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Monday
April 15, 2024
4-5:30pm PT

Continuous-Time Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters - Where Filtering Meets Analog-to-Digital Conversion


Shanthi Pavan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Qualcomm Bldg Q Auditorium



Friday
Feb 23, 2024
3-4:30pm PT

Design of High Performance Readout Chains for MEMS Barometric Pressure Sensors


Tim Piessens
CTO, ICsense
Qualcomm Bldg AZ-Auditorium (Room A/B)



Tuesday
Dec 19th, 2023
8am-9:30am PT
Transistor 75th Anniversary Commemorative Lecture
Looking into the crystal ball of transceivers

Bram Nauta
University of Twente, Netherlands
Webinar
Webex Link



Friday
Dec 1st, 2023
3pm-4:30pm PT
Transistor 75th Anniversary Commemorative Lecture
Transistor Diversity: Looking Beyond CMOS to Improve Analog Performance

Viola Schäffer
Texas Instruments, AZ, USA
Qualcomm Bldg AZ-Auditorium



Wednesday
Nov 29, 2023
6:00pm-8:00pm PT
IEEE San Diego Section Panel
Attracting, Enabling, and Developing the Next Generation of Electrical Engineers: A Panel Discussion

Alvin Loke, NXP
Ian Galton, UCSD
Reza Kamali, CSUSM
Kathleen Kramer, USD
Tony Mauro, CCA
Ying Khai Teh, SDSU
Canyon Crest Academy-Learning Commons



Monday
Nov 6th, 2023
3pm-4:30pm PT
Transistor 75th Anniversary Commemorative Lecture
How Transistor Scaling Reshaped the PLL

Carlo Samori
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Qualcomm Bldg AZ-Auditorium



Friday
Sept 8th, 2023
2pm-4pm PT
Recent Trends and Advances in High Performance Fractional-N PLL Design and its Application for 5G Radio
Wanghua Wu
Samsung Semiconductor Inc. USA.
San Jose, CA
Webinar
Webex Link



Friday
June 23, 2023
1-3pm PT
Transistor 75th Anniversary Commemorative Lecture
Topic 1: From Rocks to Chips: Stories of the Transistor

Topic 2: Don't Try This With CMOS!


Tom Lee, Stanford University
Chris Mangelsdorf, Analog Devices (retired)
Qualcomm Bldg AZ-Auditorium
Flyer
Friday
June 9th, 2023
1-3pm PT
Quantum Computing: What is it, how does it work, and what are the opportunities for microwave engineers?
Joseph Bardin
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
Qualcomm Bldg AZ-Auditorium



Wednesday
Jan 4th, 2023
9:30am-11pm PDT
Monolithic Co-integration of III-V Materials into Foundry Si-CMOS in a Single Chip for Novel Integrated Circuits
Xing Zhou
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Webinar



Wednesday
Nov 16, 2022
10am-12pm PDT
Circuits and Technologies for Implantable Biomedical Devices
Carolina Mora Lopez
imec
Leuven, Belgium
Qualcomm Bldg Q-Auditorium



Tuesday
Nov 1, 2022
5pm-7pm PT
RF Design for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Communication Systems: Efficiently Miniaturizing and Passively Sensing
Jasmin Grosinger
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)
Graz, Austria
Qualcomm Bldg AZ Multipurpose Room A/B/C



Monday
Oct 17, 2022
2pm-3:30pm PT
Integrated Security Interface Against Cyber-Physical Attacks
Noriyuki Miura
Osaka University
Suita, Japan
Webinar



Friday
Mar 25, 2022
8:15am-9:45am PDT
N-path Passive Mixers: Simple Circuits, Surprising Capabilities
Alyosha Molnar
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Webinar
Webex Link



Friday
Mar 11, 2022
8:00am-9:30am PDT
Silicon: The playground for photons and electrons
Sudip Shekhar
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Webinar
Webex Link
Video
Thursday
Jan 10, 2022
8:30am-10:00am PDT
Maxwell's Theory for Us Regular Folks
James C. Rautio
Founder and Board Chair
Sonnet Software, Syracuse, New York
Webinar
Webex Link
Video
Friday
Dec 10, 2021
8am-9:45am PDT
Subsampling PLLs for Frequency Synthesis and Phase Modulation
Nereo Markulic
imec
Leuven, Belgium
Webinar
Webex Link
Video

Slide
Friday
Nov 12, 2021
8am-9:30am PDT
Insights into transceiver design for 5G mm-wave equipped cell-phones
Venumadhav Bhagavatula
Samsung Semiconductors Inc., San Jose, CA
Webinar
Webex Link
Video
Friday
Oct 22, 2021
8am-9:00am PT
Semiconductor Challenges in Realizing the Full Benefit of 5G mmWave and Extending the Roadmap into 6G
Chidi Chidambaram
Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA
Webinar
Webex Link

Friday
Aug 27, 2021
8am-9:30am PT
Evolution of Load-Store Interconnects to 64.0 GT/s with PAM-4 signaling
Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
Webinar
Webex Link
Video

Slide

Friday
July 23, 2021
8am-9:15am PT
Architecture and Technology Implications of a Chiplet-Based Future
Samuel Naffziger
AMD, Santa Clara, CA
Webinar
Webex Link
Video
Friday
June 4, 2021
9am-10am PT
Design-Technology Co-Optimization for Reliability and Quality in Advanced Nodes
Mehul Shroff
NXP Semiconductors
Webinar
Webex Link

Video
Thursday
May 6, 2021
11am-12pm PT
An 8 Gb GDDR6X DRAM Achieving 22 Gb/s/pin with Single-ended PAM-4 Signaling
Timothy M. Hollis
Micron Technology
Webinar
Webex Link

Video
Friday
April 8th, 2021
8am-9:30am PT
Thinking About the Technology Platform for Next-generation AI
Naveen Verma
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Webinar
Webex Link
Slide

Video
Thursday
Mar 18, 2021
9am-10:00am PT
Gs/s Analog-to-Digital Converters in sub-16nm Process Technologies
Doug Garrity
NXP Semiconductors
Webinar
Webex Link
Slide

Video
Friday
Dec 18, 2020
8am-9:30am PDT
Time-Varying Filtering Techniques for RF Front-Ends
Sudhakar Pamarti
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of California Los Angeles
Webinar
Online meeting information
Slide

Video
Tuesday
Aug 25, 2020
9am-10am PT
(Cancelled due to COVID
Chip-Scale Wave-Matter Interactions at RF-to-Light Frequencies: Circuits, Systems and Applications
Ruonan Han
IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Webinar (Virtual)

Friday
July 10, 2020
10-11:15am PT
High-Speed CMOS Serial Transmitters for 56-112Gb/s Electrical Interconnects

Webinar (Virtual)
Tod Dickson
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY
Webinar access information will be emailed to IEEE San Diego members.
Video
Postponed
New date to be announced
Mixed-Signal Compute Fabrics for Deep Neural Networks
Boris Murmann
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121)
Tuesday
Mar 3, 2020
10-11:15am
Transceiver Architectures for Beyond-5G: Challenges and R&D Opportunities
Payam Heydari
University of California, Irvine, CA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121)
Friday
Jan 24, 2020
3-4:15pm
Integrated Power Delivery and Management for High-Performance Digital Systems
Hanh-Phuc Le
University of California, San Diego, CA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121)
Photos
Friday
Dec 6, 2019
10-11:30am
Multistatic 3D Whole Body Millimeter-Wave Imaging for Explosive Detection
Carey M. Rappaport
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer
Northeastern University, Boston MA
Qualcomm AZ Multipurpose Room A/B (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Video

Photos
Tuesday
Oct 22, 2019
6-7:30pm
Navigating Automotive LIDAR Technology
Mial Warren
Trilumina Corp. (Albuquerque, NM)
Qualcomm AZ Multipurpose Room A/B (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide
Friday
Oct 18, 2019
2-3:30pm
Integrated True-Time-Delay based Hybrid Beamforming and Wideband Spatial Interference Cancellation for Large-Scale Arrays on Cellular / V2X / Airborne Platforms
Subhanshu Gupta
Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
Qualcomm AZ Multipurpose Room A/B (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide
Wednesday
Oct 16, 2019
7-8:00pm
TSMC's excellent adventure into 7nm and beyond
Paul Rousseau
TSMC North America (San Jose, CA)
Qualcomm AZ Multipurpose Room A/B (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121)
Thursday
Oct 3, 2019
3-4:30pm
Mixed-Signal Technologies for Ultra-Wide Band Signal Processing Systems
Gabriele Manganaro
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Analog Devices (Wilmington, MA)
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos

Monday
Sept 30, 2019
3-4:30pm
Dissecting Design Choices in Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Converters
Shanthi Pavan
IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos

Thursday
Sept 26, 2019
Hybrid PLL Architectures and Implementations
Daniel Friedman
Past IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Friday
Aug 30, 2019

Electronic-Photonic Co-Design: From Communication to Optical Phase Control

Firooz Aflatouni
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Photos
Friday
Aug 23, 2019
Circuit Intuitions: Looking into a Node
Ali Sheikholeslami
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Jacobs Hall 2nd Floor (University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093) Henry Booker Room EBUI 2512 Slide

Photos

Friday
Aug 23, 2019
Basics of Jitter in Wireline Communications
Ali Sheikholeslami
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos
Thursday
Aug 8, 2019

Emerging Memories and Pathfinding for the Era of Sub-10nm System-on-Chip

Seung Kang
Past IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer
Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide
Wednesday
May 15, 2019

Design of Broadband, Linear, and High-Efficiency mm-Wave Power Amplifiers in Silicon for 5G Applications

Hua Wang
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Thursday
May 2, 2019

Ultra-Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Physiochemical Sensors for Next-Generation "Unawearables"

Patrick Mercier
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of California, San Diego
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos

Friday
Feb 22, 2019

Challenges in the Design of Integrated Circuits for Wireless Power Delivery and Information Transfer in Implantable Medical Applications

Zhihua Wang
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos

Friday
Feb 15, 2019

RF Harmonic Oscillators Integrated in Silicon Technologies

Pietro Andreani
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of Lund, Sweden
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Photos

Thursday
Dec 6, 2018

How Pixel Detector ASICs Helped Find the Higgs Boson at CERN and Now Enable Spectroscopic X-ray Medical Imaging

Michael Campbell
Head of the Microelectronics Section, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Wednesday
Nov 7, 2018

Adaptive and Resilient Circuits for Improving Processor Performance, Energy Efficiency, and Yield

Keith Bowman
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Rayleigh, NC
Qualcomm Q Auditorium (6455 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Monday
Oct 22, 2018

Detectability of Breast Tumor by a Hand-held Impulse-Radar Detector: Performance Evaluation and Pilot Clinical Study

Takamaro Kikkawa
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Qualcomm Q Auditorium (6455 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Sept 18, 2018

WiFi for IoT: RF Systems and Architecture

Edward Youssoufian
NXP
Qualcomm Q Auditorium (6455 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

Aug 15, 2018

Advances in Photonic Devices for Analog Fiber link Applications

Paul Yu
University of California, San Diego
Advanced Test Equipment, Training Center 10401 Roselle St, San Diego CA 92121 Slide

Aug 9, 2018

Agile Hardware Design with a Generator-Based Methodology

Elad Alon
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
University of California, Berkeley
Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

July 19, 2018

Energy Efficient Computing in Nanoscale CMOS

Vivek De
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Circuit Technology Research, Intel Labs
Qualcomm Q Auditorium (6455 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121) Slide

May 23, 2018

Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Challenges in 7-nm CMOS and Beyond

Alvin Loke
Past IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, CA
Qualcomm San Diego Campus (Sorrento Valley) Bldg AZ room A 10155 Pacific Heights Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121 Slide

April 10, 2018

Energy-Efficient Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities, SSC and CAS societies

Vivienne Sze
Massachusets Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Qualcomm San Diego Campus (Sorrento Valley) Bldg AZ room A 10155 Pacific Heights Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121 Slide

Mar 15, 2018

Wearable and Implantable Biomedical Devices

Azita Emami
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Qualcomm San Diego Campus (Sorrento Valley) Bldg AZ room A 10155 Pacific Heights Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121

Mar 8, 2018

Design Techniques for Scalable, Sub-pJ/b Serial I/O Transceivers

Samuel Palermo
Texas A&M University
Qualcomm San Diego Campus (Sorrento Valley) Bldg AZ room A 10155 Pacific Heights Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121 Slide



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