Integrated Circuits Seminar
EECS 298-008
Fall 2008
Mondays 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Hogan Room, 5th Floor Cory Hall
Organized by Professor Elad Alon

Date Speaker Title
September 8 Kick-off Meeting Please attend if you are taking the seminar for credit - we will provide further information on the course and its requirements.
September 15 Rakesh Kumar
TCX Inc.		 Successful Entrepreneurship in the field of Fabless Semiconductors
September 22 CICC No seminar
September 29 Donhee Ham
Harvard University		 CMOS RF Biosensor Utilizing Nuclear Spin Resonance - A Circuit Designer's Approach to Early Disease Detection
October 6 Carlos Galup-Montoro
Fed. Univ. of Santa Catarina		 Application of a Compact Physics-Based MOSFET Model to Transistor Sizing in Analog Circuits
October 13 Stephen Lewis
UC Davis		 Nested Digital Background Calibration of a 12-bit Pipelined ADC Without an Input SHA
October 20 Jason Stinson
Intel Corp.		 Post-Silicon Test and Debug
October 27 Tawfik Rahal-Arabi
Intel Corp.		 Low Power Challenges for Next Generation Mobile Platforms
November 3 Theodore Van Duzer
UC Berkeley		 Superconducting Digital Computation
November 10 Bruno Garlepp
SiTime		 Precision Frequency Sources Based on Pure Silicon MEMS Resonators
November 17 Zenhai Zhu
Cadence		 Modeling Manufacturing Imperfections in the IC Design Flow
November 24 Jaeha Kim
Rambus		 Formal Verification of Analog Circuits - The Forgotten Art of Linear Analysis
December 1 Cristian Marcu
UC Berkeley		 A 90nm CMOS Low-Power 60GHz Transceiver with Integrated Baseband Circuitry
December 8 Please turn in your reports by December 8 if you are taking the seminar for credit