2008 Technical Program and Downloadable Presentations
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DAY 1, August 5th
Session 1 - Design for NanoEra:
Chair: Ann Rincon, ON Semiconductor, Co-chair: Brad Booth, AMCC
8:30-8:50 Jan Rabaey, Berkeley, Microscopic Wireless to Power Brain-Machine Interfaces
9:00-9:20 Sanu Mathew, Circuits Research Labs, Intel, Design and Technology Challenges for High-Performance Energy-Efficient Tera-Scale Microprocessors
9:25-9:45 Hideyuki Noda, Yoshihiro Okuno, Kazutami Arimoto, Renesas, Embedded Super Computing Technology for Low-power Multimedia Application
9:50-10:10 Marco Racanelli, Jazz Semi, SiGe BiCMOS for Communication ICs
Session 2 - Wireless Communication:
Chair: Michael Lynch, Synopsys, Co-chair: Mourad El-Gamal, McGill
10:30-10:50 Stephen Bates, Rathlin, Mobile-TV in Asia: Emerging Standards and Technologies
10:55-11:15 Yannis Papananos, NTU Athens, Integrated Inductive Structures in nm-Scale CMOS RFIC design
11:20-11:40 Reza Mahmoudi, Artur van Roermund, TU/e, Fully CMOS integrated 60 GHZ Transceiver; Challenges and Beauty
11:45-12:05 Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics, Interconnect at 45nm and beyond
Session 3 - CMOS Technology:
Chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera, Co-chair: Stephen Bates, Rathlin
13:30-13:50 Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio U, 3D CMOS Integration
14:00-14:20 Kiyoo Itoh, Hitachi, Impact of Variability on Voltage Scaling Limitations of Nano-Scale CMOS LSIs
14:25-14:45 Ronald J. Gutmann, Jian Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Smart Power Delivery using CMOS IC Technology: Promise and Needs
14:50-15:10 Ken Cadien, U of Alberta, Is Scaling Dead? A Nanofabrication Perspective
Session 4 – CMOS and MEMs
Chairs: Boris Stoeber, UBC, Co-chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU
15:30-15:50 Hideo Sunami, Hiroshima University, The invention and development of the first trench-capacitor DRAM cell
15:55-16:15 Sunghyun (Sun) Park, Qualcomm, Design Techniques for High Performance CMOS Flash Analog-to-Digital Converters
16:20-16:40 Jan-Wim Eikenbroek, Bruco B.V., Design Aspects of MEMS Resonator Based Reference Oscillators
16:45-17:05 Raafar Mansour, U of Waterloo, Integrated MEMS/CMOS devices
DAY 2, August 6th
Session 5 - Bio-Med:
Chair: Karen Cheung, UBC, Co-Chair: Darren Frew, BC Nanotechnology Alliance
8:30-8:50 Jit Muthuswamy, Arizona State University, CMOS assisted gene injection
9:00-9:20 Sandro Carrara, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CMOS-Circuits/Wet-Samples Interface Improvements by Nanotechnology for Label-Free Medical Diagnostics
9:25-9:45 Alexander S. Ross, GE Global Research, Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: Medical Applications and Instrumentation Challenges
9:50-10:10 Pedram Mohseni, Case Western, Wireless Integrated Devices for Brain Monitoring
Session 6A – Emerging Wireless:
Chairs: Yunho Jung, Korea Aerospace University (KAU), Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink
10:30-10:50 Payam Heidari, UCI, Design of Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Automotive Radars
10:55-11:15 Tony Chan Carusone, UofT, Reconfigurable Receivers for Next-Generation Wireless Applications
11:20-11:40 Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario, Brain to Brain Communication - Are We There Yet?
11:45-12:05 Martin Mallinson, ESS Technology, Low Phase-Noise Frequency Synthesis Without Use of PLL
Session 6B – Electronic Design Automation:
Chairs: Larrie Carr, RipSand Technologies Ltd., Co-chair: David Makihara, Mitacs
10:30-10:50 T. W. Williams, Synopsys, EDA to the Rescue of the Silicon Roadmap
10:55-11:15 Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, PSU, Layout Design Challenges for Nano-CMOS
11:20-11:40 Gin-Kou Ma, ITRI, Topology Optimization and Process Scalable Design Approach Circuits
11:45-12:05 Patrick Drennan, Solido Design Automation, Design Solutions for Statistical Process and Proximity-Effect Variation in Analog/Mixed-Signal & Memory ICs
Session 7A – Communication Circuits:
Chair: Brad Booth, AMCC,Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink
13:30-13:50 Jafar Savoj, Rambus, Software-Programmable Wireline Transceivers
14:00-14:20 Shouhei Kousai, Toshiba Corp, A Q Tuning Scheme for a Wideband Active-RC filter
14:25-14:45 Ramesh Harjani, UMN, Exploiting the Transient Behavior of Injection Locked Oscillators
14:50-15:10 Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary, MM-wave Downconversion using the Parametric
Circuit Architecture.
Session 7B – Intellectual Property and Business Trends
Chair: Khosrow Mossannen, PMC-Sierra, Co-chair: Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics
13:30-13:50 Thaddeus Gabara, Tyrean, Intellectual Property: Computer and Business Process Court Decisions
14:00-14:20 Theresa Carbonneau, Syntagma Networks, Technology Trends in Telecommunications
14:25-14:45 Maziyar Khorasani, Ukalta Engineering, A High-Tech Spin-off in the Alberta Resource-Based Economy
14:50-15:10 Ken Brizel, ACAMP (Alberta Centre Advanced MNT Products)
Session 8 - System Perspective:
Chair: Alexander Grbic, Altera, Co-chair: Susan Xu, CMC Microsystems
15:30-15:50 Yvon Savaria, Neguin Sahraii, Claude Thibeault, and Francis Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Modeling and Dynamic Scheduling of Turbo Decoding for a Homogeneous Multiprocessor Platform
15:55-16:15 Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS, Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Synthesis
16:20-16:40 Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, Low-Power Digital Signal Processing with Analog Circuits
16:45-17:05 Zhengya Zhang, Lara Dolecek, Martin Wainwright, Venkat Anantharam, Borivoje Nikolic, Berkeley, LDPC Decoder Design for Low Error Rate Performance
DAY 3, August 7th
Session 9A - Imaging:
Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
8:30-8:50 Ralph Etienne-Cummings, John Hopkins U, Current Mode Active Pixels Sensors Make Focal-Plane Image Processing
9:00-9:20 Jan Thim, Mid Sweden University, CMOS for Color X-Rays
9:25-9:45 Edoardo Charbon, EPFL, Single-Photon Imaging: the Next Big Challenges
Session 9B – Radiation Effects:
Chairs: Stephanie Pusch, TrustedSemi
8:30-8:50 Lawrence Clark, Arizona State University, Radiation Effects in SRAMs
9:00-9:20 Andre Sopczak, Lancaster University, High-Speed CCD Radiation Hardness
9:25-9:45 David E. Fulkerson, Trusted Semiconductor Solutions, Models for Radiation Effects in SOI
Session 10A – Medical Electronics:
Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
10:05-10:25 Karim Karim, U of Waterloo, CMOS Photon Counting Pixel for Real-time Imaging of Palladium Seeds in Permanent Breast Seed Implantation
10:30-10:50 Shantanu Chakrabartty, Michigan State University, Circuits for Biomechanical Implants
10:55-11:15 Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Wireless Intracortical Microsystems for Sensing and Subsequent Treatment
Session 10B – Analog Design:
Chair: Alireza Nojeh, UBC
10:05-10:25 Sinya Itoh and Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka University, A low-power data transmission technique using inductive coupling and its application to biomedical sensor devices
10:30-10:50 Gord Harling, Warren Gross, Shie Mannor, McGill University, Recent advances in Stochastic Decoding
10:55-11:15 Fei Yuan, Ryerson, Skew Compensation of High-Speed Parallel Links
Session 11A – Technology Directions:
Chairs: Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion U
11:15-11:35 Rob Aitken, ARM, Design for Test
11:40-12:00 Byeong-Gyu Nam, Samsung Electronics, Handheld Graphics Processor using Logarithmic Arithmetic
12:05-12:25 Abdel Yousif, U of Calgary, Next generation TDC and ADC architectures for PET imaging applications
12:30-12:50 Klaus Schuegraf, SanDisk, NAND Technology: Directions
Session 11B – Sensors:
Chairs: Marek Syrzcki, SFU
11:15-11:35 Emil Petriu, U of Ottawa, Robotic, Human, and Symbiotic Sensor Agents
11:40-12:00 Felix A. Levinzon, Endevco/Meggit, The Industry's Smallest 100 mV/g Triaxial Piezoelectric Accelerometer with Integral FET Amplifier
12:05-12:25 Faisal Mohd-Yasin, Noise in CMOS MEMS Accelerometers
