IEEE Solid State Circuits Society

Dallas Chapter

Monthly Meeting Seminars

September 16, 1999
Dr. John Fattaruso, Texas Instruments
Title: "Low-Voltage Analog CMOS Circuit Techniques"
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October 20, 1999
Dr. Wai Lee, Texas Instruments
Title: "Low Power DSP for Wireless Communications"
Abstract   Slides
November 18, 1999
Dr. Ajith Amerasekera, Texas Instruments
Title: "An Overview Of ESD Protection Circuits For ICs"
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December 16, 1999
Dr. Jin Liu, University of Texas, Dallas
Title: "An Analog Adaptive Chip for Dynamic Nonlinear Systems Control"
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January 19, 2000
Narayan Parameshwar/Ramki Rajagopalan, AWARD Solutions Inc, Richardson, TX
Title: "A Close look at UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System)"
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February 11, 2000
Prof Willy Sansen, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium
Title: "Low Voltage Analog Integrated Circuit Design"
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March 20, 2000
Prof Tom Lee, Stanford University, CA
Title: "CMOS RF: Cheesy, but Tasty and Nutritious"
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April 27, 2000
Gene Frantz, Texas Instruments
Title: "SOC: A Systems Perspective"
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May 18, 2000
Dr. Richard Hester, Texas Instruments
Title: "Analog Front End Design for ADSL"
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June 15, 2000
Bud Taddikin, Microtune Inc.
Title: "Broadband Tuner on a Chip for Cable Modem, HDTV, and Legacy Analog Standards"
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September 21, 2000
Dr. Chih-Ming Hung, Texas Instruments
Title: "Design and Optimization of Multi-GHz CMOS LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillators"
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October 24, 2000
Dr. Michael Polley, Texas Instruments
Title: "Technical Challenges and Flexible Chipset Architectures for ADSL Modems"
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November 15, 2000
Dr. Jan M. Rabaey, BWRC, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "PicoRadio: An Ultra-Low Energy Ubiquitous Wireless Sensor and Monitor Network"
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December 15, 2000
Dr. Bill Lu, Infineon Technologies, San Jose, CA
Title: "Embedded DRAM: How can we do it right?"
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December 15, 2000
Jonathan David, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Title: "Characterizing Differential Amplifiers for Communications Circuits"
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Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Dr. Ranjit Gharpurey, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Title: "Design Considerations in Wireless Receiver Front Ends"  (3 hour short course)
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Monday, February 19, 2001
Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Biologically Inspired Vision Sensors"
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Thursday, March 21, 2001
Dr. Paul Yu, Texas Instruments
Title: "A 14b 40MSample/s Pipelined ADC with DFCA"
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Thursday, April 12, 2001
Dr. Allen Podell, Besser Associates (recorded)
Title: "The Lowdown on Low Noise Amplifiers"
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Monday, May 7, 2001
Prof. R.N. Biswas, IIT Madras
Title: "Finishing School for Telecom Engineers"
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Thursday, May 24, 2001
Mark Burns, Texas Instruments
Title: "Mixed-Signal Design for Test"
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Thursday, June 21, 2001
Dr. Yuke Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Title: "New Exciting Development of Low Power and High Speed Arithmetic Circuits"
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