Seminar 2025

November 7th - Atomic Semi x BWRC

Bio: Sam Zeloof is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur, best known for making circuits in his garage fab. He is currently the founder and CEO of Atomic Semi, Inc., a company that develops tools for small semiconductor fabs. Abstract: Atomic Semi is an early-stage startup building low cost, fast turn-around time chip fabs. We are a team of 60 based in SF that includes mechanical, electrical, software, and process engineers. Our mission is to leverage new technologies and tools to improve the way chips are being...

BWRC Friday Seminars

BWRC’s Fall seminar series will include a mix of external speakers from industry and academia as well as research briefs presented by BWRC researchers, a group discussion, and lunch.

Scott Weber | Altera | FPGA Architecture Evolution - Opportunities in the Next Decade

September 19, 2025

Talk Title:

“FPGA Architecture Evolution -- Opportunities in the Next Decade”

About the talk:

FPGA architecture has evolved dramatically over the past 30+ years, expanding from simple use cases of board glue logic to complex acceleration workloads in high-speed networking, wireless communications, and embedded compute applications. This talk will first briefly look at how major FPGA components advanced over time to serve continually evolving FPGA markets with increasingly stringent performance and power requirements. We will then highlight...

BWRC Operations Orientation

September 5, 2025

11:00AM

Jiang Zhu | Meta

December 5, 2025

The Evolution of mmWave Antenna in Package Toward a Connected Intelligent Future

Abstract:

This lecture presents the latest innovations in mmWave antenna-in-package (AiP) technologies as a key enabler of high-performance wireless communication and sensing systems. It covers advancements in high-frequency packaging substrates for compact multi-layer AiP integration, along with signal and power integrity challenges and solutions. The lecture also includes heterogeneous integration approaches, measurement methodologies and results, as well as an introduction to the emerging Antennas-to-AI platform concept.

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