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“Chip Olympics” – 58 th International Solid-State Circuits Conference - ISSCC 2011 The 58 th IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference – ISSCC 2011 held between February 20 and 23, in San Francisco, USA, is the flagship conference of the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), one of the largest of the 40 societies of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and at the forefront of the current Information Age Revolution. UM (through SKL AMS-VLSI) was this year positioned as the 15 th in the world among 46 universities that were able to publish there, 5th in Asia and 1 st in China with 2 chips selected for presentation and entitled: “A 0.46mm 2 4dB-NF Unified Receiver Front-End for Full-Band Mobile TV in 65nm CMOS” (left), and “A 0.024mm 2 8-bit 400 MS/s SAR ADC with 2-bit/Cycle and Resistive DAC in 65 nm CMOS” [Silk Road Award for Region 10 – Asia, Australia, the Pacific.] (right) Important Events Two PhD Oral Defenses on Microelectronics held on 22-July 2011 Title: High Speed Power / Area Optimized Multi-Bit / Cycle SAR ADCs (Silk Road Award ISSCC2011) Candidate: He-Gong Wei (Abner) Title: Circuit Techniques for High-Performance SAR Type ADCs (Award ASSCC2011,TopAsia) Candidate: Yan Zhu (Julia) State Key Lab of AMS-VLSI / Science Series 22-23 July 2011 1 st Distinguished Lectures, PhD Oral Defenses & Lab Workshop Prof. Ian A. Galton, IEEE Fellow, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA • Mismatch-Shaping Techniques for Delta-Sigma Data Converters • Digital Background Calibration in Pipelined ADCs PhD Oral Defenses on Microelectronics Prof. Bram Nauta, IEEE Fellow, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands • Ultra low-power & Wideband High-speed Nyquist AD Converter • RF Circuit Techniques in Nanometer CMOS Prof. Boris Murmann, Stanford Univ., San Francisco, USA • Analysis and Design of Switched-Capacitor Circuits • Design of Pipelined A/D Converters • Digitally Assisted Data Converter Design First Distinguished Lectures, PhD Oral Defenses & Lab Workshop on 22 and 23 July 2011
Second Class Award of The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award [China National Award] Second Class Award of The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award to be received by Prof. Seng-Pan U, Prof. Pui-In Mak and Dr. Sai-Weng Sin for their contribution in microelectronics research. The State Science and Technology Prizes ( 國家科學技術獎勵 ) is the highest honor in China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations that have made remarkable contributions to scientific and technological progress, and to promote the development of science and technology. PhD Student Ranks No. 1 at the Student Design Contest in A-SSCC 2011 Three PhD students Ms. Zhu Yan (Julia), Mr. Chan Chi Hang and Mr. Wong Si Seng, led by Dr. Sin Sai Weng, Prof. U Seng Pan and Prof. Rui Martins, have developed three advanced nanometer analog-to-digital converter and comparator chips that were all accepted by the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), known as “Asia’s Chip Olympics”. One of the relevant papers also won the student design contest, ranking No. 1, ahead of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). Macao was the only region to achieve a paper acceptance rate of 100% at this year’s A-SSCC, with all the papers from UM. Left: SKL AMS-VLSI onsite demonstration at this year’s A-SSCC for the paper award design contest attracts many world-renowned experts Right: Announcement of the Awardees with PhD student Julia ranking No. 1 in Asia, with UM ahead of KAIST & TIT at the student design contest. A-SSCC is Asia’s most prestigious conference in the field of integrated circuits and provides a platform for top institutions from the industry and the academia (most from Asia, but also many from Europe and the U.S.) to showcase their latest technological achievements. This year’s conference was held in Jeju, South Korea. US Patents Granted in 2011 • PUI-IN MAK, SENG-PAN U, R.P.MARTINS, DC-Offset Canceled Programmable Gain Array for Low-Voltage Wireless LAN System and Method Using the Same, US Patent No. 7,948,309, from May 24, 2011. • PUI-IN MAK, SENG-PAN U, R.P.MARTINS, Two-step Channel Selection for Wireless Transmitter Front-Ends, US Patent No. 8,019,290 B2, from September 13, 2011. Books • PUI-IN MAK, R.P.MARTINS, High-/Mixed-Voltage Analog and RF Circuit Techniques for Nanoscale CMOS, Springer - USA, to appear in January 2012. • SAI-WENG SIN, SENG-PAN U, R.P.MARTINS, Generalized Low-Voltage Circuit Design Techniques for Very High-Speed Time-Interleaved Pipelined ADC, Springer - Analog Circuits and Signal Processing, ISBN 978-90-481-9709-5, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, January 2011.
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