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features

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The Birth of the Journal
By Sorab (Soli) K. Ghandhi

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IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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Foreword

21

The Origin of the Journal, the Council,
and the Conference of Solid-State Circuits

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This early video
communication device
was the topic of an early
IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits article. Find out
more in the article "From
Red to Gold."

By Toshiaki Masuhara
By James D. Meindl

By Donald O. Pederson

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IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Through the Years
By David A. Hodges
A Look Back: IEEE Journal of
Solid-State Circuits Editors-in-Chief
By Abira Sengupta
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Best Paper Award Through the Years
By Abira Sengupta

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Successive Approximation
Analog-to-Digital Converters
By Pieter Harpe

74

A Technical Foundation for RF
CMOS Power Amplifiers
By Earl McCune

81

Understanding Phase
Noise in LC VCOs
By Carlo Samori

Top-Cited IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Papers
By Abira Sengupta and David Hodges
The Red Rag Legacy
By Terri S. Fiez
A New Shade of Red
By Willy Sansen

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From Red to Gold

39

Asynchronous Circuit Designs
for the Internet of Everything

By Behzad Razavi

By Edith Beigné, Pascal Vivet, Yvain Thonnart,
Jean-Frédéric Christmann, and Fabien Clermidy

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Neural Interfaces for Implantable
Medical Devices
By Peng Cong

57

Algorithms and VLSI Architectures
for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
By Kiran Gunnam, Joan Marc Català Pérez,
and Francisco Garcia-Herrero

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2016.2601522

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