This summer, the UK and Ireland SSCS Chapter was delighted to host a pair of distinguished lectures at Tyndall National Institute, Cork, bringing together international leaders in solid-state circuits to engage with the local research community.
The series began on 19 June with a talk by Professor Seung-Tak Ryu from KAIST, South Korea, titled “Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators with SAR-Assisted Digital Noise Coupling.” Professor Ryu introduced several cutting-edge ΔΣ modulator architectures, offering detailed explanations of their design and operation. He shared elegant solutions to stability challenges and highlighted key trade-offs in loop design. His clear presentation resonated strongly with the audience of academic researchers and industry-based ADC designers, who valued both the technical depth and the practical insights he provided.
Fig 1: In-Person attendees at Prof. Ryu’s talk
On 10 July, the Chapter welcomed Professor Ulkuhan Guler from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, who presented her lecture on “Next-Generation Wearable Blood Gas Monitors for Enhanced Patient Monitoring.” Professor Guler outlined the urgent clinical need for non-invasive blood gas monitoring as an alternative to invasive gold-standard techniques. She introduced bio-luminescence as a promising sensing approach, and discussed the novel circuits, signal processing, and system-level strategies required to overcome challenges such as drift and reproducibility. The talk drew a diverse audience, including IC designers and biomedical scientists at Tyndall, who engaged in lively discussion about the potential for such technologies to transform patient care.
Together, these two events highlighted the breadth of applications and impact that circuit and system innovations can achieve—from high-performance data converters to wearable biomedical devices. They also underscored the Chapter’s role in fostering dialogue across disciplines and connecting academic and industrial communities. The UK and Ireland SSCS Chapter looks forward to continuing this tradition of hosting world-class speakers and providing opportunities for knowledge exchange across the solid-state circuits community.
Fig 2: In-Person attendees at Prof. Guler’s talk
Written by: Daniel O’Hare and Vishal Jagtap