2009 CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop
Research & Business Opportunities Ahead
September 23-25, 2009 , Metropolitan Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada
To download presentations from the 2009 CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop in Vancouver, click on the links below. To see what is coming up for the next workshop, check out the program for the 2010 CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop in Whistler.
DAY 1, Sept 23, 2009
Plenary Session 1, Chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC, ivanov@ece.ubc.ca and Stephen Bates, Raithlin, sbates@raithlin.com
8:00-8:30 John Rogers, jrogers@uiuc.edu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Stretchable Si CMOS: From Electronic Eyeball Cameras to Conformal Brain Monitors
8:35-9:05 Bernhard Boser, boser@eecs.berkeley.edu , Berkeley Point-of-care Infectious Disease Test based on CMOS Technology
9:10-9:40 Ian McWalter, mcwalter@cmc.ca , CMC Microsystems, Embedded Intelligence: A key enabler in Microsystems Applications
Coffee Break 9:45-10:00
Session 1A, Biomedical, Chairs: Karen Cheung, kcheung@ece.ubc.ca , UBC and Marek Syrzycki, marek@cs.sfu.ca , SFU
10:00-10:20 Sandro Carrara, sandro.carrara@epfl.ch , EPFL , IC Architectures and Nano-Structured Electrodes for Applications in Personalized Therapy
10:25-10:45 Shantanu Chakrabartty, shantanu@egr.msu.edu , Michigan State University, Forward error-correcting Biosensors - hybrid Bio-CMOS circuits and systems
10:50-11:10 J. Christopher Love, clove@MIT.EDU , MIT, Microtools for multiparametric analyses of single cells
11:15-11:35 Luke Theogarajan, ltheogar@ece.ucsb.edu , UCSB, CMOS for Biomedical Applications
11:40-12:00 Masaharu Imai, imai@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp , Hirofumi Iwato, Keishi Sakanushi, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Osaka U , Akira Matsuzawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology , Yoshihiko Hirao, Nara Medical University , MeSOC-I: a Mixed Signal SOC for Bio-instrumentation in Medical Treatment and Health Care
12:05-12:25 Shuenn-Yuh Lee, ieesyl@ccu.edu.tw , National Chung Cheng University, Wireless Communication Integrated Circuits for Biomedical Systems: RF and Mixed-Signal Circuits
Session 1B, Networking and Communications, Chairs: Jeff Walling, U Washington noyade@u.washington.edu and Stephen Bates, Raithlin, sbates@raithlin.com
10:00-10:20 Sam Heidari, sam_heidari@ieee.org , Quantenna, Any Wire Home Networking: an Overview of Future Generation of Home Networking Devices
10:25-10:45 Joe Maier, jmaier@lea-networks.com , LEA Networks, Power Line Carrier (PLC), ubiquitous in home digital networking
10:50-11:10 Lawrence Chen, lawrence.chen@mcgill.ca , McGill U , The Case for All-Optical Signal Processing in Next-Generation Photonic Networks
11:15-11:35 Martin Maier, maier@emt.inrs.ca , INRS , Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Access Networks
11:40-12:00 David Plant, david.plant@mcgill.ca , McGill University , Burst-mode technologies for ultra-high bit rate, agile photonic networks
12:05-12:25 Tae Wook Kim, taewook.kim@yonsei.ac.kr , Yonsei U, Multi-Standard Mobile Broadcast Receiver LNA with Integrated Selectivity and Novel Wideband Impedance Matching Technique
Lunch 12:30-13:30
Session 2A, Wireless, Chairs: Robert Sobot, rsobot@uwo.ca , UWO and Jeff Walling, U Washington, noyade@u.washington.edu
13:30-13:50 Scott Hanson, hansons@umich.edu , Dennis Sylvester, U of Michigan , Ultra-low voltage circuits for ubiquitous sensing applications
13:55-14:15 Jin Liu, jinliu@utdallas.edu , U of Texas at Dallas , Design Challenges for Remotely Powered Systems
14:20-14:40 Fei Yuan, fyuan@ee.ryerson.ca , Ryerson U , Remote Frequency Calibration of Wireless Passive Microsystems
14:45-15:05 Stewart Taylor, stewart.s.taylor@intel.com , Intel , Low Cost, High Performance CMOS Wireless Receivers
15:10-15:30 Ali Afsahi, alia@broadcom.com , A Phased-Array Receiver for WLAN systems
Session 2B, Microsystems, Chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU, marek@cs.sfu.ca and Alon Newton, alon.newton@gmail.com
13:30-13:50 Jeffrey L. Hilbert, jeff.hilbert@wispry.com , WiSpry, Inc , Integrated RF-CMOS MEMS Solutions for Mobile Terminals
13:55-14:15 Isaku Kanno, kanno@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp , Kyoto University , Piezoelectric MEMS - Their characteristics and potential applications
14:20-14:40 Yong-Ping Xu, yongping@ieee.org , National University of Singapore , Silicon Resonant Accelerometer for Inertial Navigation System
14:45-15:05 R. Zoughi, zoughi@mst.edu , Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T), Microwave and Millimeter Wave Nondestructive Testing, Evaluation and Imaging – Principles and Emerging Opportunities
15:10-15:30 Behraad Bahreyni, behraad@ieee.org , SFU,
Session 2C, Biomedical, Chairs: Payman Servati, peymans@ece.ubc.ca , UBC and Shahriar Mirabbasi, shahriar@ece.ubc.ca , UBC
13:30-13:50 Min-Feng Yu, mfyu@illinois.edu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nanoscale Needle Probes for Targeted Drug Delivery into Living Cells
13:55-14:15 Moisés Piedade, msp@inesc-id.pt , Technical University of Lisbon, Micro Bioelectronics Systems: ICONS – Intracortical Neuronal Stimulator and BIOMAGCMOS – Magnetic CMOS Biochip
14:20-14:40 Walter Karlen , walterk@ece.ubc.ca , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), On-line Sleep and Wake Detection with Wearable Systems
14:45-15:05 Jamal Deen, jamal@mcmaster.ca , McMaster U, CMOS-based Photodetection Systems for Biological/Medical Applications
15:10-15:30 Troy Farncombe, farncomb@hhsc.ca , Hamilton , Concurrent SPECT-MRI imaging
Coffee Break 15:35-15:50
Session 3A, Wireless, Chairs: Robert Sobot, rsobot@uwo.ca , UWO and Chris Rudell, U of Washington jcrudell@u.washington.edu
15:50-16:10 Omeni Okundu, okundu.omeni@toumaz.com , Alison Burdett, Toumaz Inc.,Challenges in Low Power Communication Protocol Design & Implementation - A Sensium™ Case Study
16:15-16:35 Mona Hella, hellam@ecse.rpi.edu , RPI, Tunability in RF Oscillators with Fixed Resonators for Multi-Standard Radios
16:40-17:00 Daquan Huang, huangdq@gmail.com , Frank Chang, UCLA, CMOS Terahertz Signal Generation and Application
17:05-17:25 Alireza Zolfaghari, alireza@broadcom.com , Broadcom , www.broadcom.com , RF transmitters for wireless integrated circuits
Session 3B, I/O Circuits, Chair: Anand Rao, Intel, anand.m.rao@intel.com and Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University samuelpalermo@gmail.com
15:50-16:10 Marcel Kossel, mko@zurich.ibm.com , IBM Zurich Research Laboratory , Design of source-series-terminated transmitters with T-coils
16:15-16:30 Patrick Yue, cpyue@ece.ucsb.edu , UC Santa Barbara , Very low-power, continuous-time adaptive passive equalizers for high-speed I/Os
16:40-17:00 Friedel Gerfers , friedel.gerfers@sbcglobal.net , Aquantia , A Digitally Self-Adaptive Equalizer Solution for Oversampling Receivers
17:05-17:25 Byungsub Kim, byungsub@mit.edu , Vladimir Stojanovic, MIT , Energy Efficient Wireline Communication Over RC-dominant Channels.
17:30-17:50 Koon-Lun Jackie Wong, klwong@broadcom.com , Broadcom , Edge and Data Equalization of Serial-Link Transceivers with Adaptation Algorithm
Session 3C, Mixed Signal, Chair: Shahriar Mirabbasi, shahriar@ece.ubc.ca , UBC
15:50-16:10 Olivier Trescases, ot@ele.utoronto.ca , U of Toronto , Low-Power Blocks for DC-DC Converters in Portable Applications
16:15-16:35 Joachim Becker, Joachim.Becker@uni-ulm.de , Institut für Mikroelektronik, Ulm, A hexagonal lattice field programmable analog array (FPAA) for rapid prototyping of Gm-C filters
16:40-17:00 Massimo Violante , massimo.violante@polito.it , Politecnico di Torino, Field Programmable Gate Arrays: Challenges and solutions to use them in safety- or mission-critical applications
17:05-17:25 Abbes Amira, Abbes.Amira@brunel.ac.uk , Brunel U , Power Management and Modeling on Reconfigurable Hardware for Imaging
DAY 2, Sept 24, 2009
Session 4A, High-Frequency Circuits, Chairs: Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven, R.Mahmoudi@tue.nl and Chris Rudell, U of Washington jcrudell@u.washington.edu ,
8:00-8:20 Elad Alon, elad@eecs.berkeley.edu , UCBerkeley, Energy-Efficient 60GHz CMOS Transceiver Design
8:25-8:45 Payam Heydari, payam@uci.edu , UCI , Silicon-Based (Sub)-Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits; New Frontiers of Electronics Technologies
8:50-9:10 Aydin Babakhani, aydin@caltech.edu , David Rutledge, Ali Hajimiri, Caltech , Near Field Direct Antenna Modulation (NFDAM)
9:15-9:35 Hossein Hashemi, hosseinh@usc.edu , USC , Nonlinear Architectures for CMOS Monolithic Phased Array
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Jim Buckwalter, jfbuckwalter@ucsd.edu , UCSD , High Gain Traveling Wave Amplifiers in Si/SiGe Technologies
10:15-10:35 Ken Townsend, katownse@ucalgary.ca , U of Calgary A CMOS Interference-Mitigating Receiver for Transmitted-Reference UWB
10:40-11:00 Carlos E. Saavedra, carlos.saavedra@queensu.ca , Queen's U , Frequency Multipliers: Design Techniques and Applications
11:05-11:25 Sebastian Magierowski, smagiero@ucalgary.ca , U of Calgary Parametric Circuits
11:30-11:50 Jon Comeau , comeau.jon@gmail.com , Georgia Institue of Technology , Silicon Circuits for X-band Radar Applications
Session 4B, Nanotechnology, Chairs: Alireza Nojeh, anojeh@ece.ubc.ca , UBC
8:00-8:20 Michael Dickey, michael_dickey@ncsu.edu , NCSU , Nanoskiving: An Unconventional Nanofabrication Technique
8:25-8:45 Roman Boulatov, boulatov@uiuc.edu ,University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign , Force spectroscopy without macromolecules
8:50-9:10 James E. Morris, j.e.morris@ieee.org , Portland State University , Nanopackaging: Nanotechnologies in Microelectronics Packaging
9:15-9:35 D.W. Steuerman, UViC , dws@uvic.ca , A. Garcia, R. Yang, D.S. Seferos, H. Wu, D. Korystov, A. Mikhailovsky, J.P. Löfvander, G.C. Bazan, and D.D. Awschalom, High Resolution Cross-sectional Imaging of Organic Devices and Molecularly Assembled Nanostructures
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Byron Gates, bgates@sfu.ca , Michael Wang, SFU , Directed Assembly of Nanowires over Macroscopic Distances
10:15-10:35 Ning Xi , xin@egr.msu.edu , Michigan State University , Design and Fabrication of CNT based Nano Devises
10:40-11:00 Huikai Xie , hkxie@ece.ufl.edu , U of Florida , Monolithic CNT-CMOS Integration by Maskless Post-CMOS Microfabrication and Localized Heating
11:05-11:25 Bonnie Gray , bgray@sfu.ca , SFU , Technologies for microfabricated systems realized on flexible polymer substrates
11:30-11:50 James Chon, JChon@groupwise.swin.edu.au , Swinburne University , Surface Plasmon Mediated Gold Nanorods and Its Application to Five Dimensional Optical Storage
Session 4C, Business Opportunities: Chairs, Theresa Carbonneau, tcarbonneau@mac.com and David Makihara, dmakihara@mitacs.ca , MITACS
8:00-8:20 Martin Mallinson, martin.mallinson@ieee.org , ESS Technology, Now you have designed and built it, how do you sell a million of your latest electronic device?
8:25-8:45 Chris Sellathamby , csellathamby@scanimetrics.com , Scanimetrics, Inc., Dramatic Chip Cost Reduction Using New I/O Circuits
8:50-9:10 Regan Zane, zane@Colorado.EDU , ColoradoU, Efficient low power energy harvesting for miniature wireless devices
9:15-9:35 Marcelo Baru, mbaru@nanowattics.com , NanoWattICs, Analog Design Methodologies When Every Nanoampere Counts
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Ken Brizel , kbrizel@acamp.ca , Kevin Yallup, Alberta Centre Advanced MNT Products , www.acamp.ca , Packaging technologies for MNT product
10:15-10:35 Vikram Jandhyala, vj@u.washington.edu , Founder, Physware, Scalable Electrical Simulation EDA Tools for Chip-Package-Board-System Design and Verification
10:40-11:00 Jan Visser, jan@qfin.net , Qfinsoft Inc., Thermal modelling of LEDs
11:05-11:25 Ahmad B. Dowlatabadi , ahmad@aivaka.com , Aivaka
11:30-11:50 Rakesh Kumar , rakesh@tcxinc.com , Technology Connexions , Fabless Semiconductor Implementation in a Changing Landscape
Lunch 12:00-13:00
Session 5A, Memories, Chair: Tor Aamodt, aamodt@ece.ubc.ca , and Chong Ong, chong.ong@intel.com , Intel
13:00-13:20 Peter Gillingham, gillingham@mosaid.com , MOSAID Technologies, A Hierarchical Approach to Semiconductor Mass Storage
13:25-13:45 Ken Takeuchi, takeuchi@lsi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp , University of Tokyo , Solid State Drive (SSD) and Memory Subsystem Innovation
13:50-14:10 Adi Cernea, Adi.Cernea@sandisk.com , SanDisk , Higher NAND FLASH Performance through All Bit Line Architecture
14:15-14:35 Xiaobin.Wang, Xiaobin.Wang@Seagate.com , Yiran.Chen, Seagate , Magnetization Switching in Spin Torque Random Access Memory: Challenges and Opportunities
14:40-15:00 Andrea Cester, cester@dei.unipd.it , Università di Padova, and Cosimo Gerardi, Cosimo.GERARDI@numonyx.com , Numonyx, Radiation Effects on Nonvolatile Memories
Session 5B, Nanoelectronics, Chair: Konrad Walus, konradw@ece.ubc.ca , UBC and Bonnie Gray, bgray@sfu.ca , SFU
13:00-13:20 Ananth Dodabalapur, ananth@mer.utexas.edu , B. Cobb, and C. Lee, U of Texas at Austin , Organic Electronics: What it Can Do and What it Cannot
13:25-13:45 Bill Challener , William.A.Challener@seagate.com , Seagate , Plasmonic transducer for near field heat assisted magnetic recording
13:50-14:10 Jeremy Levy, jlevy@pitt.edu , U of Pittsburgh , Oxide Nanoelectronics On Demand
14:15-14:35 Ashraf Alam, alam@purdue.edu , Purdue U , Physics and Fabrication of Nanonet Electronics
14:40-15:00 Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, jeske@ece.pdx.edu , Portland CNFET circuits
Session 5C, Mixed-Signal, Chairs: Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University samuelpalermo@gmail.com and Karim Karim, kkarim@uwaterloo.ca
13:00-13:20 Sudhakar Pamarti, spamarti@ee.ucla.edu , UCLA , DSP Techniques for Frequency Synthesizer Circuits
13:25-13:45 Trinidad Sánchez-Rodríguez, Jaime Ramírez-Angulo, Ramón G. Carvajal and Antonio López-Martín , antonio.lopez@unavarra.es , Challenges of Analog Design in Deep Submicron CMOS Technologies and Techniques to Overcome Them
13:50-14:10 Arjang Hassibi , arjang@mail.utexas.edu , University of Texas CMOS Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?
14:15-14:35 10 Magdy Bayoumi, mab@cacs.louisiana.edu , U Louisiana
14:40-15:00 Jaeha Kimjaeha.kim@gmail.com , Aperture and Noise Analysis for Clocked Comparators
Coffee Break 15:00-15:15
Session 6A, VLSI, Chairs: UBC Rick Hobson, rick@cs.sfu.ca , SFU
15:15-15:35 Sergio Bampi, bampi@inf.ufrgs.br , Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Beyond Silicon - Emerging and Transitional Technologies for Future Architectures
15:40-16:00 Vojin G. Oklobdzija, vojin.utdallas@gmail.com , U of Texas at Dallas , Computing at the Ultimate Low-Energy Limits
16:05-16:25 Dejan Markovic, dejan@ee.ucla.edu , UCL, Information Processing for Future Healthcare Systems
16:30-16:50 Moo Sung Chae, gomdori07@gmail.com , UCSC, Integrated wireless neural recording system for neuroprosthetics
16:55-17:15 Timothee Levi, tim.levi@wanadoo.fr , Takashi Kohno, U of Tokyo , Silicon Neural Network Circuits for Smart-MEMs Systems
Session 6B, EDA, Chairs: Boris Stoeber, UBC, stoeber@mech.ubc.ca and Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State U , jeske@ece.pdx.edu
15:15-15:35 Hisham El-Masry, elmasry@cmc.ca , CMC Microsystems , Microsystem Integration Methodology: From Concept to Proof-of-Concept
15:40-16:00 Mani Soma, manisoma@u.washington.edu Washington Design Methods for Self-Healing Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
16:05-16:25 Ram Achar, achar@doe.carleton.ca , Carleton U , Parallel EDA algorithms for the emerging power and signal integrity issues
16:30-16:50 Marek Mierzwinski, , marek_mierzwinski@tiburon-da.com , Patrick O'Halloran, and Boris Troyanovsky, Tiburon Design Automation , Practical Considerations for Verilog-A Models
16:55-17:15 Yue Fu, Yegao Xiao, Jiajan Guo and Simon Li, fred@crosslight.com , Crosslight Software, Advanced 3D simulation of semiconductor processes, devices and optics
Session 6C, Mixed-Signal, Chair: Martin Mallinson, martin.mallinson@ieee.org , ESS Technology and Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven, r.mahmoudi@tue.nl
15:15-15:35 Robin Tsang, Robin.Tsang@cirrus.com , Cirrus Logic, A 10-bit 50 MS/s Pipelined ADC With Capacitor-Sharing and Variable-gm Opamp
15:40-16:00 Haralampos Stratigopoulos, haralampos.stratigopoulos@imag.fr , TIMA, Checkers for On-Line Monitoring of Analog Circuits
16:05-16:25 Ali Tabatabaei, ali@par.stanford.edu , Technology challenges in high-speed D/A design
16:30-16:50 Ching-Min Hsiao, Chih-Wen Lu, cwlu@ncnu.edu.tw , NCNU,
16:55-17:15 Rob Gregoire , rob.gregoire@gmail.com , Correlated Level Shifting to Reduce the Effects of Finite Opamp DC Gain and Swing
DAY 3, Sept 25, 2009
Session 7A, VLSI, Chairs: Ken Schultz, Research in Motion and Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University samuelpalermo@gmail.com
8:00-8:20 Gu-Yeon Wei, guyeon@eecs.harvard.edu , Harvard , Voltage Noise: Why it is bad and what to do about it
8:25-8:45 Kunio Uchiyama, kunio.uchiyama.xh@hitachi.com , Hitachi Power-efficient Heterogeneous Multicore for Digital Convergence
8:50-9:10 Nasser Kurd , nasser.a.kurd@intel.com , Intel , Power-efficient scalable multi-core and high-speed IO clocking architecture
9:15-9:35 Tarik Ono, Tarik.Ono@sun.com , Sun Microsystems, Proximity Communications
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Yusuf Leblebici, yusuf.leblebici@epfl.ch , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic Circuits for Ultra-Low Power Applications
10:15-10:35 Ken Ueno, k_ueno@sapiens-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp , Hokkaido University, Micropower LSIs consisting of Subthreshold CMOS Circuits for Smart Sensor Applications
10:40-11:00 Gabriel Rincón-Mora , rincon-mora@ece.gatech.edu , Georgia Institute of Technology , Powering Micro-Systems
11:05-11:25 Milutin Stanacevic, milutin@ece.sunysb.edu , Stony Brook University Micropower Adaptive VLSI Systems for Acoustic Source Detection, Localization and Separation
11:30-11:50 Keith Bowman, keith.a.bowman@intel.com , Intel , Resilient Circuits for Dynamic Variation Tolerance
Session 7B, Photonics, Chair: Lukas Chrostowski, UBC , lukasc@ece.ubc.ca and Darren Frew, frew.darren@gmail.com , Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations
8:00-8:20 Marko Loncar, Loncar@seas.harvard.edu , P. B Deotare, M. W. McCutcheon, M. Khan, Y. Zhang, I. W. Frank, Q. Quan, J. Choy, Harvard University , High Quality Factor Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities and Their Applications
8:25-8:45 Michael Hochberg, hochberg@washington.edu , U of Washington , Silicon Photonics for Interconnect and Computing
8:50-9:10 Christopher Salthouse, csalthouse@MGH.HARVARD.EDU , Harvard, Nanosecond Pixels for Fluorescence Imaging
9:15-9:35 Aydogan Ozcan, ozcan@ee.ucla.edu , UCLA , A new tool for TeleMedicine: Lensfree On-Chip Imaging for High-throughput Cytometry and Point-of-care Diagnostics
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Reuven Gordon, rgordon@uvic.ca , UViC , Surface Plasmon Nanophotonics: Existing Technologies and Future Prospects
10:15-10:35 Gregory L. Rorrer, gregory.rorrer@orst.edu , Oregon State University , Biological Fabrication of Nanopatterned Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Device Applications
10:40-11:00 Paul Charette and Vincent Aimez , Vincent.Aimez@USherbrooke.ca , Université de Sherbrooke , Biophotonics strategies for Lab-On-Chip Devices
11:05-11:25 Daryoosh Saeedkia, daryoosh@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca , T-Ray Science Inc., Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends
11:30-11:50 Daniel Ratner, dratner@u.washington.edu , U of Washington Label-free silicon photonic biosensors for biomedical applications
Session 7C, Technology, Chairs: Orly Yadid Pecht, orly.yadid.pecht@ucalgary.ca , and Marek Syrzycki, SFU, marek@cs.sfu.ca
8:00-8:20 Kevin Turner, kturner@engr.wisc.edu , U of Wisconsin-Madison , Fabrication strategies for wafer-scale integration and 3D-ICs
8:25-8:45 Hoi-Jun Yoo, hjyoo@ee.kaist.ac.kr , KAIST , Silicon on Cloth (SoC) for the Low Energy Healthcare Application
8:50-9:10 Michelle Khine, mkhine@ucmerced.edu , UC , Merced
9:15-9:35 Yen-Chung Huang, Chih-Wen Lu, cwlu@ncnu.edu.tw , NCNU , Low-Cost TFT-LCD Column Driver Design Low-Cost TFT-LCD Column Driver Design
Coffee Break 9:35-9:50
9:50-10:10 Borivoje Nikolic, bora@eecs.berkeley.edu , Berkeley Large-Scale SRAM Variability Characterization in 45nm CMOS
10:15-10:35 Guangrui (Maggie) Xia, gxia@interchange.ubc.ca , UBC, SiGe and stress technology for CMOS and beyond
10:40-11:00 Alexandre Valentian, alexandre.valentian@cea.fr , CEA, France , Transistors Leakage Variability: A Look at Technology and Design Solutions
11:05-11:25 Chi-Chao Wang, Kevin Cao, Yu.Cao@asu.edu , ASU , Compact Variability Modeling of Nanoscale CMOS Technology
11:30-11:50 Kabir Mirpuri , kabirkumar.j.mirpuri@intel.com , Jerzy Szpunar, Horst Wendrock , In-situ EBSD investigation of electromigration defect nucleation in damascene Cu interconnects
Lunch 12:00-13:00
Session 8A, Radiation Detection, Chairs: Leonid Kurchaninov , kurchan@triumf.ca , Triumf and Adam Garnsworthy, garns@triumf.ca , Triumf
13:00-13:20 C.J. Stapels , CStapels@rmdinc.com , E.B. Johnson, S. Mukhopadhyay, E.C. Chapman, M.A. McClish, K.S. Shah, and J.F. Christian, Radiation Monitoring Devices , Advances in CMOS Solid-state Photomultiplier Detectors
13:25-13:45 Patrick Pangaud, pangaud@cppm.in2p3.fr , The 3-D integration technologies: The new challenge of hybrid pixel detectors
13:50-14:10 Karim Karim, kkarim@uwaterloo.ca , A. Goldan, U of Waterloo
14:15-14:35 Stefan Ritt, stefan.ritt@psi.ch , Paul Scherrer Institute, Fast Waveform Digitizing in Radiation Detection using Switched Capacitor Arrays
14:40-15:00 Sachin Junnarkar, sachin@bnl.gov , BNL , Time to Digital Converters
Session 8B, System Medley, Chair: Jeff Walling, U Washington noyade@u.washington.edu and Sara Bavarian, UBC, sbavaria@sfu.ca
13:00-13:20 Corey Cheng, coreyc@miami.edu , University of Miami Trends and recent research in music engineering technology
13:25-13:45 Lei He, lhe@ee.ucla.edu , UCLA , Robust circuit synthesis and its application to cyber physical system
13:50-14:10 Lesley Shannon , lshannon@ensc.sfu.ca , SFU, Simplifying Application-Specific System Design for SoCs and Multi-FPGA Platforms
14:15-14:35 Anders Nygren, nygren@ucalgary.ca , U of Calgary Fluorescent dye imaging and computer simulations in cardiac electrophysiology
