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Regular Session
1. Analog
Circuits & Systems
Amplifiers, comparators, switch capacitor
circuits, continuous-time & discrete-time filters, voltage/current
references; DC-DC converters, power-control circuits; IF/baseband
analog circuits, AGC/VGA; display driver circuits; non-linear analog
circuits.
2. Data Converters
Nyquist-rate and oversampling A/D and D/A
converters, sub-circuits for data converters including
sample-and-hold circuits, calibration circuits.
3. Digital Circuits & Systems
Design, fabrication, and test
of digital VLSI systems; High-speed low-power digital circuits,
power-reduction and management methods for digital VLSI, leakage
reduction techniques; clock distribution, I/O circuits,
reconfigurable logic-array circuits; supply /substrate noise
measurement and cancellation for digital VLSI, variation and
fault-tolerant circuits.
4. SoC & Signal Processing Systems
System-on-chip,
microprocessors, network processors, baseband communication
processing system & architectures, low-power signal-processing
systems; multimedia processors including video, image, audio and
voice processing systems; cryptographic- and security-processing
circuits and systems; bio-medical/neural signal processors.
5. RF
Receivers/transmitters/transceivers for wireless
systems; narrowband RF, ultra-wideband and millimeter-wave circuits
(MMDS, 60GHz); Circuits and sub-circuits for RF front-end, LNA,
mixer, power amplifiers, VCOs, frequency synthesizers, RF filters,
RF switches, power detectors, active antennas.
6. Wireline & Mixed-Signal Circuits
Receivers/transmitters/transceivers for wireline systems including
(but not limited to) LAN, WAN, FDDI, Ethernet, token-ring, fiber
channel, SONET, SDH, PON, ATM, ISDN, xDSL, cable-modem;
optical/electrical data links and backplane transceivers; power-line
communication; Clock generation circuits, PLL, DLL, spread-spectrum
clock generation.
7. Emerging Technologies and Applications
Advanced circuit
technologies and techniques; ultra-low-voltage and sub-threshold
logic design; molecular-, organic-, and nano-electronics; flexible
substrates and printable electronics; 3D-integration and novel
packaging technologies; compound-semiconductor, superconductive, and
micro-photonic technologies and circuits; energy sources and energy
harvesting; biomedical and ambient-intelligence; emerging wireless
applications and circuits; RFID; analog and optical processors,
non-transistor-based analog and digital circuits and systems;
advanced memory technologies; spintronics; and quantum storage.
8. Memory
Static, dynamic, non-volatile, and read-only
memory; magnetic and ferro-electric memory designs and
architectures; data storage and multi-bit-cell-based memory designs;
embedded memory architectures, cache-memory systems, multi-port
memory, and CAM designs, nano-crystal, phase-change, and 3D
memories; yield-enhancement redundancy and ECC techniques; and
memory testing and built-in self-test.
Special Session
1.
Industry Program
This special category accepts only papers
based on state-of-the-art products. The paper may cover
specifications, applications, state-of-the-art points, chip photos,
chip architecture/software, circuits (not necessarily very original,
significant improvement is fine), live demo if any, characterization
results, and packaging/testing results.
2. Student Design Contest
A student design contest is held
among the accepted papers with system prototypes or measurement
results of which operations can be demonstrated on-site. Refer to
the web for further information.
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