2001 VLSI Symposium

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2001 VLSI Symposium

• ADCOMM Meetings Committee
• 2/4/01

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2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium Rump Sessions

• Are start-ups going to defeat big companies?
• Nicky Lu (Etron Technology)
• Kamran Azadet (Lucent)
• Power Supply for future system LSIs
• Tahahiro Kuroda (Keio University)
• Stephen Kosonocky (IBM)
• Can there be an all purpose solution for the DRAM
  market convergence?
• Masato Motomura (NEC)
• Harry Pon (Intel)

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2001 VLSI Technology Symposium Rump Sessions

• High K gate dielectrics What is the best?
• M. Niwa - Matsushita
• J. Lee - UT Austin
• Low-k dielectrics process integration for Cu
  damascene interconnects
• Hayashi NEC
• B. Havemann - TI/Sematech
• Technology challenges and solution for scaling
  flash memory
• R. Shiota - Toshiba
• K. Parat Intel

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2001 VLSI Symposium Joint Rump Session

• Merits/limitations of GaAs,SiGe, Bipolar, SOI
  CMOS and bulk CMOS in RF.
• Who's the winner in 2005?
• Moderators
• Masao Hotta - Hitachi
• Asad Abidi - UCLA
• Iwai - Tokyo Ints. Tech.
• Sam Shichijo - TI

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2001 VLSI Circuits SymposiumHighlights

• Invited Speakers
• Digital Vision Chip and Its Application on Real
  Time High-Speed Vision Systems
• Prof. Masatoshi Ishikawa - University of Tokyo
• Future of Flat Panel Displays for Mobile
  Applications
• Dr. Kiyoshi Yoneda - SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
• Physics-Based Device Model for Circuit
  Simulation-BSIM
• Chenming Hu UCB
• Digital Light Projectors,
• Pete VanKessel - Texas Instruments
• CD-Rom of the Technical Digest

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2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium Short Course
"Physical Design for Low-power and
High-performance Microprocessor Circuits"
Overview of physical design (Toshiba or NEC)
Interconnect design of 1GHz IA-32 Moench -
AMD Physical design of VT-CMOS
SH4 Ishibaishi Hitachi Physical design of
variable Vdd TBD Physical design of
embedded DRAM SOC Kurose - Sony Physical
design of low-V high-speed Strong-ARM Clark
Intel Physical design of low-power
DSP Takahashi - TI Organizers Matsui
Masataka Greg Taylor
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2001 VLSI Technology SymposiumHighlights

• Invited Speakers
• "Manufacturing in 21st Century- New Concept for
  300mm Fab."
• Dr. A.Koike - Trecenti Technologies
• "Technology Needs for System-on-Chip Design"
• Dr. Raul Camposano - Synopsis
• CD-Rom of the Technical Digest

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2001 VLSI Technology Symposium Short Course

• Future SoC Technologies
• (1) System Applications - (NAE speaker)
• (2) Design and Testing Issues - (NAE speaker)
• (3) Technologies (Process/device) - Carlos Diaz
  (TSMC)
• (4) Package Options - (JFE speaker)

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2000 VLSI SymposiaFinancials

• Books Complete
• Details attached
• Circuits Surplus 26,718
• Technology Surplus 97,627
• Reducing Short Course Fees

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2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium
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2001 VLSI Circuits SymposiumSubmission Summary
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2001 VLSI Technology SymposiumSubmission Summary
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2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium Financials
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2001 VLSI Technology Symposium Financials