Integrated Circuits Seminar
EECS 298-8
Fall 2002
Mondays 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Hogan Room, 5th Floor Cory Hall
Organized by Professor Borivoje Nikolic

Date Speaker Title
September 9 Engling Yeo, UCB A 500Mb/s Soft-Output Viterbi Decoder
Dejan Markovic, UCB Energy-Delay Tradeoffs in Combinational Logic using Gate Sizing and Supply Voltage Optimization
September 16   No seminar
September 23 Johan Vanderhaegen
UCB		 A design methodology for analog circuits based on global optimization
September 30   No seminar
October 7 Allen Podell
Besser Associates		 Allen's Baluns and Transformers
October 14 Shing Kong
Silicon Image		 High Speed Digital Serial Links: Theory and Practice
October 21 Jim Doyle
National Semiconductor		  Closed Loop Adaptive Voltage Scaling for ASIC
October 28 Stefan Rusu
Intel		  Trends and Challenges in Multi-Gigahertz Microprocessor Design
November 4 Jennifer Wong
Xilinx		 Present and Future Developments in Field Programmable Gate Arrays
November 11 Holiday
November 18 Mar Hershenson
Barcelona Design		 Mixed signal design via geometric programming
November 25 Boris Murmann
UCB		 Digitally Assisted A/D Conversion - Trading off Analog Precision for Computing Power
December 2 Jim Wieser
National Semiconductor		 Total System Approach to Power and Area Optimization for a Wired Communications Device
December 5 Peter Kinget
Columbia University		 An Injection Locking Scheme for Precision Quadrature Generation
(special seminar, 2-3:30pm, Hogan Room)
December 9 Please turn in your reports by December 9 if you are taking the seminar for credit