IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Winter 2014 - 67

stefan rusu pointing out leakage reduction expectations from different generations of technology. he also described several techniques for
controlling static leakage power and dynamic power, with practical examples from Intel designs and addressed questions from the audience.

to performance deterioration of RF/
analog circuit at low voltage.
Various challenges presented by
different stages of the receiver system
with respect to design considerations
of the typical RF receiver building block
(e.g., settling time) involve narrow
band, wide band, and reconfigurable
narrow band. Techniques that address
them include dual conversion, zero
IF2 receiver, harmonic rejection mixer,
LNA noise cancellation, linearization
through IM2 injection, switched-transconductance mixer, power combining
PA, transformer feedback VCO/QVCO,
injection locked divider, and current
bleeding techniques.

Tony Chan Carusone
(University of Toronto), 25 June
Highly Integrated CMOS
Optical Transceivers
Prof. Carusone, a long-time member
of the SSCS AdCom as its representative to the IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society and a member of the ISSCC
2013 Analog Subcommittee, shared
the trade-offs between copper links
and fiber optical links, pointing out
that there is growing potential for
the application of fiber over short/
midrange distances. The short/midrange optical link requirement is
cost sensitive and has high volume,
making it the perfect candidate for
CMOS integration, he said.
He also discussed the challenges
of CMOS technology with respect

to realizing integrated optical sensors (e.g., its narrow depletion width
and existence of diffusion current).
The solutions that he proposed
addressed the challenges (e.g., layout
structure and use of infinite impulse
response decision feedback equalization techniques).

SSCS DL Stefan Rusu (Intel), 29 July
Microprocessor Design
in Nanoscale Era
Dr. Rusu shared the roadmap and
power performance expectations for
advanced technology from planar
silicon technology to trigate transistors. He said the requirement of
the microprocessor to achieve lower
power with higher performance is
ever increasing in demand, even
in the server market. His discussion included several techniques
to control static leakage power and

dynamic power with practical examples from Intel design.

Dong Wei (Agilent), 28 August
Digital Predistortion Design
Test Platform for Power Amplifier
The topic of this technical talk was the
fundamental concept of digital predistortion in the design of power amplifiers and how predistortion design may
achieve better efficiency in terms of
amplifier output power. Wei also introduced the Agilent DPD test platform
and the algorithm used for it.

Steve Groothuis
(Semitracks), 28 May
IC & MEMS Packaging:
Simulating Manufacturability,
Reliability and Performance
Groothuis described how IC and
MEMS package design leverages

agilent's Dong Wei engaged in discussion with sscs-penang in august.

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