of the workshop 
09.10    Introduction to Organic Thin Film Transistors
            (G. Gelinck - Philips Research Eindhoven)
09.50   Charge Injection and Transport in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes 
            (P. Blom - University of Groningen)
10.30   Polymer LED Displays and Sensors
            (H. Huiberts - Philips Research Eindhoven) 
11.00   Coffee break
11.30   Technology and Characteristics of TFTs Manufactured with Organic Semiconductors
            (G. Gelinck - Philips Research Eindhoven)
12.00   Performance and Stability of Pentacene TFTs
            (C. Dimitrakopoulos, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center)
12.30   Printing: a New Key Technology to Build Organic Electronic Devices 
            (H. Sirringhaus - Plastic Logic Ltd.)
13.00   Lunch
14.00   Characterisation of Organic TFTs and Circuits
            (W. Fix - Siemens A.G.)
14.30   Introduction to Organic TFT Modelling and Circuit Design 
            (E. Cantatore - Philips Research Eindhoven)
14.50   Panel Session: Applications of Organic Devices 
15.30   Coffee break
16.00   Wrap-up and seminar conclusion

Bio-sensors and Bio-electronics. 
Organized by R. Thewes, Infineon, Germany. 
Friday 27 September 2002

In this workshop, the general operation principles of DNA- and protein chips, cell-based sensors, and Lab-on-a-chip realizations are considered. The basic bio-chemical and micro-fluidic principles used to operate such tools are briefly introduced. Specific emphasis is put on electronic and CMOS compatible platforms, but also the status of development of optical chips and other competing approaches is discussed. In particular the challenges, riscs and opportunities concerning technology development, process integration, and circuitry of active platforms is addressed.

09.00. "BioChips - Operation Principles, Applications, Markets": Christian Hanke, Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany

Abstract: At the beginning of the "Bio-century" highly advanced methodologies such as Genomics are speeding up molecular diagnosis and therapy. An overview will be given about the general operation principles of optics-based DNA- and protein chips, about electronic detection methods, and about the basics of biochemistry behind. Application areas of such chips and market estimations will be considered. Moreover, the talk will provide examples concerning some of the most promising biological applications in pharmaceutical target screening and personalized medicine.

Christian Hanke was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1958. He is a molecular biologist by training with several years of experience in business operations of biotech and pharmaceutical companies. After his M.Sc. in molecular biology, he worked on his doctoral thesis at Boehringer Mannheim in the filed of cloning, expression and genetic modification of bacterial enzymes for medical applications. Afterwards he worked in clinical research and in a medical-scientific department of a Schering-Plough, followed by his work as a senior manager for diagnostic companies being responsible for the whole marketing mix of diagnostics in the field of infectious diseases. In January 2001, he joined Infineon Technologies where he is now head of Marketing & Sales BioChips.

10.00. "Intelligent CMOS sensor interfaces for biochemical and biomedical microsensor applications Robert Puers, K.U. Leuven ESAT-MICAS, Leuven, BELGIUM

Abstract: The expanding possibilities of CMOS technology have led to their introduction in low power, stand alone data monitoring and analysis systems. This presentation will highlight two examples: a multi-parameter biochemical microsensor with temperature control and signal interfacing for blood gas sensing, physiometry or environmental monitoring. The full CMOS integration of a sensor array with its dedicated interface circuits is discussed. The second example shown is an extremely minitaturized, low power interface system to capture data simultaneously from 18 strain sensors. The system, beside the analog front end, is equipped with embedded circuitry to perform the requested data interpretation and compression.

Robert Puers was born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1953. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1977 and 1986, respectively. He is Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and is director of the clean room facilities for silicon sensor processing and for hybrid circuit technology at the ESAT-MICAS laboratories of the same University. Since 1987 he established a group working on mechanical sensors, silicon micromachining and on packaging techniques, for biomedical implant systems as well as for industrial devices. In addition, his general interest is in low power telemetry systems, with the emphasis on intelligent interface circuits and on inductive power and data links. He is teaching courses in 'Microsystems and Sensors', in 'Biomedical Instrumentation and Stimulation' and a basic course in 'Electonics, Systems and Automation'. He is the author of more than 200 papers on biotelemetry, sensors or packaging in journals or on international conferences. He is involved in the organisation, reviewing and publishing activities of many conferences, journals and workshops in the field of biotelemetry, sensors, actuators, micromachining, and microsystems. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), council member of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), member of the Electron Device Society (EDS) and many others. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

11.00 Coffee break

11.30. "CMOS-only lab-on-a-chip for drug discovery" Roberto Guerrieri, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Abstract: Today, there is no agreement about the "best technology" for lab-on-a-chip manufacturing. A design approach that forces the designer to stay within the limitations imposed by a pure CMOS process could appear to be too limitative for this field. In this presentation, limitations and strengths will be discussed of an approach that exploits the existing CMOS technology and follows it in its development roadmap. Applications of CMOS-based lab-on-a-chip realizations for drug discovery will be shown and future possibilities based on the CMOS roadmap explored.

Roberto Guerrieri received the Laurea degree and the Ph.D. in 1980 and 1986, respectively, from the University of Bologna, working on numerical simulation of semiconductor devices. From 1986 to 1988 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley as Visiting Researcher, where he focussed on massively parallel computing. In 1987 he spent the winter semester at the MIT, Cambridge, as visiting scientist. In 1989 he joined the University of Bologna where he is currently Associate Professor, in charge of the Laboratory for VLSI design. His research interests are in various aspects of applied pattern recognition, integrated circuit design and parallel processing. In collaboration with ST Microelectronics, he is working on smart sensors and low-power digital signal processors. In 1998 he created the Laboratory for Electronic Systems, a joint laboratory of the University of Bologna and ST Microelectronics that focuses on the development of innovative systems on chip. Moreover, he is the cofounder of a start-up company in the area of lab-on-a-chip.

13.00 Lunch

Application Specific Design for ESD and Substrate Effects. 
Organized by W. Wilkening, R. Bosch, Germany. 
Friday 27 September 2002

The project develops simulation guided methods to assure Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) robust circuit design and to prevent substrate cross-talk in mixed signal applications. For ESD protection design, the consortium investigates both stress according to the 'classical’ Human Body Model (HBM) and to the Charged Devices Model (CDM). Focusing on CDM, we will give a brief overview, present new characterization methods and report on studies based on device and circuit simulation. In addition the project tackles substrate noise coupling between devices and blocks, including interconnection line effects and shielding measures. We present a prototype of a common design environment for three different substrate modeling and extraction tools and give an application example (10 to 40 Gbit/s high gain broadband amplifier).

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