VLSI Research Group - Publications: Conference Papers

• S. Bodapati and F. N. Najm, "Frequency-domain supply current macro-model," IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Aug. 2001.
• J.E. Carrillo and P. Chow, "The Effect of Reconfigurable Units in Superscalar Processors," International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, pp. 141-150, February 2001.
• M. Danesh and J.R. Long, "A Uniform Compact Model for Planar RF/MMIC Interconnect, Inductors and Transformers," IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, Minneapolis MN, September 2001, pp. 167-170
• H. Djahanshahi, N. Saniei, S.P. Voinigescu, M.C. Maliepaard and C.A.T. Salama, "20GHz InP HBT VCO with Wide Tuning Range," RFIC Symposium, Phoenix, Proceedings, pp. 161-164, 2001.
• Y. Eslami, J. Siu, A. Sheikholeslami, P. G. Gulak, T. Endo, and S. Kawashima, "A 2T-2C FeRAM Testchip for Optimum Bitline and Cell Capacitances," First Meeting on Ferroelectric Random-Access Memories, Gotemba, Japan, November 19-21, 2001.
• N. Fujishima, A. Sugi, S. Kajiwara, K. Matsubara, Y. Nagayasu and C.A.T. Salama, "A High Density, Low On Resistance Trench Lateral Power MOSFET with Trench Bottom Source Contact," International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices, Osaka, Proceedings, pp. 143-147, 2001.
• S. Hamedi-Hagh and C.A.T. Salama, "A 10 Bit, 50 MS/s Low Power Pipelined A/D Converter for Cable Modem Application," International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, Proceedings, pp. I-424 - I-427, 2001.
• Z. Jiao and C.A.T. Salama, "A Fully Depleted Delta Channel SOI NMOSFET," 10th International Symposium on Silicon on Insulator Technology and Devices, Washington, D.C., Proceedings, pp. 403-408, 2001.
• J. N. Kozhaya, S. R. Nassif, and F. N. Najm, "I/O buffer placement methodology for ASICs," 8th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta, Sept. 2001.
• K. Phang and D.A. Johns, "A 1V, 1mW CMOS Front-End with On-Chip Dynamic Gate Biasing for a 75Mb/s Optical Receiver," IEEE International Symposium on Solid-State Circuits, pp. 218-219, Feb. 2001.
• L. Pylarinos, N. W. Wong and K. Phang, "A Low-Voltage CMOS Filter for Hearing Aids," Proceedings, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, pp. 183-189, May 2001.
• M. Ramezani and C.A.T. Salama, "An Improved Bang-bang Phase Detector for Clock and Data Recovery Applications", International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, Proceedings, pp. I-715 - I-718, 2001.
• A. Rezayee and K. Martin, "A coupled two-stage ring oscillator", IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 878-881, vol. 2, Aug. 2001. [Received Best Student Paper Award of Conference.]
• A. Rezayee and K. Martin, "A three-stage coupled ring oscillator with quadrature outputs", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 484-487 vol. 1, May, 2001.
• M. Shahriari and F. N. Najm, "A gate-level timing model for SOI circuits," 8th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta, Sept. 2001.
• M. Sheng and J. Rose, "Mixing Buffers and Pass Transistors in FPGA Routing Architectures," FPGA 2001, ACM Symposium on FPGAs, February 2001, pp. 75-84.
• I.S.M. Sun, W.T. Ng, P.K.T. Mok, H. Mochizuki, K. Shinomura, H. Imai, A. Ishikawa, N. Saito, K. Miyashita, S. Tamura and K. Takasuka, "A CMOS Compatible RF Bipolar Transistor," 2001 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Fundamental and Application of Advanced semiconductor Devices (AWAD), Tech. Dig., pp. 301-307, Cheju-Do, Korea, July 5-7, 2001.
• S. Ye, K. Yano and C.A.T. Salama, "A 1V, 1.9GHz Mixer Using a Lateral Bipolar Transistor in CMOS," International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Proceedings, pp. 112-115, 2001
• K. Yano, S. Honarkhah and C.A.T. Salama, "Lateral SOI Static Induction Rectifiers," International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices, Osaka, Proceedings, pp. 247-250, 2001.
• E.C.K. Yu, J.K. Mills and W.T. Ng, "On-Chip Monitoring for Smart Power Integrated Circuits," ISIC-2001 Tech. Dig., pp. 446-449, Singapore, Sept. 4-5, 2001.
• B. Zand, K. Phang and D. A. Johns, "A Transimpedance Amplifier with DC-Coupled Differential Photodiode Current Sensing for Wireless Optical Communications," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Diego, pp. 455-458, May 2001.
• J.M. Zhang, M.K. Jackson, J.R. Long and S. Sadr, "Millimeter-Wave Characteristics of SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors and Monolithic Interconnects in Silicon Technologies," International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco CA, February 2001, pp. 274-275.
• Y. Zhang and C.A.T. Salama, "Multiharmonic Tuning Behavior of MOSFET, RF Power Amplifiers," IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Phoenix, Proceedings, pp. 2147-2150, 2001.
• J. Zhu, "Babel for IP Specification," Forum of Design Languages, Leon, France, September, 2001.
• J. Zhu and D.D. Gajski, "Compiling SpecC for Simulation," Proceedings of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 57-63. Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, January, 2001.
• J. Zhu, "Color Permutation: an Iterative Algorithm for Memory Packing," International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits, San Jose, November, 2001.
• J. Zhu, "MetaRTL: Raising the Abstraction Level of RTL Design," Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp. 71-76. Munich, Germany, March, 2001.
• J. Zhu, "Static Memory Allocation by Pointer Analysis and Coloring," Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp. 785-790. Munich, Germany, March, 2001.

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