The 2001 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) will be held in Minneapolis, MN from 30 September to 2 October 2001. BCTM provides a forum for technical communication focused on the needs and interests of bipolar and BiCMOS engineers. The conference covers the design, performance, fabrication, testing, and application of bipolar, BiCMOS, and BiFET integrated circuits. This year's conference includes a Short Course, an evening banquet, several invited papers, a vendor exhibition, and a Best Student Paper award.
The conference will begin with a Short Course on Sunday, 30 September. The course is divided into four 1.5-hour sessions. The first session will be taught by Klaus Runge (Gtran) covering high-speed IC circuit design for optical communications. Joerg Berkner (Infineon Technologies AG) will teach the second session and will discuss parameter extraction for bipolar compact models. The third session will be led by Jeff Johnson (IBM) on the topic of industrial experience with SiGe HBT simulation – from process to compact models without running a wafer in fab. David Pehlke (Ericsson) will give the final Short Course session on the subject of production RF measurement techniques. The BCTM Short Course has become a very popular part of the conference and attracts a large percentage of the BCTM attendees each year.
On Monday morning, the technical program begins with the keynote speaker, Behrooz Abdi (Motorola). Mr. Behrooz will discuss communication applications for the next decade and their requirements for circuits and technologies. After the Monday morning technical sessions, the attendees are invited to a luncheon. This year's luncheon speaker will be Isaac Chuang from MIT Media Lab. A banquet will be held on Monday evening. Several exhibits by design, test/measurement, and CAD/modeling vendors will be on display at the conference.
The conference technical sessions offer exceptional technical papers that provide the latest and most significant developments in Bipolar/BiCMOS integrated circuits. Invited and tutorial papers by leading experts from industry and academia highlight the technical sessions. These papers focus on new directions in Bipolar/BiCMOS technology, including emerging technologies. Look for the advance program at www.ectm.et.tudelft.nl/www/BCTM . Major topics include:
The Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting will be held at the Marriott City Center Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The Marriott offers the finest hotel accommodations in the Twin Cities area and is central to the ultramodern City Center shopping complex, the skywalk to Nicollet Mall, and Minneapolis cultural attractions such as the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, and the historic Orpheum and State theaters. In nearby Bloomington is the largest fully enclosed retail and family entertainment complex in the United States: The Mall of America. There are two wonderful zoos and many other tourist attractions in the Twin Cities area.
BCTM is sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, in cooperation with IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the IEEE Twin Cities Section. The 2001 Conference Chair is Kenneth O, University of Florida, Gainesville, and the Technical Program Chair is Hiroshi Iwai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
To register, use the forms available online at www.ectm.et.tudelft.nl/www/BCTM.
For additional information, contact the BCTM Conference Manager, Janice Jopke, CCS Associates. Email: prairie66@qwest.net.
Tom Skaar
BCTM Publicity Chairman
tskaar@vitesse.com