background image licensed by graphic stock Robert A. Hadaway and David L. Lynch Miles Copeland Three decades of scientific excellence and industrial relevance W e know Miles Copeland well as an academic, having attended his graduate-level courses and then having the pleasure of working alongside him at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, delivering courses on selected topics in IC technology to graduate students. We know him better through a series of intensive collaborations in the industrial setting of Bell-Northern Research (BNR) and Northern Telecom (NT, later just Nortel) that began in the early 1970s. Miles, from the perspective of local industry, was not just seen an international leader in the field of analog/mixed-signal/RF IC design; rather, we were mentored by him personally as a technical expert. We also Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2015.2497639 Date of publication: 21 January 2016 1943-0582/16©2016IEEE IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE W I N T E R 2 0 16 25