ISSCC 2001 February 4 – 8, 2001, San Francisco Marriott Hotel

 

 

Technical Program: Monday – Wednesday, February 5 – 7

 

PLENARY SESSION

 

1.1           i-mode: 21st Century Mobile Internet

                Kei-ichi Enoki, NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo, Japan

1.2                Broadband Access: the Last Mile

                L. Cloetens, Alcatel, Zaventem, Belgium

1.3                Microprocessors for the New Millennium –Challenges, Opportunities and New Frontiers

                Patrick P. Gelsinger, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA

 

Non Volatile Memory

 

2.1           A 3.3V 1Gb Multi-Level NAND Flash Memory with Non-Uniform Threshold Voltage Distribuition

Samsung Electronics, Kyunggi, Korea

2.2           A 126.6mm2 AND-Type 512Mb Flash Memory with 1.8V Power Supply

Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo,  Japan

2.3           A 1.8V 64Mb 100MHz Flexible Read while Write Flash Memory

Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA

2.4           An Embedded  1.2V read Flash Memory Module in a 0.18µm Logic Process.

Philips Research laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2.5           A Highly-Reliable 1T1C 1Mb FRAM with Novel Ferro-Programmable Redundancy Scheme

Fujitsu Limited, Tokyo, Japan

2.6           A Nonvolatile Ferroelectric RAM with Common-Plate Folded Bit-line Cell and Enhanced Data Sensing Scheme

Samsung Electronics Co., Kyunggi, Korea

2.7           A 76mm2 8Mb Chain Ferroelectric Memory

Toshiba Corporation, Yokohama, Japan

 

Oversampling Converters

 

3.1           A 13.5mW, 185MSample/s DeltaSigma-Modulator for UMTS/GSM Dual-Standard IF Reception

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

3.2           A 5mW SigmaDelta Modulator with 84dB Dynamic Range for GSM/EDGE

Motorola SPS, Toulouse, France

3.3           A Quadrature Data Dependent DEM Algorithm to Improve Image Rejection of a Complex SigmaDelta Modulator

Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

3.4           A 2.5V Broadband Multi-Bit SigmaDelta Modulator with 95dB Dynamic Range

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

3.5           A 1V 10.7MHz Switched-Opamp Bandpass SigmaDelta Modulator Using Double-Sampling Finite-Gain-Compensation Technique

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China

3.6           A Low-Power Reconfigurable Analog-to-Digital Converter

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

 

High-Speed Digital Interfaces

 

4.1           A Serial-Link Transceiver Based on 8GSample/s A/D and D/A Converters in 0.25µm CMOS

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

4.2           A 2Gb/s 21CH Low-Latency Transceiver Circuit for Inter-Processor Communication

NEC Corp., Tokyo, Japan

4.3           3.2GHz 6.4Gb/s/wire Signaling in 0.18µm CMOS

Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR

4.4           5Gb/s Bidirectional Balanced-Line Link Compliant with Plesiochronous Clocking

Fujitsu Laboratories LTD., Kawasaki, Japan

4.5           A 2Gb/s/pin 4-PAM Parallel Bus Interface with Transmit Crosstalk Cancellation & Equalization and Integrating Receivers

Rambus Inc., Mountain View, CA

4.6           Digitally-Controlled DLL and I/O Circuits for 500Mb/s/pin x16 DDR SDRAM

Samsung Electronics, Kiheug, Korea

4.7           Circuit Design for a 2.2GB/s Memory Interface

Rambus Inc, Mountain View, CA

 

Gigabit Optical Communications I

 

5.1           An Offset-Cancelled CMOS Clock Recovery/Demux with a Half-Rate Linear Phase Detector for 2.5Gb/s Optical Communication

Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

5.2           Fully-Integrated SONET OC48 Transceiver in Standard CMOS

Newport Communication, Irvine, CA

5.3           A 10Gb/s CMOS Clock and Data Recovery Circuit with Frequency Detection

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

5.4           A 10Gb/s 16:1 Multiplexer and 10GHz Clock Synthesizer in 0.25µm SiGe BiCMOS

Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

5.5           A Single-Chip 10Gb/s Transceiver LSI using SiGe SOI/BiCMOS

Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan

5.6           40Gb/s Clock and Data Recovery / 1:4 DEMUX  IC in SiGe Technology

Lucent Technologies,  Nuremberg,  Germany

 

 

CMOS Image Sensors with Embedded Processors

 

6.1           A 10kframes/s 0.18µm CMOS Digital Pixel Sensor with Pixel-Level Memory

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

6.2           A Miniature Imaging Module for Mobile Applications

ST Microelectronics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

6.3                Arbitrated Address Event Representation Digital Image Sensor

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

6.4           A 48kframes/s CMOS Image Sensor for Real-Time 3-D Sensing and Motion Detection

Sony-Kihara Research Center, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

6.5           A 128x128 CMOS Imager with 4x128 Bit-Serial Column-Parallel PE Array

Toshiba, Yokohama, Japan

6.6           A Signal-Processing CMOS Image Sensor using a Simple Analog Operation

NEC Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan

6.7                Autoscaling CMOS APS with Customized Increase of Dynamic Range.

Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

 

TD: Advanced Technologies

 

7.1           Genetic Applets: Biological Integrated Circuits for Cellular Control

Cellicon Biotechnologies, Jamaica Plain, MA

7.2           The Design and Measurement of Molecular Electronic Switches and Memories

Yale University, New Haven, CT

7.3           Strained Si Surface Channel MOSFETS for High-Performance CMOS Technology

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

7.4           FinFET - A Quasi-Planar Double-Gate MOSFET

University of California, Berkeley, CA

7.5           Ultra-Miniature, High-Q Filters and Duplexers Using FBAR Technology

Agilent Technologies, Newark, CA

7.6           A 256kb 3.0V 1T1MTJ Nonvolatile Magnetoresistive RAM

Motorola, Tempe, AZ

 

Nyquist ADCs

 

8.1           A 6b 1.3GSample/s A/D Converter in 0.35µm CMOS

University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

8.2           A 6b 1.1GSample/s CMOS A/D Converter

Philips Semiconductors, Eindhoven, Netherlands

8.3           A 1.8V 10b 100MSample/s CMOS Pipelined ADC

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

8.4           A 2.5V 12b 54MSample/s 0.25µm CMOS ADC in 1mm2

Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven, The Netherlands

8.5           A 3V 14b 75MSample/s CMOS ADC wtih 85dB SFDR at Nyquist

Analog Devices Inc., Wilmington, MA

8.6           A 14b 40MSample/s Pipelined ADC with DFCA

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

 

Integrated Multimedia Processors

 

9.1           A 90mW MPEG4 Video Codec LSI with the Capability for Core Profile

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Fukuoka, Japan

9.2           A 80/20MHz 160mW Multimedia Processor integrated with Embedded DRAM, MPEG-4 Accelerator, and 3D Rendering Engine for Mobile Applications

KAIST, Taejon, Korea

9.3           One Chip 15frame/s Mega-Pixel Real-time Image Processor

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Gifu, Japan

9.4           A 250MHz Single-Chip Multiprocessor for A/V Signal Processing

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

9.5           A 4GOPS 3Way-VLIW Image Recognition Processor based on a Configurable Media-Processor

Toshiba Co., Kawasaki, Japan

9.6           A 150MHz Graphics Rendering Processor with 256Mb Embedded DRAM

Altius Solutions, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

 

Wireless Building Blocks I

 

10.1         A 1.5W Class-F RF Power Amplifier in 0.2µm CMOS Technology

Philips Semiconductors, Milpitas, CA

10.2         A CMOS RF Power Amplifier with Parallel Amplification for Efficient Power Control

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

10.3         A 1W 0.35µm CMOS Power Amplifier for GSM-1800 with 45% PAE

Nokia Denmark A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

10.4         A 1.75GHz Highly-Integrated Narrow-Band CMOS Transmitter with Harmonic-Rejection Mixers

University of California, Berkeley, CA

10.5         A +18dBm IIP3 LNA in 0.35µm CMOS

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

10.6         A Wideband 1.3GHz PLL for Transmit Remodulation Supression

Motorola, Inc., Plantation, FL

 

SRAM

 

11.1                Universal-Vdd 0.65-2.0V 32kB Cache using Voltage-Adapted Timing-Generation Scheme and a Lithographically-Symmetrical Cell

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

11.2         An Architecture for Compact Associative Memories with deca-ns Nearest-Match Capability up to Large Distances

Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

11.3         SRAM Current-Sense Amplifier with Fully-Compensated Bit Line Multiplexer

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

11.4                Abnormal Leakage Suppression (ALS) Scheme for Low-Standby-Current SRAMs

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

11.5         A 900MHz 2.25MB Cache with On-Chip CPU - Now In Cu SOI

Hewlett Packard, Fort Collins, CO

 

Signal Processing for Storage and Coding

 

12.1         Power-Efficient Application-Specific VLIW Processor for Turbo Decoding

Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

12.2         A Mixed-Signal 0.18µm CMOS SOC for DVD Systems with 432MSample/s PRML Read Channel and 16Mb Embedded DRAM.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD., Osaka, Japan

12.3         A 700Mb/s BiCMOS Read Channel Integrated Circuit

LSI Logic, San Jose, CA

12.4         A 300MHz Mixed-Signal FDTS/DFE Disk Read Channel in 0.6µm CMOS

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

12.5         A 1Gb/s Read/Write-Preamplifier for Hard-Disk-Drive Applications

Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

12.6         A 2.3GSample/s 10-tap Digital FIR Filter for Magnetic Recording Read Channels

IBM, Yorktown Heights, Yorktown, NY

12.7         A 16b Accurate CMOS Laser Driver IC with 500mA Output Current and 1.5ns Rise Time

Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

Wireless LAN

 

13.1         A Fully-Integrated Single-Chip SOC for Bluetooth

Alcatel Microelectronics, Zaventem, Belgium

13.2         A Fully-Integrated CMOS RFIC for Bluetooth Applications

Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore

13.3         A 2.4GHz CMOS Transceiver for Bluetooth

Broadcom Corporation, El Segundo, CA

13.4         A 22mW Bluetooth Transceiver with Direct RF Modulation and On-chip IF Filters

Conexant Systems Inc., Nepean, ON, Canada

13.5         A Zero-IF Single-Chip Transceiver for up to 22Mb/s QPSK IEEE802.11b Wireless LAN

Philips Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA

13.6         A Single-Chip 2.4GHz RF Transceiver LSI with a Wide-Range FV Conversion Demodulator

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Itami, Japan

13.7         A Fully-Integrated 5GHz CMOS Wireless-LAN Receiver

Stanford University, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford, CA

 

Gigabit Optical Communications II

 

14.1         A 0.6 - 2.5GBaud CMOS Tracked 3x Oversampling Transceiver with Dead-Zone Phase Detection for Robust Clock/Data Recovery

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

14.2         A 2.75Gb/s CMOS Clock-Recovery Circuit with Broad Capture Range

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

14.3         Si Bipolar Laser Driver/Receiver Chip Set for 4-Channel 5Gb/s Parallel Optical Interconnection

NEC, Kawasaki, Japan

14.4         A 1V 1mW CMOS Front-End with On-chip Dynamic Gate Biasing for a 75Mb/s Optical Receiver

Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

14.5         A Redundant Multi-Valued Logic for 10Gb/s CMOS Demultiplexer IC

NEC, Kanagawa, Japan

14.6         A Chipset for Scalable QoS-Preserving Protocol-Independent Packet Switch Fabrics

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

14.7         A 28.5GB/s CMOS Non-Blocking Router for Terabit/s Connectivity between Multiple Processors and Peripheral I/O Nodes

Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR

14.8         40Gb/s ASIC Switch Design Using Low-Jitter Clock Recovery

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

 

Microprocessors

 

15.1         A Scalable Performance 32b Microprocessor

Intel Corp., Chandler, AZ

15.2         POWER4 Physical Design

IBM,  Austin, TX

15.3         A Process-Portable 64b Embedded Microprocessor with Graphics Extension and a 3.6GB/s Interface

Mips Technologies Inc., Mountain View, CA

15.4         First-Generation MAJC Dual Microprocessor

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

15.5         A 1.1GHz First 64b Generation S/390 Microprocessor

IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY

15.6         A 1.2GHz Alpha Microprocessor with 44.8GB/s Chip Pin Bandwidth

Compaq Computer Corporation, Shrewsbury, MA

 

Integrated MEMS and Display DriverS

 

16.1         A CMOS Multi-Parameter Biochemical Microsensor with Temperature Control and Signal Interfacing

Siemens AG

16.2         A Single-Chip CMOS Resonant Beam Gas Sensor

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

16.3                Integrated Hall Sensor Array Microsystem

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

16.4         A Capacitive Fingerprint Sensor with Low-Temperature Poly-Si TFTs

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan

16.5         A CMOS Photosensor Array for 3D Imaging Using Pulsed Laser

Fraunhofer IMS Duisburg, Duisburg,  Germany

16.6         A Versatile Micro-Power High-Voltage Flat Panel Display Driver

University of Gent, Gent, Belgium

16.7                100frames/s CMOS Range Image Sensor

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

 

TD: 3D Technologies and Measurement Techniques

 

17.1         Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits for Low-Power High-Bandwidth Systems on a Chip

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

17.2                Neuromorphic Vision Chip Fabricated Using Three-Dimensional Integration Technology

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

17.3         3-D Assembly Interposer Technology for Next-Generation Integrated  Systems

North Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

17.4                Millimeter-Wave Characteristics of SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors and Monolithic Interconnects in Silicon Technologies

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

17.5                Backside Infrared Probing for Static Voltage Drop and Dynamic Timing Measurements

Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

17.6         Impact of Die-to-Die and Within-Die Parameter Fluctuations on the Maximum Clock Frequency Distribution

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

17.7         Sea of Leads: A Disruptive Paradiagm for a System-on-a-Chip

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 

3G Wireless

 

18.1         A 22mA 3.7dB NF Direct Conversion Receiver for 3G WCDMA

Helsinki University of Technology,  Espoo, Finland

18.2         A Fully-Integrated CMOS RF Front-End with On-Chip VCO for WCDMA Applications

Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea

18.3         A 1V 12mW 2GHz Receiver with 49dB of Image Rejection in CMOS/SIMOX

NTT, Kanagawa, Japan

18.4         A 930MHz CMOS DC-Offset-Free Direct-Conversion 4-FSK Receiver

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China

18.5         A 900MHz Dual Conversion Low-IF GSM Receiver in 0.35µm CMOS

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

18.6         A 2GHz CMOS Image-Reject Receiver with Sign-Sign LMS Calibration

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

 

VOICEBAND, xDSL and Gigabit Ethernet Circuits and Transceivers

 

19.1         A 285mW CMOS Single Chip Analog Front End for G.SHDSL

Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany

19.2         A CMOS Direct Access Arrangement using Digital Capacitive Isolation

Silicon Laboratories, Inc, Austin, TX

19.3         A High-Voltage Line Driver for Combined Voice and ADSL Services

Legerity, Inc., Austin, TX

19.4         An ADSL Central Office AFE Integrating an Actively-Terminated Line Driver, Receiver, and Analog Filters

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

19.5         SOPA: A Highly-Efficient Line Driver in 0.35µm CMOS Using a Self-Oscillating Power Amplifier

KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

19.6         A DSP Based Receiver for 1000BASE-T PHY

Marvell Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, CA

19.7         A CMOS Transceiver Analog Front-end for Gigabit Ethernet over CAT-5 Cables

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

 

Multi-gigahertz Microprocessor technologies

 

20.1         A 1.8GHz Instruction Window Buffer

IBM Entwicklung GmbH, Boeblingen, Germany

20.2         A Low-Power SOI Adder Using Reduced-Swing Charge-Recycling Circuits

Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

20.3         Sub-500ps 64b ALUs in 0.18µ SOI/Bulk CMOS: Design & Scaling Trends

Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR

20.4         Design and Migration Challenges for an Alpha Microprocessor in a 0.18µm Copper Process

Compaq Computer Corp., Shrewsbury, MA

20.5         A  1GHz PA-RISC Processor

Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO

20.6         4GHz Integer Execution Unit for 0.18µm CMOS Microprocessor

Intel, Hillsboro, OR

 

Signal Processing for Communications

 

21.1         A Universal Cable Set-Top Box System on a Chip

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA

21.2         An Energy-Efficient IEEE 1363-based Reconfigurable Public-Key Cryptography Processor

Chrysalis-ITS, Ottawa, Canada

21.3         A Self-Contained 100µW Multirate FSK Receiver ASIC

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

21.4         A Single-chip Band-Segmented-Transmission OFDM Demodulator for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting

Fujitsu Laboratories LTD., Kawasaki, Japan

21.5         A Digital 72Mb/s 64-QAM OFDM Transceiver for 5GHz Wireless LAN in 0.18µm CMOS

IMEC and K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

21.6         A Single Chip PHY COFDM Modem for IEEE 802.11a with Integrated ADCs and DACs

Radiata Communications, Level 2, North Ryde, Australia

 

TD: System-on-a-chip

 

22.1                Substrate Noise Generation in Complex Digital Systems: Efficient Modeling and Simulation Methodology and Experimental Verification

IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

22.2         ChipOS: Open Power-Management Platform to Overcome the Power Crisis in Future LSIs

Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

22.3         Elastic Interconnects: Repeater-Inserted Long Wiring Capable of Compressing and Decompressing Data

NEC Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan

22.4         An Implementation of Two Multiprocessor DSPs: A Design Methodology Case Study

Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

22.5         A GSM 2+ Conversion Signal Processor for Continuous Full-Duplex EDGE/GPRS Applications

Lucent Technologies, Allentown, PA

22.6         A Fully-Configurable GSM BTS Controller and GMSK-EDGE Base-Band Transmitter IC

Alcatel Telecom, Antwerp, Belgium

22.7         A Multicarrier GMSK Modulator for Base Stations

Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo,  Finland

 

Analog Techniques

 

23.1         A Synchronous Dual-Output Switching dc-dc Converter Using Multibit Noise-Shaped Switch Control 

Sigmatel, Austin, TX

23.2                Dynamically Biased 1MHz Low-pass Filter with 61dB peak SNR and 112dB Input Range   

Columbia University, New York, NY

23.3         A 200nV Offset 6.5nV/rootHz Noise PSD 5.6kHz Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier in 1µm Digital CMOS        

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

23.4         A Filtering Technique to Lower Oscillator Phase Noise

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

23.5         A 12b 500MSample/s Current-Steering CMOS D/A Converter

K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

23.6         A 1.9GHz Si Active LC Filter with On-Chip Automatic Tuning

Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

23.7         A 0.25ìm CMOS 17GHz VCO       

K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

23.8         A 50GHz VCO in 0.25ìm CMOS    

Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

23.9         A Wideband BiCMOS VCO for Multi-Mode Mobile Phones

Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany

 

DRAM

 

24.1         A 4Gb DDR SDRAM with Gain-Controlled Pre-Sensing and Reference Bitline Calibration Schemes in the Twisted Open Bitline Architecture

Samsung Electronics, Kyungki, Korea

24.2         A Multi-Gigabit DRAM Technology with 6F2 Open Bit-line Cell Distributed Over-Driven Sensing and Stacked-Flash Fuse

ELPIDA Memory.Inc.,  Tokyo,  Japan

24.3         A 113mm2 600Mb/sec/pin 512Mb DDR2 SDRAM with Vertically Folded Bitline Architecture

IBM Microelectronics, Hopewell Junction, NY

24.4         A 1.0V 230MHz Column Access Embedded DRAM Macro with Dual Interface and Triple Test Functions for Portable MPEG Applications

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hyogo, Japan

24.5         A 1.43GHz Per Data I/O 16Mb DDR Low-Power DRAM Macro for A 3D Graphics Engine

United Memories, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO

24.6         An Embedded DRAM Hybrid Macro with Auto Signal Management and Enhanced On-Chip Tester

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hyogo, Japan

 

Clock Generation and Distribution

 

25.1         A 4GHz 40dB PSRR PLL for SOC Application

SiByte Inc., Santa Clara, CA

25.2         A Low-Jitter 125-1250MHz Process-Independent 0.18µm CMOS PLL Based on a Sample-Reset Loop Filter

Crystal Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX

25.3         A Low-Jitter Skew-Calibrated Multi-Phase Clock Generator for Time-Interleaved Applications  

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

25.4         A 2.5GHz 4-phase Clock Generator with Scalable and No Feedback Loop Architecture

NEC Corporation, Sagamihara, Japan

25.5         Multi-GHz Low-Power Low-Skew Rotary Clock Scheme

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

25.6         The Design and Analysis of the Clock Distribution Network for a 1.2GHz  Alpha  Microprocessor

Compaq, Shrewsbury, MA

25.7         A Multi-GHz Clocking Scheme for Pentium® 4  Microprocessor

Intel Corp, Hillsoboro, OR

 

Wireless Building Blocks II

 

26.1         A Triple-Band 900/1800/1900MHz Low-Power Image-Reject Front-End For GSM

Conexant Systems Inc., Newport Beach, CA

26.2         A 0.8dB NF ESD-Protected 9mW CMOS LNA

KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

26.3         A 19GHz 0.5mW 0.35µm CMOS Frequency Divider with Shunt-Peaking Locking-Range Enhancement

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

26.4         A 2GHz Down-Converter with 600MHz 3dB Bandwidth using LO Signal Suppressing Output Buffer

Toshiba Corporation,  Kawasaki, Japan

26.5         3V GSM Base Station RF Receivers using 0.25µm BiCMOS

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

26.6         A 2.4GHz 34mW CMOS Transceiver for Frequency-Hopping and Direct-Sequence Applications

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

26.7         SiGe BiCMOS Broadband Phase Aligner from 1 to 11Gb/s

Siemens AG, Ulm, Germany

 

Evening Discussion Sessions

 

E1            Does Fabless Mean Futureless for Imaging?

 

E2            10 Years of RF-CMOS  - But How Many Products Today?

 

E3            Has Scaling Created a Microprocessor Monster?

 

E4            How Will Future Portable Systems Store and Access Data: Disk, Semiconductor Memory, Emerging Technology, or via the Internet?

 

E5                Embedded DRAM: Curiosity or Workhorse?

 

E6                Broadband Access - Who Will Win the Race: Copper, Fiber or Wireless?

 

E7                100cubed: Science or Fiction?  Is It Possible to Design a 100mm2 System-on-Chip with 100M Transistors in 100 Days?

 

E8            Are Startups Killing Innovation?

 

 

 

Tutorials: Sunday, February 4

 

Front-End Circuits for Optical Communications

                Instructor: Yuriy M.Greshishchev, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada

Logical Effort – Designing Fast CMOS Circuits

                Instructor:  David Harris  Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

Network Processing ICs

                Instructor: C. Bernard Shung, Allayer Communications, San Jose, CA

Low-Power Design Techniques for Microprocessors

                Instructor: Simon Segars, ARM Inc., Austin, TX

Broadband Design for Wireless and Wired Systems

                Instructor: Bud Taddiken, Microtune, Plano, TX

Integrated Electronics for Displays

                Instructors: Philip Alvelda, MicroDisplay, San Pablo, CA.

                Instructors: Kai Schleupen, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY

 

ISSCC Short Course:  CMOS RF CIRCUITS: Thursday, February 8

 

This Short Course is intended to jumpstart engineers in design and development of CMOS circuits for wireless applications. Course completion provides an overall perspective of system tradeoffs along with detailed circuit design strategies for key RF wireless transceiver building blocks. Topics include overview of mobile wireless systems and key metrics of RF design, low noise amplifier characteristics, tradeoffs and designs, fundamentals of mixer design for RF receivers, and CMOS oscillator circuit analysis and design.

 

MOBILE TRANSCEIVER DESIGN SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Instructor:  Qiuting Huang, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS

                Instructor: David Allstot, Univ. of Washington and Mobilan Corp.

CMOS UP AND DOWN CONVERTERS

Instructor: Michiel Steyaert, K.U. Leuven Laboratory

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF OSCILLATOR DESIGN

Instructor:  Asad A Abidi,  UCLA

 

Workshop on RF Circuits for 2.5G and 3G Wireless Systems:

Sunday, February 4

IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Technology Committee Workshop

Coordinator:  Robert Bayruns, TROPIAN

 

This workshop is intended for experts in the field.  Topics tentatively planned for the Workshop are the following.  For an updated agenda, please refer to the SSCS website at www.ieee.org/ssctc.

 

EDGE Systems

Architectures for 3G

3G IC Design

Power Amp Linearization

I/Q Modulator Impairments

3G Circuit Design

Device Technologies for 3G

3G Circuits and Architectures

RF Power Measurements

 

ISSCC Microprocessor Design Workshop: Thursday, February 8

Chair - Vojin G. Oklobdzija , University of California
 

This workshop on microprocessor design discusses important technical issues and directions in design of next-generation microprocessors. It addresses issues of high performance on a variety of levels: architecture, circuit, power and chip-to-chip interconnection. The workshop encourages open interchange in a closed forum. Attendance is limited and pre-registration is required.

 

Introduction/Processor Design Challenges             

1) SOI Circuit Design for High-Performance CMOS Microprocessors

2) Transitioning to SOI:  Coping with the Challenges and Exploiting the Advantages

3) Design Challenges of high performance I/O     

4) I/O Design Styles for High performance Microprocessors   

5) Software and Hardware Schemes for Achieving Low-Power

6) Power Reducing Microarchitectural Techniques            

7)  Design and Analysis of  High Performance Power-Ground Delivery  Networks

8) Chip Multi-Processing: Architectural Issues and Trade-Offs

9) Ideas Behind NUMA Design                                         

10) Workshop Discussion