Integrated Circuits Seminar
EECS 298-008
Fall 2007
Mondays 4:00 - 5:00 PM

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

Date Speaker Title
September 10 Mark Horowitz
Stanford University
Why Design Must Change: Rethinking Digital and Analog Design
September 17 CICC No seminar
September 24 Jafar Savoj
Rambus
Design of High-Speed CMOS Digital-to-Analog Converters for Backplane Communications
October 1 Martin Graham
UCB
What Is The Time and Who Cares?
Time is an Analog Quantity
October 8 Nathan Pletcher
UCB
The Design of a Wakeup Receiver for Asynchronous Communication in Wireless Sensor Nodes
October 15 Jim Wieser
National Semiconductor
Practical Considerations for Embedded Data Converters
October 22 Chinwuba Ezekwe
UCB
A Mode-Matching Sigma-Delta Closed-Loop Vibratory Gyroscope Readout Interface with a 0.004deg/sec/rtHz Noise Floor over a 50Hz Band
October 29 Bevan Baas
UC Davis
An Asynchronous Array of Simple Processors for DSP and Embedded Applications
November 5 Hossein Hashemi
USC
Radio Frequency Nonlinear Dynamical Circuits and Beam Forming
November 12 Samuel Naffziger
AMD
Power Optimizations for a 45nm Processor Core
November 19 Greg Taylor
Intel
Analog Design Challenges on Logic Processes
November 26 Boris Murmann
Stanford University
Digitally Assisted A/D Converters
December 3 Paul Friedberg
UCB
Spatial Modeling of Gate Length Variation for Process-Design Co-Optimization
December 4 Please turn in your reports by December 5 if you are taking the seminar for credit