W01 Eco-ES: Eco-design and circular economy of Electronic Systems
Eco-ES, the workshops devoted to Eco-design and circular economy of Electronic Systems, comes back to DATE 2024 for its second edition. This half-day event consists of a plenary keynote, invited talks and regular presentations. As a novelty, the second edition proposes also a session dedicated to European projects working on the sustainability of electronics.
Workshop Description
The impact of electronics on the environment is becoming an important issue, especially because of the number of systems growing exponentially. Eco-design and circular economy applied to Electronic Systems are thus becoming major challenges for our society to respond to the dangers for the environment: exponential increase in electronic waste generation, depletion of resources, contribution to climate change and poor resiliency to supply-chain issues. Electronic Systems designers willing to engage in eco-design face several difficulties, related in particular to a limited knowledge of the environmental impact from the design phase and the uncertain extension of the service lifetime of the system or parts of the system, owing to the variability in user behaviour and business models.
The objective of the workshop Eco-ES is to gather experts from both academia and industry, covering a wide scope in the environmental sustainability of Electronic Systems. Regular sessions with talks and a poster session will offer a place for the audience to discuss and share ideas.
Topic Areas
Workshop topics include:
- Specification and modelling of sustainable Electronic Systems
- Life Cycle Assessment tools and techniques
- Electronic Design Automation tools for eco-design
- Design Space Exploration including environmental aspects
- Eco-reliability techniques to design sustainable systems with extended lifetime
- Reparability methods
- Reuse strategies
- Recycling of Electronic Systems and Refurbish for a second life of the products
- Digital infrastructure refresh and reuse strategies
- Inter-disciplinary works linking the technology aspects of eco-design and circular economy to social and economic sciences
- Projects in progress on the previous topics
Introduction and keynote
14.00: Workshop introduction (C. Sandionigi, CEA)
14.10: Keynote - Challenged with Planetary Boundaries? Addressing Design for Absolute Sustainability in Electronics Research and Development Processes (M. Rio, INP-Gre)
Sustainable electronics in Europe
14.40: Towards the creation of a European ecosystem for Sustainable Electronics (C. Sandionigi, CEA)
15.00: SUSTRONICS: Sustainable and green electronics for circular economy (O. Kattan, Philips)
15.20: ESOS - Electronics: Sustainable, Open and Sovereign (T. Marty, INSA-Rennes)
15.40: Circular economy on electronic components scrap: Reuse vs recycling (N. Canis-Moal, Continental; J. Gabriel, CEA)
Life Cycle Assessment and eco-design of electronics
16.15: 4MOD's eco-design method for consumer electronics: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the design and R&D process (E. Whitmore, 4MOD)
16.30: Assessing the embodied carbon footprint of a cellular base station with a parametric LCA (R. Dethienne, UCLouvain)
16.45: Data center IT hardware refresh driven by environmental impact assessment for a circular economy (P. Thampi, RISE)
17.00: Chiplets: Opportunities for reusable/replaceable/life-extended sustainable electronic chips (R. Massoud, EPFL)
17.15: On the need for open life cycle analysis datasets (T. Marty, INSA-Rennes)
17.30: Integrating screening Life Cycle Assessment in digital system design flow to enable eco-design (M. Peralta, CEA)
17.45: Making electronic product greener? Profiling greener IC and boards (G. Saucier, D&R)