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102 2014-08-22 1G to 4G: A Non-Technical Wireless Overview Mr. Steven Ouellette (Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA) Slides
101 2014-03-07 Transceiver Architectures for Mobile and Wireless Applications Dr. Hooman Darabi (Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA) Slides
100 25-Oct.-2013 Battery Technology and Applications Overview Mr. Upal Sengupta (Texas Instruments) Slides
99 (DL29) 22-July-2013 VLSI Architectures for Communications and Signal Processing (SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Kiran Gunnam (Violin Memory., Mountain View, CA) Slides
98 08-Mar-2013 Spur-Free Switching Power Converters for Analog and RF Loads Prof. Ayman Fayed (Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA) Slides
97 (DL28) 18-Jan-2013 High Speed Op-Amp Design: Compensation and Topologies for Two and Three Stage Designs (SSCS Webinar / Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Jacob Baker (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas) Slides
96 (DL27) 14-Dec-2012 2D to 3D MOS Technology Evolution for Circuit Designers (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Alvin Loke (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
95 14-Nov-2012 Insights on Product Development: MEMS Ultrasonic Transducer Dr. Osvaldo Buccafusca (Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
94 19-Oct-2012 Back-to-Basics on Measurements John Meister (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) & Sarah Gilmore (Agilent Technologies, Englewood, CO) Slides1 Slides2 Slides3 Slides4
93 10-Aug-2012 Equalization for High-Speed Serdes Systems – A System-level Comparison of Analog and Digital Techniques Dr. Vivek Telang (Broadcom, Austin, TX) Slides
92 (DL26) 26-Jun-2012 Dark Secrets of RF and Microwave Engineering (Distinguished Lecturer Series & SSCS Inaugural Webinar) Prof. Thomas Lee (DARPA, Arlington,VA) Slides
91 18-May-2012 Resonant Clock Design for a Power-efficient High-volume x86–64 Microprocessor Dr. Visvesh Sathe and Sam Naffziger (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
90 16-Mar-2012 Digitally-Assisted Analog Circuits for a 10 Gbps, 395fJ/b Optical Receiver in 40nm CMOS Philip Amberg (Oracle Labs, Redwood Shores, CA) Slides
89 20-Jan-2012 Extending HyperTransport Technology to 8.0 Gb/s in 32-nm SOI-CMOS Processors Bruce Doyle (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
88 14-Oct-2011 A 32nm 3.1 Billion Transistor 12-Wide-Issue Itanium® Processor for Mission-Critical Servers Reid Riedlinger (Intel, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
87 (DL25) 16-Sep-2011 Emerging ADCs (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Un-Ku Moon (Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR) -
86 26-Aug-2011 Technology Impacts from the New Wave of Architecture for Media-Rich Workloads Sam Naffziger (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
85 25-Jul-2011 Temperature Sensor Design for Power/Thermal Management in Emerging Semiconductor Processes Prof. Randall Geiger (Iowa State University, Ames, IA) Slides
84 08-Jun-2011 Panel Discussion: Expanding Semiconductor Job Opportunities in Northern Colorado Peter O'Neill (Avago Technologies), Don Bartlett (Greyrock Technology), Mike Freeman (City of Fort Collins), Prof. Tony Maciejewski (Colorado State University), Dr. Don McGrath (LSI) -
83 15-Apr-2011 Silicon Photonics and the Data-Centric Datacenter Dr. Marco Fiorentino (HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) Slides
82 25-Mar-2011 A 45nm SOI-CMOS Dual-PLL Processor Clock System for Multi-Protocol I/.O Dennis Fischette (AMD, Sunnyvale, CA) Slides
An Embedded All-Digital Circuit to Measure PLL Response Slides
81 11-Mar-2011 Tutorial on Practical Power-Delay Design Trade-offs Timothy Fischer (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) -
80 02-Feb-2011 Multi-Gbps Optical Receivers with CMOS Integrated Photodetectors Prof. Tony Chan Carusone. (University of Toronto, Canada) Slides
79 20-Jan-2011 Tutorial on Power Gating Dr. Stephen Kosonocky (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) -
78 11-Nov-2010 Autumn Social - -
77 22-Oct-2010 The Future of Electrical I/O for Microprocessors Dr. Frank O'Mahony (Intel, Hillsboro, OR) Slides
76 (DL24) 07-Oct-2010 Fabless Semiconductor Industry Trends (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Rakesh Kumar (TCX, San Diego, CA) Slides
75 03-Jun-2010 Optical Biosensors Mohamed Eldeiry, Wesley Fuller, Torsten Kiljan, Ashley Miller, Liesel Mundhenke, Mujahid Naqbi, Prof. Kevin Lear (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) Poster
Constant-Current Threshold Voltage Extraction in HSPICE for Nanoscale CMOS Analog Design Dr. Alvin Loke (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
74 (DL23) 05-May-2010 Wideband RF CMOS Circuit Design Techniques  (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Domine Leenaerts (NXP, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Slides
73 (DL22) 05-Mar-2010 3D Stacking of Silicon Chips (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Werner Weber (Infineon, Munich, Germany) Slides
Energy Saving by Power Electronics in Household and Car Applications  (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Slides
72 28-Jan-2010 Tutorial on Copper Interconnect Technology for the 32nm Node and Beyond Dr. Jeff Gambino (IBM, Essex Junction, VT) Slides
71 15-Oct-2009 Loopback Architecture for Wafer-Level At-Speed Testing of Embedded HyperTransport™ Processor Links Bruce Doyle (AMD, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
70 03-Sep-2009 Topics in Design and Analysis of High Data Rate SERDES Systems Troy Beukema (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY) Slides
69 14-Aug-2009 Summer Social - -
68 23-Jul-2009 Designing Electronic Systems for Space Dr. David Sunderland (Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, El Segundo, CA) Slides
67 25-Jun-2009 History and Economics Provide Better Renewable Energy Strategies Dr. Don Morris (Fort Collins, CO) Slides
66 (DL21) 10-Jun-2009 Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops for Clocking Sub-systems (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr.Mehmet Soyuer (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY) Slides
65 (DL20) 07-May-2009 Trends in Solar Energy and Solar Photovoltaics (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Betty Prince (New Energy Strategies International, Leander, TX)

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64 16-Apr-2009 Layout-Dependent Proximity Effects in Deep Nanoscale CMOS Dr. John Faricelli (AMD, Boxborough, MA) Slides
63 06-Mar-2009 Winter Social -

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62 29-Jan-2008 Leadership and the New Economy Dr. Don McGrath (LSI, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
61 10-Nov-2008 Compact Modeling and Simulation of PD-SOI MOSFETs: Current Status and Challenges Dr. Jung-Suk Goo (AMD, Sunnyvale, CA) Slides
60 17-Oct-2008 Autumn Social - -
59 (DL19) 09-Sep-2008 New Dimensions in Microarchitecture - 3D Integration Technology (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Kerry Bernstein (IBM Research, Essex Junction, VT) Slides
On the Rise of an Electronic Species (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Slides
58 (DL18) 14-Aug-2008 Scalability of RF CMOS (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Simon Wong (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) Slides
57 18-Jun-2008 Northern Colorado's Economic Outlook..and How It Might Affect You Prof. Martin Shields (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
56 21-May-2008 Reverse Engineering in the Semiconductor Industry Randy Torrance (Chipworks, Ottawa, Canada) Slides
55 (DL17) 16-Apr-2008 Challenges in Designing CMOS Wireless System-on-a-Chip (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. David Su (Atheros Communications, Santa Clara, CA) Slides
54 (DL16) 27-Mar-2008 Performance Enhancement Techniques for Fractional-N PLLs (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Ian Galton (University of California, San Diego, CA)

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53 (DL15) 30-Nov-2007 Integrated Micromechanical Circuits for RF Front-Ends (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Clark Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley, CA) Slides
52 01-Nov-2007 Joint Architecture and Circuit Techniques to Address Process
and Voltage Variability
Prof. Gu-Yeon Wei and Prof. David Brooks (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Slides
51 11-Oct-2007 Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Access to Nanometer Geometries Dr. Hugh Grinolds (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
50 (DL14)

30-Aug-2007

Bandwidth Extension Techniques in CMOS for Wireline/Wireless Communications (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. David Allstot (University of Washington, Seattle, WA) Slides
49

02-Aug-2007

An Integrated Quad-Core Opteronä Microprocessor (Greyhound/Deerhound)

Dr. Shawn Searles (AMD, Austin, TX)

Slides
48 (DL13)

31-May-2007

Taming the Beast -- Practical Tips for Phase-Locked Loop Design (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Dennis Fischette (AMD, Sunnyvale, CA)

Slides
47

29-Mar-2007

Challenges in Serial Electrical Interconnects at 5 to 10Gb/s and Beyond

Troy Beukema (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY)

Slides
46

28-Feb-2007

Looking for Leverage: A Tale of Two Startups

Robin Porter (Venture Operations, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
45

14-Dec-2006

High-Performance Processors in a Power-Limited World

Sam Naffziger (AMD, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
44 29-Nov-2006 Autumn Social - -
43 (DL12)

01-Aug-2006

60-GHz RF Transceivers in CMOS: Why and How? (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Behzad Razavi (University of California, Los Angeles, CA)

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42 29-Jun-2006 Analog Design in Sub-100nm Technologies Prof. Boris Murmann (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) Slides
41 (DL11)

15-Jun-2006

Ultra-low Voltage Nano-scale Embedded RAMs (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Dr. Kiyoo Itoh (Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan)

Slides
40 (DL10)

11-May-2006

Nanometer CMOS: An Analog Challenge (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Dr. Marcel Pelgrom (Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Slides
39 10-Apr-2006 A 65nm Dual-Core Multi-Threaded Xeon® Processor with 16MB L3 Cache Stefan Rusu (Intel, Santa Clara, CA) Slides
38

10-Mar-2006

Exceeding the Speed Limit: Challenges and Solutions to the Support of Serial 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Backplane Interconnects

Adam Healey (Agere Systems, Andover, MA)

Slides
37

23-Feb-2006

An 800GHz Oscilloscope Using Optical Sampling Technology

Dr. Osvaldo Buccafusca (Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
36

27-Jan-2006

Strain Engineering for CMOS Performance Improvement

Dr. Victor Chan (IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY)

Slides
35 (DL9)

10-Nov-2005

Cascaded Noise Shaping for Oversampling A/D and D/A Conversion (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Bruce Wooley (Stanford University, Stanford, CA)

Slides
34 (DL8)

07-Nov-2005

Micro Fabrication Techniques for Magnetic Information Storage Devices:  From Bubbles to Thin Film Recording Heads to Nano Magnetic Structures (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Dr. Robert Fontana (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA)

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15-Sep-2005

A Versatile Low-Jitter PLL in 90-nm CMOS for SerDes Transmitter Clocking

Dr. Alvin Loke (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides

IJTAG (Internal JTAG): A Step Toward a DFT Standard

Jeff Rearick (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
32

02-Sep-2005

Optical Interconnects for Commercial CMOS

Prof. Kevin Lear (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
31 (DL7)

11-Aug-2005

Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI): Physics, Materials, Process and Circuit Issues (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Dieter Schroder (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)

Slides
30 (DL6)

05-Aug-2005

High-K Gate Dielectrics (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Jack Lee (University of Texas, Austin, TX)

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29 (DL5)

27-Jul-2005

Biologically Inspired Smart CMOS Vision Sensors  (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Jan van der Spiegel (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

Slides
28

20-May-2005

Spring Social

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19-Apr-2005

Analog Adventures in Digital Chip Testing

Jeff Rearick (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
26 31-Mar-2005 The Implementation of a 2-core Multi-Threaded Itanium-Family Processor Sam Naffziger (Intel, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
Clock Distribution on a Dual-Core Multi-Threaded Itanium-Family Processor Bruce Doyle (Intel, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
A 90nm Variable-Frequency Clock System for a Power-Managed Itanium-Family Processor Ben Patella (Intel, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
Power and Temperature Control on a 90nm Itanium-Family Processor Jim Ignowski (Intel, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
25

01-Mar-2005

Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBARs)

Dr. Richard Ruby (Agilent Technologies, San Jose, CA)

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24

16-Feb-2005

Integrated Circuit Intrinsic Reliability

Dr. Dennis Eaton (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
23

03-Feb-2005

Science Fair Judging at Harris Bilingual Elementary School

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22 08-Dec-2004 Introduction to Deep Submicron CMOS Device Technology and Its Impact on Circuit Design Dr. Alvin Loke (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
21 17-Nov-2004 How Economics is Changing the Face of Engineering Dr. Donald Morris (retired from Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
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06-Oct-2004

Measurement, Modeling & Simulation Techniques for High-Speed Transmission Lines

Ken Richardson (LSI Logic, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
19

10-Sep-2004

Summer Social

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18

26-May-2004

IC Design Solutions in Foundry Environment

Michael Rubin (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
17

30-Apr-2004

Signal Integrity Consideration & Analysis

Minh Quach (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO)

Slides
16

02-Apr-2004

Science Fair Judging at Harris Bilingual Elementary School

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15 (DL4)

24-Mar-2004

A Basic Property of MOS Transistors and Its Circuit Implications (Distinguished Lecturer Series)

Prof. Eric Vittoz (Centre Suisse d' Électronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland)

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27-Feb-2004

Winter Social

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13 12-Nov-2003 Monolithic Instruments -- New Opportunities for Wafer Fabs Dr. Jeremy Theil (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) Slides
12 17-Oct-2003 An Engineer in a Small Business or Start-up Environment Don Bartlett (Greyrock Technology) Slides
11 12-Sep-2003 Introduction to On-Chip Copper/Low-K Interconnects & Electromigration Fundamentals Dr. Alvin Loke (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
10 08-Aug-2003 Summer Social / BBQ - -
9 11-Jul-2003 Custom IC Blocks for Enabling Digital Control in Switching Power Converters Prof. Dragan Maksimovic (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO) Slides
8 13-Jun-2003 S-D A/D Converter Basics and Optimization using a Genetic Algorithm Dr. Don McGrath (LSI Logic, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
7 (DL3) 09-May-2003 Analog Front End Design for ADSL (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Dick Hester (Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX) Slides
6 (DL2) 11-Apr-2003 Mixed-Mode ESD Protection Simulation-Design for Integrated Circuits (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Albert Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology,  Chicago, IL) Slides
5 06-Mar-2003 ISSCC 2003 Survey/Editorial & Officer Nominations Jay Ackerman (LSI Logic, Fort Collins, CO), Bob Barnes (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO), Steve Burnham (LSI Logic, Fort Collins, CO) -
4 31-Jan-2003 Winter Social - -
3 13-Dec-2002 CMOS Technology & Business Trends - Can The Industry Afford It? Peter O'Neill (Agilent Technologies, Fort Collins, CO) Slides
2 28-Oct-2002 Molecular Electronic Devices Dr. Stan Williams (HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) -
1 (DL1) 27-Sep-2002 Mechanisms of Phase Noise in Differential LC Oscillators (Distinguished Lecturer Series) Prof. Asad Abidi (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) -