Past Technical Programs and Downloadable Presentations
To download simply click on the presentation title. A spreadsheet of the email addresses for presenters from the Spring conference can be downloaded here.
Spring Conference
8:30-9:20 Keynote: Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT, Bioelectronics
Session 1, Bioelectronics, Chair: Bernard Courtois, CMP, Co-chair: Bozena Kaminska, SFU
- 9:30-9:50 Sylvain Martel, Polytechnique Montreal, Making cmoset.comWork with Bacteria
- 10:20-10:40 Michel M. Maharbiz, Berkeley, Building interfaces to Developing Cells and Organisms: from Cyborg Beetles to Synthetic Biology
- 10:45-11:05 David Cumming, University of Glasgow, cmoset.comBiosensors
- 11:10-11:30 Glenn Gulak, University of Toronto, Rapid Identification of Bacteria in CMOS
Session 2, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Roger Bertschmann, Cygnus Communications, Co-chair: Reza Mahmoudi, TU Eindhoven
Session 3, Radiation Detector Systems, Chair: Chair: Mitchell Myjak, PNL, Co-chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU
- 13:30-13:50 Peter Denes, LBNL, Charged Particle Applications of Pixilated Detectors
- 13:55-14:15 N. Ostgaard, Y. Skogseide, K. Ullaland, J. Stadsnes, G. Maehlum, C. Jorgensen, I. Kuvetli, A. Solberg and K. Njoeten, U of Bergen and DNSC, An X- and gamma-ray detector for observing terrestrial gamma flashes from the International Space Station
- 14:20-14:40 Craig Tindall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Silicon Detectors for Space Instrumentation
- 14:45-15:05 Adam Conway, Rebecca Nikolic, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Si Based Thermal Neutron Detectors
- 15:10-15:30 Aline Meuris, CEA Saclay, Caliste 64 Camera
- 15:45-16:05 Francesca Zocca and Alberto Pullia, U of Milano and INFN, Design of low-noise wide-bandwidth charge preamplifiers for HPGe detectors
- 16:10-16:30 Gianluigi De Geronimo, Paul O’Connor, Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), Front-end ASIC for 3D PSD
- 16:35-16:55 Christoph Herrmann, Walter Ruetten, Philips Medical Systems, CIX - A test chip for simultaneously Counting and Integrating X-ray sensor signals
- 17:00-17:20 Ulrich Trunk, DESY, ASICs for XFEL Detectors
Session 4, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, Co-chair: Co-chair: Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario
- 9:00-9:20 Reza Mahmoudi, Arthur van Roermund, TU Eindhoven, Implementation of phase array techniques for 60GHz applications, challenges and benefits
- 9:25-9:45 Jacques C. Rudell, Intel, Nanometer cmoset.comTransceiver Design enters the Era of “Co-Existence” and the SDR
- 9:50-10:10 Andrea Lacaita, Politecnico di Milano, LINC transceiver design
- 10:15-10:35 Danilo Manstretta, U of Pavia, A Reconfigurable Narrow-Band Architecture for Wideband Receivers
Session 6, Design Techniques, Chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera, Co-chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC
- 11:00-11:25 Esther Rodriguez Villegas, Imperial College, Electronic and medical challenges on truly wearable detection of breathing
Session 7, Wireless Circuits, Chair: Kambiz Moez, U of Alberta, Co-chair: Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary
- 11:00-11:25 Patrick Mercier, Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT, Energy Efficient Pulsed-UWB for Miniaturized Flying Vehicles
Session 8, Design Techniques: Chair: Andre Ivanov, UBC, Co-chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera
- 14:50-15:10 Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Human Centric System Design for Multimedia Communication
Session 9, I/O and Clock Generation Design: Chair: Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary, Co-chair: Kambiz Moez, U of Alberta
Session 10, Nanotechnology, Chair: David S. Ricketts, Carnegie Mellon University, Co-chair: Robert Sobot, U of Western Ontario
- 8:55-9:15 Yu-Ming Lin, IBM, Carbon-Based Nanoelectronics and RF applications
- 9:20-9:40 Ali Javey, Berkeley, Printed Nanowire Arrays for Electronic and Sensor Applications
Session 11, System Perspective, Chair: N. Aklilu, Scanimetrics, Co-Chair: Stephen Bates, Rathlin
- 8:30-8:50 Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, Emergence of Joint Multiple Access Communications
- 9:20-9:40 Abdel Yousif, Shaw Communications, IT innovations in the social networking age
- (Canceled) Bernard Courtois, CMP, Infrastructures services like CMP: where should they be heading?
- 9:45-10:05 Sebastian Magierowski, University of Calgary, Takis Zourntos, Texas A&M Control-Based Computing for Small Mobile Robots
- 10:10-10:30 Michael Seeman, Seth Sanders, Berkeley, Harvesting Micro-Energy
Session 12, Technology, Chair: Co-chair: Rob Mallard, CMC Microsystems
Session 13, Design & Debug Medley, Chair: Mitchell Myjak, PNL
DAY 1, August 5th
Session 1 - Design for NanoEra:
Chair: Ann Rincon, ON Semiconductor, Co-chair: Brad Booth, AMCC
8:30-8:50 Microscopic Wireless to Power Brain-Machine Interfaces
9:00-9:20 Sanu Mathew, Circuits Research Labs, Intel, Design and Technology Challenges for High-Performance Energy-Efficient Tera-Scale Microprocessors
9:25-9:45 Hideyuki Noda, Yoshihiro Okuno, Kazutami Arimoto, Renesas, Embedded Super Computing Technology for Low-power Multimedia Application
9:50-10:10 Marco Racanelli, Jazz Semi, SiGe Bicmoset.comfor Communication ICs
Session 2 - Wireless Communication:
Chair: Michael Lynch, Synopsys, Co-chair: Mourad El-Gamal, McGill
10:30-10:50 Stephen Bates, Rathlin, Mobile-TV in Asia: Emerging Standards and Technologies
10:55-11:15 Yannis Papananos, NTU Athens, Integrated Inductive Structures in nm-Scale cmoset.comRFIC design
11:20-11:40 Reza Mahmoudi, Artur van Roermund, TU/e, Fully cmoset.comintegrated 60 GHZ Transceiver; Challenges and Beauty
11:45-12:05 Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics, Interconnect at 45nm and beyond
Session 3 - cmoset.comTechnology:
Chair: Rakesh Patel, Altera, Co-chair: Stephen Bates, Rathlin
13:30-13:50 Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio U, 3D cmoset.comIntegration
14:00-14:20 Kiyoo Itoh, Hitachi, Impact of Variability on Voltage Scaling Limitations of Nano-Scale cmoset.comLSIs
14:25-14:45 Ronald J. Gutmann, Jian Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Smart Power Delivery using cmoset.comIC Technology: Promise and Needs
14:50-15:10 Ken Cadien, U of Alberta, Is Scaling Dead? A Nanofabrication Perspective
Session 4 - cmoset.comand MEMs
Chairs: Boris Stoeber, UBC, Co-chair: Marek Syrzycki, SFU
15:30-15:50 Hideo Sunami, Hiroshima University, The invention and development of the first trench-capacitor DRAM cell
15:55-16:15 Sunghyun (Sun) Park, Qualcomm, Design Techniques for High Performance cmoset.comFlash Analog-to-Digital Converters
16:20-16:40 Jan-Wim Eikenbroek, Bruco B.V., Design Aspects of MEMS Resonator Based Reference Oscillators
16:45-17:05 Raafar Mansour, U of Waterloo, Integrated MEMS/cmoset.comdevices
DAY 2, August 6th
Session 5 - Bio-Med:
Chair: Co-Chair: Darren Frew, BC Nanotechnology Alliance
8:30-8:50 Jit Muthuswamy, Arizona State cmoset.comassisted gene injection
9:00-9:20 Sandro Carrara, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CMOS-Circuits/Wet-Samples Interface Improvements by Nanotechnology for Label-Free Medical Diagnostics
9:25-9:45 Alexander S. Ross, GE Global Research, Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: Medical Applications and Instrumentation Challenges
9:50-10:10 Pedram Mohseni, Case Western, Wireless Integrated Devices for Brain Monitoring
Session 6A - Emerging Wireless:
Chairs: Yunho Jung, Korea Aerospace University (KAU), Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink
10:30-10:50 Payam Heidari, UCI, Design of Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Automotive Radars
10:55-11:15 Tony Chan Carusone, UofT, Reconfigurable Receivers for Next-Generation Wireless Applications
11:20-11:40 Ontario, Brain to Brain Communication - Are We There Yet?
11:45-12:05 Martin Mallinson, ESS Technology, Low Phase-Noise Frequency Synthesis Without Use of PLL
Session 6B - Electronic Design Automation:
Chairs: Larrie Carr, RipSand Technologies Ltd., Co-chair: David Makihara, Mitacs
10:30-10:50 T. W. Williams, Synopsys, EDA to the Rescue of the Silicon Roadmap
10:55-11:15 Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, PSU, Layout Design Challenges for Nano-CMOS
11:20-11:40 Gin-Kou Ma, ITRI, Topology Optimization and Process Scalable Design Approach Circuits
11:45-12:05 Patrick Drennan, Solido Design Automation, Design Solutions for Statistical Process and Proximity-Effect Variation in Analog/Mixed-Signal & Memory ICs
Session 7A - Communication Circuits:
Chair: Brad Booth, AMCC,Co-chair: Chris Siu, Wavelink
13:30-13:50 Jafar Savoj, Rambus, Software-Programmable Wireline Transceivers
14:00-14:20 Shouhei Kousai, Toshiba Corp, A Q Tuning Scheme for a Wideband Active-RC filter
14:25-14:45 Ramesh Harjani, UMN, Exploiting the Transient Behavior of Injection Locked Oscillators
14:50-15:10 Sebastian Magierowski, U of Calgary, MM-wave Downconversion using the Parametric
Circuit Architecture.
Session 7B - Intellectual Property and Business Trends
Chair: Khosrow Mossannen, PMC-Sierra, Co-chair: Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics
13:30-13:50 Thaddeus Gabara, Tyrean, Intellectual Property: Computer and Business Process Court Decisions
14:00-14:20 Theresa Carbonneau, Syntagma Networks, Technology Trends in Telecommunications
14:25-14:45 Maziyar Khorasani, Ukalta Engineering, A High-Tech Spin-off in the Alberta Resource-Based Economy
14:50-15:10 Ken Brizel, ACAMP (Alberta Centre Advanced MNT Products)
Session 8 - System Perspective:
Chair: Alexander Grbic, Altera, Co-chair: Susan Xu, CMC Microsystems
15:30-15:50 Yvon Savaria, Neguin Sahraii, Claude Thibeault, and Francis Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Modeling and Dynamic Scheduling of Turbo Decoding for a Homogeneous Multiprocessor Platform
15:55-16:15 Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS, Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Synthesis
16:20-16:40 Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, Low-Power Digital Signal Processing with Analog Circuits
16:45-17:05 Zhengya Zhang, Lara Dolecek, Martin Wainwright, Venkat Anantharam, Borivoje Nikolic, Berkeley, LDPC Decoder Design for Low Error Rate Performance
DAY 3, August 7th
Session 9A - Imaging:
Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
8:30-8:50 Ralph Etienne-Cummings, John Hopkins U, Current Mode Active Pixels Sensors Make Focal-Plane Image Processing
9:00-9:20 Jan Thim, Mid Sweden cmoset.comfor Color X-Rays
9:25-9:45 Edoardo Charbon, EPFL, Single-Photon Imaging: the Next Big Challenges
Session 9B - Radiation Effects:
Chairs: Stephanie Pusch, TrustedSemi
8:30-8:50 Lawrence Clark, Arizona State University, Radiation Effects in SRAMs
9:00-9:20 Andre Sopczak, Lancaster University, High-Speed CCD Radiation Hardness
9:25-9:45 David E. Fulkerson, Trusted Semiconductor Solutions, Models for Radiation Effects in SOI
Session 10A - Medical Electronics:
Chairs: Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
10:05-10:25 Karim Karim, U of Waterloo, cmoset.comPhoton Counting Pixel for Real-time Imaging of Palladium Seeds in Permanent Breast Seed Implantation
10:30-10:50 Shantanu Chakrabartty, Michigan State University, Circuits for Biomechanical Implants
10:55-11:15 Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Wireless Intracortical Microsystems for Sensing and Subsequent Treatment
Session 10B - Analog Design:
Chair: Alireza Nojeh, UBC
10:05-10:25 Sinya Itoh and Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka A low-power data transmission technique using inductive coupling and its application to biomedical sensor devices
10:30-10:50 Gord Harling, Warren Gross, Shie Mannor, McGill Recent advances in Stochastic Decoding
10:55-11:15 Fei Yuan, Ryerson, Skew Compensation of High-Speed Parallel Links
Session 11A - Technology Directions:
Chairs: Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion U
11:15-11:35 Rob Aitken, ARM, Design for Test
11:40-12:00 Byeong-Gyu Nam, Samsung Electronics, Handheld Graphics Processor using Logarithmic Arithmetic
12:05-12:25 Abdel Yousif, U of Calgary, Next generation TDC and ADC architectures for PET imaging applications
12:30-12:50 Klaus Schuegraf, SanDisk, NAND Technology: Directions
Session 11B - Sensors:
Chairs: Marek Syrzcki, SFU
11:15-11:35 Emil Petriu, U of Ottawa, Robotic, Human, and Symbiotic Sensor Agents
11:40-12:00 Felix A. Levinzon, Endevco/Meggit, The Industry's Smallest 100 mV/g Triaxial Piezoelectric Accelerometer with Integral FET Amplifier
12:05-12:25 Faisal Mohd-Yasin, Noise in cmoset.comMEMS Accelerometers
DAY I
8:00-8:05 Welcome Address: Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton U, 2007 cmoset.comET General Chair
First Keynote Address: 8:05-8:45
“cmoset.comProximity Communications”
Session 1, “Wireless”, Session Chair - Shahriar Mirabbasi, UBC
coffee break 10:30-10:50
Session 2, “Bio- Medical”, Bio-Medical Track, Session Chair - Stephen Bates, U of Alberta
lunch (on your own) 12:30-2:00
Session 3, “Mixed-Signal”, Session Chair - Brad Booth, AMCC
- 2:00-2:20 Doug Mercer, Analog Devices, "Data Converters, Navigating The Sub-Micron cmoset.comLandscape, or, When Will The Fun Ever Stop!"
- 2:25-2:45 David Nairn, U of Waterloo, “Directions for Ultra-Wideband ADCs”
- 2:50-3:10 Hoi Lee, U of Texas, “Inductorless Power Management ICs for Portable Applications”
- 3:15-3:35 W.T. Ng, G. Wei, O. Trecases, U of Toronto, "Power management for portable audio applications"
coffee break 3:35-3:50
Session 4, “VLSI”, Session Chair - Rick Hobson, SFU
DAY II
Second Keynote Address: 8:00-8:45
Paul Chow, U of Toronto, “Biomolecular Simulations on an FPGA cluster”
Session 5, “Technology”, Session Chair - Stephen Bates, Bates Digital Systems
coffee break 10:30-10:50
Session 6, “Mixed-Signal”, Chair - Marek Syrzycki, SFU
workshop lunch 12:30-2:00
Session 7, “Wireless”, Chair - Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta
coffee break 3:35-3:50
Session 8, “Technology”, Session Chair - Marek Syrzycki, SFU
DAY III
Third Keynote Address:
8:00-8:45 Sylvain Martel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, “Magnetotactic Bacteria as Functional Components in cmoset.comMicroelectronic Systems”
Session 9, “Technology”, Chair - Brad Booth, AMCC
- 8:55-9:15 Borivoje Nikolic, Berkeley, “Variability in deeply scaled cmoset.comand what can circuit designers do about it”
- 9:20-9:40 Ram Krishnamurthy, Amit Agarwal, Intel, “High-performance Leakage/Variation-tolerant memory circuit technologies for sub-45nm technologies”
- 9:45-10:05 Sorin Voinigescu, Ekaterina Laskin, U of Toronto, “Towards 100+ GHz Electronics”
- 10:10-10:30 Artur Balasinski, Cypress Semi, “PSoC as New Technology Driver”
coffee break 10:35-10:50
Session 10, “Sensors”, Session Chair - Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
lunch (on your own) 12:30-2:00
Session 11, “Imaging”, Mixed-Signal Track, Session Chair - Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton U
coffee break 3:35-3:50
Session 12, “Beyond CMOS”, Session Chair - Artur Balasinski, Cypress Semi
- 3:55-4:10 John Madden, UBC, “Polymer Transistors for Printable Circuits”
- 4:15-4:35 Xiaofeng Li, Donhee Ham, Harvard, “Soliton Electronics”
- 4:40-5:00 Jeremy Hilton, D-Wave Systems, “Quantum Computing Chips Made Today”
- 5:05-5:25 Martin Margala , Quentin Diduck, U of Massachusetts Lowell, “Ballistic Transistor Technology - Next Paradigm in IC Design”
- 5:25-5:30 Adieu, Stephen Bates, U of Alberta, 2008 cmoset.comET General Chair
Conference
DAY I - Wednesday, July 19th
8:00am - Registration / Sign-in
8:30-10:00am, Wednesday, July 19th - Wireless I
Welcome Note: Kris Iniewski, U of Alberta
Session Chairman: Stephen Bates, U of Alberta
- “Short distance wireless and its opportunities"
- Domine Leenaerts, Philips Research, “Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Technology”
- Michel Declercq, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), “Passive UHF RFID systems”
10:00 - 10:10 - Coffee Break
10:10 - 11:30 Session Continues
- Martin Mallinson, ESS Technology, “A Sampling Mixer allowing Heterodyne Conversion to Baseband with no Local Oscillator and multi-GHz operation on a Standard Digital cmoset.comprocess”
- Ali Niknejad, Berkeley, “COGUR - COGnitive Universal Radio architecture for future wireless technologies”
- Oren Eliezer, Texas Instruments, Dallas, “DRPTM -Digital radio processing”
11:30am - 1:00pm (lunch on your own)
1:00-3:30pm, Wednesday, July 19th - Wireless II
Session Chairman: Mourad El-Gamal, McGill University
- Sorin Voinigescu, U of Toronto, “MM-wave in cmoset.com- Opportunities above 50 GHz”
- Jack Pekarik, IBM, "Scaled cmoset.comTechnology and Design Tools to Support Wireless Applications”
- Jim Haslett, U of Calgary, “Ultra low noise cmoset.comelectronics for radio astronomy"
- Emanuele Lopelli, Johan van der Tang, Arthur van Roermund, Eindhoven University of Technology, “Ultra-low power RF transceivers”
Coffee Break 3:30-3:40pm
3:40-5:30pm, Wednesday, July 19th - Wireless Systems III
Session Chairman: Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta
- "Inductive-Coupling Inter-Chip Link for System in a Package"
- Danijela Cabric, Robert W. Brodersen, Berkeley, “Novel Radio Architectures for UWB, 60GHz, and Cognitive Wireless Systems ”
- Simon Damphousse, ESS Technology, “All Digital Spread Spectrum Clock Generator for EMI Reduction”
- John Sobota, Eleven Engineering, Edmonton, “HiFi Digital Audio Streaming in the 2.4GHz ISM Band”
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DAY II - Thursday, July 20th
8:00-10:30am, Thursday, July 20th - Advanced cmoset.comI
Session Chairman: Paul Rousseau, TSMC
- Wai Tung Ng, U of Toronto, "Integrated Digital Controlled Switched Mode Power Supplies for Portable Applications"
- Andrew Marshall, Texas Instruments, “Circuit design with FinFET processes”
- Sanu Mathew and Ram Krishnamurthy, Circuits Research Labs, Intel Corporation, “Circuit Technologies for High-performance Energy-efficient Sub-45nm Microprocessors”
- Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton “Phase domain signal processing”
- Steven Slupsky, Scanimetrics, "A Non-Contact Interconnect Technology for Reducing Semiconducor Chip Cost"
Coffee Break 10:30-10:40am
10:40am - 12:30pm, Thursday, July 20th - Advanced cmoset.comII Session Chairman - Jim Haslett, U of Calgary
- Mayur Joshi, Texas Instruments, "Impact of Interconnect Scaling and Process Variations on Performance"
- Mihai Banu, Vladimir Prodanov, “Recent advances in VLSI routing”
- Artur Balasinski, Joseph Cetin, Cypress Semiconductor, “Improving Quality of RF/Analog Designs”
- Rob Aitken, ARM, “DFx - the convergence of test, manufacturing, and yield”
12:30am - 2:00pm Workshop Lunch
2:00-4:00pm, Thursday, July 20th - Beyond cmoset.com
Session Chairman: Bruce Cockburn, U of Alberta
- Kaushik Roy, Purdue “Carbon nanotubes electronics”
- Ken Cadien, Intel, “On-chip optical interconnects”
- Duncan Elliott, U of Alberta, "3D IC technology"
- Peter O'Shea, PMC Sierra, "Cost Modelling for Vertically Integrated Chip Sets"
Coffee Break 4:00-4:10pm
4:10-6:30pm, Thursday, July 20th - Memories & Programmability
Session Chairman: Duncan Elliott, U of Alberta
- Bruce Cockburn, U of Alberta, “Survey of Emerging Memory Technologies"
- Sreedhar Natarjan, Emerging Memory Technologies, “State-of-the-art in SRAM”
- Xerxes Wania, SiDense, “Non-volatile memories in security applications”
- Betty Prince, Memories Strategies International , "Evolution of Flash Memories: Nitride Storage and Silicon Nanocrystal"
- Abbes Amira, Brunel West London, “Reconfigurable computing for Digital Signal Processing”
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DAY III - Friday, July 21st
8:00-10:30am, Friday, July 21st - Bio-med and MEMS
Session Chairman: Raffaella Borzi, IMEC
- Raafat Mansour, Uof Waterloo, “Integrated RF MEMS Devices”
- Peter Bradley, Zarlink, "RF Integrated Circuits for Medical Implants: Meeting the Challenge of Ultra Low Power Communication"
- Bert Gyselinckx, IMEC, “Human ++ program”
- Mohhamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique, "Implementing Implantable Smart Medical Devices: Limits and Challenges"
- Kris Iniewski, U of Alberta “Wireless technologies for medical applications”
Coffee Break 10:30-10:40am
10:40am-12:00pm, Friday, July 21st - MEMs
Session Chairman: Marek Syrzycki, SFU
- Chris Lumb, Micralyne, “MEMs processes that work”
- Alexandru Muller, National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies, “Membrane Supported Millimeter wave circuits based on silicon and GaAs micromachining”
- Mourad El-Gamal, McGill “MEMS for RF - Fact or Fiction?”
12:00-1:30pm (lunch on your own)
1:30pm-3pm, Friday, July 21st - Emerging System Opportunities
Session Chairman & Farewell Note: Tad Kwasniewski, Carleton University
- Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion “Grand challenges in cmoset.comimaging”
- Vincent Gaudet, Christian Schlegel, U of Alberta, “cmoset.comcircuits for LDPC coding”
- Brian von Hertzen, Xilinx, “FPGA supercomputing”
