21.09.99 Room A


09:00 Opening - ESSCIRC 98 Best Paper Award - Keynote, until 10:10

09:20 Digital Processing - Future aspects of the semiconductor business (Invited Paper)


S. Mehrgardt


Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany

10:10 Coffee Break, until 10:40

Session 1.1: Filters


Chairman: Werner Brockherde


Fraunhofer IMS, Duisburg, Germany

10:40 A 40µw, 75dB Dynamic Range, 70kHz Bandwidth Biquad Filter based on Complementary MOS Transconductors


D.G. Python1, C.C. Enz2


1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland


2Cen. Suisse d`Electronique et de Microtechnique, Neuchātel

11:05 A 100MHz Partial Analog Adaptive Equalizer for use in Wired Data Transmission


J. Cheng, D.A. Johns


University of Toronto, Canada

11:30 A 60-350 MHz Programmable Analog Filter in a Digital CMOS Process


S. Pavan1, Y. Tsividis2, K. Nagaraj1


1Texas Instruments, Warren, NJ, United States


2Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

11:55 An Eighth-Order Lowpass Filter with 5-100 MHz Tuning Range and Programmable Boost


G. Bollati1, R. Alini1, R. Castello2, M. Demicheli1, S. Portaluri1


1STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Milan, Italy


2University of Pavia, Italy

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

14:00 VLSI Memory Technology: Current Status and Future Trends (Invited Paper)


K. Itoh


Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Session 1.2: Amplifiers 1


Chairman: Bram Nauta


University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

14:50 A Chopper Modulated Instrumentation Amplifier with First Order Low-pass Filter and Delayed Modulation Scheme


C. Menolfi, Q. Huang


Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

15:15 Integrated Lock-In Amplifier for Sensor Applications


A. Gnudi, L. Colalongo, G. Baccarani


Universitą di Bologna, Italy

15:40 Coffee Break, until 16:10

Session 1.3: Amplifiers 2


Chairman: Bram Nauta


University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

16:10 A 500MHz Write Amplifier for Hard Disk Drives with Low Output Impedance


L. Le1, E. Pieraerts1, F. de Jong2


1Philips Composants et Semiconducteurs, Caen, France


2Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

16:35 A High Speed Low Noise CMOS MR Preamplifier for Disk Drives


J. Kuehlwein1, R. Harjani2


1VTC, Inc., Bloomington, MN, United States


2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

17:00 Low-Power BiCMOS Op Amp with Integrated Current Mode Charge Pump


R. St. Pierre


Gain Technology Corporation, Tucson, AZ, United States

18:00 Reception, until 20:00



21.09.99 Room B


Session 1.4: Sigma-Delta Converters


Chairman: Bill Redman-White


Philips Semiconductors, Southampton, United Kingdom

10:40 A 200MHz IF, 11 bit, 4th order Band-Pass Delta-Sigma ADC in SiGe


R. Maurino, P. Mole


Nortel Networks, Essex, United Kingdom

11:05 A 3.3V CMOS 10.7MHz 6th-order bandpass Sigma-Delta modulator with 78dB dynamic range


D. Tonietto1, P. Cusinato1, F. Stefani1, A. Baschirotto2


1STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Milan, Italy


2University of Lecce, Italy

11:30 14-bit, 2.2MS/s Sigma Delta ADCs


J. Morizio1, M. Hoke1, T. Kocak1, C. Geddie1, C. Hughes1, J. Perry1, S. Madhavapeddi1, M. Hood1, G. Lynch1, H. Kondoh2, T. Kumamoto2, T. Okuda2, H. Noda2, M. Ishiwaki2, T. Miki2, M. Nakaya2


1Mitsubishi Electronics America, Durham, NC, United States


2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan

11:55 A 13.5-Bit Cost Optimized Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma ADC for ADSL


A. Wiesbauer, H. Weinberger, M. Clara, J. Hauptmann


Infineon Technologies Austria, Villach, Austria

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 1.5: Smart Power


Chairman: Wolfgang Pribyl


Austria Mikrosysteme International AG, Unterpremstätten, Austria

14:50 A Low Power ASIC for the Control of a Mobile Micro-Actuator Array


D. Ruffieux


Centre Suisse d`Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchātel, Switzerland

15:15 Single Chip, Self Supplied, Voltage and Charge Mode Double 80 V Piezoelectric Actuator Driver


L. Fontanella1, G. Frattini1, G. Ricotti1, G. Pedrazzini2


1STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Milan, Italy


2STMicroelectronics, Laguna Niguel, CA, United States

15:40 Coffee Break, until 16:10

Session 1.6: Digital Processors


Chairman: Tobias G. Noll


RWTH Aachen, Germany

16:10 Electronic Processing for 10Gbit/s Dispersion Supported Transmission Systems


K. Köffers1, F. Martini2, W. Pöhlmann1, B. Wedding1


1Alcatel SEL AG, Stuttgart, Germany


2Alcatel, Italy

16:35 A 1.3 GOPS Parallel DSP for High Performance Image Processing Applications


W. Hinrichs, J.P. Wittenburg, H. Lieske, H. Kloos, M. Ohmacht, J. Kneip, K. Rönner, P. Pirsch


Universität Hannover, Germany

17:00 2.44 GFLOPS 300MHz floating-point vector processing unit for high performance 3D graphics computing


N. Ide1, M. Hirano1, Y. Endo1, S. Yoshioka1, H. Murakami1, A. Kunimatsu1, T. Sato1, T. Kamei1, T. Okada2, M. Suzuoki2


1Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan


2Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Japan



21.09.99 Room C


Session 1.7: Low Power Circuit Techniques


Chairman: Jose L. Huertas


University of Sevilla, Spain

10:40 Investigation on Low Voltage, Low Power Silicon Bipolar Design Topology for High Speed Digital Circuits


G. Schuppner, C. Pala, M. Mokhtari


Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden

11:05 A Low-Voltage Energy Scalable Static Differential Logic (ES2DL) Family


A.M. Fahim, M.I. Elmasry


University of Waterloo, Canada

11:30 Dual Threshold Voltage Domino Logic


J. Kao


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beaverton, OR, United States

11:55 Split Gates: A low swing technique for reducing power for high fanout gates


D. Somasekhar, K. Roy


Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 1.8: Memory Techniques


Chairman: Heinrich Klar


TU Berlin, Germany

14:50 Area-Efficient Multiport Memories for the Tb/s Bandwidth Era


H.J. Mattausch, Y. Tatsumi, K. Kishi, T. Gyoten, K. Yamada


Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

15:15 A 32Mb-4b/cell Analog Flash Memory Supporting Variable Density with 3V-Only Supply and Serial I/O


P.L. Rolandi, M. Pasotti, G. Campardo, R. Canegallo, G. De Sandre, G. Guaitini, C. Issartel, F. Lhermet, A. Maurelli, A. Rocchi, A. Kramer


STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza (MI), Italy

15:40 Coffee Break, until 16:10

Session 1.9: High Speed Digital Circuits


Chairman: Stefan Rusu


Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA

16:10 A Low-Jitter Mixed DLL for High-Speed DRAMs


J.J. Kim1, B. Kim1, S. Lee2, S.-I. Cho2


1KAIST, Taejon, Korea (South)


2Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd., Korea (South)

16:35 High Speed Capacitive Coupled Interface for Multipoint Connections


A. Schmidt1, K. Hoffman1, O. Kowarik1, R. Pfeiffer1, M. Moyal2


1Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany


2Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany

17:00 A 5.3 GHz Programmable Divider for HiPerLAN in 0.25µm CMOS


N. Krishnapura, P. Kinget


Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, United States



22.09.99 Room A


08:30 Highly integrated RF-ICs for GSM, DECT and UMTS Systems. A Status Review and Development Trends. (Invited Paper)


J. Fenk


Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany

Session 2.1: Oscillators


Chairman: Jose L. Huertas


University of Sevilla, Spain

09:20 An improved low power crystal oscillator


W. Thommen


Microdul AG, Zurich, Switzerland

09:45 A Monolithic 0.4 mW SOA LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator


J. van der Tang, S. Hahn


Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

10:10 Coffee Break, until 10:40

10:40 The rapid increase in the capacity of the optical fiber (Invited Paper)


L. Thylen


University of Stockholm, Sweden

Session 2.2: Analogue Techniques 1


Chairman: Kari Halonen


Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

11:30 Reducing MOSFET 1/f Noise and Power Consumption by "Switched Biasing"


S.L.J. Gierkink, E.A.M. Klumperink, E. van Tuijl, B. Nauta


University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

11:55 A 500MS/sec -54dB THD S/H Circuit in a 0.5µm CMOS Process


K. Hadidi1, D. Muramatsu2, T. Oue2, T. Matsumoto2


1Urmia University, Iran


2Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

14:00 High Speed Electronics Interfacing Fibre Networks (Invited Paper)


C. Svensson


University of Linköping, Sweden

Session 2.3: Analogue Techniques 2


Chairman: Kari Halonen


Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

14:50 A 0.5µm CMOS Analog RAM Chip for Real-Time Video Processing


R. Carmona, A. Rodrķguez-Vįzquez, S. Espejo, R. Domķnguez-Castro


Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

15:15 An Analog Baseband Circuitry for a WCDMA Direct Conversion Receiver


J. Jussila, A. Pärssinen, K. Halonen


Helsinki University of Technology, HUT, Finland

15:15 Coffee Break, until 15:40

16:00 Poster Session, until 18:00

18:30 City Tour, until 19:30

19:30 Conference Banquet, until 22:30



22.09.99 Room B


Session 2.4: Pipelined A/D Converters


Chairman: Johan H. Huijsing


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

09:20 A 15-bit Pipelined Floating-Point A/D Converter


D.U. Thompson, B.A. Wooley


Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

09:45 An 8-bit Low-Voltage Pipelined ADC Utilizing Switched-Opamp Technique


M. Waltari, K. Halonen


Helsinki University of Technology, HUT, Finland

10:10 Coffee Break, until 10:40

Session 2.5: Low Power A/D and D/A Converters


Chairman: Jose Epifanio da Franca


Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal

11:30 A 1mW Delta-Sigma ADC with Fully Integrated Baseband Module for GSM application


Y. Kobayashi, K. Furukawa, K. Yamakido


Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

11:55 A 1.8-3.3V High Speed Current Steering DAC Embedded Core


C. Neron, J.-Y. Michel


VLSI Technology Inc., Valbonne, France

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 2.6: Characterization of Submicron Effects


Chairman: Christer Svensson


Linkoping University, Sweden

14:50 Modeling of Digital Substrate Noise Generation and Experimental Verification Using a Novel Substrate Noise Sensor


M. Van Heijningen, J. Compiet, P. Wambacq, S. Donnay, M. Engels, I. Bolsens


IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

15:15 Circuit Technique for Accurate Soft Error Rate Measurements


P. Hazucha, C. Svensson


Linköping University, Sweden



22.09.99 Room C


Session 2.7: Integrated VCOs 1


Chairman: A.H.M. van Roermund


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

09:20 Low supply voltage fully integrated CMOS VCO with Three terminals spiral inductor


N. Itoh1, B. De Muer2, M. Steyaert2


1Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan


2Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

09:45 Fully-Integrated Low Phase Noise Bipolar Differential VCOs at 2.9 and 4.4 GHz


A.M. Niknejad1, J.L. Tham2, R.G. Meyer1


1University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States


2Maxim Integrated Products

10:10 Coffee Break, until 10:40

Session 2.8: Integrated VCOs 2


Chairman: A.H.M. van Roermund


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

11:30 Impact of Indirect Stability on Phase Noise Performance of Fully-Integrated LC Tuned VCOs


C. Samori1, A.L. Lacaita1, A. Zanchi1, S. Levantino1, F. Torrisi2


1Politecnico di Milano, Italy


2STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy

11:55 A fully integrated 2 GHz LC-VCO with phase noise of -125 dBc/Hz at 600 kHz


B. De Muer, C. De Ranter, M. Steyaert


Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

12:20 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 2.9: RF-Oscillator Techniques


Chairman: Andreas Kaiser


IEMN - ISEN, Lille Cedex, France

14:50 A 2.7V, 2.64GHz Fully Integrated Synchronous Oscillator for WLAN Applications


F. Badets, Y. Deval, J.-B. Bégueret, A. Spataro, P. Fouillat


Laboratoire IXL, Talence, France

15:15 A Wideband Linearisation Technique for Non-Linear Oscillators using a Multi-Stage Polyphase Filter


C. De Ranter, M. Borremans, M. Steyaert


Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium



23.09.99 Room A


08:30 Automotive Semiconductor Technologies for the New Millenium (Invited Paper)


B. Murari


STMicroelectronics, , Italy

09:20 ESSCIRC 2000, until 09:25

Session 3.1: Mixed Signal Sensors


Chairman: Gerhard Tröster


ETH Zürich, Switzerland

09:25 Microelectronic Components for a Retina Implant System


S. Kolnsberg, T. Kneip, X. Lü, J. Huppertz, R. Hauschild, M. Schwarz, D. Hammerschmidt, B.J. Hosticka, L. Ewe, H.K. Trieu


Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, Germany

09:50 A Fully Integrated Sensor Interface Chip


D. McCartney1, A. Sherry1, T. Meany1, T. Cummins1, D. Brannick2, L. MacManus3


1Analog Devices B.V., Limerick, Ireland


2Accutron Ltd., Dublin, Ireland


3Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

10:15 Coffee Break, until 10:45

10:45 CMOS or CCD image sensors for digital still applications? (Invited Paper)


A.J.P. Theuwissen


Philips Imaging Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Session 3.2: Mixed Signal Interfaces 1


Chairman: Johan H. Huijsing


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

11:35 A Multichannel CMOS Interface IC for Recording Car-Crash Conditions


C. Ji1, J. Kernhof1, R. Krenzke1, H. Bacic2, T. Grill2, A. Hertzner2, J. Wangler2


1Dialog Semiconductor GmbH, Kirchheim/Teck, Germany


2Mannesmann VDO AG, VS-Villingen, Germany

12:00 ASK 10% Demodulator for Contactless Smart Card IC


G. Nebel, A. Blum, D. Eichner, V. Güngerich, M. Melchior, R. Reiner, G. Schraud, U. Weder


Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany

12:25 Lunch Break, until 14:00

14:00 Sensor Systems - Interface between Environment and Application (Invited Paper)


D. Hammerschmidt


Fraunhofer Inst. für mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Syst, Duisburg, Germany

Session 3.3: Mixed Signal Interfaces 2


Chairman: Albrecht Rothermel


Universität Ulm, Germany

14:50 Asynchronous 250 Mbit/s Optical Receivers with Integrated Detector in Standard CMOS technology for Optocoupler Applications


C. Rooman, D. Coppée, M. Kuijk


University of Brussels, Belgium

15:15 164 Ms/s Tape Drive Channel IC with 4 Independent Digital Peak Detect Read/Write Channels and Automatic Tape Speed Tracking over a 3:1 Range


J. O“Dwyer1, R. Maher1, S. McDonagh1, M. Looney1, A. Dwyer1, M. Jackson1, C. Lynch1, F. Severi1, C. McAuliffe1, D. Moloney1, C. Gamble2, S. Swanbeck2


1Silicon Systems Limited, Dublin, Ireland


2Hewlett-Packard Company, Boise, Idaho, United States

15:40 Young Scientists Award - Closing Session, until 16:00

Session 3.4: Image Sensors


Chairman: Johan H. Huijsing


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

09:25 Vertically Integrated Sensors for Advanced Imaging Applications


S. Benthien1, T. Lulé1, B. Schneider2, M. Wagner1, M. Verhoeven1, M. Böhm1


1Silicon Vision GmbH, Siegen, Germany


2Universität-GH Siegen, Germany

09:50 A High Dynamic Range CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Applications


M. Schanz1, C. Nitta1, T. Eckart1, B.J. Hosticka1, R. Wertheimer2


1Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, Germany


2Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Munich, Germany

10:15 Coffee Break, until 10:45

Session 3.5: Integrated Mechanical Sensors


Chairman: Franco Maloberti


University of Pavia, Italy

11:35 A Low Noise Accelerometer with Digital PID-type Controller and Multibit Force Feedback


C. Lang, R. Tielert


University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

12:00 An Absolute Air Pressure Smart Sensor Family with 2 Dimensional Calibration


D. Weiler, O. Machul, J. Amelung, D. Hammerschmidt, B.J. Hosticka


Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, Germany

12:25 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 3.6: Smart Optical Sensors


Chairman: Franco Maloberti


University of Pavia, Italy

14:50 A 256x256-pixel Smart CMOS Image Sensor for Line based Stereo Vision Applications


Y. Ni, J.H. Guan


Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France

15:15 Design of an integrated photo detector circuit for laser Doppler blood flow monitoring


J. Nieland, H. Van Kranenburg, H. Wallinga, A. Serov, W. Steenbergen, F.F.M. de Mul


University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands



23.09.99 Room C


Session 3.7: Transceiver Circuits 1


Chairman: Michiel Steyaert


ESAT MICAS, Heverlee, Belgium

09:25 An 85 MHz IF Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator for CDMA Receivers


S. Bazarjani, S. Younis, J. Goldblatt, D. Butterfield, G. McAllister, S. Ciccarelli


QUALCOMM Inc., San Diego, CA, United States

09:50 A 170MHz Quadrature Down-Converter in 0.8µm BiCMOS for Very Low Power Pagers


P. Orsatti, Q. Huang


Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

10:15 Coffee Break, until 10:45

Session 3.8: Transceiver Circuits 2


Chairman: Michiel Steyaert


ESAT MICAS, Heverlee, Belgium

11:35 A 200 MHz Sub-mA RF Front End for Wireless Hearing Aid Applications


A. Deiss, D. Pfaff, Q. Huang


Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

12:00 RF Circuits Technique of Dual-band Transceiver IC for GSM and DCS1800 applications


K. Takikawa1, T. Yamawaki1, S. Tanaka1, M. Kokubo1, T. Wakuda1, K. Irie1, K. Hori1, Y. Okabe1, T. Hashimoto1, M. Kasahara1, B. Henshaw2, J.R. Hildersley2


1Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan


2The Technology Partnership plc., United Kingdom

12:25 Lunch Break, until 14:00

Session 3.9: RF Power Amplifieres


Chairman: Peter J. Mole


Nortel, Harlow, United Kingdom

14:50 A 200MHz IF BiCMOS Chip for Linear LINC Transmitters


B. Shi, L. Sundström


Lund University, Sweden

15:15 First Integrated Bipolar RF PA Family for Cordless Telephones


S. Weber


Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

Session 10.1: Posters

16:00 A High-Speed CMOS On-Chip Temperature Sensor


L. Luh, J. Choma, Jr., J. Draper, H. Chiueh


University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

16:00 Integrated Optoelectronic Receiver for a Pulsed Time-of-Flight Laser Radar


P. Palojärvi, T. Ruotsalainen, J. Kostamovaara


University of Oulu, Finland

16:00 A 66 x 66 pixels analog edge detection array with digital readout


J. Schemmel, M. Loose, K. Meier


Heidelberg University, Germany

15:40 A Low-Cost High-Accuracy CMOS Smart Temperature Sensor


A. Bakker, J.H. Huijsing


Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

16:00 An Adaptive Bio-inspired Analog Silicon Retina


G. Sicard1, G. Bouvier1, V. Fristot1, A. Lelah2


1Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, Grenoble, France


2CNET, DTM/CET, Meylan, France

16:00 An 8-bit and a 10-bit Low power High-Speed Neuron MOS Digital-to-Analog Converter in 0.04 mm²


A. Rantala, P. Kuivalainen, M. Aberg


VTT Electronics, Finland

16:00 A CMOS 10Bit 37MS/s Pipelined A/D Converter with Code Regeneration and Averaging


B.W. Lee, G.H. Cho


Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea (South)

16:00 Design for Optimum Performance-to-Power Ratio of a Continuous-time Sigma-Delta Modulator


L.J. Breems1, E.J. van der Zwan2, J.H. Huijsing1


1Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


2Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

16:00 A Sigma-Delta Modulator with Extended Supply Voltages in 0.8µm SOI CMOS for Direct Ground Referred Instrumentation Interfacing


W. Redman-White1, C. Easson1, J. Benson1, R.L. Rabe2, M.J. Uren3


1The University of Southampton, United Kingdom


2Honeywell SSEC, Plymouth, MN, United States


3Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Malvern, UK

16:00 A CMOS 12-bit 15 Msample/s Digitally Self-calibrated Pipelined A/D converter


R. Rombouts, S. Audenaert, L. Weyten


University of Gent, Belgium

16:00 An 1.1-GHz Packaged CMOS VCO with Phase Noise of -126 dBc/Hz at a 600-kHz Offset


C.-M. Hung, K.K. O


University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

16:00 A Two-Bit Delta-Sigma-Modulator with 83dB SNDR for Digital Cellular Telephones


S. Lindfors, M. Länsirinne, T. Lindeman, K. Halonen


Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

16:00 Algorithmic Design of A 900MHZ CMOS RF Power Amplifier Using SPICE-Smith Chart Method


A. Kheirkhahi, S.M. Fakhraie, M. Kamareie


University of Tehran, Iran

16:00 Second Order Distortion in CMOS Direct Conversion Receivers for GSM


S. Laursen


Aalborg University, Denmark

16:00 A 1.8GHz BiCMOS RF Receiver IC Taking into Account the Cross Modulation for CDMA Wireless Applications


B.-K. Ko, D.-B. Cheon, S.-W. Kim, J.-S. Ko, J.-K. Kim, B.-H. Park


Samsung Electronics, , Korea (South)

16:00 A Bandpass Sigma-Delta Demodulator For Digital Radio


A. Keady1, C. Lyden2


1Silicon Systems Limited, Dublin, Ireland


2National Microelectronics Research Centre, Cork, Ireland

16:00 New High Performance and Wide Range Tunable Two-Stage 3GHz CMOS RF Hetero-Linked Oscillators


J.T. Hwang, S.H. Woo, J.Y. Ryu, K. Lee, G.H. Cho


Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea (South)

16:00 A 0.5µm CMOS 10 6 Transistors Analog Programmable Array Processor for Real-Time Image Processing


G. Linįn, P. Foldsey, S. Espejo, R. Domķnguez-Castro, A. Rodrķguez-Vįzquez


Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

16:00 All-Analog Decoder for a Binary (18,9,5) Tail-Biting Trellis Code


F. Lustenberger1, M. Helfenstein1, G.S. Moschytz1, H.-A. Loeliger2, F. Tarköy2


1ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland


2Endora Tech AG, Basel, Switzerland

16:00 A high resolution Time-to-Digital Converter for ultrasonic flow measurement


F. Riedel1, R. Eusemann2


1Siemens Metering AG, Zug, Switzerland


2Landis & Staefa Produktion GmbH

16:00 A 1V Active RC Filter with On-Chip Frequency and Q Tuning


H. Huang, E.K.F. Lee


Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States

16:00 A 100MHz CMOS gm-C Bandpass Filter


P. Andreani1, S. Mattisson2


1Lund University, Sweden


2Ericsson Mobile Commuincations AB, Lund, Sweden

16:00 A 1.5 V, 30 Msps, 9- to 10-bit equivalent Current-mode CMOS Sample-and-hold Circuit


Y. Sugimoto


Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

16:00 A Low-Voltage CMOS Transconductor for Very High Frequencies


S. Celma, J. Sabadell, C. Aldea, P.A. Martķnez


Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

16:00 Programmable Voltage Multipliers for Pacemaker Output Pulse Generation in CMOS 0.8 µm Technology


A. Novo1, A. Gerosa1, A. Neviani1, E. Zanoni1, A. Mozzi2


1Universitą di Padova, Italy


2MEDICO S.p.A., Rubano (Padova), Italy

16:00 A 430MHz, -52dB THD, Single Transconductor, 3rd-Order Low-Pass Filter and its Extension to a 5th-Order, in a 0.5 µm CMOS Process


K. Hadidi1, K. Eguchi2, T. Matsumoto2


1Urmia University, Iran


2Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

16:00 Robust Digitization and Digital Non-Uniformity Correction in a Single Chip CMOS Camera


I. Koren1, U. Ramacher1, H. Geib1, S. Kirmser1, C. Heer1, J.-U. Schlüßler2, J. Dohndorf2, J. Werner3


1Infineon Technologies Inc., Munich, Germany


2Technische Universität Dresden, Germany


3AMI Inc.

16:00 Advanced CMOS and BiCMOS photonic receiver Ics


K. Kieschnick, T. Heide, A. Ghazi, H. Zimmermann, P. Seegebrecht


Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany

16:00 A CMOS Nanosecond-to-Millivolt Converter


H. Leopold, H. Senn


Technische Universität Graz, Austria

16:00 A Low-power Truly-modular 1.8GHz Programmable Divider in Standard CMOS Technology


C. Vaucher, Z. Wang


Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

16:00 Design and Optimization of Sense-Amplifier-Based Flip-Flops


B. Nikolic1, V.G. Oklobdzija2


1University of California, Davis


2Integration Corp., Berkeley, CA, United States

16:00 A Low-Power Quadtree Fractal Image Decoder


C.-H. Kim, H.-J. Park, L.-S. Kim


Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea (South)

16:00 A Bootstrapped Latched CMOS Logic Family with Demand-on Boosting for Low-Power Application


B.-S. Kong, D.-O. Kang, Y.-H. Jun


LG Semicon Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea (South)

16:00 ECL-CMOS Logic LSI Technology using 20 GHz Latch with CMOS Test Circuits


S. Yabuki, A. Hayashi, Y. Ito, T. Maruyama, H. Okada, M. Usami, K. Higeta, M. Hamamoto, S. Isomura


Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

16:00 A 250MHz Low Voltage Swing Bus Driver for Embedded Memory Logic


H.S. Lee, B.-S. Kim, S.-H. Chang, L.-S. Kim


KAIST, Taejon, Korea (South)

16:00 ASPRO: an Asynchronous 16-Bit RISC Microprocessor with DSP Capabilities


M. Renaudin1, P. Vivet2, F. Robin2


1TIMA - INPG, Grenoble, France


2France Telecom, Meylan, France

16:00 Distributed Active Clock Network


V. Gutnik, A. Chandrakasan


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

16:00 Production DC Screening Techniques for RF Performances of Bipolar Ics


S.-G. Lee1, S.-O. Lee2, J.-S. Ko2


1Information and Communications University, Taejon, Korea (South)


2Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)

16:00 A 5-Parameter Mismatch Model for Short Channel MOS Transistors


T. Serrano-Gotarredona, B. Linares-Barranco


National Microelectronics Center, Sevilla, Spain