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2019 31st International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM) Program
Time Louvre Pavillon 1 Pavillon 2
Sunday, December 15
09:00 am-
10:00 am Registration
10:00 am-
11:45 am Tutorial-I
11:45 am-
12:00 pm Coffee Break
12:00 pm-
01:45 pm Tutorial-II
01:45 pm-
03:30 pm Tutorial-III
03:30 pm-
05:00 pm Lunch Break
Monday, December 16
07:30 am-
08:30 am Registration
08:30 am-
09:30 am Opening Ceremony
09:30 am-
10:30 am Keynote Speaker-1:
10:30 am-
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am-
12:40 pm Circuit and systems-I SoC/Modeling System
Smart Sensors and Sensor
Networks.
12:40 pm-
02:00 pm Lunch Break
02:00 pm-
03:00 pm Keynote Speaker-2
03:00 pm-
04:40 pm
Communication/Power
Amplifier
FPGA/IoT
Special session in Hardware
Security
04:40 pm-
05:00 pm Coffee Break
05:00 pm-
07:00 pm Poster Session Tutorial-IV Poster Session
Tuesday, December 17
08:00 am-
09:00 am Registration
09:00 am-
10:00 am Keynote Speaker-3
10:00 am-
10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30 am-
12:10 pm Circuits & Systems-II x-RAM/Memristor Complex systems
12:10 pm-
01:30 pm Lunch Break
01:30 pm-
02:30 pm Keynote Speaker-4
02:30 pm-
04:10 pm Biomedical Systems Circuits & Systems-III
Machine Learning/Smart
Cities
04:10 pm-
05:00 pm Coffee Break
05:00 pm-
06:00 pm Closing & Award
Ceremony
07:30 pm-
11:00 pm Banquet Party
Sunday, December 15
Sunday, December 15 9:00 - 10:00
Registration
Sunday, December 15 10:00 - 11:45
Tutorial-I
Different Topologies of Wireless Transceiver for Medical Implants Systems
Dr. Sherif Saleh Mohamed
Room: Pavillon 1
Recently, low-power wireless technologies and miniature sensors have been effectively developed.
The emerging of wireless sensor networks with a reliable data transfer and higher bandwidth requires
small, highly integrated, inexpensive transceivers with very low power consumption. This will satisfy
the need for higher bandwidth and reliable data transfer. Super-regenerative (SR) transceivers have
recently been proposed for low power operation and its high level of integrity, but suffer from low
data rates and the use of offchip resonators. The principle of super-regenerative transceiver, is to
achieve a high gain at low bias currents, which based on discrete sampling of the incoming RF input
signal with a quenched RF detector oscillator at a defined certain periods. This tutorial introduces a
lowpower super-regenerative transceiver based on the quenching concept, that employs on-off keying
(OOK) modulation, achieving excellent selectivity while consuming less than 0.16 mW without the
need for expensive off-chip components. By achieving the system wholstically, a data transmission is
achieved while meeting the requirement of the 300 kHz channel bandwidth of the MICS application.
Operation of the new system is explained at the system level and the entire circuit design is also
given. The transceiver is employed to preserve the low power quality of the classic transceiver and
provides an excellent trade-off between simplicity and high performance, while obtaining the reduced
area and reliability of OOK modulation.
Sunday, December 15, 11:45 - 12:00
Coffee Break
Sunday, December 15, 12:00 - 1:45
Tutorial-II
Developments and Practices for Testing MRAM Memories
Dr. Patrick GIRARD
Room: Pavillon 1
Memories occupy most of the silicon area in nowadays System-on-Chips. Though widely used, non-
volatile Flash memories still have several drawbacks. Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM)
have the potential to mitigate almost all Flash related issues. However, they are prone to defects as
any other kind of memories. This embedded tutorial provides an up-to-date and practical coverage of
MRAM testing. The first part gives some background on Magnetic Tunnel Junction and existing
MRAM technologies. Then, an MRAM architecture used to illustrate the development of test and
reliability solutions is presented. The next part detailed resistive-open, resistive-bridge and capacitive
defect injection campaigns that are usually performed in order to analyze specific failure mechanisms
of MRAMs. Specific functional fault models associated to these failure mechanisms are then
described. The last part of the tutorial presents March test algorithms developed for MRAM testing
and their validation in industrial environments.
Sunday, December 15, 1:45 - 3:30
Tutorial-III
Deep Learning for self-driving cars
Dr. Ibrahim Sobh
Room: Pavillon 1
Recent advances in deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) have enabled noticeable and rapid success in
developing computer vision, natural language and speech processing intelligent systems. Recently, in the
automotive industry, researchers and developers are actively pushing deep learning based approaches to
enable autonomous driving. The first part of this tutorial introduces a generic framework for self-driving
cars in addition to use-cases and demos, followed by an introduction to the fundamentals of machine
learning and deep learning along with resources and development tools. Then, different computer vision
and environment perception tasks are presented including state of the art object detection, semantic
segmentation and instance segmentation. Additionally, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and
related applications will be presented. Methods to fool (attack) deep models along with possible defenses
approaches are presented. Finally, the tutorial will be concluded by presenting demos and having
discussions.
Sunday, December 15, 3:30 - 5:00
Lunch Break
Monday, December 16
Monday, December 16 7:30 - 8:30
Registration
Monday, December 16, 8:30 - 9:30
Opening Ceremony
Room: Pavillon 1
Monday, December 16, 9:30 - 10:30
Keynote Speaker-1:
Hybrid Bioelectronics for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Prof. Mohamad Sawan
Room: Pavillon 1
Chair: Abdallah Kassem (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
Brain-machine bioelectronic Interfaces intended for massively parallel neurorecording and
electrical/optical microstimulation are becoming unique alternatives to understand the mechanism
of neurodegeneration and subsequently recover various lost vital cognitive functions. This talk
covers advanced circuit and system techniques as well as packaging solutions intended to build
required solutions. The latter are System-on-Chip based devices dealing with multidimensional
design challenges such as low-power microsystems, high-data rate wireless communication, and
reliable harvesting energy methods. Application-specific microsystem architectures will be
discussed, and experimental results will be demonstrated. Case studies of intracortical
neurorecording and microstimulation will be presented for Vision mechanism and for Epileptic
seizures detection and prediction. In addition, Lab-on-chip based neuro-transmitters detection,
manipulation and characterization intended to locate dysfunctions at the neural cells
interconnections levels will be summarized.
Monday, December 16, 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Monday, December 16, 11:00 - 12:40
Circuit and systems-I
Room: Louvre
Chairs: Amr Helmy (Zewail City, Egypt), Ahmed Khattab (Cairo University, Egypt)
11:00 optimization of micro-electrodes for DNA fragments labelled to microbeads manipulation and
characterization
Reda Mohamed (Helwan University & American University in Cairo, Egypt); Yehya
Ghallab (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Yehea Ismail (American
University in Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed-Tarek I El-Wakad (Future University Egypt)
11:20 A novel microfluidic system using a reservoir and flow control system for single cell release,
migration, separation and characterization
Reda Mohamed (Helwan University & American University in Cairo, Egypt); Yehya
Ghallab (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Yehea Ismail (American
University in Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed-Tarek I El-Wakad (Future University Egypt & Faculty
of Engineering, Egypt)
11:40 A Gilbert Cell Based Gain and Phase Mismatch Calibration Loop for 5G Beamformers
Mohamed K Hussein (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Mohamed
Abdalla and Islam Eshrah (Cairo University, Egypt)
12:00 Power Tracking Controller Design For Photo-voltaic Systems Based On Particle Swarm
Optimization Technique
Mahmoud Mahmoud, Ahmed Tarek, Lobna Said and Ahmed Madian (Nile University,
Egypt); Ahmed G. Radwan (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt)
12:20 Improved Automatic Correction for Digital VLSI Circuits
Lamya Gaber (Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Egypt); Aziza Ibrahim (Effat
University, Saudi Arabia); Mohammed Moness (Computers and Systems Engineering, Minia
University, Egypt)
Monday, December 16, 11:00 - 12:40
SoC/Modeling System
Room: Pavillon 1
Chairs: Tales Cleber Pimenta (Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil), Mohamed Refky (Cairo
University, Egypt)
11:00 Time-based Digital LDO Regulator
Dima Kilani (Postdoctoral Fellow System on Chip Center (SoCC), United Arab
Emirates); Baker Mohammad (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Mihai
Sanduleanu (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Leen
Younes (Khalifa University & System on Chip Center, United Arab Emirates)
11:20 Accelerated Software Implementation of Authenticated Encryption Stream Ciphers for High
Speed Applications
Sara Taha (Cairo University, Egypt); Hassan Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
11:40 FPGA-based Ethernet Switch for NCS with Partial Fault Tolerance
Gehad Ismail Alkady (The American University in cairo, Egypt); Markus Rentschler (Balluff
GmbH, Germany); Ramez M Daoud (American University in Cairo & KAMA Engineering
Office, Egypt); Hassanein H. Amer (American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt); Manar
Shaker (Cairo University, Egypt); Hany M. El-Sayed (Cairo University & Faculty of
Engineering, Egypt); Ihab Adly (The British University in Egypt, Egypt); Hassan
Halawa (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed Refky (Cairo University,
Egypt); Tarek K. Refaat (University of Ottawa & Larus Technologies, Canada)
12:00 Reliable On-Chip Memory For FPGA-Based Systems
Dina G. Mahmoud (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Hassanein H.
Amer (American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt); Hany M. El-Sayed (Cairo University &
Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); Gehad Ismail Alkady (The American University in cairo,
Egypt); Mahmoud Rumman (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Ihab Adly (The British
University in Egypt, Egypt)
12:20 A Versatile SoC/SiP Sensor Interface for Industrial Applications: Design Considerations
Mohamed Ali, Morteza Nabavi, Ahmad Hassan and Mohammad Honarparvar (Polytechnique
Montreal, Canada); Yvon Savaria (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Mohamad
Sawan (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Monday, December 16, 11:00 - 12:40
Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks.
Room: Pavillon 2
Chairs: Khaled Nabil Salama (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia), Amr
Talaat (SSTM Egypt Limited, Egypt)
11:00 MFCC coefficient and ANN classifier applied to roadway classification
Mohamed Atibi (LTI Lab, Faculty of Science Ben M'sik Hassan II University of Casablanca
& LPRI Lab EMSI Casablanca, Morocco); Tabaa Mohamed (EMSI, Morocco)
11:20 An Intelligent Infusion Flow Controlled Syringe Infusion Pump
Nour Merhi and Nour Mohamad (LIU, Lebanon); George J. El Hajj-Moussa (Lebanese
International University, Lebanon); Ahmad ElSayed and Saeed Bamashmos (LIU,
Lebanon); Lara Hamawy (LIU, Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Mohamad Hajj-
Hassan (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Mohamad Abou Ali (Author,
Lebanon); Abdallah Kassem (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
11:40 Microfluidic Platform for Monitoring the Dielectric Parameters of U2OS Cells
Sameh Sherif (Zewail City of Science and Technology and The American University in Cairo
(AUC), Egypt); Yehya Ghallab (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Yehea
Ismail (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Laila Ziko (School of Sciences and
Engineering(AUC), Egypt); Rania Siam (School of Sciences and Engineering, American
University in Cairo(AUC), Egypt); Omar Morsy (AUC, Egypt)
12:00 Markov Model of Modified Unslotted CSMA/CA for Wireless Sensor Networks
Nayera M. Sadek (Alexandria University & Faculty of Engineering Alexandria University,
Egypt); Mahmoud Gomaa (Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt); Mohamed
Rizk (Alexandria University, Egypt); Magdy Ahmed (Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria
University, Alexandria, Egypt)
12:20 A Novel Method for E. Coli Contamination Detection in Underground Water
Sahar Kamand (LIU, Lebanon); Ali Hage-Diab (Lebanese International University,
Lebanon); Ali Al Khatib (LIU, Lebanon)
Monday, December 16, 12:40 - 2:00
Lunch Break
Monday, December 16, 2:00 - 3:00
Keynote Speaker-2
Wide-Range Highly-Efficient Wireless Power Receivers for Biomedical Sensors
Prof. Khaled Nabil Salama
Room: Pavillon 1
Chair: Ahmed Madian (Nile University, Egypt)
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is the key enabler for myriads of applications, starting from low-
power RFIDs, wireless sensors, and Internet-of-things (IoT), grow- ing to wirelessly-charged electric
vehicles, and even up to massive power transmission from space solar cells. One of the major
challenges, to design tiny implantable biomed ical devices, are the size and lifetime of the battery.
We propose a miniaturized fully-integrated wirelessly powered implantable sensor, with on-chip
antennas, designed and implemented in standard 0.18 μm CMOS process. As a battery-less device, it
can be implanted once inside the body, with no need for further invasive surgeries to replace
batteries. The proposed single-chip solution is designed and optimized for Intraocular pressure
monitoring (IOPM), and can serve as a sustainable, sensing platform for any implantable device or
IoT nodes. We propose a self-biased, cross-coupled, differential rectifier with enhanced power-
conversion efficiency over an extended range of input power. A prototype is designed for UHF
433MHz RF power-harvesting applications and is implemented using AMS 0.18μm CMOS
technology. It demonstrates an efficiency improvement of more than 40% in the rectifier power
conversion efficiency (PCE) and an input power range extension of more than 50% relative to the
conventional cross-coupled rectifier. We further propose a wide-range, differential RF-to-DC power
converter using an adaptive, self-biasing technique. The proposed architecture extends the optimal
input range at which the rectifier maintains 90% of its peak power conversion efficiency over wider
than conventional rectifiers. Unlike the continuously self-biased rectifier proposed in the second
part, this adaptive self-biased rectifier extends the dynamic range while maintaining both the high
PCE peak and the sensitivity advantage of the conventional cross-coupled scheme.
Monday, December 16, 3:00 - 4:40
Communication/Power Amplifier
Room: Louvre
Chairs: Abdelrahman Abotaleb (Cairo University, Egypt), Amr Bayoumi (Zewail City, Egypt)
3:00 A Stochastic Team Formation Approach for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing
Aymen Hamrouni (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA & Higher School of
Communication of Tunis, Tunisia); Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of Technology &
Stevens, USA); Turki Alelyani and Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
3:20 An Evolutionary Approach for Optimized VANET Clustering
Ghada Alsuhli, Ahmed Khattab and Yasmine Fahmy (Cairo University, Egypt)
3:40 A 50 - 90 GHz High Efficiency Fully integrated 0.13 µm Si Ge Power Amplifier
Hamed Mosalam (Electronics Research Institute, Egypt); Mohamed Rezq (Electronics
Research Institute ( ERI ), Egypt); Mohamed Kamal (Fayoum University, Egypt); Haytham
Abdullah (Electronics Research Institute, Egypt)
4:00 System Level Co-Simulation Approach for Ultra-Wideband Massive MIMO Beam Forming
Phased Array Transmitters
Ahmed Mohieldin, Youssef Abdelkader and Maysara Hamada (Cairo University, Egypt)
4:20 Frequency Selective Light Scattering and Absorption for Maximum Energy Harvesting
Muhammad Umar Khan, Anila Kousar and Mehboob Alam (Mirpur University of Science and
Technology, Pakistan); Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Monday, December 16, 3:00 - 4:40
FPGA/IoT
Room: Pavillon 1
Chairs: Shawki Areibi (University of Guelph, Canada), Abdoul Rjoub (Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Jordan)
3:00 Ultra-Low Power Layered IoT Platform for Museum Content Conservation
Awab Al-Habal and Ahmed Khattab (Cairo University, Egypt)
3:16 Non-invasive IoT sensing and monitoring system for neonatal care
José De Oliveira Filho (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Otacílio Almeida (Universidade Federal do
Piauí - UFPI, Brazil); Nadya Yousef (Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Sud, France); Khaled
Nabil Salama (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
3:33 Application of Community Detection Algorithms on Social Internet-of-things Networks
Abdullah Khanfor (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens Institute
of Technology & Stevens, USA); Ye Yang and Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of
Technology, USA)
3:50 RISC-V based implementation of Programmable Logic Controller on FPGA for Industry 4.0
Hossameldin Eassa and Hanady Issa (Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime
Transport, Egypt); Ihab Adly (The British University in Egypt, Egypt)
4:06 End-to-End Crash Avoidance DeepIoT-based Solution
Mohammed Abdou (VALEO, Egypt); Rawan Idris, Zeinab Mohamed, Mayada Essam
Ali, Mayada Zaki, Maha Abbas and Mohamed Eid (Cairo University, Egypt); Hassan
Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
4:23 On Detecting IoT Power Signature Anomalies using Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
Maria A. Fouad and Amr Talaat Abdel-Hamid (German University in Cairo, Egypt)
Monday, December 16, 3:00 - 4:40
Special session in Hardware Security
Room: Pavillon 2
Chairs: Karim Abdellatif (Ledger, France), Mohamed Farahat (Zewail City, Egypt)
3:00 A Study on Transmission Overhead of Post Quantum Cryptography Algorithms in Internet of
Things Networks
Mahmoud AbdelHafeez (Assiut University, Egypt); Mostafa Taha (Carleton University,
Canada); Elsayed Esam M. Khaled (Assiut University & Engineering Faculty,
Egypt); Mohamed Abdelraheem (Assiut University, Egypt)
3:20 Towards Efficient Alignment for Electromagnetic Side Channel Attacks
Karim Abdellatif (Ledger); Karim Abdellatif (Ledger, France)
3:40 On Comparison of Countermeasures against Statistical Ineffective Fault Attacks
Mustafa Khairallah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Shivam
Bhasin (Temasek Labs at NTU, Singapore); Karim Abdellatif (Ledger, France)
4:00 Assessment of Common Side Channel Countermeasures With Respect To Deep Learning Based
Profiled Attacks
Houssem Maghrebi (Underwriters Laboratories, France)
4:20 Practical side-channel attack on a security device
Manuel San Pedro and Victor Servant (Ledger & Donjon, France); Charles
Guillemet (Ledger, France)
Monday, December 16 4:40 - 5:00
Coffee Break
Monday, December 16, 5:00 - 7:00
Poster Session
Rooms: Louvre, Pavillon 2
One Hour session Committee will pass to select ONE best STUDENT poster to be awarded!
Poster # 1 FPGA Floating Point Fractional-Order Chaotic Map Image Encryption
Samar Moustafa Ismail and Omar Aboulseoud (German University in Cairo, Egypt)
Poster # 2 FPGA Chaotic Memory Indexing Image Steganography
Samar Moustafa Ismail, Abdelrahman Ghidan and Peter Naam (German University in Cairo,
Egypt)
Poster # 3 N-digits Ternary Carry Lookahead Adder Design
Nancy Sayed Soliman, Lobna Said, Ahmed Madian and Ahmed Radwan (Nile University,
Egypt); Mohamed Fouda (CAIRO, Egypt)
Poster # 4 Trimming Circuit for Current References
Tales Cleber Pimenta (Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil); Thiago Mussilini and Filipe
Russo Ramos (UNIFEI, Brazil); Robson Moreno (Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil)
Poster # 5 Online Heartbeat Classification Using Low Cost Algorithms
Rafael Moreira (Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil); Joao Leite (UNIFEI, Brazil); Tales
Cleber Pimenta and Robson Moreno (Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil)
Poster # 6 A Low-Power Capacitance-to-Voltage Converter For MEMS Capacitive Sensors
Alaa Safwat (Ain Shams, Egypt); Ayman Hassan Ismail (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
Poster # 7 A Very Deep Transfer Learning Model for Vehicle Damage Detection and Localization
Najmeddine Dhieb (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia); Hakim
Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of Technology & Stevens, USA); Hichem Besbes (Ecole
Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com, University of Carthage, TUNISIA,
Tunisia); Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Poster # 8 Low power CNN hardware FPGA implementation
Sherry Hareth (Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport,
Egypt); Khaled Ali Shehata (Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt); Hassan
Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
Poster # 9 BCI Integrated with VR for Rehabilitation
Omnia Swelam, Alshaimaa Aamer, Amira Esawy and Toaa Nabil (Faculty of Engineering,
Cairo University, Egypt); Ayman Mohamed Anwar (Cairo University, Egypt); Ayman El-
deib (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt)
Poster # 10 Nanotube Deflections: A comparative Assessment of the State-of-the-Art
Abdoul Rjoub (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)
Poster # 11 Effect of Sonication Time in a DNA Shearing System Based on Phased-Array FASA
Transducers
Kapil Dev, Smriti Sharma, Vibhu Vivek and Babur Hadimioglu (Microsonic Systems,
USA); Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Poster # 12 Seizure Prediction & Segmentation Merge Yielding a Boosted Low Power Model
Ingy Alaa, Nourhan Ahmed, Mostafa Nader, Abdelrahman Magdy, Mohmmed
Ibrahim, Michael Malak and Michael Hany (Cairo University, Egypt); Hassan
Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
Poster # 13 Automated Current Mirror Layout (ACML) Tool
Fady Atef Nasr (Ain Shams University & Egypt, Egypt); Hassan Mostafa (University of
Toronto, Canada); Marina Zaky, Nada Khaled, Mario Adel, Omar Selim and Omar
Abdelwahab (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); AbanouB AteF FariD,
bob (Cairo University, Egypt)
Poster # 14 Analysis of IoT Botnet Architectures and Recent Defense Proposals
Tales Cleber Pimenta (Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil); James Aloi (WatchGuard
Technologies, Inc., USA); Lucas Mendes (Inatel, Brazil)
Poster # 15 Comparative investigation of two-dimensional materials for the design of non-reciprocal
antennas in terahertz band
Aymen Hlali (Manouba, Tunisia); Zied Houaneb (University of Tunisia, Tunisia); Hassen
Zairi (National Engineering School of Carthage, Tunisia)
Poster # 16 Development of a Generic and a Reconfigurable UVM-Based Verification Environment
for SoC Buses
Khaled Salah Mohamed (Mentor, A Siemens Business, Egypt); Alaa Hussein, Samar
Mohamed, Hagar Mostafa and Mohamed Soliman (Ain-Shams University, Egypt); Mohamed
Dessouky (Mentor Graphics Egypt & University of Ain Shams, Egypt)
Poster # 17 Hybrid Genetic Based Algorithm for CNN Ultra Compression
Abdelrahman Abotaleb (Cairo University, Egypt); Ahmed Elwakil (Electronics Research
Institute, Egypt); Mayda Hadhoud (Cairo University, Egypt)
Poster # 18 Design and Analysis of 15.8 GHz LC-VCO Using PMOS Cross Coupled
Dong-Xuan Mai (Viettel High Technology Industries Corporation - Branch of Viettel Group,
Vietnam)
Poster # 19 Variable Gain Differential Low Noise Power Amplifier in 28-nm FD-SOI
Ali Mohsen (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Adnan Harb (International
University of Beirut, Lebanon); Nathalie Deltimple (Bordeaux INP & IMS Lab,
France); Abdallah Kassem (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
Poster # 20 A 4-bit 2ps Resolution Time-to-Digital Converter Utilizing Multi-Path Delay Line for
ADPLL
Omar Hassan, Kareem Rashed, Faisal Hussien and Mohamed Aboudina (Cairo University,
Egypt)
Poster # 21 28 GHz 19.5 dBm Stacked Power Amplifier With 32% PAE For 5G Communication
Alaa Khairalla Mustafa and Mohamed Abdalla (Cairo University, Egypt)
Poster # 22 Investigating the Developments on the Frequency Compensation Techniques of the Two-
Stage OTAs - A Brief Guide and Updated Review -
Mahmood Abdullah Mohammed and Gordon Roberts (McGill University, Canada)
Monday, December 16, 5:00 - 7:00
Tutorial-IV
System and Circuit Fundamentals of Linear and Switching Battery Chargers
Dr. Ayman Fayed
Room: Pavillon 1
This tutorial will introduce the basic operation and characteristics of various battery cells commonly
used in portable and IoT devices, including their charging/discharging profiles, self-discharging,
internal impedance, charging cycles, and the effect of ambient and operating conditions on all these
aspects. This will be followed by presenting the most common charging schemes used to charge
single- and multi-cell battery stacks, including the constant-current constant-voltage charging scheme
and the pulse charging scheme and the specific safety hazards and consideration for Li-Ion batteries.
The tutorial will then present the circuit implementation of linear and switching battery charger
topologies, fuel gauging circuits, and cell-monitoring and cell-balancing techniques. The tutorial will
be concluded by presenting various implementation and performance examples of commercial battery
charging integrated circuits and a discussion of practical considerations for portable devices.
Monday, December 16, 5:00 - 7:00
Graduation Projects Competition Winners Posters
Tuesday, December 17
Tuesday, December 17, 8:00 - 9:00
Registration
Tuesday, December 17, 9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Speaker-3
Plasmonics: Fundamentals, Applications & Modelling Challenges
Prof. Salah Obayya
Room: Pavillon 1
Chair: Hassan Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
Plasmonics takes advantage of the coupling of light to charges like electrons in metals, and allows
breaking the diffraction limit for the localization of light into subwavelength dimensions enabling
strong field enhancements. Plasmonics plays nowadays a fundamental role in the realization of
many useful photonic devices for many applications such as solar energy, sensing, ICT, etc., but
existing modeling techniques of plasmonics seriously lack accuracy and often yield wrong results.
We suggested powerful remedies keeping the computational effort minimum and almost
independent of the size of the structure. In this talk, overview of the novel computational
plasmonics created by the presenter and his team with be presented.
Tuesday, December 17, 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Tuesday, December 17, 10:30 - 12:10
Circuits & Systems-II
Room: Louvre
Chairs: Mohamed Elkhatib (Military Technical College, Egypt), Samar Moustafa Ismail (German
University in Cairo, Egypt)
10:30 Optimum Split Ratio for Folded Cascode OTA Bias Current: A Qualitative and Quantitative
Study
Hesham Omran (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
10:50 FinFET Based Low Power Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Functions
Amin Zayed (Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); Hanady Issa (Arab
Academy of Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt); Khaled
Ali Shehata (Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt)
11:10 Single-Ended to Differential Output Converter For a 4-Channel Front-End Integrated Circuit in
Liquid Argon
Alejandro David Martinez Rojas (Politecnico di Torino & INFN Torino, Italy)
11:30 Modeling of Double-gate LDMOSFET Devices including Self-heating
Mohamed M. El-Dakroury and Mohamed El-Adawy (Helwan University, Egypt); Yehea
Ismail (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Zaki B. Nosseir (Helwan University,
Egypt); Hamdy Abdelhamid (Ajman University, Ajman, UAE & Zewail City Of Science and
Technology, United Arab Emirates)
11:50 A Novel Binary to Ternary Converter using Double Pass-Transistor Logic
Ramzi A Jaber (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon); Abdallah Kassem (Notre Dame University,
Lebanon); Ahmad El-Hajj (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon); Lina Nimri (Lebanese
University, Lebanon); Ali Massoud Haidar (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon)
Tuesday, December 17, 10:30 - 12:10
x-RAM/Memristor
Room: Pavillon 1
Chairs: Hassanein H. Amer (American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt), Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens
Institute of Technology & Stevens, USA)
10:30 High-Density ReRAM Crossbar with Selector Device for Sneak Path Reduction
Khaled Humood (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sabina Abdul Hadi (University
of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Baker Mohammad, Maguy Abi Jaoude and Anas
Alazzam (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Mohammad Alhawari (Khalifa
University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates)
10:50 A Novel Current-Domain DRAM Readout Scheme
Sherif Moustafa Sharroush (University of Port Said - Faculty of Engineering, Egypt)
11:10 Managing DRAM Interference in Mixed Criticality Embedded Systems
Mohamed Hassan (McMaster University, Canada)
11:30 Hardware Implementation of a Low Power Memristor-Based Voltage Controlled Oscillator
Mohamed Selmy (Sinai University, Egypt); Ahmed Ahmed Shaaban Dessouki (Port Said
University, Egypt); Hassan Mostafa (University of Toronto, Canada)
11:50 Comparative Study for Some Memristor models in Different Circuit Applications
Mahmoud A. Khalf El Taieb, Seif Tarek Ezzat Mohamed and Mohamed Elhoussin
Elshafey (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt); Hassan Mostafa (University of
Toronto, Canada)
Tuesday, December 17, 10:30 - 12:10
Complex systems
Room: Pavillon 2
Chairs: Ahmed Elkhateeb (Mansoura University, Egypt), Hassan I. Saleh (Egyptian Atomic Energy
Authority, Egypt)
10:30 Image-Based Remote Fault-Detection System For Single Line Diagrams(SLDs)
Hassan I. Saleh (Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt); Mohamed Saad (2National
Center for Radiation Research and Technology, Egypt); Mohamed B Abdelhalim (Arab
Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt); Mostafa El
tahtawy (AASTMT, Egypt)
10:51 Modeling of n+/p-well and p+/n-well Diodes Based on 1µm CMOS Technology Using Grey Wolf
Optimization Algorithm
Filali Walid, Elyes Garoudja and Mohamed Mekheldi (CDTA, Algeria)
11:12 A Novel Model for Injecting Error in Probabilistic Gates
Mohamed Abuelala (Cairo University, Egypt); Amr Wassal (Nile University & Cairo
University, Egypt); Ahmed Khattab and Hossam A. H. Fahmy (Cairo University, Egypt)
11:33 Real-Time Control of a Magnetic Levitation System
Ayman A. El-Badawy, Mohamed Sherif and David Victor (German University in Cairo,
Egypt)
11:54 A Bifurcation-Based Gas Sensor Using a Quartz Crystal Oscillator
Ayman A. El-Badawy, Youssef Mahgoub and Ahmed ElGhazaly (German University in
Cairo, Egypt)
Tuesday, December 17, 12:10 - 1:30
Lunch Break
Tuesday, December 17, 1:30 - 2:30
Keynote Speaker-4
Side Channel & Fault Attacks on Embedded Systems and IoT
Dr. Karim M. Abdellatif
Room: Pavillon 1
Chair: Mohamed Abd El Ghany (German University in Cairo & TU Darmstadt, Egypt)
Hardware security has become an important system and application metric. It is considered as a key
requirement for smart cards, smart phones, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, hardware wallets, and
so on. With the increase in the number and form of such systems, the devices that store critical
information become more approachable to malicious attackers. These devices are potentially
susceptible to physical attacks that aim at breaking cryptosystems by gaining information from their
implementation instead of using theoretical weaknesses. Physical security threats appear at circuit-
level, where an attacker can measure or physically influence the computation/operation performed
by the circuit. Side channel attacks exploit additional sources of information (physical observations),
including timing information, power consumption, electromagnetic emissions (EM), and sound.
Malicious data modifications lead to fault attacks which can be performed by injecting faults using
laser/optical, electromagnetic, and glitches (power and clock). These attacks pose a very serious
threat to modern chips with cryptographic algorithms. Accordingly, the concept of hardware security
has been formally reshaped after the emergence of such attacks. This talk will start with an overview
of hardware security, including side channel and fault attacks. Then, some real physical attacks from
industry on embedded systems and IoT will be presented. The talk will conclude with the use of
countermeasures against these attacks.
Tuesday, December 17, 2:30 - 4:10
Biomedical Systems
Room: Louvre
Chairs: Mohamed Atibi (LTI Lab, Faculty of Science Ben M'sik Hassan II University of Casablanca &
LPRI Lab EMSI Casablanca, Morocco), Hesham Hamed (Faculty Of Engineering - Minia University,
Egypt)
2:30 An ultra-low power MOS Parametric Integrator-based Feed Forward ΔΣ Modulator Design for
Biomedical devices
Dalila Laouej (University of sfax, Tunisia); Mourad Loulou (National School of Engineering
of Sfax, Tunisia)
2:50 Intelligent Patient Monitoring for Arrhythmia and Congestive Failure Patients Using Internet of
Things and Convolutional Neural Network
Kaouter Karboub (Hassan II University Casablanca, Morocco & Lorraine University,
France); Abbas Dandache (University of Lorraine, France); Tabaa Mohamed (EMSI,
Morocco); Dellagi Sofiene (LGIPM, France); Fouad Moutaouakkil (Hassan II University,
Morocco)
3:10 Optimal Control Treatment Analysis for the Predator-Prey Chemotherapy Model
Ismail Abdulrashid (Auburn University, USA); Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of
Technology & Stevens, USA); Xiaoying Han (Auburn University, USA); Yehia
Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
3:30 An Automated Blood Cells Counting and Classification Framework using Mask R-CNN Deep
Learning Model
Najmeddine Dhieb (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia); Hakim
Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of Technology & Stevens, USA); Hichem Besbes (Ecole
Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com, University of Carthage, TUNISIA,
Tunisia); Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
3:50 Parallel Deep CNN Structure for Glioma Detection and Classification via Brain MRI Images
Mahmoud Khaled Abd-Ellah (Al-Madina Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology,
Egypt); Ali Ismail Awad (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden & Faculty of Engineering,
Al-Azhar University, Qena, Egypt); Hesham Hamed (Faculty Of Engineering - Minia
University, Egypt); Ashraf A. M. Khalaf (Minia University, Faculty of Engineering, Egypt)
Tuesday, December 17, 2:30 - 4:10
Circuits & Systems-III
Room: Pavillon 1
Chairs: Noha Gaber (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt), Sajad A. Loan (Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi, India)
2:30 Novel Thermal Actuator Employing the Mechanical Multiplication Theory for Achieving Large
Stroke
Abdelrahman Toraya and Noha Gaber (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt)
2:50 A Method to Implement Field-Induced Quantum-Confinement in MOSCAP-Based Line TFET
Architectures
M Ehteshamuddin (Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi, India); Abdullah G. Alharbi (Jouf
University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia); Sajad A. Loan (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
3:10 A Fast and Accurate Geometric Programming Technique for Analog Circuits Sizing
Abdelrahman Sayed (Cairo University & Si-Vision LLC, Egypt); Mohsen
Mahroos and Ahmed Mohieldin (Cairo University, Egypt)
3:30 Design Optimization Methodology for High-Efficiency RF-to-DC Converters
Aya Ghobashy and Aya Ashraf (Cairo University, Egypt); Ali H. Hassan (Faculty of
Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Hassan Mostafa (University of Toronto,
Canada); Ahmed M Soliman (Cairo University, Egypt)
3:50 Design Procedure for Two-Stage CMOS Opamp using gm/ID design Methodology in 16 nm
FinFET Technology
Bakr Hesham Bakr (Aswan University & Aswan Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); El-Sayed
Hassaneen (Aswan, Egypt); Hesham Hamed (Faculty Of Engineering - Minia University,
Egypt)
Tuesday, December 17, 2:30 - 4:10
Machine Learning/Smart Cities
Room: Pavillon 2
Chairs: Houssem Maghrebi (Underwriters Laboratories, France), Khaled Salah Mohamed (Mentor, A
Siemens Business, Egypt)
2:30 SmartAmb: An Integrated Platform for Ambulance Routing and Patient Monitoring
Mohamed Ashmawy, Ahmad Khairy, Mohamed Hamdy, Anas El-Shazly, Karim El-
Rashidy, Mohammed Salah, Ziad Mansour and Ahmed Khattab (Cairo University, Egypt)
2:46 Reliable FPGA-Based Network Architecture for Smart Cities
Ramez M Daoud (American University in Cairo & KAMA Engineering Office,
Egypt); Hassanein H. Amer (American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt); Gehad Ismail
Alkady (The American University in cairo, Egypt); Dina G. Mahmoud (The American
University in Cairo, Egypt); Manar Shaker (Cairo University, Egypt); Hany M. El-
Sayed (Cairo University & Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); Magdy El-Soudani (Cairo
University, Egypt); Ihab Adly (The British University in Egypt, Egypt); Betim Cico (EPOKA
University, Rinas, Tirana & Epoka University, Albania)
3:03 Enhancing the Performance of FPGA Congestion Management via Supervised Learning
Jeremy Foxcroft, Gary Grewal and Shawki Areibi (University of Guelph, Canada)
3:20 Ameliorating IoT and WSNs via Machine Learning
Nouran Youssry (Cairo University & Vodafone Company, Egypt); Ahmed Khattab (Cairo
University, Egypt)
3:36 End-to-End Deep Conditional Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving
Mohammed Abdou (VALEO, Egypt); Omar Sharawy, Mustafa Abaas, Ali
Abdelkhalek and Karim Hamdy (Cairo University, Egypt); Hanan Kamal (Cairo University,
Giza, Egypt); Samah El-Tantawy (Cairo University, Egypt)
3:53 Online Recommendation System for Autonomous and Human-driven Ride-hailing Taxi Services
Xiangpeng Wan (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of
Technology & Stevens, USA); Yehia Massoud (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Tuesday, December 17, 4:10 - 5:00
Coffee Break
Tuesday, December 17, 5:00 - 6:00
Closing & Award Ceremony
Room: Pavillon 1
Tuesday, December 17 7:30 - 11:00
Banquet Party – Gala Dinner at Nile Crystal Cruise
Wednesday, December 18 7:30AM - 6:00PM
Social Event: Sightseeing at the Old Cairo all day around