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SSCS Seminar

Distributed Integrated Circuits for Broadband Communications
DATE/TIME  Thursday, Apr. 30th, 2014, 1pm
PLACE Avago Technologies Fort Collins Campus (Fort Collins, CO)
DIRECTIONS

From I-25, take Harmony Road Exit (Exit 265) westbound, and enter Avago/HP campus on right at intersection of Harmony and Lady Moon. Once on campus, proceed west to Avago Lobby in Building 1. After obtaining visitor badge from security, an escort will take you to the auditorium. Non-Avago employees:  please arrive a few minutes early for security sign-in and escort.

COST  Free.  Light snacks will be provided.
RSVP  Go to https://gomartin.net/sscs/2015/rsvp_2015_04_02.htm.
ABSTRACT

Originally invented in 1948 in Vacuum Tube era, distributed amplifiers are proved to be inherently very broadband. This SSCS Lecture will provide a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of distributed amplifiers. It then proceeds to extend the distributed circuit concept to mixers and RF front-end to achieve ultra-broadband radio design. The seminar will then discusses some of the latest advances in distributed integrated circuits in CMOS technologies.

SPEAKER

DR. PAYAM HEYDARI (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Payam Heydari received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 2001. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.

He is the (co)-author of two books, one book chapter, and more than 110 journal and conference papers. He has given Keynote Speech to IEEE GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on Millimeter Wave Imaging and Communications and served as Invited Distinguished Speaker to the 2014 IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems. He is the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

Dr. Heydari is recipient of the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from Orange County Engineering Council. He is the recipient of the 2010 Faculty of the Year Award from UC-Irvine's Engineering Student Council (ECS), the 2009 School of Engineering Best Faculty Research Award, the 2007 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award, the 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the 2005 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2000 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), and the 2001 Technical Excellence Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH). The Office of Technology Alliances at UCI has named Dr. Heydari one of 10 Outstanding Innovators at the university. He is the co-recipient of the 2009 Business Plan Competition First Place Prize Award and Best Concept Paper Award both from Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine. He was recognized as the 2004 Outstanding Faculty in the EECS Department of the University of California, Irvine. His research on novel low-power multi-purpose multi-antenna RF front-ends received the Low-Power Design Contest Award at the 2008 IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).

Dr. Heydari currently serves on the Technical Program of International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He served as the Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, and served on the Technical Program Committees of Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and ISLPED. He served on the Technical Program Committees of and Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), IEEE Design and Test in Europe (DATE) and International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). He is the director of the Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Labs.

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