The 22nd Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) will be held Sunday, 21 May through Wednesday, 24 May, 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The lineup of events is summarized in Table I. Educational sessions are presented in four subject areas on Sunday. There will be 21 technical paper sessions composed of 129 papers on Monday through Wednesday in four parallel sessions. In addition, there is a keynote session on Monday morning and three panel discussion sessions on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Exhibits from suppliers will be open on Monday afternoon and Tuesday. There will be a Hospitality night on Monday and a Happy Hour on Tuesday evening.
Table 1. CICC’2000 Schedule |
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Sunday, May 21 |
Education Sessions |
9a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Monday - Wednesday, May 22-24 |
Paper Sessions |
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Monday, May 22 |
Exhibits |
2 p.m. - 8 p.m. |
Monday, May 22 |
Open hospitality night |
5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. |
Tuesday, May 23 |
Exhibits |
11 a.m. - 7 p.m. |
Tuesday, May 23 |
Panel 1 |
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
Tuesday, May 23 |
Happy hour |
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
Tuesday, May 23 |
Panels 2, 3 |
8 p.m. - 10 p.m. |
These sessions are presented by leading industry and university professionals that have been invited to provide a broad overview in four major areas of interest. The presentations are tutorial in nature and serve to refresh the practicing engineer's skills in traditional design methods. The four sessions will run in parallel. The titles of the presentations and the presenters are listed here.
1. Selected Topics in System-on-a-Chip
"Wireless system-on-a-chip" Syed Aon Mujtaba
"Embedded RAM design and applications" Betty Prince
"Functional verification: challenges and solutions for today's SoC device" Peter Paterson
"Issues in SOI CMOS technology and design" Ghavam Shahidi
2. Current Issues in IC Design
"Modeling for circuit simulation" Colin McAndrew
"High speed D/A converter design" Doug Mercer
"Design of pipelined analog-to-digital converters" Pat Rakers
"Theory and design of crystal oscillators" Prof. Eric Vittoz
3. Wireless
"RF system design" Peter Kinget
"Design of front-end circuits for wireless" Ranjit Gharpurey
"PLLs and frequency synthesizers" Thomas Lee
"RF CMOS devices and circuits" Tajinder Manku
4. Broadband communications: Architecture and IC development
"Modem fundamentals" John Kesterson
"ADSL arch and IC design - ASIC perspective" Damien Macq
"Cable modem: system, architecture and circuits" Jonathan Min
A total of 129 technical papers will be presented on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in 25 sessions. Included are eight invited papers authored by industry and academia experts. The session topics are:
Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Converters
Test and Reliability
MOS Device Modeling
High-Speed Data Communication/Storage
Analog Techniques
CAD Methods For Deep Sub-Micron Designs
There will be three panel discussion sessions. The first is scheduled in the afternoon on Tuesday. The other two will be held Tuesday evening. Each will have a panel of experts leading the discussion.
Computers and Communications convergence in the World of SoC by Joe Pumo, Motorola
This talk will provide an overview of the four capabilities that build on one another to make SoC a reality. The four capabilities are manufacturing technology, Silicon Implementation, Reusable IP Portfolio and System Design.
The luncheon speech provides a diversion from the heavily technical paper sessions. The focus is an entertaining talk to stretch the horizons of the attendees beyond the issues of today's ICs:
Of Hummingbirds and Undiscovered Worlds: Optical Interferometry and NASA's Quest for Habitable Planets
By Dr. Rudolf Danner, Space Interferometry Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An exhibit area will provide the latest technical information on new products relevant to the design of integrated circuits. The social events on Monday evening (Open Hospitality night) and Tuesday evening (Happy Hour) provide an opportunity for attendees to network with their colleagues and the exhibitors.
Registration forms can be downloaded from the website http://www.ieee.org/conference/cicc
For additional information and general inquiries about the CICC, please contact the Conference Manager, Melissa Widerkehr, CICC, 101 Lakeforest Boulevard, Suite 270, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Tel: (301) 527-0900/207. Email: cicc@his.com.
Rahesh Kumar
CICC Steering Committee
SSCS Meetings Committee
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
rakeshk@cadence.com