ESSCIRC Meets in Portugal, 16-18 September

The leading European solid-state conferences, ESSCIRC, which deals with solid-state circuits and systems, and ESSDERC, which deals with solid-state devices and technologies, will be jointly held in Estoril, Portugal, 16-18 September. The main themes of this year's ESSCIRC conference include: analog circuits; data converters; digital circuits, DSP, and memories; mixed-signal circuits and Systems On a Chip; and RF and VCOs. The main themes of the companion ESSDERC conference include: CMOS and memory devices; modeling, characterization, and simulation; photonics, quantum, and spin electronics; sensors, biosensors, and displays; Si IC technology, interconnect, and packaging; and solid-state and power devices.
The Technical Program Committees of both conferences have completed the selection of an exciting program encompassing a total of 51 technical sessions, 32 of which are within the ESSCIRC technical program and 19 within the ESSDERC technical program. More than 300 papers will be presented by some of the world's leading researchers.
To complement the normal technical sessions, there will be 12 Plenary Sessions presented by renowned experts from industry and academia:

• "Trends in wireless integration," by Josef Fenk, Infineon, Germany
• "Complex analog signal processing is not complicated," by Ken Martin, University of Toronto, Canada
• "Power management," by Dennis Monticelli, National Semiconductors, Italy
• "Polymer electronics and circuits," by Eugenio Cantatore and Eduard Meijer, Philips, The Netherlands
• "Novel nonvolatile memories," by Gerhard Mueller, Infineon, USA
• "Real IIP development and use in SOC products," by Takashi Yoshimori, Toshiba, Japan
• "SOC and the internet age," by Peter Kirk, Texas Instruments, USA
• "Coupled device, circuit, and interconnect simulation," by Will Schilders, Philips, The Netherlands
• "RF CMOS devices," by Basanthe Jagannathan, IBM Microelectronics, USA
• "Strained Si and Ge MOSFETs," by Cristoph Jungemann, Stanford University, USA
• "Photonic crystals," by Gregg Parker, University of Southampton, UK
• "Advanced Hi K dielectrics," by Hiorishi Away, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

A series of valuable, educational tutorials and workshops will be organized on the pre-conference day, 15 September, and on the post-conference day, 19 September. For further information about ESSCIRC-ESSDERC 2003, including a glimpse of its exciting social program and sightseeing tours of some of the most charming destinations in Europe, please visit the Web site at www.chipidea.com/esscirc2003.