The 23rd Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) will be held Sunday, 6 May through Wednesday, 9 May 2001 in San Diego, CA. The lineup of events is summarized in Table 1 on page 2. Educational sessions are presented in four subject areas on Sunday. There will be 22 technical paper sessions in four parallel tracks on Monday – Wednesday with 121 papers. In addition, there is a keynote session on Monday morning and three panel discussion sessions on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Exhibits will be open on Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday. There will be a Hospitality Night on Monday and a Happy Hour on Tuesday evening.
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Table 1. CICC'2001 Schedule |
These sessions are presented by leading industry and academia professionals who have been invited to provide a broad overview in four major areas of interest. The presentations are tutorial in nature and introduce design topics of current interest while serving to refresh the practicing engineer's skills in traditional design methods. The four sessions will run concurrently. The titles of the presentations and the presenters are listed here.
“Multi-bit mismatch-shaping DACs for high-performance delta-sigma
data conversion,” Ian Galton
“Design of pipelined analog-to-digital converters,” Pat Rakers
“Background calibration of analog-to-digital converters,” Steve Lewis
“State of the art lab characterization methods for high speed ADCs and DACs,”
Steve Reine
“Theoretical and practical aspects of RF circuit design,” Oliver
Werther
“RF CMOS devices and circuits,” Tajinder Manku
“RF power amplifier fundamentals,” Peter Baltus
“Design of low phase noise oscillators,” Thomas H. Lee
“System analysis of high speed optical interfaces: A design case
study,” Roberto Quasso
“Receiver and transmitter IC design,” Hans Ransijn
“Practical CMOS circuits for clock and data recovery,” Aaron Buchwald
“SiGe Bipolar ICs for 40 Gb/s optical-fiber links—design and realization,”
Hans-Martin Rein
“CMOS image sensor design,” Robert Henderson
“DSP solutions for digital still cameras,” Minhua Zhou
“SOC design issues for imaging processing,” Robert Lowry
“Image processing system applications: From Barbie cams to the space telescope,”
Robert Kremens
A total of 121 technical papers will be presented in 22 sessions. Included are 12 invited papers. The session topics are:
• Analog filtering techniques
• Oversampled data converters
• Power amplification and ESD issues in wireless design
• Not your father’s FPGA: Programmable Systems On A Chip
• Sensor applications and low-power techniques
• Broadband wireline transceivers
• Nyquist-rate data converters
• Embedded memory
• Frequency synthesizers and VCOs
• Modeling for high-speed digital design
• Design approaches for testability and reliability
• DSPs for wired and wireless communications
• Wired gigabit interfaces
• Modeling for analog design
• Will the real network processor please stand up? This is the only panel discussion
scheduled in the afternoon.
• Modeling for RF design
• Innovations in System On A Chip applications and techniques
• Analog techniques
• A modeling standard for IP
• Interface issues and clock generation
• Wireless subsystems and components
• Techniques enabling IP integration
• IC process technology for the communications revolution
There will be three panel discussion sessions, on the first Tuesday afternoon, and the others on Tuesday evening. Each will have a panel of experts leading the discussion.
1. Will the Real Network Processor Please Stand Up?
2. Can One Process Do It All?
3. Stock Options: Are They a Management Nightmare and an Employee Nirvana or Is It the
Other Way Around?
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Lloyd Carney, President, Wireless Internet Network Solutions, Nortel Networks will provide the keynote speech on Global Wireless Internet Momemtum at CICC'01 |
Global Wireless Internet Momentum
Lloyd Carney, President, Wireless Internet Network Solutions, Nortel Networks, Inc.
The Monday morning keynote talk will provide an overview of the opportunities and directions for ubiquitous access to the Internet — anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Perspectives will be provided to show that the next Internet wave will be accomplished by combining industry-leading optical technology with a strong IP core competency and advanced wireless access technology.
Storage Technology: Trends, Enabling and Enabled Technologies
by Michael Workman, VP OEM Storage Subsystems Development, IBM
The luncheon speech on Tuesday 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.
The 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) and Tuesday evening (Happy Hour) will provide an opportunity for attendees to network with their colleagues and the exhibitors.
Registration forms can be downloaded from 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: +1 301 527 0901 ext. 207. Email: cicc@his.com