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PhD student Trevor Odelberg’s low power circuits help us make sense of our environment while reducing battery waste.

Part of the team that brought us the world’s smallest computer in 2015 brings the future of computing technology into the present.

Prof. David Wentzloff’s paper examining the trends and techniques to achieve ultra-low power receivers was honored by the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Researchers built the first millimeter-scale transmitter and antenna that can talk Bluetooth Low Energy with ease.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

Six-month hardware design process will be turned into 24-hour automated task.

Millimeter-sized computers log the temperature and pressure from deep within oil wells.

Movellus Circuits won $25,000 in the University Research Highlight and People’s Choice categories

This platform has enabled a variety of sensors that can fit inside the human body, made possible by several breakthroughs in ultra-low power computing.

With a radio specifically designed to communicate through tissue, researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering are adding another level to a computer platform small enough to fit inside a medical grade syringe.

Avish conducts research on ultra-low power and battery-less integrated circuits.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

IoT applications are the next wave of computing and the next driving force of the semiconductor industry. The startup PsiKick [now Everactive] is helping shape this future.

Ambiq Micro, Crossbar, Inc., and PsiKick, are leading the way in ultra-low power chip design, pioneering computer memory, and ultra-low power wireless sensor platforms.

This award is presented annually to a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in acknowledgement of exceptional achievements in the education of our students.

Winners are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Instead of a battery, the chip Nathan is engineering uses two solar cells that look like they belong on a calculator.

The chips’ extreme energy efficiency enables them to be powered without a battery from harvested energy sources like vibration, thermal gradients, and more.

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

Avish is currently conducting research on ultra-low power radio technology and designing a low-power RF power amplifier.

Wentzloff aims to remove the necessity of a power outlet or even a battery to power miniature sensors.

Congratulations to these Professors on the next step of their careers!

His research addresses critical needs in the area of wireless communication for the growing field of ubiquitous, energy-autonomous sensing devices.

Roberts is helping to develop low-power sensor nodes that will be worn on the body to detect certain medical conditions.

The program aims to create wearable systems that monitor a person’s environment and health in search of connections between pollutants and chronic diseases.

This research is expected to have a fundamental and long term impact on a diverse set of applications ranging from energy conservation to health care.

U-M faculty have developed what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system, with applications in radio communication and wireless sensing.

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

St. George’s Day was initiated in 1987 as a tribute to our students from the faculty.

Wentzloff is working to develop a wireless 3D interconnection fabric that can provide communication channels and crossbar routing.