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It's been a while...

Manuel Monge

Manuel Monge

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Certainly, I struggle with writing down the things I do and sharing them frequently enough, neither I am good at keeping in touch with people. Yet, I want to steer towards sharing more my journey of building OpenIC from the ground up. As a founder, I am wearing all the hats and it has been challenging to share news frequently. Although I would like to send quarterly newsletters, realistically I would try my best to do it twice a year.

Things are still moving around but I am converging into three main areas I would be focusing on:

  • Research & Development
  • Teaching
  • Service

I know, these are the same areas a professor focuses on. What can I say... I do believe in this mission and, as a former faculty member, I feel it is my mission.

Many things have happened in the last 16 months. Here is a list summarizing the main accomplishments:

  • August 2024: Met with faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) during my trip to Peru.
  • November 2024: Visited the Deku Lab at the University of Oregon to work on common projects.
  • March 2025: Joined PUCP as an Adjunct Professor.
  • February 2025: Submitted two grant proposals in Peru as Co-I.
  • March-July 2025: Taught a new course at PUCP with the title Design of Analog Integrated Circuits which uses Open-Source EDA tools and an Open-PDK.
  • March-Present 2025: Mentored PUCP senior students in their Senior Thesis projects and with their capstone projects in the Electronic Project course.
  • June 2025: Submitted two grant proposals to NIH, one as PI and one as Co-I.
  • July 2025: Traveled to Uruguay to lead a group of 4 PUCP students in the IEEE-sponsored Open-Source IC Design Workshop.
  • July 2025: Gave a couple of virtual talks in Peru: AEE PUCP, CAS-UNI.
  • October 2025: Our paper "Towards an Open-Source Wireless Power and Data Transfer Library for Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices" was accepted for publication at the 2026 IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems to be held in Arequipa, Peru in February 2026.
  • November 2025: Our paper "Iris 128x: open-source 128 channel headstages for neural stimulation and recording" in collaboration with the Deku Lab at the University of Oregon has been published at the Journal for Neural Engineering - Link to paper.
  • Continued serving as TBioCAS Associate Editor.
  • Built a Linux Server dedicated to IC design.

That is all for now. For those in the US, Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the journey.

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