Previous Events

• November 16, 2006:   Our speaker was  Dr. Bernard Widrow (Stanford University) and the topic of his presentation was " 'Cognitive' Memory and its Applications. "

• October 19, 2006:   Our speaker was  Dr. Asad A. Abidi (UCLA) and the topic of his presentation was " Evolution of a CMOS Software-Defined Radio Receiver Front-End. "

• September 21, 2006:   Our speakers were  Dr. Cary Y. Yang (Santa Clara University) and Mr. Quoc Ngo, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Ph.D.E.E. program, Santa Clara University), and the topic of their presentation was " Application of Carbon Nanofibers for On-chip Interconnect Applications. "

• August 17, 2006:   Our first speaker was   Mr. Bruno W. Garlepp, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Rambus), and the topic of his presentation was " A Monolithic Low-Bandwidth Jitter-Cleaning PLL with Hitless Switching for SONET/SDH Clock Generation. "

• August 17, 2006:   Our second speaker is   Mr. Isaac Sever, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. & Mr. Steve Lo, M.S.E.E., B.S. (Tzero Technologies), and the topic of his presentation is " A Dual-Antenna Phased-Array UWB Transceiver in 0.18um CMOS. "

• May 18, 2006:   Our first speaker was   Mr. Aurangzeb Khan, M.S.E.E., M.S.E.M., B.S.E.E., B.S.C.S., B.S.N.E., B.Sc Phys. & Pure & Appl. Math (Cadence Design Systems), and the topic of his presentation was " A 90nm Power Optimization Methodology and its' Application to the ARM 1136JF-S Microprocessor " and " A 90nm Power Optimization Methodology and its' Application to the ARM 1136JF-S Microprocessor. "

• May 18, 2006:   Our second speaker was   Dr. Minfan Pai (Discera, Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was " A Programmable MEMS FSK Transmitter. "

• April 20, 2006:   Our speaker was   Mr. Stefan Rusu, M.S.E.E. (Intel Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was " Circuit Technologies for Multi-Core Processor Design. "

• March 16, 2006:   Our first speaker was  Dr. Lalit Nathawad (Atheros Communications), and the topic of his presentation was " System-on-Chip for Embedded WLAN Applications. "
  Our second speaker was   Dr. William W. Si (Atheros Communications), and the topic of his presentation was
  " A 1.9GHz Single-Chip CMOS PHS Cellphone."

• February 16, 2006:   Our speaker was   Mr. Anand Dixit, M.S.E.E., B.T.E.E. (Ph.D.E.E. student, Stanford University), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Implementation and Productization of a Fourth generation 1.8 GHz dual-core SPARC V9 microprocessor. "

• January 19, 2006:   Our speaker was   Mr. Paul Rissman, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Stanford Nanofabrication Facility), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Introduction to the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility and Research Examples."

• November 17, 2005:   Our speaker was   Dr. Floyd M. Gardner (Independent Engineering Consultant), and the topic of his presentation was
  " PLL History: A Personal Viewpoint."

• October 20, 2005:   Our speaker was  Mr. Julian Tham, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Berkana Wireless), and the topic of his presentation was
  " A Single-Chip Quad-Band GSM/GPRS Transceiver in 0.18 um Standard CMOS."

• September 21, 2005:  Special joint meeting with Electron Devices Society.  
  Our speaker was  Dr. Yuhua Cheng (Siliconlinx, Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was
  " An Overview of MOSFET Device Behavior and Modeling for Mixed-Signal/RF IC Design"

• June 16, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Sudhir Aggarwal (Philips Semiconductor), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Design Challenges for a UWB Radio".

• May 19, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Bernhard E. Boser (University of California, Berkeley), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Analog Circuit Design with Submicron Transistors".

• April 21, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Mircea R. Stan (University of Virginia), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Power-aware and temperature-aware circuit design".

• March 17, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Ali M. Niknejad (EECS department at UC Berkeley), and the topic of his presentation was
  " The Road to 60 GHz Wireless CMOS".

• February 17, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Jayasimha Prasad (Maxim Integrated Products), and the topic of his presentation was
  " SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Technology and Applications".

• January 20, 2005:   Our speaker was  Dr. Osama Shana'a (Maxim Integrated Products), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Design Considerations for Low-Power High-Sensitivity Integrated WCDMA Direct-Conversion RF Receivers ".

• Nov 18, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Bruce Wooley (Stanford University, IEEE Fellow), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Cascaded Noise-Shaping for Oversampling A/D and D/A Conversion".

• October 21, 2004:   Our speaker was  Mr. Radu Zlatanovici (University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. candidate), the topic of his presentation was
  " Power - Performance Optimization Methods for Digital Circuits".

• September 29 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Zoltan Cendes (Founder and CTO, Ansoft Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Trends in High-performance Computer Aided Design".

• September 16, 2004:   Our speaker is  Dr. Robert W. Dutton (Stanford), and the topic of his presentation was
  " Next-Generation Compact Modeling".

• August 19, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Louis S. Y. Wong (St. Jude Medical), and the topic of his presentation was
  " A Very Low Power CMOS Mixed-Signal IC for Implantable Pacemaker Applications ".

• June 17, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Bhupendra K. Ahuja (Xicor, Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was
    "MicroPower Precision Floating Gate Voltage Reference".

• May 13, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Phillip E. Allen (Georgia Institute of Technology), and the topic of his presentation was
    "The Practice of Analog IC Design".

• April 15, 2004:   Our speakers were  Drs. Masoud Zargari and Manolis Terrovitis (Atheros Communications), and the topic of their presentation was
  "A Single-Chip, Dual-Band, Tri-Mode CMOS Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN".
  Download:    Transceiver Presentation   Frequency Synthesizer Presentation

• Mar 18, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Pengfei Zhang (RF Micro-Devices), and the topic of his presentation was
    "A Direct Conversion CMOS Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a Wireless LANs".

• Feb. 26, 2004:   Our speaker was  Dr. Kris Pister (Dust Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was
   "Smart Dust: Circuits and Applications".

• Jan. 15, 2004:   Our speaker was Dr. Tallis Blalack (Cadence), and the topic of his presentation was
  "On chip RF Isolation Techniques".

• Nov. 20, 2003:   Our speaker was Dr. Ted Van Duzer (UC Berkeley), and the topic of his presentation was
   " Application of Unique Superconductor Quantum Phenomena in Electronics".

• Oct. 16, 2003:   Our speaker was  Mr. George Vendelin, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Vendelin Engineering), and the topic of his presentation was
   "Lossless Feedback Amplifier Design". 

• Sept. 18, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Aurangzeb Khan (Cadence), and the topic of his presentation was
   "Challenges in Achieving First Silicon Success for 10M-Gate SoCs: A Silicon Engineering Perspective".  

• Aug. 21, 2003:   Our speakers were Dr. Adrian Ong and Dr. Derek K. Shaeffer (both from Big Bear Network), and the topic was
   "40GHz OC-768 optical transponder in SiGe technology: CDR, 16:4 MUX and 4:1 MUX/CMU".

• Aug. 18 to 29, 2003: An introductory course to analog IC design, from 8:00AM to 12 noon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Cogswell College.  The course was primarily targeted to those who like to be familiar with the topic.

• No meeting in July. 

• June 19, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Borivigic Nikolic  (UC Berkeley), and the topic of his presentation was
   "High Throughput Iterative Decoders".

• May 15, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Boris Murmann  (UC Berkeley), and the topic of his presentation was
   "Digitally assisted A/D conversion - Trading off analog precision for computing power".  

• April 17th, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Ion Opris  (Independent Consultant) , and the topic of his presentation was
   "Challenges in A/D design and practical understanding of their specifications".  

• March 20th, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Chris Chua  (Palo Alto Research), and the topic of his presentation was
   "Microfabricated high quality factor RF coils on silicon integrated circuits". 

• February 20th, 2003:   Our speaker was  Dr. Andrew Berlin  (Intel), and the topic of his presentation was
  "Overview of MEMS Research and Applications".  

• November 26, 2002:   Our speaker was  Dr. David Su  (Atheros), and the topic of his presentation was
  "CMOS RF Power Amplifiers: Nonlinear, Linear, Linearized".  

• October 17, 2002:   Our speaker was  Dr. Stefan Rusu (Intel), and the topic of his presentation was
  "Trends and Challenges in Multi-Gigahertz Microprocessor Design".  

• September 26, 2002:   Our speaker was  Dr. Narendra Rao (Silicon Magnetic Systems), and the topic of his presentation was 
  "Group Delay of Analog Filters".