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David B. Ribner
I
'm very pleased that Miles Copeland's
contributions to solid-state electronics
have been recognized and that he has been
awarded the 2016 IEEE Donald O. Pederson
Award in Solid-State Circuits by the IEEE
Solid-State Circuits Society. I'm honored to be able to add
my own reflections about this great researcher and academic. I think one of the keys to Miles's success, in addition to his intellectual prowess, is his charisma. Maybe
it was from his years as a pilot in the Canadian armed
forces (he was a member of the Mach-Busters Club) or
from being a charge-coupled device (CCD) and metal-
oxide semiconductor (MOS) circuit pioneer. I'm not sure,
but the one thing I am sure of is that people are drawn to
Miles, including students, staff, and professionals. The
dedication of his students and support from professionals in industry paved the way for many of the accomplishments he achieved during his career.
I met Miles in 1973 when I was a freshman at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He was in charge of
the senior electronics lab, and I needed his permission
to use the lab to work on a design project. Miles agreed,
and completing the project helped me get a summer job
in the department electronics workshop, where I learned
to debug and repair lab equipment. Miles was very popular as a lecturer, with an enthusiastic and engaging style
that made the material he covered exciting. Back then,
academics with actual experience in IC design were very
limited (at least in Canada); however, Miles had a background designing CCDs, dynamic logic and analog MOS
at Bell-Northern Research (BNR), which came across in
his lectures on solid-state and IC electronics. The teaching assistants for these classes had IC design expertise
from working with Miles and at BNR, and they were topnotch. That included Deepak Roy, Yusuf Haque, Bupendra Ahuja, and Chowdhury Rahim (see Figure 1 for a
1977 photo of Miles and some of his students).
During the 1970s, BNR was responsible for developing a
single-chip codec comprising voice-band analog-to-digital
Reflections from
a former student
and longtime friend
Miles A. Copeland
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2015.2495660
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