Organizing Committee
Workshop Chair

D. De Venuto (Politecnico di Bari and INFN Bari, Italy)

Steering Committee

B. Courtois (CMP Grenoble, France)
M. Declercq (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
G. Gielen (Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
V. Misra (North Carolina State University, USA)
B. Riccò (Univ. di Bologna, Italy)
C. Van Hoof (IMEC Leuven, Belgium)

Technical Program Committee

L. Benini (Univ. di Bologna, Italy)
E. Cantatore (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands)
S. Carrara (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
H. Casier (AMI Semiconductors Bruxelles, Belgium)
K. Chakrabarty (Duke University, USA)
C. D’Amato (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
G. De Cesare (Università La Sapienza Roma, Italy)
E. Di Sciascio (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
L. Dilillo (LIRMM, France)
P. Franzon (North Carolina State University, USA)
M. Kayal (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
K. Mitrokotsa (University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland)
K. Makinwa (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
L. Milor (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
E. Nappi (INFN Bari, Italy)
M. J. Ohletz (ZMD AG, Germany)
M. Paolucci (DoCoMo Euro-labs, Germany)
L. Rufer (TIMA Grenoble, France)
F. Scioscia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
G. Semeraro (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
M. Sheng (University of Adelaide, Australia)
P. Siciliano (IMM-CNR Lecce, Italy)
A. Taroni (Univ. di Brescia, Italy)
R. Torlone (Univ. Roma Tre, Italy)
L. Torsi (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
M. Savino (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
B. Vigna (ST Microelectronics - Cornadero, Italy)

Local Committee

D. De Venuto (Politecnico di Bari and INFN Bari, Italy)
E. Nappi (INFN Bari, Italy)
M. Ruta (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
F. Gramegna (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
S. Ieva (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
G. Loseto (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

June 13, 201308.30 Registration
09.00 Welcome addresses		
N. Costantino, Chancellor of Politecnico of Bari, Italy		
N. Vendola, President of Apulia Region		
M. Emiliano, Mayor of Bari		M. de Palma, Director INFN Bari, Italy		
D. De Venuto, Workshop Chair
09.15 Opening Speeches		
Jan M. Rabaey (Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor,		 Dept. of EECS University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA)		
The Innovation is in the Minds
10.00 Enrico Macii (Politecnico di Torino - Italy)		
Enable Sensor Networks Interoperability in Smart Public
Spaces through a Service Oriented Approach
10.30 Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session I

Ambient Assisted Living and Smart HealthChairs: Pietro Siciliano (IMM-CNR Lecce-Italy) and		Daniela De Venuto (Politecnico di Bari-Italy)
11.00 Invited Speaker: C. Van Hoof (IMEC, Belgium)		
Addressing the Healthcare Cost Dilemma by Managing
Health instead of Managing Illness. An opportunity for
Wireless Wearable Sensors11.30 Remotely Powered Implantable Heart Monitoring Systemfor Freely Moving Animals
Enver Gurhan Kilinc, Catherine Dehollain, Alejandro C. Moya, Harald V. Lintel,
Philippe Renaud, Qing Wang, Franco Maloberti
EPFL - Lausanne - Switzerland, CHUV - Switzerland, Università degli Studi diPavia - Italy

11.45 Mobile and Wireless Inertial Sensor Platform for Motion
Capturing in Stroke Rehabilitation Sessions

Hans-Peter Brückner, Rochus Nowosielski, Henning Kluge and Holger Blume
Leibniz Universität Hannover - Germany

12.00 Accelerometer Based Intelligent System for Human
Movement RecognitionFernando Ginez da Silva and Elisabete Galeazzo
Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

12.15 Support Vector Machine for Tri-axial		 Accelerometer-based Fall Detector

Gabriele Rescio, Alessandro Leone and Pietro Siciliano
CNR-IMM - Lecce - Italy		 (P) Food Intake Monitoring System for Mobile Devices

Engin Mendi, Ocal Ozyavuz, Emrah Pekeseny and Coskun Bayrak
KTO Karatay University, Konya - Turkey, Istanbul Kultur University - 		Turkey

Session II

CMOS solutions for bio-interface
Chair: Michel Declercq (EPFL Lausanne-Switzerland)
12.30 Invited Speaker: A. Poon (Stanford University - USA)		
Emerging wireless applications in biomedicine
13.00 Empirical Study of Noise Dependence in ElectrochemicalSensors

Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Gaurav Nanda, Sandro Carrara and Giovanni De Micheli
EPFL - Lausanne - Switzerland

13.15 Lunch

Session II

CMOS solutions for bio-interface
Chair: Michel Declercq (EPFL Lausanne-Switzerland)
14.15 On the response of nanoelectrode capacitive biosensors
to DNA and PNA strands
Federico Pittino, Federico Passerini, Luca Selmi, Pierpaolo Palestri andFrans Widdershoven
DIEGM - Università degli Studi di Udine - ItalyNXP Semiconductors - Leuven - Belgium

14.30 Capacitive Detuning Optimization for Wireless Uplink
Communication in Neural Implants
Gurkan Yilmaz and Catherine Dehollain
EPFL - Lausanne - Switzerland

14.45 A Wireless Address-Event Representation System for		 ATC-Based Multi-Channel Force Wireless Transmission

Paolo Motto Ros, Marco Paleari, Nicolò Celadon, Alessandro Sanginario,Alberto Bonanno, Marco Crepaldi, Paolo Ariano and Danilo Demarchi
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia @Polito - Italy, Fondazione Istituto Italiano diTecnologia - Italy, Politecnico di Torino - Italy

Session III

Innovative radiation detectors for particle and nuclear physics
Chair: Eugenio Nappi (INFN Bari-Italy)
15.00 Invited Speaker: A. Di Ciaccio (Università Roma Tor Vergataand INFN Italy)		
The Higgs Boson discovery and the role of detector
technology
15.30 Novel architectures of MPGD based detectors of single
photons
Stefano Levorato
INFN Trieste and Trieste University - Italy

15.45 A CMOS 0.13μm Read-out Front-End for		 Triple-Gas-Electron-Multiplier Detectors

Alessandro Pezzotta, Marcello De Matteis, Andrea Costantini,Andrea Baschirotto, Giuseppe Gorini, Marco De Blasi, Fabrizio Murtas
University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy, University of Salento - Lecce - Italy
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN - Italy

16.00 A ReadOut Electronics for Drift Chambers Signals
Processing

Michele Cascella, Marco Panareo, Alessandro Corvaglia, Francesco Grancagnolo,
Aurora Pepino, Patrizio Primiceri, Giovanni Tassielli and Yury Yudin
University of Salento and INFN - Italy, University of Rome “G. Marconi” andINFN - Italy, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics - Russian Federation

16.15 Characterization Of An SRAM Based Particle Detector For
Mixed-Field Radiation Environments

Georgios Tsiligiannis, Luigi Dilillo, Alberto Bosio, Patrick Girard,
Serge Pravossoudovitch, Aida Todri-Sanial, Arnaud Virazel, Julien Mekki,Markus Brugger, Jean-Roch Vaillé, Frédéric Wrobel and Frédéric Sagne
LIRMM - Montpellier - France, CERN - Geneva - Switzerland, IES - Montpellier
France		 (P) An innovative polyimide microchannels cooling system			for the pixel sensor of the upgraded ALICE inner tracker
Gabriele Fiorenza, Vito Manzari, Cosimo Pastore, Irene Sgura,Corrado Gargiulo
INFN Bari - Italy, Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche
Nucléaire, Geneva - Switzerland

Session IVSensors and sensor interfaces based on organic andlarge area electronics
Chair: Eugenio Cantatore (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology - TheNetherlands)
16.30 Invited Speaker: H. Fuketa (University of Tokio and JST/ERATO
Tokio - Japan)		
Large-Area and Flexible Sensors with Organic Transistors
17.00 Comparison between different architectures of anelectrolyte-gated Organic Thin-Film Transistor fabricatedon flexible Kapton substrates
Liviu Mihai Dumitru, Kyriaki Manoli, Maria Magliulo and Luisa Torsi
University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Italy

17.15 Large area printed temperature sensors on flexible
substrate

Abdelkader Aliane, Vincent Fischer, Romain Coppard, Tiphaine Card andIsabelle Chartier
CEA/LITEN/DTNM - Grenoble - France

17.30 A Discrete-Time Amplifier Based on Thin-Film		 Trans-Capacitors for Organic Sensor Frontends

Daniele Raiteri, Arthur van Roermund and Eugenio Cantatore
Eindhoven University of Technology, MSM - Eindhoven - The Netherlands

17.45 Electrowetting-on-dielectric system based onpolydimethylsiloxane
Domenico Caputo, Giampiero de Cesare, Nicola Lovecchio,Riccardo Scipinotti and Augusto Nascetti
Università “La Sapienza” - Roma - Italy		(P) Thin film technology flexible thermoelectric generator			and dedicated ASIC for energy harvesting applications
Luca Francioso, Chiara De Pascali, Pietro Siciliano, Arturo De Risi,
Stefano D’Amico, Carlo Veri and Mirko Pasca
CNR - Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi - Lecce - Italy,
University of Salento - Lecce - Italy		 (P) Use of butyl-methylimidazolium based ionic liquids			
with different anions in electrolyte-gated organic			
field-effect transistors
Donato De Tullio, Maria Magliulo, Giuseppe Colafemmina,
Kyriaki Manoli, Luisa Torsi and Gerardo Palazzo
University of Bari “Aldo Moro” - Italy

20.30 Guided Tour of Trani and Social DinnerJune 14, 2013
09.00 Opening Speech		
Luca Benini (Università di Bologna – Italy)
Designing next-generation smart sensor hubs for theInternet-of-Things

Session V

CMOS smart sensors and sensor interfaces
Chair: Kofi Makinwa (Delft University of Technology - The Netherlands)
09.30 Invited Speaker: R. van Veldhoven (NXP Semiconductors,Eindhoven - The Netherlands)		
Sensors for Automotive Applications: Challenges andSolutions
10.00 A ±5A Battery Current Sensor with ±0.04% Gain Errorfrom -55°C to +125°C

Saleh Heidary Shalmany, Kofi Makinwa and Dieter Draxelmayr
Delft University of Technology - The Netherlands, Infineon Technologies Villach - Austria

10.15 A New Single-Chip Analog Lock-In Amplifier withAutomatic Phase and Frequency Tuning for Physical/
Chemical Noisy Phenomena Detection

Andrea De Marcellis, Giuseppe Ferri, Paolo Mantenuto and Arnaldo D’Amico
University of L’Aquila - Italy, University of Roma Tor Vergata - Italy

10.30 A Low-Power Read-Out Circuit and Low-Cost Assembly ofNanosensors onto a 0.13 μm CMOS Micro-for-Nano Chip
Alberto Bonanno, Valentina Cauda, Marco Crepaldi, Paolo Motto Ros, Marco
Morello, Danilo Demarchi and Pierluigi Civera
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia @Polito, CSHR - Torino - Italy, Politecnico diTorino - Italy

10.45 On-chip Mass Sensing at the Physical Limits of
Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Christian Kauth, Marc Pastre and Maher Kayal
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland		(P) Predictive calibration technique for magnetic field			
position sensors
Jose Luis Merino Panades and Catherine Dehollain
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland		 (P) Electronic interface for position sensing using			resonant cavities
Estibaliz Asua, Alfredo García-Arribas, Victor Etxebarria,
Jorge Feutchwanger, Joaquin Portilla and Julio Lucas
UPV/EHU - Bilbao - Spain, Elytt Energy - Madrid - Spain		 (P) Wireless Powering and Data Communication for			
Neural Implantable Electrodes

Daniela De Venuto and Jan Rabaey
Politecnico di Bari - Italy, EECS University of California at Berkeley, CA - USA				 (P) CMOS-MEMS technology with front-end surface			
etching of sacrificial SiO2 dedicated for acoustic			 devices
Josué Esteves, Libor Rufer, Skandar Basrour and Didace Ekeom
TIMA - Grenoble - France, Microsonics - Saint-Avertin - France

11.00 Coffee break and Poster Exhibition

Session VISensors in industrial applications and testing
Chair: Linda S. Milor (Georgia Institute of Technology-USA)11.30 Invited Speaker: G. Gielen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium)		
Timing-based integrated sensor interfaces: hype orpromise?
12.00 A Novel Electrochemical Method for Olive Oil Acidity
Determination

Marco Grossi, Giuseppe Di Lecce, Tullia Gallina Toschi and Bruno RiccòDEI - University of Bologna - Italy, DISTAL - University of Bologna - Italy

12.15 New Low-Cost Concept for Characterization of MEMS
Accelerometers at Medium-g Levels for Automotive

Edoardo Giomi, Luca Fanucci and Alessandro Rocchi
University of Pisa - Italy, SensorDynamics AG - Navacchio (Pisa) - Italy

12.30 BIST of interconnection lines in the pixel matrix of CMOS
imagers

Richun Fei, Jocelyn Moreau and Salvador Mir
STMicroelectronics - Grenoble - France, TIMA Laboratory - Grenoble - France

12.45 System-Level Modeling and Reliability Analysis ofMicroprocessor Systems
Chang-Chih Chen and Linda Milor
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta - USA13.00 Spray deposited carbon nanotubes for organic vapoursensors
Giuseppe De Pascali, Roberto Nasi, Antonio Valentini, Maria Angela Nitti,
Giuseppe Casamassima, Marco Valentini and Domenico Melisi
University of Bari “A. Moro” - Italy, INFN Bari - Italy

13.15 Lunch

Session VII

Advanced power management for sensor clouds
Chairs: Luca Benini/Michele Magno (Università di Bologna – Italy)
14.15 Invited Speaker: E. Popovici (University College Cork - Ireland)		
Power Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor
Networks: A Review14.45 Clocks, Latency and Energy Efficiency in Duty Cycled,
Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Eoin O’Connell, Brendan O’Flynn and David Boyle
Tyndall National Institute - University College Cork - Ireland, Imperial CollegeLondon - UK

15.00 Clamp-and-Measure forever: A MOSFET-based circuit forenergy harvesting and measurement targeted for power
metersDanilo Porcarelli, Luca Benini and Davide Brunelli
University of Bologna - Italy, University of Trento - Italy

15.15 Analyzing the Transient Response of MOX Gas Sensors toImprove the Lifetime of Distributed Sensing Systems
Maurizio Rossi and Davide Brunelli
University of Trento - Italy		 (P) A versatile biomedical wireless sensor node with			novel drysurface sensors and energy efficent power			 management

Michele Magno, Luca Benini, Lorenzo Gaggero, Juan Pablo La Torre Aro
and Emanuel Popovici
Università di Bologna - Italy, Università di Genova - Italy,
University College Cork - IrelandSession VIII

Swarm of sensors and internet of things
Chairs: Eugenio Di Sciascio/Michele Ruta (Politecnico di Bari-Italy)
15.30 Invited Speaker: D. Ranasinghe (University of Adelaide Australia)		
Automated Activity Recognition and Monitoring of ElderlyUsing Wireless Sensors: Research Challenges
16.00 Effective Connectivity and Cortical Information Flow
Under Visual Stimulation in Migraine with Aura

Gabriele Trotta, Sebastiano Stramaglia, Mario Pellicoro, Roberto Bellotti,
Daniele Marinazzo and Marina De Tommaso
Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” - INFN Bari - Italy,
Ghent University - Belgium

16.15 Semantic-enhanced resource discovery for CoAP-based
sensor networks
Filippo Gramegna, Saverio Ieva, Giuseppe Loseto and Agnese Pinto
Politecnico di Bari - Italy

16.30 Panel Session		
Cyber-Physical planet: dream or nightmare?
Chair: Bruno Riccò (University of Bologna - Italy)				
Antonio Vilei (STMicroelectronics - Italy)		 Robert van Veldhoven (NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven 		 The Netherlands)		 Franco Bigongiari (SITAEL - Italy)Authorized Technology Partner