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Explaining an open Berkeley RISC-V architecture to an attentive audience.
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The 29th International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL 2014) was held 12–14 May 2014 at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was organized by the IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section–ED/SSC Chapter in cooperation with the Faculty of Electronic Engineering (University of Niš) and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, under cosponsorship of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) in cooperation with the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), and under auspices of Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development; Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia; and Serbian Society for ETRAN. The Mini-Colloquium on Nanoelectronics (http://miel.elfak.ni.ac. rs/Mini_coloquia_on.htm) held on 12 May attracted a lot of interest from both domestic and foreign participants. It was an excellent introduction to the main technical program of the MIEL Conference, which consisted of 12 regular Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2014.2346985 Date of publication: 26 August 2014
Conference Chair Prof. Ninoslav Stojadinovic´ addressing the audience at MIEL 2014 Opening Session.
sessions: Power Devices and ICs, Nanoelectronic Devices, MEMS and Sensors, Modeling and Simulation, Advanced Technologies and Devices, Device Physics and Technologies, Reliability Physics, Device Characterization, Reliability and Characterization, Circuit Design and Testing, System Design, Circuits and Systems. The attendees, 41 domestic and 69 foreign, came from 30 different countries. A total of ten keynote invited papers and 91 regular contributions (51 in oral sessions
and 40 posters) were presented. The conference proceedings (478 pages) were published through the IEEE Conference Publication Program and will be available in IEEE Xplore. The keynote invited speakers were: P. Igic ´ (Swansea University, United Kingdom), Z. Djuric´ (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia), S. Selberherr (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), H. Wong (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), S. Dimitrijev (Griffith University, Nathan, Australia), Z. Jakšic ´ (ICTM–CMT, Belgrade, Serbia),
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Four participants received best paper awards. (From left) Inga Zbierska (France), Enrique Miranda (Spain), Ninoslav Stojadinovic´ (Serbia), Vladimir Milovanovic´ (Austria), and Ondzej Szabo (Slovakia).
D. Manic´ (CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland), X. Zhou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), P. Hagouel (OPTELEC, Thessaloniki, Greece), and R. Popovic ´ (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland). Based on evaluation of the quality of the papers and presentations, three best paper awards were presented: to V. Milovanovic´ (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) for an oral paper “A Two-Differential-Input/Differential-Output Fully Complementary Self-Biased OpenLoop Analog Voltage Comparator in 40 nm LP CMOS,” to O. Szabo (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava,
Prof. Zoran Jakšic´ speaking about nanoplasmonic chemical sensors at MIEL 2014.
Slovakia) for a poster paper “Sputtered Gold Nanostructures,” and to I. Zbierska (Universite de Lyon, France) for a student paper “Investigation of Electrical Characteristics of Multigate Bulk nMOSFET.” In addition, Microelectronics Reliability journal awarded the paper “Equivalent Circuit Model for the Switching Conduction Characteristics of TiO2-Based MIM Structures” by J. Blasco (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). As is among best traditions of the MIEL, the social program of this year’s conference issue was particularly rich, with a conference banquet and
gala dinner as highlights. Besides the high quality of presentations, MIEL conferences are generally flavored by a friendly atmosphere and great hospitality of the local people. This special charm adds to very positive impressions the participants bring from the conference and is one of the reasons why one rarely attends MIEL just once: one who comes will almost certainly come again. So we are very much looking forward to welcoming old and new friends at MIEL 2016.
—Ninoslav Stojadinovic´
Distributed Integrated Circuits for Broadband Communications A DL Talk at SSCS-Orange County in May
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On Saturday morning, 17 May, I was pleased to present a DL seminar on distributed amplifiers to members and guests of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Chapter in Orange County, California. Distributed amplifiers, originally invented in 1948, in the vacuum tube era, proved to be inherently very broadband. My lecture provided a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of distributed amplifiers, including an intuitive description and Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2014.2327880 Date of publication: 26 August 2014
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presentation of their basic structure (Figure 1), an analysis of frequency response (Figure 2), and an explanation of why they are essentially incapable of achieving broad bandwidth. In the rest of my talk I focused on a stepby-step procedure that introduces more complexity into basic amplifiers and eventually leads to the design of a distributed amplifier. Some of the more sophisticated distributed circuits that I explained, which evolve from the fundamental distributed concept, were currentcommuting, single-balanced, and gilbert-cell mixers (Figure 3) and RF
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front-end (Figure 4) to achieve ultrabroadband radio design. Some of the latest advances in distributed integrated circuits in CMOS technologies that I reviewed are ■■ a CMOS wideband distributed radio ■■ CMOS distributed power combiners/splitters for wideband phasedarray transceiver applications ■■ a CMOS 818-GHz gain-bandwidthproduct differential distributed amplifier with linearity and gain enhancing techniques (Figure 5). —Payam Heydari
