What's New @ IEEE in Circuits

VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2004

CONTENTS:

1. New Matter Created in Lab May Promote Low-Temperature Superconducting
2. IEEE Job Site Named One of Top 30 Online Recruitment Sites
3. Dream Jobs: IEEE Spectrum Reports
4. IBM Announces Great Stride in Self-Assembly Technique for Nanocrystals
5. Protect Your New Ideas and Inventions
6. Gigabit Wireless Technology Deconstructed by IEEE Journal
7. Circuits Paper Is Millionth Document in IEEE Xplore
8. COOL Chips VII Promises Leading-Edge MicroprocessorInfo
9. VERILOG Marks Two Important Milestones in Late 2003
10. Dictionary Handy Reference for the Rich Electrical Engineering Lexicon
11. Antibody-Coated Silicon Could Streamline Virus Detection and Save Lives
12. IEEE Journal Email Alert Service Now Includes IEEE Titles
13. GaAs IC Release Has Latest on High-Frequency/High-Speed Microelectronics

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1. NEW MATTER CREATED IN LAB MAY PROMOTE LOW-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING
A trio of University of Colorado researchers has created a new form of matter called fermionic condensate that could ultimately lead to room-temperature superconductors and a revolution in the supply of electric power. Getting the atoms of this matter to pair up has been an enormous challenge, requiring super-low temperatures to within 50 billionths of a degree of absolute zero. How these scientists succeed? New Scientist has the story: www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994619

2. IEEE JOB SITE NAMED ONE OF TOP 30 ONLINE RECRUITMENT SITES
An impartial users poll of 10,000 recruiters and job seekers has named the IEEE Job Site one of the top 30 online recruitment sites, according to the 2004 edition of "Weddle's Guide to Employment Web Sites." The IEEE Job Site provides IEEE members with career resources, such as updated job listings and IEEE-USA Salary Services. IEEE members can search jobs by technical area, title and location, and can match job postings with a self-created job profile. To learn more visit: www.ieee.org/jobs

3. DREAM JOBS: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
For another perspective on the job scene, check this out: IEEE Spectrum scoured the globe and found engineers with "dream jobs" at NASA, ILM, Lego, Sun Microsystems, the Hawaiian Electric Co., Sony, the Institute for Exploration, Gehry Partners, ICRISAT, and Line 6. From the drought-parched fields of India to the realm of outer space, these engineers have followed their dreams to their jobs. Read all about them in this month's issue of IEEE

Spectrum: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/feb04/0204job.html

4. IBM ANNOUNCES GREAT STRIDES IN SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE FOR NANOCRYSTALS
In the small-is-beautiful race for better nanomaterials, IBM recently announced a potential great leap forward with a self-assembly technique that has applications in making nanocrystals. This process could become a cornerstone of Big Blue's future in computer nanotechnology. IBM researchers Kathryn Guarini and Chuck Black caused a sensation at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting recently when they unveiled a nanocrystal flash memory whose fabrication process had everybody excited. Read more: www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=7317

5. PROTECT YOUR NEW IDEAS AND INVENTIONS
Since its establishment in 1790, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued more than six million patents -- more than one third of them in the last 25 years. The pace of innovation is speeding up, and now more than ever, engineers need to protect their new ideas and inventions by maintaining both a technical and legal audit trail. Harry Roman offers some guidance for those who would conceive of "the next big thing," in the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: www.todaysengineer.org/jan04/protect.asp

6. GIGABIT WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY DECONSTRUCTED BY IEEE JOURNAL
The February issue of Proceedings of the IEEE takes an in-depth look at the realities and limits of "gigabit wireless." Topics in the issue include physics of materials and devices, radio frequency circuit design, algorithmic breakthroughs, innovative media access protocols, and the user interface. Read the editor's introduction for free at: www.ieee.org/pubs/proceedings/current.xml

7. CIRCUITS PAPER IS MILLIONTH DOCUMENT IN IEEE XPLORE
Last month, IEEE added the one-millionth online document to the IEEE Xplore delivery platform. The milestone technical paper, "Novel Frame Buffer Pixel Circuits for Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays," was first published in the January 2004 issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. IEEE's online collection of technology articles, papers and standards has grown by more than 25 percent in the last 18 months. Read about this important milestone, and read the millionth paper for free at: www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/news/0104_04.html

IEEE members have several options for accessing the million-plus documents in IEEE Xplore. Find out more at: www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/info/overview_membersub.html

8. COOL CHIPS VII PROMISES LEADING-EDGE MICROPROCESSORS INFO
"How can we survive the era of billion-transistor chips?" is just one of the provocative topics on the agenda for the COOL Chips VII conference to be held in Yokohama, Japan, 14 to 16 April 2004. This international symposium, in its seventh year, presents advancements of low-power and high-speed chips -- leading-edge technologies in all areas of microprocessors and their applications. COOL Chips VII is cosponsored by the IEICE Electronics Society, the Technical Group on Integrated Circuits and Devices, the IEEE Computer Society. To register: www.coolchips.org/

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9. VERILOG MARKS TWO IMPORTANT MILESTONES IN LATE 2003
Verilog®, the predominant chip design and verification language, reached two important milestones in late 2003. The first was the 10th anniversary of the kick-off meeting for IEEE 1364™ Working Group, which created Verilog in the first place, and the second was the 20th anniversary of Verilog’s commercial development. In addition, the IEEE 1364 Working Group revised IEEE 1364-2001, "Standard for the Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL)." The revision, just released, corrects inconsistencies and includes important editorial changes missing in the last printing. For more on this, visit: standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_p1364anniv.html

10. DICTIONARY HANDY REFERENCE FOR THE RICH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LEXICON
Learning to master the imposing amount of electrical engineering terminology and jargon is made easier with the Wiley-IEEE Press release, the "Wiley Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dictionary." Author, editor and lexicographer Steven M. Kaplan has seven previous technical and language dictionaries to his credit. This latest work is easy-to-use and includes 35,000 entries culled from textbooks, handbooks, treatises, instruction manuals, theses, articles, reports, and Usenet postings. To order, visit: www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471402249.html
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11. ANTIBODY-COATED SILICON COULD STREAMLINE VIRUS DETECTION, SAVE LIVES
A bit of silicon coated with antibiotics could help improve the survival of heart transplant patients. Developed by U.S. scientists at BioForce Nanosciences, Iowa State University and Des Moines University, "Virichip" is coated with an extremely small amount of antibody -- on a micron-to-nanometer scale -- and used in combination with an atomic force microscope to detect a virus. In transplant patients, the speed with which Virichip could detect infection could save lives. This advance also may allow testing for thousands of viral infections from a single drop of a patient's blood. Read the full article at: www.physicsweb.org/article/news/8/1/11

12. IEEE JOURNAL EMAIL ALERT SERVICE NOW INCLUDES IEEE TITLES
Researchers can keep abreast of the latest research in their fields by establishing free email alerts to any IEEE journal or magazine title through IEEE Xplore, the online delivery system for IEEE subscriptions for members and institutions. Users can now also add IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) journal or magazine titles of interest to their email alert profile. Email alert users will receive notification when a new issue in their alerting program becomes available. The email will contain a direct link to that issue's table of contents in IEEE Xplore. This service is free to all guests and subscribers, but access to the full text of any document depends on individual online subscriptions. Sign up today ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/emailalert1.jsp

13. GAAS IC RELEASE HAS LATEST ON HIGH-FREQUENCY/HIGH-SPEED MICROELECTRONICS
The proceedings of the Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuits (GaAs IC) 25th Annual Symposium are a source for developments in the compound semiconductor industry. Available at the IEEE Online Catalog & Store, this volume offers the best from around the world in high-frequency/high-speed microelectronics. Included are topics such as the changing face of high-speed digital technology, MMICs for handset applications, reliability, new markets and emerging technology, simulation and modeling, amplifiers for S to W band applications, and much more. To purchase, visit: shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=CH37445
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