The talk starts with a short presentation of Electronics and Microelectronics evolution. Than it will be presented a set of several trends in the design of micro and nanoelectronics circuits, including architectural issues, variability and sources of variability, EDA tools, physical design issues, printability, design of transistor networks, Layout Strategies, Regularity, 3D circuits, flexible electronics, new devices, Stretchable Silicon, Fault Tolerance, Tolerance to Radiation Effects, Factory Integration, ... The talk try to motivate the audience to explore the upcoming challenges in the field.

Biography

EE from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1978. PhD from Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, January 1983. Full Professor at UFRGS (since 1979). Head of the Microelectronics Committee of Brazilian National Science Foundation (CNPq). Research 1A (top level) of the CNPq. Research interests: Physical Design Automation, EDA, Radiation Hardened Circuits, VLSI Design and Microelectronics Education. More than 400 hundred papers in journals/conferences. Fapergs Award as research of the year 2002 (Science Foundation). Silver Core Award from IFIP. Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 10. Professor at UFRGS Microelectronics and Computer Science Graduate Programs. Former head of the Microelectronics Graduate Program and Computer Science Graduate Program at UFRGS. Head of several research projects. General or Program Chair of several international conferences. Past President of the Brazilian Computer Society and Past VP of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. CASS Chapter Rio Grande do Sul Chair (since 2007). The Chapter won 2 Chapter of the Year Award (2011/2012) and Chapter of The Year R9 2013. VP of IEEE CASS representing R9, 2008 to 2011. IEEE Design & Test Editorial Board Member. Member of the Steering Committee of several conferences: VLSISoC, ICECS, LASCAS, NEWCAS, CASS R9School, IEEEISVLSI, SBCCI, IBERCHIP. Senior member IEEE.