Chips Act initiatives in the move
Organizer:
- Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
There are a number of initiatives in Europe both on national and EU levels to ramp up the European competences in microelectronics design and manufacturing. This session is implemented as an exhibit and a panel discussion of the exhibitor and sponsor representatives at NorCAS 2025. In the exhibit, we expect to see several national Chip Competence Centers and other key stakeholders of the microelectronics initiatives in Europe.
Efficient ways to develop Rust firmware
Organizers:
- Wolfgang Ecker, Infineon Technologies/TUM, Germany
- Henri Lunnikivi, TAU, Finland
- Per Lindgren, LTU, Sweden
Rust is gaining significance in the industry due to its memory safety, performance, and concurrency capabilities, making it a strong contender for traditional embedded development languages like C and C++. As memory safety requires a special way of writing software, Rust is sometimes framed as being inefficient to use. This session addresses aspects of using Rust efficiently in firmware programming without restricting the methods and approaches to how this can be achieved.
AI in Circuits and Systems
Organizers:
- Hannu Tenhunen, KTH, Sweden
- Jouni Isoaho, University of Turku, Finland
- Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
This special session addresses the use of Artificial Intelligence from two sides: How AI is used for facilitating the design of microelectronics circuits and systems, and on the other hand, how AI is incorporated in resource-constrained systems such as Internet-of-Things, wearables or Edge computing devices.
Wireless communications circuits
Organizers:
- Dmitrijs Pikulins, RTU, Latvia
- Peeter Ellervee, Taltech, Estonia
- Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
The variety in wireless communication circuits and systems keeps extending. At one end there are backscattering devices and ultra low power IoT communication circuits, at the other end sophisticated 5G and 6G technologies with new waveforms and modulations used in massive-MIMO-enabled communication networks with high capacity, throughput, low latency or ultra reliability requirements. New frequency bands for terrestrial and satellite communications are explored, and at the same time lower frequencies are finding new applications when abandoned from traditional broadcast use. This special session welcomes submissions throughout the spectrum of communication circuit design, both in analog and digital domains.