FALL 2016 VOL. 8 * NO. 4 www.ieee.org/sscs-news features 14 The Birth of the Journal By Sorab (Soli) K. Ghandhi 16 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 20 Foreword 21 The Origin of the Journal, the Council, and the Conference of Solid-State Circuits about this image: 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 24 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 64 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 34 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 48 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 columns/departments 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 92 94 111 113 114 122 124 contributors EDitor's notE PrEsiDEnt's cornEr LEttErs AssociAtE EDitor's ViEW circuit intuitions A circuit for ALL sEAsons isscc PrEViEW chAPtErs PEoPLE sociEtY nEWs confErEncE rEPorts iEEE nEWs confErEncE cALEnDAr IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE fa l l 2 0 16 1http://www.ieee.org/sscs-news