http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/sscsSolid-States Circuits Society is the professional association for integrated circuit desingers; a member of the non-profit IEEE. with pre-searched links to IEEEs huge database of articles, conferences and products.en-usCopyright 2005 IEEE270http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_societies/sscs/images/sscs_logo.gifhttp://www.ieee.org/portal/site/sscs http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/sscs/08Fall/Kwong.html The idea of exploiting weak-inversion operation for low power, pioneered by Dr. Eric Vittoz in the 1960's, has led to many recent advances in sub-threshold circuit design, described in this paper by MIT's Anantha Chandrakasan and Joyce Kwong. In the near future, exciting new applications such as medical monitoring, toxic gas sensors and next-generation portable video gadgets in a number of systems will be powered by energy scavenging technologies that will require electronic circuits to operate with the utmost energy efficiency. Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/sscs/08Fall/Heijne.html Around 1987, Eric Vittoz studied the basic parameters for the development of 'pixel' particle tracking detectors in collaboration with a team in Geneva at CERN. CERN scientist Erik Heijne traces the evolution of these particle imagers, which has resulted in matrices of 256x256 pixels with > 1000 transistors per pixel that can process single quanta and have connections with neighboring cells allowing analog and logic operations at ns time-scale for distrbiuted events.Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/sscs/08Fall/Bell.html In 1951 a man could walk inside a computer. By 2010, a computer cluster with millions of processors will have expanded to building size. In this new paper Gordon Bell explains the history of the computing industry, positing a general theory ("Bell's Law) for the creation, evolution, and death of computer classes since 1951. Using the exponential transistor density increases forecast by Moore's Law in 1965 and 1975 as the principal basis for the life cycle of computer classes after the microprocessor was introduced in 1971, he predicts that the powerful microprocessor will be the basis for nearly all computer classes in 2010, from personal computers and servers costing a few thousand dollars to scalable servers costing a few hundred million dollars. Soon afterward, billions of cell phones for personal computing, and tens of billions of wireless sensor nets will unwire and interconnect everything. Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/sscs/08Fall/About_Eric_Vittoz.html In this brief autobiograhy, Eric Vittoz reviews his pioneering career in the development of electronic watches. After joining the Centre Electronique Horloger S.A.(CEH) in 1962 and serving as its Vice-Director, he became Chief Scientist at the Swiss Center of Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), were he was Executive Vice-President for Advanced Micro-electronics until 1999. Dr. Vittoz, who is also a professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) where he received a doctorate in 1969, has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers on low power, analog design, and analog VLSI computation and holds 26 patents. A Life Fellow of IEEE, he received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Field Award in 2004 "for pioneering contributions to low-power modeling and CMOS circuit design."Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/sscs/08Fall/Vittoz_1981.html Eric Vittoz prepared this seminal paper in 1981 for a summer course at K.U.Leuven. After reviewing the behavior of MOS devices at very low current, it examines the CMOS implementation of the three basic components of SC circuits (switches, matched capacitors, amplifiers), and weighs the tradeoffs between low power, settling time, and noise considerations.Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT