Toumaz CEO to present “Electronics for healthy living” at ISSCC 2011

ABINGDON, UK: Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless telemetry technologies for medical monitoring and internet-connected consumer devices, announced that Toumaz CEO, Prof. Chris Toumazou FRS will be an invited speaker at the 58th International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the premier forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip (February 20th–24th 2011, San Francisco, California).

The theme of this year’s conference is “Electronics for healthy living”, with a focus on integrated circuits for biomedical systems.

Prof. Toumazou will be the closing conference speaker for the “Towards Personalized Medicine and Monitoring for Healthy Living” forum. His presentation, entitled “Towards disposable healthcare: a paradigm shift”, will be given on Thursday 24th February 2011.

Toumaz CTO, Dr Alison Burdett, will also be chairing a key panel on the topic of “Body Area Networks: Technology, Solutions and Standarization”, which will include a contribution from Toumaz’s Okundu Omeni covering MAC & security network solutions for Body Area Networks (BANs).

Prof. Toumazou invented the foundation technology for Toumaz’s Sensium system – the ultra-low power platform for rapid development of wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) – and was the 2009 winner of the World Technology Award for Health and Medicine.

ISSCC is the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and each year features leading global experts in the field. This year’s conference will feature more than 200 technical presentations representing benchmark results, design in state-of-the-art process technologies, and circuits in emerging device technologies. ISSCC 2011 will also offer a variety of educational events (tutorials, short course), advanced-circuit forums and evening sessions.

This year’s theme of “Electronics for healthy living” reflects the increasing role that electronics is playing in enabling healthier lifestyles, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, improved quality of life for those with chronic disease and disabilities, and the earlier detection of health risks.