On April 13, the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva concluded successfully in Geneva, Switzerland. After years of relentless effort, the research team led by Professor Guo Yufeng and Professor Cai Zhikuang from the School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) stood out at this prestigious global event, winning a gold medal for their achievement——Low-Power Chip Design and Testing Technology. This marks NJUPT’s first-ever award at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, signifying a new milestone in the university’s scientific research and innovation.
From left: Professor Wang Zixuan, Dr. Wang Xin
As one of the world’s longest-running and largest invention exhibitions, the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva was established in 1973 and is jointly organized by the Swiss Federal Government, the Geneva Municipal Government, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Renowned for its rigorous evaluation and professional standards, the exhibition is highly prestigious, alongside Nuremberg International Invention Fair in Germany and Pittsburgh International Invention Fair in the USA, as one of the Big Three global invention exhibitions.
The research team focused on key challenges in IoT, smart wearables, and edge computing, conducting in-depth research and breakthroughs in low-power design and testing technologies. Leveraging their outstanding scientific research capabilities and innovative spirit, they successfully overcame multiple critical technical bottlenecks, developing a series of cutting-edge technologies, including novel time registers, high-speed time-domain computing, high-precision timing adjustment, and adaptive testing. The achievement demonstrates significant advantages in time-domain computing stability, jitter performance, and fault coverage, exhibiting high application value and market potential, which earned high recognition and praise from the international jury. According to Professor Wang Zixuan, this breakthrough can be applied in specialized fields such as ATE-dedicated chips, playing a crucial role in breaking foreign technological monopolies.
NJUPT will take this award as an opportunity to continue adhering to the principle of innovation-driven development, strengthen research team building, deepen industry-academia-research collaboration, and further enhance scientific innovation capabilities. Our university aims to achieve more breakthroughs in core technologies and contribute to advancing new quality productive forces.
(Author: Wang Zixuan; Initial Review: Gao Xiang, Cai Zhikuang, Gu Yiran; Editor: Wang Cunhong; Final Review: Zhang Feng)
