2007 Technical Program and Downloadable Presentations

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DAY I

8:00-8:05 Welcome Address: Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton U, 2007 CMOS ET General Chair

First Keynote Address: 8:05-8:45
Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio University, “CMOS Proximity Communications”

Session 1, “Wireless”, Session Chair – Shahriar Mirabbasi, UBC

• 8:55-9:15 Ken O, U of Florida, “Single Chip RF Transmitter with On-Chip Antenna”
• 9:20-9:40 Albert Jerng, Charles Sodini, MIT, “Delta-Sigma Digital-RF Modulation for Adaptive Wideband Systems”
• 9:45-10:05 Martin Mallinson, ESS Technology, “RF Signal Processing on a Standard Digital CMOS Chip”
• 10:10-10:30 Adil Koukab and Michel Declercq, EPFL “Digital RF Synthesis and Modulation: Towards Global Radio-Transmitter for Multi-Standards Communication"

coffee break 10:30-10:50

Session 2, “Bio- Medical”, Bio-Medical Track, Session Chair – Stephen Bates, U of Alberta

• 10:50-11:10 Donhee Ham, Harvard, “CMOS Biotechnology”
• 11:15-11:35 Nicola De Zanche, ETH Zurich, “Technological Advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging”
• 11:40-12:00 Robert Wodnicki, General Electric Research, “Ultrasound Systems and Devices”
• 12:05-12:25 David Cumming, U of Glasgow, Integrating Sensors for Diagnostics

lunch (on your own) 12:30-2:00

Session 3, “Mixed-Signal”, Session Chair – Brad Booth, AMCC

• 2:00-2:20 Doug Mercer, Analog Devices, "Data Converters, Navigating The Sub-Micron CMOS Landscape, or, When Will The Fun Ever Stop!"
• 2:25-2:45 David Nairn, U of Waterloo, “Directions for Ultra-Wideband ADCs”
• 2:50-3:10 Hoi Lee, U of Texas, “Inductorless Power Management ICs for Portable Applications”
• 3:15-3:35 W.T. Ng, G. Wei, O. Trecases, U of Toronto, "Power management for portable audio applications"

coffee break 3:35-3:50

Session 4, “VLSI”, Session Chair – Rick Hobson, SFU

• 3:50-4:10 Tony Carusone, U of Toronto, “Future Chip-to-Chip Interconnect Technologies”
• 4:15-4:35 Dustin Forman, ESS Technology, “High End Audio DAC Design and Testing”
• 4:40-5:00 Lech Jozwiak, University of Eindhoven, "New Circuit Synthesis for Emerging Technologies"
• 5:05-5:25 Stephen Bates , Arithmatica, “Advances in VLSI principles for read-channel applications"

DAY II

Second Keynote Address: 8:00-8:45
Paul Chow, U of Toronto, “Biomolecular Simulations on an FPGA cluster”

Session 5, “Technology”, Session Chair – Stephen Bates, Bates Digital Systems

• 8:55-9:15 Jun Ohta, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, “CMOS Technologies for Retinal Prosthesis”
• 9:20-9:40 Jim Haslett, ATIPS, “Wireless Patient Vital Sign Monitoring in the Medical Ward of the 21st Century”
• 9:45-10:05 Christoph Hagleitner, IBM, "An Analog Front-End Chip for a MEMS-based Parallel Scanning-Probe Storage Device"
• 10:10-10:30 Hongwei Qu, Oakland University, “CMOS MEMS Inertial Sensors and Their Applications”

coffee break 10:30-10:50

Session 6, “Mixed-Signal”, Chair – Marek Syrzycki, SFU

• 10:50-11:10 Christian Schlegel, U of Utah, “Analog Processing of Digital Data: Promise and Challenges''
• 11:15-11:35 Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario,  “Continuous Time Sigma-Delta Modulators”
• 11:40-12:00 Brian Moore, Scanimetrics, "Intelligent RF Probes"
• 12:05-12:25 Fei Yuan, Ryerson University, “CMOS active transformers and their applications”

workshop lunch 12:30-2:00

Session 7, “Wireless”, Chair – Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta

• 2:00-2:20 Jose Silva-Martinez, Bharath K. Thandri, Texas A & M University, "Design Challenges for a CMOS High-Performance RF-to-DIGITAL Interface for Multi-Services Wireless Communication Systems"
• 2:25-2:45 Vincent Gaudet, U of Alberta, “Energy Efficient Circuits for LDPC Decoding”
• 2:50-3:10 Sheryl Howard, Northern Arizona U, “Energy Efficiency of Error-Correcting Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks”
• 3:15-3:35 Faisal Mohd-Yasin, Multimedia U, Malaysia, “Recent Advances in RF ID Transponder Design”

coffee break 3:35-3:50

Session 8, “Technology”, Session Chair – Marek Syrzycki, SFU

• 3:50-4:10 Wieslaw Kuzmicz, Warsaw U of Technology, “Process variability and leakage currents in nanometer CMOS circuits”
• 4:15-4:35 Yongjun Lai, Queen’s University, “MEMS modularization – Challenges & Opportunities”
• 4:40-5:00 Ajit Sharma, M. Faisal Zaman and Farrokh Ayazi, Georgia Instutute of Technology, “CMOS systems & interfaces for sub-deg/hr Microgyroscopes”
• 5:05-5:25 Sandeep Gupta, Teranetics, "Circuits for high accuracy broadband ADC's"

DAY III

Third Keynote Address:
8:00-8:45 Sylvain Martel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, “Magnetotactic Bacteria as Functional Components in CMOS Microelectronic Systems”

Session 9, “Technology”, Chair – Brad Booth, AMCC

• 8:55-9:15 Borivoje Nikolic, Berkeley, “Variability in deeply scaled CMOS and what can circuit designers do about it”
• 9:20-9:40 Ram Krishnamurthy, Amit Agarwal, Intel, “High-performance Leakage/Variation-tolerant memory circuit technologies for sub-45nm technologies”
• 9:45-10:05 Sorin Voinigescu, Ekaterina Laskin, U of Toronto, “Towards 100+ GHz Electronics”
• 10:10-10:30 Artur Balasinski, Cypress Semi, “PSoC as New Technology Driver”

coffee break 10:35-10:50

Session 10, “Sensors”, Session Chair – Jim Haslett, U of Calgary

• 10:50-11:10 Kazuo Yano, Hitachi, “What is Sensor? Its impact Beyond Internet”
• 11:15-11:35 Boris Stoeber, UBC, “Microneedles for Drug Delivery and Biosensing”
• 11:40-12:00 Mohamad Sawan, Ebrahim Ghafar Zadeh, EcolePolytechnique, “CMOS-based capacitive sensing Lab-on-Chip: A multidisciplinary approach”
• 12:05-12:25 Felix Levinzon, Endevco, "The industry's lowest noise 10 V/G compact piezoelectric seismic accelerometer with integral FET amplifier"

lunch (on your own) 12:30-2:00

Session 11, “Imaging”, Mixed-Signal Track, Session Chair – Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton U

• 2:00-2:20 Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion University, “CMOS Imager Circuits”
• 2:25-2:45 Steve Collins, Oxford, “Logarithmic CMOS Imagers”
• 2:50-3:10 Mark Jaffe, IBM, “Advances and Challenges in CMOS Imager Technology”
• 3:15-3:35 Keith Fife, Stanford University, “Multi-Aperture Imaging Devices”

coffee break 3:35-3:50

Session 12, “Beyond CMOS”, Session Chair – Artur Balasinski, Cypress Semi

• 3:55-4:10 John Madden, UBC, “Polymer Transistors for Printable Circuits”
• 4:15-4:35 Xiaofeng Li, Donhee Ham, Harvard, “Soliton Electronics”
• 4:40-5:00 Jeremy Hilton, D-Wave Systems, “Quantum Computing Chips Made Today”
• 5:05-5:25 Martin Margala , Quentin Diduck, U of Massachusetts Lowell, “Ballistic Transistor Technology – Next Paradigm in IC Design”
• 5:25-5:30 Adieu, Stephen Bates, U of Alberta, 2008 CMOS ET General Chair
  

(CMOS ET 2008  will be held in Vancouver, Canada, August 6-8)