The 2001 IEEE GaAs IC Symposium will be held 21-24 October in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. This year's program continues to demonstrate the developments in commercial wireless and optical communications technology. Major areas of focus are: wireless and broadband communications, very high-speed optical communications, highly efficient linear power amplifiers, optoelectronics, and millimeter-wave systems.
The technical sessions will highlight all aspects of technology: device development and fabrication, characterization and modeling, IC design and testing, high-volume manufacturing, reliability, system applications, and a technology roadmap for III-V compound semiconductor ICs.
There will be five panel sessions spread over the three days of the technical sessions covering the topics: CAD software, 40 Gb/s ICs, OEICs, and PAs.
Both a Short Course and a Primer Course will be held on Sunday, 21 October. The Short Course is titled "Optical fiber systems." The course includes an overview of fiber systems, IC design issues including various amplifiers, modulators, drivers, serializers, deserializers (SERDES – multiplexers and demultiplexers) and clock and data recovery (CDR) designs and finally, packaging issues. The Primer Course is a tutorial on compound semiconductor electronics, presented within the topical context of the symposium.
The symposium includes the GaAs IC Technology Exhibition with some 40 exhibitors. The Vendor Product Forum, with a focus on power amplifiers, will highlight the latest commercial products available from industry.
The 2001 IEEE GaAs IC Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE the Electron Devices Society with technical co-sponsorship by the Solid-State Circuits Society, and the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. For the last 23 years, the IEEE GaAs IC Symposium has been the preeminent international forum on developments in integrated circuits using GaAs, InP, SiGe, GaN, and SiC as well as other compound semiconductor devices. In 2001 the Symposium continues its tradition of presenting the best from around the world in high-frequency microelectronics.
See the Web site for the Advance Program with the schedule of speakers, topics and registration information. www.gaasic.org/.
Mitchell Shifrin
Publicity Chair
GaAs IC Symposium
mitchs@hittite.com