O ISSCC Special Event: Circuit Design and Testing Mistakes of Beginning Engineers Organized by Ramesh Harjani (University of Minnesota), Mike Shuo-Wei Chen (University of Southern California), Marco Berkhout (Goodix Technology Inc.), and Johan Vanderhaegen (Google LLC), this virtual evening special event at the 2021 IEEE International SolidState Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2021) focused on the typical mistakes that all starting graduate students and new engineers seem to make when they first start designing circuits. Many of these errors are simple and easily avoided if