27 May 2026 | Mikrocentrum Veldhoven
27 May 2026
Mikrocentrum Veldhoven
Exhibition and conference on advanced chip development in the Low Countries, bringing together the RF, analog & mixed-signal and digital communities
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Program
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Sessions on product-specific applications with a focus on innovative solutions in combination with advanced analog, mixed-signal or digital IC designs
In-depth sessions highlighting trends in domains such as test & measurement, modeling & simulation and packaging, focusing on engineers, designers and technical managers in the field of advanced chip development
Pitches and poster presentations by our regional PhD talent on their work in the RF, analog/mixed signal and digital domain.
RF committee
Kostas Doris (NXP)
Ulf Johannsen (TUE)
Niels Kramer (Altum RF)
Nils Pohl (Ruhr University)
Patrick Reynaert (KU Leuven)
Philip Sanders (AboveRF)
Frank van Vliet (TNO/UT)
Analog & mixed-signal committee
Kofi Makinwa (TU Delft)
Bram Nauta (UT)
Matthias Rose (NXP)
Daniel Schinkel (MPS Axign)
Valentijn De Smedt (KU Leuven)
Digital committee
Martin Andraud (UCLouvain)
Charlotte Frenkel (TU Delft)
Manil Dev Gomony (TUE)
Marian Verhelst (KU Leuven)
09:00-09:15
Registration
09:15-10:00
Opening keynote
Wideband continuous-time ADCs for automotive applications – advances in high-performance ADCs
Lucien Breems (NXP)
10:00-10:30
Panel discussion
On the strategic and technological opportunities for the regional and European chip design and semicon industry
Representatives from ChipNL Competence Centre, Flanders Chips Competence Center, Wallonia Chips Competence Centre and Polaris-NGF
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
PhD pitches
Towards passive, high-resolution terahertz imaging using a chessboard focal plane array integrated in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS
Martijn Hoogelander (TU Delft)
Differential-mode characterization of multi-port passives up to 170GHz using independent single-ended two-port measurements
Remco Schalk (TU Eindhoven)
Benchmarking of on-wafer oscilloscope-based nonlinear characterization
Daanish Smellie (KU Leuven)
11:30-12:00
RF
Recent advances in reverberation chamber measurement techniques: from noise figure to radar waveform characterization
Anouk Hubrechsen (Antennex)
12:00-12:30
RF
From conductive components to phased array antennas: consistent, fast and accurate characterization techniques of nonlinear distortions
Marc Vanden Bossche (CNRood)
11:00-11:30
PhD pitches
A cryo-CMOS electron/nuclear spin controller with combined GHz/MHz drivers for color-center qubits
Mohamed Elbadry (TU Delft)
Towards the development of custom cryogenic CMOS circuits for the Einstein telescope
Alberto Gatti (KU Leuven)
A 12.8-GS/s time-interleaved sub-sampling ADC front end with 38-GHz input bandwidth and >39-dB SNDR for 1–32 GHz in 22-nm FDSOI
Josef Heel (UT)
11:30-12:00
Analog & mixed signal
Adaptive LC filter compensation in digital class-D amplifiers
Chris Lokin (MPS Axign)
12:00-12:30
Analog & mixed signal
How to measure low frequency noise and why does it matter?
Phanish Chava (Admos)
11:00-11:30
PhD pitches
HEMAIA: an accelerator-centric heterogeneous multi-accelerator SoC
Ryan Antonio (KU Leuven)
Chameleon: a multiplier-free temporal convolutional network accelerator for end-to-end few-shot and continual learning from sequential data
Douwe den Blanken (TU Delft)
An event-based digital compute-in-memory accelerator with flexible operand resolution and layer-wise weight/output stationarity
Nicolas Chauvaux (TU Delft)
11:30-12:00
Digital
AI silicon: scaling, diffusion and diversification
Jan Bouwen (Nokia)
12:00-12:30
Digital
Democratizing AI inference with digital in-memory computing
Bert Moons (Axelera AI)
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:00
RF
Next-generation signal and spectrum analyzers: dual-path architecture, integrated cross-correlation and wideband pre-selection
Sofia Perez-Simbor (Rohde & Schwarz)
14:00-14:30
RF
Beyond silicon: III-V technologies powering the next high-linearity, high-power RF and mm-wave revolution
Eric Leclerc (UMS)
13:30-14:00
Analog & mixed signal
Rethinking the crystal oscillator: faster startup and fully differential operation
Wim Kruiskamp (Renesas)
14:00-14:30
Analog & mixed signal
Fast, faster, fastest: hybrid magnetic field sensors for current sensing applications
Richard Visée (Systematic)
13:30-14:00
Digital
Scalable multi-channel digital downconversion on RFSoC: from single receiver to massive channelization
Farid Sahandi Esfanjani (Sioux)
14:00-14:30
Digital
The journey to standard-of-care for cochlear implants – and the role of future technology and architectures
Jan Vandenbussche (Cochlear)
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-15:30
RF
Cochisa X – European rad-hard X-band core chip
Ulrich Lewark (IMST)
15:30-16:00
RF
Electronic warfare and (counter-)drone operations: understanding the challenges and opportunities
Mister X (NLR)
15:00-15:30
Analog & mixed signal
Chips in your brain: challenges a-head!
Tom Van Breussegem (ICsense)
15:30-16:00
Analog & mixed signal
Rad-hard RF for the next wave of space constellations
Hagen Marien (Magics)
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-16:45
PhD pitch awards
Award ceremony for the best PhD pitches
Sponsored by EuMA (RF) and the regional competence centers (analog & mixed signal and digital)
16:45-17:30
Closing keynote
Resilient RF navigation
Noori Bni Lam (Telespazio Belgium for ESA)
17:30-20:00
Drinks & dinner
Sponsor packages
Platinum
- 20 entrance tickets (stand crew included)
- Stand of 10 m² at the venue (table + possibility to place your background banner)
- Online article (written by us) and 6 weeks leaderboard on the website of Bits&Chips**
- Your gadget and flyer distributed at the event
- Your logo on event promotions (advertisement, website, mailings)*
- Participant list
€ 10,000
Gold
- 10 entrance tickets (stand crew included)
- Stand of 8 m² at the venue (table + possibility to place your background banner)
- Online article (written by you) and 6 weeks leaderboard on the website of Bits&Chips**
- Your logo on event promotions (advertisement, website, mailings)*
- Participant list
€ 6,000
Silver
- 6 entrance tickets (stand crew included)
- Stand of 6 m² at the venue (table + possibility to place your background banner)
- 6 weeks leaderboard on the website of Bits&Chips**
- Your logo on event promotions (advertisement, website, mailings)*
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€ 4,500
Bronze
- 4 entrance tickets (stand crew included)
- Stand of 4 m² at the venue (high table + max. 1 roll-up banner)
- Your logo on event promotions (advertisement, website, mailings)*
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€ 3,000
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* If timely registered and still available
** Not exchangeable for prior advertisements or articles
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Premium Plus members of Bits&Chips and High-Tech Systems and members of our partners can register with a discount. The discount will be applied when entering your personal discount code.
An entrance ticket to the event includes admission to the presentations, to the exhibition floor, lunch, drinks and a networking dinner at the end of the day.
Standard ticket
€ 400
Partner ticket
For members of our partners. Discount code required.
€ 350
Discount ticket
For premium plus members of Bits&Chips and High-Tech Systems Magazine. Discount code required.
€ 300
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About
Target audience
Engineers
Team leaders
Technical managers
Product developers
Innovation managers
Location
Mikrocentrum
De Run 1115
5503 LB Veldhoven
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