JSSC 2007 Best Paper Award Presented to Team from Rambus and Stanford at ISSCC 2009
John Poulton, Robert Palmer, Andrew M. Fuller, Trey Greer, and John Eyles, of Rambus, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, and William J. Dally and Mark Horowitz of Stanford University were honored at the Plenary Session of the ISSCC in San Francisco on 9 February, 2009 for the selection of their paper, “A 14-mW 6.25-Gb/s Transceiver in 90-nm CMOS”as the best in the JSSC for 2007. It appeared in December (Volume 42, No. 12) on pages 2745-2757.

SSCS President Willy Sansen (at left) with the authors of the paper adjudged best in JSSC 2007 (from his left) Mark Horowitz, Trey Greer, William J. Dally and Robert Palmer at the ISSCC plenary awards ceremony on 9 February, 2009. During the same ceremony, Teresa Meng received the 2008 Pederson Award, which is sponsored by the Society.

According to JSSC Editor Bram Nauta, “The authors demonstrated a transceiver with impressive power efficiency that was applicable to fairly normal channel constraints (15dB of loss at Nyquist, while many transceivers with great power numbers only work on pristine channels.) The paper was very well written and described in detail each of the power-saving techniques that was employed. With all the techniques together, the result was highly informative and quite an achievement.”

An extended abstract of this paper and biographies of the authors will be publlsihed in the spring 2009 Solid-State Circuits Magazine.