▲ The Institute of Semiconductor Engineers Summer Conference (2026.07.16)

Sunwoo Hong, an M.S.-Ph.D. integrated candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Advisor: Professor Jerald Yoo), won the Outstanding Paper Award in the poster category at the 2026 Institute of Semiconductor Engineers Summer Conference held at Ananti at Busan Cove on July 16th.

The Institute of Semiconductor Engineering Summer Conference is an academic event where researchers from industry, research institutes and academia participate across all semiconductor fields, ranging from semiconductor devices and processing to circuit design and AI semiconductors. This year, it was held in Busan for four days, from July 14th to 17th. Various programs took place, including oral and poster presentations, keynote lectures, special sessions and a Semiconductor Live Demo Competition.

The award-winning paper, “Design of a Chopper-Stabilized Capacitor-Coupled Instrumentation Amplifier for Wearable EEG Measurement,” is a study dealing with instrumentation amplifier circuits used in wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) measurement devices. To amplify minute EEG signals at the levels of 10 μV, a chopper-stabilized capacitor-coupled instrumentation amplifier (CS-CCIA) was designed, and its operation was verified through a 180 nm CMOS process simulation.

Hong presented the research at the poster session on July 16th, and after undergoing evaluation, won the Outstanding Paper Award in the poster category.

In the future, he plans on integrating the designed amplifier with an ADC and a digital backend, developing it into a sensor interface for a wearable EEG measurement system.

Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=57902

Translated by: Changhoon Kang, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, changhoon27@snu.ac.kr