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prof. Murmann and prof. Jespers with the course delegates.

England, Scotland, Spain, Romania, and
India. Attendees enjoyed the beautiful
UL campus and views of the famous
River Shannon and magical West Ireland.

The course instructors, Prof. Boris
Murmann of Stanford University, California, and Prof. Paul Jespers of the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium,

covered advanced topics related to IC
design for data converters. The first half
of the seminar focused on topics that
haven't received up-to-date treatment
in commonly used textbooks. Fundamentals such as the design of samplers,
comparators, and noise analysis were
discussed. Advanced material on the
design of successive approximation
register analog-to-digital converters and
time-interleaved architectures were also
covered. The second half of the course
was devoted to gm/ID-based sizing.
The course was a resounding success with extremely positive feedback from attendees. "This is one of
the best presentations I have been
to," said a delegate.
CSRC and UL are planning on making this an annual event. The next twoday short course is scheduled to be
held in June 2016. Please contact Dr.
Hooman Reyhani (hooman.reyhani@
ul.ie) or Dr. Brendan Mullane (Brendan.
mullane@ul.ie) for more information.

-Abira Sengupta

SSCS Santa Clara Valley Chapter Holds Event on Analog Design Topics

The Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)
welcomed Dr. Kenneth O from the University of Texas at Dallas to give a lecture on CMOS ICs. The talk took place
on 10 September 2015. Dr. O's talk,
"CMOS Terhertz Integrated Circuits
and Systems," attracted a large number of participants from both universities and industry. This lecture was
part of the SSCS Webinar Series and
will soon be available to be accessed
by members on the SSCS website.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2015.2495882
Date of publication: 21 January 2016

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Abstract
CMOS ICs technology is emerging
as a means for the realization of
capable and affordable systems that
operate at 100 GHz and higher. The
potential applications include active
and passive imaging for the detection of concealed weapons, imaging
materials for detection of defects,
and through packages to see inside;
spectroscopy for the detection of
harmful and dangerous chemicals,
as well as breath analyses; and highdata-rate wireless and wireline communication. The performance of
devices, signal sources, and detectors operating between ~0.1 and

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10 THz fabricated in CMOS technologies and their potential system
applications are discussed, as are
prospects for increasing the operation frequency even higher. These
are exciting emerging opportunities
for the silicon ICs industry.
Kenneth O received his S.B.,
S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering and computer science
from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, in 1984,
1984, and 1989, respectively. From
1989 to 1994, he worked at Analog
Devices Inc. developing sub-micron
CMOS processes for mixed signal
applications and high-speed bipolar

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