Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

2006 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 8-6
Implications of Proximity Effects for Analog Design, P.G. Drennan, M.L. Kniffin, D.R. Locascio, Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, AZ

Best Regular Paper
Paper 10-7
Self-Referenced Sense Amplifier for Across-Chip-Variation Immune Sensing in High-Performance Content Addressable Memories, I. Arsovski, R. Wistort, IBM Silicon Solutions, Essex Junction, VT

Best Student Paper
Paper 28-6
A 0.6V Highly Linear Switched-R-MOSFET-C Filter, P. Kurahashi, P.Hanumolu, G. Temes, U-K. Moon, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Best Poster Paper
Poster Paper 21
GHz Serial Passive Clock Distribution in VLSI Using Bidirectional Signaling, V. Prodanov, M. Banu, MHI Consulting

2005 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 16-2
A Digital Clock and Data Recovery Architecture for Multi-Gigabit/s Binary Links
J. Sonntag and J. Stonick, Synopsys, Inc., Hillsboro, OR

Best Regular Paper
Paper 12-2
An 8Mb 1T1C Ferroelectric Memory with Zero Cancellation and Micro-Granularity Redundancy
J. Eliason, S. Mandan*, H. McAdams*, G. Fox, T. Moise*, C. Lin, K. Schwartz, J. Gallia*, E. Jabillo, B. Craus and S. Summerfelt*, Ramtron International Corp., Colorado Springs, CO, *Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX

Best Student Paper
Paper 26-2
A Precision CMOS Amplifier using Floating-Gates for Offset Cancellation
V. Srinivasan, G.J. Serrano, J. Gray, and P. Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

2004 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 13-1
Vibrating RF MEMS for Next Generation Wireless Applications
Clark Nguyen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Best Regular Paper
Paper 18-4
A CMOS Direct-Conversion Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLANs
P. Zhang, L. Der, D. Guo, I. Sever, T. Bourdi, C. Lam, A. Zolfaghari, J. Chen, D. Gambetta, B. Cheng, S. Gower, S. Hart, L. Huynh, T. Nguyen, and B. Razavi*, RF Micro Devices, San Jose, CA, and *University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Best Student Paper
Paper 26-5
A 24GHz, +14.5dBM Fully-Integrated Power Amplifier in 0.18um CMOS
A. Komijani and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2003 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 14-1
Advances in RF Packaging Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Communications
Larry Larson and Daryl Jessie*, University of California, San Diego, CA, *Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Best Regular Paper
Paper 31-5
Noise Analysis Methodology for Partially Depleted SOI Circuits
Mini Nanua and David Blaauw*, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Austin, TX, *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Best Student Paper
Paper 6-2
Non-Linear Transmission Lines for Pulse Shaping in Silicon
E. Afshari and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA