ISSCC 1998
Executive Summary
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
ACTIVITIES at ISSCC 98
- Short Course presented Tuesday, February 3
- Four linked 90-minute lectures given by experts in the field.
- Tutorials presented Wednesday, February 4
- Six independent lectures selected from each of the ISSCC 98 Program Subcommittees: analog, communications, digital, memory, sensors and imagers, and signal processing.
- Lectures are presented by expert members of each Subcommittee
- Technical Paper Sessions presented Thursday to Saturday, February 5-7
- Three presentations in the Plenary Session on Thursday morning
- Twenty-four regular paper sessions beginning Thursday afternoon and continuing through Saturday afternoon
- 140 regular-papers
- 16 short papers
- Eight Evening Discussion Sessions presented Thursday and Friday evenings
- Social Hour at the end of the Thursday afternoon regular paper sessions
Conference Theme:
Global Communications
- The Information Age is characterized by the pervasive use of communications technology, and a rapidly emerging global connectedness. This proliferation of communications technology has been largely driven by advances in integrated circuits, and is thus a timely theme for ISSCC. The infrastructure for global communications is broad, and includes technologies and circuits related to all types of networks, both local and wide-area, wired and wireless, for high-speed point-to-point communications of voice, data, and video. Papers spanning each of these topics are included in the ISSCC98.
- Many of the activities and presentations at this year's Conference are focused specifically upon global communications applications:
- Three Plenary Session presentations:
- "Challenges in Semiconductor Technology for Multi-Megabit Network Services" [TA1.1]
- "GSM and Beyond: The Future of Network Access" [TA1.2]
- "The Global-Positioning System: Challenges in Bringing GPS to Mainstream Consumers" [TA1.3]
- Two of the Eight Evening Discussion Sessions:
- "Global Communications: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" [FE8]
- "LSI Solutions and Enabling Technologies for Mobile Multimedia Devices at the Year 2002" [FE7]
- Technical Paper Sessions:
- "Transceivers and Power Amplifiers" [TP3]
- "Wireless Receivers" [FA8]
- "High-Speed Chip-to-Chip Connections" [FA10]
- "Datacom / Telecom" [FP13]
- "Technology Directions: Advanced RF Circuits" [FP16]
- "Multi-GHz Serial Data" [SA19]
- "Wireless Building Blocks" [SP23]
MOST-SIGNIFICANT RESULTS
- Analog:
- 900mV Sigma-Delta Modulator with 77dB Dynamic Range and 40uW Power [TP4.6]
- 400MS/s 6-bit CMOS ADCs [FA9.7, FA9.8]
- 10-bit 250MS/s CMOS DAC [FP14.1]
- Communications:
- Single-chip transceiver for portable RF systems [TP3.3]
- 115mW Global Positioning System IC [FA8.1]
- Ethernet moves to 1Gb/s [FP13.5, FP13.6]
- CMOS moves to 4.25Gb/s [SA19.3]
- SiGe HBT building blocks for 40Gb/s optical links [SA19.7]
- Digital:
- First demonstration of a 1GHz microprocessor [FP15.1]
- First microprocessor with copper interconnect [FP15.6]
- First dynamic multi-threaded microprocessor [FP15.3]
- A 667MHz commercial microprocessor [SA18.4]
- Third-generation 450MHz P6 microprocessor [FP15.4]
- Memory:
- Ground-level precharge implemented with a non-boosted word line in a 1Gb SDRAM [TP5.6]
- Graphics Controller using embedded DRAM where processing elements are embedded with the memory array to attain 33GB/s bandwidth [SA21.5]
- 1.8ns access time 4.5Mb SRAM with 2.8W dissipation [SP22.7]
- Sensors and Imagers:
- CMOS imagers with higher integration levels for virtual reality and Internet conferencing [FA11.1, FA11.8]
- A large-area (>10cm2) inexpensive CMOS imager for dental x-rays is being commercialized [FA11.3]
- a micropower gas-flow measurement system for gas meters [SA17.4]
- fingerprint-recognition chips are being commercialized [SA17.7]
- Signal Processing:
- 0.95W MPEG2 Encoder Breaks 1W Barrier [TP2.1]
- 150uW Encryption Processor [FA7.2]
- 21mW, 360Mb/s Disk Drive Detector [SP24.3]
- Technology Directions:
- 0.08um gate length CMOS test chip utilizing substrate over-biasing to achieve 40ps gate delay at 0.5V [TP6.2]
- Sub-1V Opamp [FP12.1]
- 0.5V, 320MHz 8-bit gate array MUX/DEMUX [FP12.2]
- High-Q (40) on-chip inductors [FP16.1, FP16.2, FP16.3]
- 10GHz RF Circuits in 0.08um CMOS [FP16.5]
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