IEEE Solid-States Circuits Magazine - Summer 2019 - 4

EDITOR'S NOTE

R. Jacob Baker

Welcome to the Summer 2019 Issue of
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine!

In this issue of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, we are pleased to
publish feature articles of interest
to readers, ranging from tutorials to technology overviews. These
include the always well-received
column editorials/tutorials by Marcel Pelgrom, Ali Sheikholeslami, and
Behzad Razavi.
"Let Me Know Before Lunch!"
is this issue's "Associate Editor's
View" column by Marcel. It provides
entertaining insights into career
decisions, specifically, the success
of a long-running engineering product and its impact on the associated
engineers' careers. Ali's intriguing
"Circuit Intuitions" column, "The Electrical Length of a Wire," discusses
when, or if, a wire can be considered a short or whether its electrical
length and the frequencies involved
prohibit this simple characterization. Behzad's informative "A Circuit
for All Seasons" column in this issue
focuses on both R-2R and C-2C ladders, which are extremely useful
circuits in practical electrical circuit design.

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In terms of features, Andrew Yu,
Daniel Bankman, Kevin Zheng, and
Boris Murmann provide the second
part of their two-part article on metastability in successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital

Behzad's informative "A Circuit
for All Seasons"
column in this
issue focuses on
both R-2R and C-2C
ladders, which are
extremely useful
circuits in practical
electrical circuit
design.

converters. Like the first, the article
provides useful, relevant techniques
to improve data converter perfor mance, which will be useful for designers of SAR data converters. In
addition, in this issue, we have three
articles of interest to IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society (SSCS) members
from 2019 International Solid-State
Circuits Conference tutorials:
1) "Filling the Gap With Sand: When
CMOS Re aches T Hz," by S.M.

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Hossein Naghavi, Morteza Tavakoli Taba, Ruonan Han, Mohammed A. Aseeri, Andreia Cathelin,
and Ehsan Afshari
2) "In-Memory Computing: Advances
and Prospects," by Naveen Verma,
Hongyang Jia, Hossein Valavi,
Yinqi Tang, Murat Ozatay, LungYen Chen , B on a n Zh a ng, a nd
Peter Deaville
3) "Trends in Hardware Security:
From Basics to ASICs," by Massimo
Alioto.
The goal of IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Magazine continues to be to provide
Society news and information as
well as a series of self-contained
resources to keep SSCS members up
to date with changes in technology
while, at the same time, providing
reviews of circuit design concepts.
This includes contributions from
experts describing the current state
of affairs and evolution of a particular IC technology. We will also continue to feature articles focused on
the contributions of luminaries. Of
course, suggestions from readers are
always welcome. We hope you enjoy
reading IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. Please send comments to me
at rjacobbaker@gmail.com

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