Lecture Announcement

Organizer: Solid State Circuits Society
Title: Single and Quad CMOS Transceivers for Optical Communication Systems
Speaker:
       Dr. Jafar Savoj
       Senior Scientist
       Transpectrum                                                                                                                                                                                   
Time and Location:
      Thursday, May 9, 2002      5pm-6pm
       GB248, Galbraith Bldg, U. of Toronto
      Just north of College/St. George St on the east side

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
                                                                                                                                      
Abstract:
The increasing number of Internet nodes has lead to an average bit rate of a few terabits per second on the backbone. With the removal of the last-mile congestion, the Internet expansion will accelerate and applications requiring higher bandwidths will be introduced. This trend will create a demand for optical and electronic devices, circuits, and systems that operate at higher data rates. This talk will focus on the implementation of quad 10-Gb/s and single 40-Gb/s transceivers in CMOS technology. The standards for interfacing the transceivers to the framer are briefly discussed and the unique advantages of using the CMOS process for implementation of the complete system are described. Finally, some experimental results confirming the feasibility of using a standard CMOS process for 40-Gb/s application are presented.

Biography:
Jafar Savoj received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1996 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he has been a Senior Scientist at Transpectrum, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, developing CMOS transceiver circuits for SONET OC-192 and OC-768 standards. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and the author of High-Speed CMOS Circuits for Optical Receivers (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). Dr. Savoj received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Fellowship for 2000-2001, and the Beatrice Winner award for Editorial Excellence at the 2001 ISSCC. He is also a recipient of the Design Contest Award of the 2001 Design Automation Conference.

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