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Past Conferences

Past Conferences

This page provides the final program and presentation slides for our past conferences. 

2011 Conference

Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa
Whistler, BC Canada
June 15-17, 2011

Final Program (PDF) 

Slides of the presentations from the meeting are available here.

Slides are organized in folders according to conference day and session number. Click on a folder name to open it; click on a presentation title to download it to your computer. If there are no slides for the presentation you are interested in, it means that the presenter did not give us permission to post the slides here. Please contact the presenter (email addresses are in the program) for information.

CMC Microsystems Presentation: Support for Embedded System Research in Canada’s National Design Network (NDN)

2010 Conference

Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa
Whistler, BC Canada
May 19-21, 2010

Final Program (PDF) 

Slides of the presentations from the meeting are available here.

Slides are arranged in alphabetical order by the presenter's first name. If there are no slides for the presentation you are interested in, it means we do not have slides from the presenter. Pleasecontact the presenter directly (email addresses are in the program) for information.

2009 Fall Conference

Metropolitan Hotel
Vancouver, BC, Canada
September 23-25, 2009

Sept 23, 2009

Plenary Session 1, Chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC, ivanov@ece.ubc.ca and Stephen Bates, Raithlin, sbates@raithlin.com

Session 1A, Biomedical, Chairs: Karen Cheung, kcheung@ece.ubc.ca, UBC and Marek Syrzycki, marek@cs.sfu.ca, SFU

Session 1B, Networking and Communications, Chairs: Jeff Walling, U Washington, noyade@u.washington.edu and Stephen Bates, Raithlin, sbates@raithlin.com

Session 2A, Wireless, Chairs: Robert Sobot, rsobot@uwo.ca, UWO and Jeff Walling, U Washington, noyade@u.washington.edu

Session 2B, Microsystems, Chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU, marek@cs.sfu.ca and Alon Newton, alon.newton@gmail.com

Session 2C, Biomedical, Chairs: Payman Servati, peymans@ece.ubc.ca, UBC and Shahriar Mirabbasi, shahriar@ece.ubc.ca, UBC

Session 3A, Wireless, Chairs: Robert Sobot, rsobot@uwo.ca, UWO and Chris Rudell, U of Washington, jcrudell@u.washington.edu

Session 3B, I/O Circuits, Chair: Anand Rao, Intel, anand.m.rao@intel.com and Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University, samuelpalermo@gmail.com

Session 3C, Mixed Signal, Chair: Shahriar Mirabbasi, shahriar@ece.ubc.ca, UBC


Sept 24, 2009

Session 4A, High-Frequency Circuits, Chairs: Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven, R.Mahmoudi@tue.nl and Chris Rudell, U of Washington, jcrudell@u.washington.edu,

Session 4B, Nanotechnology, Chairs: Alireza Nojeh, anojeh@ece.ubc.ca, UBC

Session 4C, Business Opportunities: Chairs, Theresa Carbonneau, tcarbonneau@mac.com and David Makihara, dmakihara@mitacs.ca, MITACS

Session 5A, Memories, Chair: Tor Aamodt, aamodt@ece.ubc.ca, and Chong Ong, chong.ong@intel.com, Intel

Session 5B, Nanoelectronics, Chair: Konrad Walus, konradw@ece.ubc.ca, UBC and Bonnie Gray, bgray@sfu.ca, SFU

Session 5C, Mixed-Signal, Chairs: Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University, samuelpalermo@gmail.com and Karim Karim, kkarim@uwaterloo.ca

Session 6A, VLSI, Chairs: UBC Rick Hobson, rick@cs.sfu.ca, SFU

Session 6B, EDA, Chairs: Boris Stoeber, UBC, stoeber@mech.ubc.ca and Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State U, jeske@ece.pdx.edu

Session 6C, Mixed-Signal, Chair: Martin Mallinson, martin.mallinson@ieee.org, ESS Technology and Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven, r.mahmoudi@tue.nl


Sept 25, 2009

Session 7A, VLSI, Chairs: Ken Schultz, Research in Motion and Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University, samuelpalermo@gmail.com

Session 7B, Photonics, Chair: Lukas Chrostowski, UBC, lukasc@ece.ubc.ca and Darren Frew, frew.darren@gmail.com, Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations

Session 7C, Technology, Chairs: Orly Yadid Pecht, orly.yadid.pecht@ucalgary.ca, and Marek Syrzycki, SFU, marek@cs.sfu.ca

Session 8A, Radiation Detection, Chairs: Leonid Kurchaninov, kurchan@triumf.ca, Triumf and Adam Garnsworthy, garns@triumf.ca, Triumf

Session 8B, System Medley, Chair: Jeff Walling, U Washington, noyade@u.washington.edu and Sara Bavarian, UBC, sbavaria@sfu.ca

 

2009 Spring Conference

February 18-20, 2009

February 18, 2009
Keynote: Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, Bioelectronics

Session 1, Bioelectronics, Chair: Bernard Courtois, CMP, Co-chair: Bozena Kaminska, SFU

Session 2, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Roger Bertschmann, Cygnus Communications, Co-chair: Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven

Session 3, Radiation Detector Systems, Chair: Chair: Mitchell Myjak, PNL, Co-chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU


February 19, 2009

Session 4, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, Co-chair: Co-chair: Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario

Session 6, Design Techniques, Chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera, Co-chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC

Session 7, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Kambiz Moez, U of Alberta, Co-chair: Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary

Session 8, Design Techniques: Chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC, Co-chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera

Session 9, I/O and Clock Generation Design: Chair: Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary, Co-chair: Kambiz Moez, U of Alberta


February 20, 2009

Session 10, Nanotechnology, Chair: David S. Ricketts, Carnegie Mellon University, Co-chair: Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario

Session 11, System Perspective, Chair: N. Aklilu, Scanimetrics, Co-Chair: Stephen Bates, Rathlin

Session 12, Technology, Chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU, Co-chair: Rob Mallard, CMC Microsystems

Session 13, Design & Debug Medley, Chair: Mitchell Myjak, PNL


 

2008 Conference

August 5-7, 2008


August 5, 2008

Session 1 - Design for NanoEra Chair: Ann Rincon, ON Semiconductor, Co-chair: Brad Booth, AMCC

Session 2 - Wireless Communication Chair: Michael Lynch, Synopsys, Co-chair: Mourad El-Gamal, McGill


Session 3 - CMOS Technology Chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera, Co-chair: Stephen Bates, Rathlin

Session 4 – CMOS and MEMs Chairs: Boris Stoeber, UBC, Co-chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU

         

August 6, 2008

Session 5 - Bio-Med Chair: Karen Cheung, UBC, Co-Chair: Darren Frew, BC Nanotechnology Alliance

Session 6A – Emerging Wireless Chairs: Yunho Jung, Korea Aerospace University (KAU), Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink

 

Session 6B – Electronic Design Automation Chairs: Larrie Carr, RipSand Technologies Ltd., Co-chair: David Makihara, Mitacs

Session 7A – Communication Circuits Chair: Brad Booth, AMCC,Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink

  • Jafar Savoj, Rambus, Software-Programmable Wireline Transceivers

  • Shouhei Kousai, Toshiba Corp, A Q Tuning Scheme for a Wideband Active-RC filter

  • Ramesh Harjani, UMN, Exploiting the Transient Behavior of Injection Locked Oscillators

  • 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

Session 8 - System Perspective Chair: Alexander Grbic, Altera, Co-chair: Susan Xu, CMC Microsystems

 

August 7, 2008

Session 9A - Imaging  Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, John Hopkins U, Current Mode Active Pixels Sensors Make Focal-Plane Image Processing
  • Jan Thim, Mid Sweden University, CMOS for Color X-Rays
  • Edoardo Charbon, EPFL, Single-Photon Imaging: the Next Big Challenges

Session 9B – Radiation Effects Chairs: Stephanie Pusch, TrustedSemi

Session 10A – Medical Electronics  Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary

Session 10B – Analog Design  Chair: Alireza Nojeh, UBC

Session 11A – Technology Directions  Chairs: Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion U

Session 11B – Sensors  Chairs: Marek Syrzcki, SFU

2007 Conference

DAY 1
Welcome Address: Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton U, 2007 CMOS ET General Chair

First Keynote Address: Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio University, “CMOS Proximity Communications”

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

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

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

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


DAY 2

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

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

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


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

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


DAY 3

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

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

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

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

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

Adieu, Stephen Bates, U of Alberta, 2008 CMOS ET General Chair

  

2006 Conference

July 19-21, 2006

July 19, 2006

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”
- 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”

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”

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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July 20, 2006

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"

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”

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"


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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July 21, 2006

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” 

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?”

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”

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