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A team of faculty members and students from the University of Macau’s (UM) State-Key Laboratory (SKLAB) of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMS-VLSI) presented their research findings at the 65th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held from 11 February to 15 February in San Francisco, the United States.

A microelectronics chip and a paper titled ‘A Dual-Output SC Converter with Dynamic Power Allocation for Multi-Core Application Processors’ from the University of Macau (UM) recently received the University LSI Design Contest Special Feature Award at the 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2018).

Four PhD students from the University of Macau’s (UM) State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMSV) and Faculty of Science and Technology’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), recently passed their oral defenses with flying colours.

A research team from the University of Macau (A research team from the University of Macau (UM) has achieved a new breakthrough. The team has developed a fast, accurate, and convenient point-of-care pathogen detection method with the help of the digital microfluidic system. This method uses isothermal DNA amplification together with specific DNA Molecular Beacon probe

Lam Chi Seng, an assistant professor from the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI; and Thomas Cheang, a UM graduate electrical and electronics engineering and a veteran engineer from Macao, recently received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Engineer Award 2016.

The two state key laboratories at the University of Macau (UM), namely the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMS-VLSI Lab) and the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine (QRCM Lab), today (6 July) passed their second assessments after 6 years of operation conducted by experts in the fields of Chinese medical sciences and integrated circuits.

Dr Lei Ka Meng, who was born and raised in Macao, obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Macau (UM).

Assistant Professor Lu Yan from the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMSV) received the 2017 Outstanding Young Author Award from the Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

A delegation from the International Technical Program Committee (ITPC) of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC, also known as the ‘Chip Olympics’) 2018, successfully organised an ISSCC promotional activity in Wuhan Optical Valley and Nanjing Wireless Valley, with over 100 attendees from both academia and industry.

A paper by UM scholars was recently published in Lab on a Chip, a publication under the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. The paper proposes a new technique that can quickly identify the DNA of multiple potential pathogens causing septicemia from a single droplet (1uL).