General Chair
Kris Iniewski
Professor,
University of Alberta


Technical Co-Chair 
Raffaella Borzi
Business Development Manager, IMEC


Technical Co-Chair
Mourad El-Gamal
Professor,
McGill University

DAY I - Wednesday, July 19th

8:00am - Registration / Sign-in

8:30-10:00am,  Wednesday, July 19th – Wireless I
Welcome Note: Kris Iniewski, U of Alberta 
Session Chairman: Stephen Bates, U of Alberta

- Jan Rabaey, Berkeley, “Short distance wireless and its opportunities" 
- Domine Leenaerts, Philips Research, “Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Technology” 
- Michel Declercq, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), “Passive UHF RFID systems” 

10:00 - 10:10 - Coffee Break

10:10 - 11:30 Session Continues
- Martin Mallinson, ESS Technology, “A Sampling Mixer allowing Heterodyne Conversion to Baseband with no Local Oscillator and multi-GHz operation on a Standard Digital CMOS process” 
- Ali Niknejad, Berkeley, “COGUR - COGnitive Universal Radio architecture for future wireless technologies”
- Oren Eliezer, Texas Instruments, Dallas, “DRPTM -Digital radio processing” 

11:30am – 1:00pm (lunch on your own)

1:00-3:30pm, Wednesday, July 19th – Wireless II
Session Chairman: Mourad El-Gamal, McGill University

- Sorin Voinigescu, U of Toronto, “MM-wave in CMOS – Opportunities above 50 GHz”
- Jack Pekarik, IBM, "Scaled CMOS Technology and Design Tools to Support Wireless Applications” 
- Jim Haslett, U of Calgary, “Ultra low noise CMOS electronics for radio astronomy" 
- Emanuele Lopelli, Johan van der Tang, Arthur van Roermund, Eindhoven University of Technology, “Ultra-low power RF transceivers”

Coffee Break 3:30-3:40pm

3:40-5:30pm, Wednesday, July 19th – Wireless Systems III
Session Chairman: Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta 

- Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio University, "Inductive-Coupling Inter-Chip Link for System in a Package" 
- Danijela Cabric, Robert W. Brodersen, Berkeley, “Novel Radio Architectures for UWB, 60GHz, and Cognitive Wireless Systems ” 
- Simon Damphousse, ESS Technology, “All Digital Spread Spectrum Clock Generator for EMI Reduction” 
- John Sobota, Eleven Engineering, Edmonton, “HiFi Digital Audio Streaming in the 2.4GHz ISM Band”
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DAY II - Thursday, July 20th

8:00-10:30am, Thursday, July 20th – Advanced CMOS I
Session Chairman: Paul Rousseau, TSMC

- Wai Tung Ng, U of Toronto, "Integrated Digital Controlled Switched Mode Power Supplies for Portable Applications" 
- Andrew Marshall, Texas Instruments, “Circuit design with FinFET processes” 
- Sanu Mathew and Ram Krishnamurthy, Circuits Research Labs, Intel Corporation, “Circuit Technologies for High-performance Energy-efficient Sub-45nm Microprocessors”
- Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton University, “Phase domain signal processing”
- Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics, "A Non-Contact Interconnect Technology for Reducing Semiconducor Chip Cost"

Coffee Break 10:30-10:40am

10:40am – 12:30pm, Thursday, July 20th – Advanced CMOS II Session Chairman – Jim Haslett, U of Calgary

- Mayur Joshi, Texas Instruments, "Impact of Interconnect Scaling and Process Variations on Performance"
- Mihai Banu, Vladimir Prodanov, “Recent advances in VLSI routing”
- Artur Balasinski, Joseph Cetin, Cypress Semiconductor, “Improving Quality of RF/Analog Designs”
- Rob Aitken, ARM, “DFx – the convergence of test, manufacturing, and yield” 

12:30am – 2:00pm Workshop Lunch

2:00-4:00pm, Thursday, July 20th – Beyond CMOS
Session Chairman: Bruce Cockburn, U of Alberta

- Kaushik Roy, Purdue University, “Carbon nanotubes electronics” 
- Ken Cadien, Intel, “On-chip optical interconnects” 
- Duncan Elliott, U of Alberta, "3D IC technology"
- Peter O'Shea, PMC Sierra, "Cost Modelling for Vertically Integrated Chip Sets"

Coffee Break 4:00-4:10pm

4:10-6:30pm, Thursday, July 20th – Memories & Programmability
Session Chairman: Duncan Elliott, U of Alberta

- Bruce Cockburn, U of Alberta, “Survey of Emerging Memory Technologies" 
- Sreedhar Natarjan, Emerging Memory Technologies, “State-of-the-art in SRAM” 
- Xerxes Wania, SiDense, “Non-volatile memories in security applications” 
- Betty Prince, Memories Strategies International , "Evolution of Flash Memories: Nitride Storage and Silicon Nanocrystal" 
- Abbes Amira, Brunel University, West London, “Reconfigurable computing for Digital Signal Processing”
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DAY III - Friday, July 21st

8:00-10:30am, Friday, July 21st – Bio-med and MEMS
Session Chairman: Raffaella Borzi, IMEC

- Raafat Mansour, Uof Waterloo, “Integrated RF MEMS Devices”
- Peter Bradley, Zarlink, "RF Integrated Circuits for Medical Implants: Meeting the Challenge of Ultra Low Power Communication" 
- Bert Gyselinckx, IMEC, “Human ++ program” 
- Mohhamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique, "Implementing Implantable Smart Medical Devices: Limits and Challenges" 
- Shahriar Mirabbasi, UBC, Kris Iniewski, U of Alberta “Wireless technologies for medical applications”

Coffee Break 10:30-10:40am

10:40am-12:00pm, Friday, July 21st – MEMs
Session Chairman: Marek Syrzycki, SFU

- Chris Lumb, Micralyne, “MEMs processes that work” 
- Alexandru Muller, National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies, “Membrane Supported Millimeter wave circuits based on silicon and GaAs micromachining” 
- Mourad El-Gamal, McGill University, “MEMS for RF – Fact or Fiction?”

12:00-1:30pm (lunch on your own)

1:30pm-3pm, Friday, July 21st – Emerging System Opportunities
Session Chairman & Farewell Note: Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton University

- Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion University, “Grand challenges in CMOS imaging” 
- Vincent Gaudet, Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, “CMOS circuits for LDPC coding” 
- Brian von Hertzen, Xilinx, “FPGA supercomputing”