IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Spring 2014 - 2

IEEE solid-state
circuits magazine
Editor-in-Chief

Mary Y. Lanzerotti
marylanzerotti@post.harvard.edu
mary.lanzerotti@afit.edu

TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Jake Baker
rjacobbaker@gmail.com

Senior Administrator, Katherine Olstein
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
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Administrator, Lauren Caruso
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
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Region 8 Representative
Bram Nauta

Region 10 Representative
Tadahiro Kuroda

Chairs of Standing Committees

President, Bill Bidermann Zeebo, Inc.

Willy Sansen
willy.sansen@esat.kuleuven.be

Vice-President, Jan Van der Spiegel
University of Pennsylvania

Associate Editor for the far east

Secretary, Mike Beunder

Patrick Yue
eepatrick@ust.hk

Awards-John J. Corcoran
Chapters-Jan Van der Spiegel
Education-Domine Leenaerts Meetings-Ken O
Membership-Tzi-Dar Chiueh
Nominations-Rakesh Kumar
Publications-Glenn Gulak

Treasurer, Shekhar Borkar

ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR
EUROPE AND AFRICA

Marcel Pelgrom
pelgromconsult@kpnmail.nl

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Ali Sheikholeslami
ali@eecg.utoronto.ca

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Tom Lee
tomlee@ee.stanford.edu

News Editor

Katherine Olstein
k.olstein@ieee.org

MAGAZINE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chair: Rakesh Kumar. Jake Baker, Bill Bidermann, Glenn Gulak, Erik Heijne, Hideto Hidaka,
Richard Jaeger, Michael Kelly, Mary Lanzerotti,
Tom Lee, Katherine Olstein, Marcel Pelgrom,
Willy Sansen, Ali Sheikholeslami, Lewis Terman,
Alice Wang, Patrick Yue

IEEE solid-state
circuits society
Executive Director, Michael Kelly
IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane
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Past President, Rakesh Kumar
Technology Connexions, Inc.
Poway, California, USA
Representative to Sensors Council
Darrin Young
Representative to CAS from SSCS
Tony Chan Carusone
Representative to SSCS from CAS
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Senior Managing Editor
Geraldine Krolin-Taylor

senior Art Director
Janet Dudar

Representatives to EDA Council
Bryan Ackland, Vivek Tawari

Assistant Art Director

Representatives to ISSCC
Bryan Ackland, Jan Van der Spiegel
Representative to CICC
Tom Andre
Representative to IEEE GOLD Program
Emre Ayranci
Representatives to Nanotechnology Council
Elad Alon, Ian Young
Representative to Technical Committee on RFID
Shahriar Mirabbasi
Representative to Engineering Technology
Management Council
Mike Beunder
Representative to Biometrics Council
Bruce Hecht

production coordinator

Gail A. Schnitzer

Elected AdCom Members at Large
Terms to 31 Dec. 2014
Christian Enz, Hideto Hidaka, Kofi Makinwa,
Boris Murmann, Roland Thewes

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Bram Nauta, Stefan Rusu

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Tutorials Editor

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Arya Behzad, Shekhar Borkar, Michael H.
Perrott, Trudy Stetzler, William Redman-White

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about the cover:

This issue looks at the early days of mixed-signal IC
development at the University of California, Berkeley,
through the eyes of faculty members, students, and
an operations manager from that time.

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