The 46th International Solid-State Circuits Conference activities will be held Sunday, February 14 through Thursday, February 18, 1999, at the San Francisco Marriott. The lineup of events is summarized in Table I. Tutorial lectures are presented in six subject areas on Sunday before the Conference. Three sessions of the short course are scheduled on Thursday following the Conference. There will be 25 technical paper sessions comprising a total of 173 papers on Monday through Wednesday. There are 3 papers in the Plenary Session, 142 regular papers and 28 short papers running in 5 parallel sessions. A total of 8 evening discussion sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday evenings. A technical book display has been added to the Conference, and a social hour is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
The title of the ISSCC 99 Short Course is Fast Local-Area Networks, and lecturers and their topics are summarized in Table 2. This Short Course is intended to jumpstart engineers in the design and development of Gigabit local-area networks (LAN) over four pairs of Category-5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cables. The course provides an overall perspective on system architectures and specifications and a detailed description of possible circuit and system designs of 1000BASE-T transceivers. Topics covered include frequency response and noise characteristics of the four-pair CAT-5 UTP transmission medium, cross-talk and echo-cancellation methods, multi-level data detection and error-correction schemes, multi-level clock- recovery and phase-locking techniques, and analog interface issues. Emphasis is on CMOS circuit and system implementation.
Tutorials introduce attendees to the state-of-the-art in integrated circuits, and give understanding of, and perspective on, presentations at the ISSCC. Each tutorial is on a seminal topic related to the Conference, and is presented by an expert member of the Technical Program Committee. The lecturers and the titles of their presentations are shown in Table 3. All six tutorials will be presented in parallel, so it is possible to register for any combination of three tutorials.
The 3 papers of the Plenary Session are closely coupled to this year’s Conference theme, High-Bandwidth Systems. In the first paper, H. Nakatsuka of Toshiba Corporation, Japan, will describe the challenges which must be overcome to realize digital-video systems in, "The New Frontier Created by High-Bandwidth Digital Video Systems and Services." T. Claasen of Phillips Semiconductors B.V., Eindoven, The Netherlands, will next address the issues associated with the intrinsic computational power of silicon in, "Is High-Speed the Only Solution to Exploit the Intrinsic Computational Power of Silicon?." In the final paper, H. Samueli of Broadcom, Irvine, CA, will discuss the ambitious goal of universal broadband connectivity in his talk, "Broadband Communications IC’s: Enabling High-Bandwidth Connectivity in the Home and Office."
A total of 170 technical papers will be presented on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in 24 sessions. The session titles, grouped by topic, include:
- "Oversampling Modulators"
(Monday PM)
- "Analog Techniques I"
(Tuesday AM)
- "Nyquist ADCs"
(Wednesday AM)
- "Analog Techniques II"
(Wednesday PM)
- "Communication Techniques and ATM"
(Tuesday morning)
- "Wireless Circuits"
(Tuesday PM)
- "xDSL Signal Processors"
(Tuesday PM)
- "Clock and Data Recovery"
(Wednesday AM)
- "Optical Links"
(Wednesday PM)
- "Microprocessors"
(Monday PM)
- "Clocking and Synchronization"
(Tuesday AM)
- "Digital Circuit Techniques"
(Tuesday PM)
- "Digital Technologies"
(Wednesday AM)
- "SOI Microprocessors and Memory"
(Wednesday PM)
- "MEMS, ICs and Microsystems"
(Tuesday AM)
- "Image Sensors and Integrated Systems"
(Wednesday AM)
- "Flash and Ferro Memory"
(Monday PM)
- "High-Speed SRAM"
(Tuesday PM)
- "DRAM"
(Wednesday PM)
- "Disk-Drive Signal Processing"
(Monday PM)
- "Multimedia Processors"
(Tuesday PM)
- "xDSL Signal Processors"
(Tuesday PM)
- "Transceivr DSPs"
(Wednesday AM)
- "RF and Analog Technologies"
(Monday PM)
- "Emerging Applications"
(Tuesday PM)
- "Digital Technologies"
(Wednesday AM)
- "SOI Microprocessors and Memory"
(Wednesday PM)
There are a total of eight Evening Discussion Sessions (four on Monday evening and four on Tuesday evening). The titles and moderators are listed in Table 4.
