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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS<br />

for 10-mm Uninterrupted RC-Limited Global On-<br />

Chip Interconnects”, <strong>IEEE</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Solid State<br />

Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 297- 306, Jan. 2006.<br />

[8] J.H.R. Schrader, E.A.M. Klumperink, J.L. Visschers,<br />

B. Nauta, “Pulse-Width Modulation Pre<br />

Emphasis applied in a Wireline Transmitter,<br />

achieving 33dB Loss Compensation at 5-Gb/s in<br />

About the Author<br />

Bram Nauta was born in Hengelo,<br />

<strong>The</strong> Netherlands. In 1987 he<br />

received the M.Sc degree (cum<br />

laude) in electrical engineering from<br />

the University <strong>of</strong> Twente, Enschede,<br />

<strong>The</strong> Netherlands. In 1991 he<br />

received the Ph.D. degree from the<br />

same university on the subject <strong>of</strong><br />

analog CMOS filters for very high frequencies.<br />

In 1991 he joined the Mixed-Signal Circuits and<br />

Systems Department <strong>of</strong> Philips Research, Eindhoven<br />

the Netherlands, where he worked on high speed AD<br />

converters and analog key modules. In 1998 he<br />

returned to the University <strong>of</strong> Twente, as full pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />

heading the IC Design group, which is part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Corrections continued from page 4<br />

Fig. 4. Photomicrograph <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />

first planar integrated circuits produced<br />

by Fairchild Semiconductor in<br />

the early 1960’s.<br />

<strong>The</strong> unusual diameter <strong>of</strong> 764<br />

microns was chosen because we<br />

were working in English units and<br />

that is thirty thousandths <strong>of</strong> an inch,<br />

or 30mils. <strong>The</strong> minimum feature size<br />

is the three mil metal line making<br />

the circular base contact. Metal-tometal<br />

spacing is five mils to allow<br />

the 2.5mil alignment tolerance we<br />

needed.<br />

Interestingly enough at the time<br />

the idea for the planar transistor was<br />

conceived by Jean Hoerni in the<br />

early days <strong>of</strong> Fairchild Semiconductor,<br />

it had to sit untried for a couple<br />

<strong>of</strong> years, because we did not have<br />

the technology to do four aligned<br />

mask layers. In fact, we were developing<br />

the technology to do two<br />

aligned oxide-masked diffusions<br />

plus a mesa etching step for transistors.<br />

<strong>The</strong> original step and repeat<br />

camera that Bob Noyce designed<br />

using matched 16mm movie camera<br />

lenses had only three lenses, so it<br />

could only step a three-mask set.<br />

We had to wait until the first mesa<br />

transistors were in production<br />

before we could go back and figure<br />

out how to make a four mask set to<br />

actually try the planar idea.<br />

<strong>The</strong> first integrated circuit on the<br />

graph is one <strong>of</strong> the first planar integrated<br />

circuits produced. It included<br />

four transistors and six resistors.<br />

0.13-μm CMOS”, <strong>IEEE</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Solid-State Circuits,<br />

Vol. 41, No. 4, pp.990-999, April 2006.<br />

[9] S. Radovanovic, A.J. Annema, B. Nauta, “A 3<br />

Gb/s optical detector in standard CMOS for 850<br />

nm optical communication” <strong>IEEE</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong><br />

Solid-State Circuits, Volume 40, No.8, Pg:1706 -<br />

1717, Aug. 2005.<br />

CTIT Research Institute. His current research interest<br />

is high-speed analog CMOS circuits. Besides, he is<br />

also part-time consultant in industry and in 2001 he<br />

co-founded Chip Design Works.<br />

His Ph.D. thesis was published as a book: Analog<br />

CMOS Filters for Very High Frequencies, (Springer, 1993)<br />

and he received the “Shell Study Tour Award” for his<br />

Ph.D. Work. From 1997-1999 he served as Associate Editor<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>IEEE</strong> Transactions on Circuits and Systems -II; Analog<br />

and Digital Signal Processing, and in 1998 he served<br />

as Guest Editor for <strong>IEEE</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Solid-State Circuits.<br />

From 2001 to 2006 he was Associate Editor for <strong>IEEE</strong><br />

Journal <strong>of</strong> Solid-State Circuits and he is also member <strong>of</strong><br />

the technical program committees <strong>of</strong> ISSCC, ESSCIRC,<br />

and Symposium on VLSI circuits. He is co-recipient <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ISSCC 2002 “Van Vessem Outstanding Paper Award.”<br />

It has always bothered me that the<br />

picture <strong>of</strong> this important device<br />

that got preserved was <strong>of</strong> the ugly<br />

chip shown in Fig. 4. <strong>The</strong> circuit<br />

had six bonding pads around the<br />

circumference <strong>of</strong> a circle for<br />

mounting in an 8-leaded version<br />

<strong>of</strong> the old TO-5 outline transistor<br />

can. In this case only six <strong>of</strong> the<br />

eight possible connections were<br />

required. We did not think we<br />

could make eight wire bonds with<br />

reasonable yield, so for these first<br />

integrated circuits we etched a<br />

round die that let us utilize blobs<br />

<strong>of</strong> conducting epoxy to make contact<br />

to the package pins. For the<br />

die in the picture, the etching<br />

clearly got away from the etcher.<br />

A prior version <strong>of</strong> “<strong>The</strong> Mythology<br />

<strong>of</strong> Moore’s Law,” by Tom R.<br />

Halfhill in the September 2006 issue<br />

was published in Microprocessor<br />

Report <strong>of</strong> December, 2004.<br />

10 <strong>IEEE</strong> SSCS NEWSLETTER Winter 2007

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