Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Design and Applications:
Mark
Bauer
Bernhard
Boser
Raul
Camposano
Gene
Frantz
Andrea
Goldsmith
Tom
Lee
Boris
Murmann
Jan
Rabaey
T.J.
Rodgers
Jason
Stinson
David
Su
Bruce
Wooley
Mark Bauer, Senior Principal Engineer, Flash Products Group, Intel Corporation. Mark Bauer is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Flash Products Group at Intel Corporation. He received his B.S.E.E. from the University of California, Davis in 1985. He joined Intel's Memory Components Division that same year, working on EPROM design. In 1992, he went on to work on Flash memory design. In 1993 he was responsible for circuit design and technology development of the first Intel StrataFlash™ memory. He is presently a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s Flash Memory Group working on advanced circuit design and memory technology development Mr. Bauer has been a member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit’s Conference memory sub-committee since 1999.
Mr. Bauer holds 20 patents in the field of non-volatile memories and has authored several technical papers, one of which received the Lewis Award for Outstanding Paper at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference.
Bernhard Boser, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director, Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Boser received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985 and 1988. From 1988 he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Adaptive Systems Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1992 he joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley where he also serves as a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.
Dr. Boser's research is in the area of analog and mixed signal circuits, with special emphasis on on analog-digital interface circuits and micromechanical sensors and actuators. He has served on the program committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers Conference, the VLSI Symposium, and is currently the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Raul Camposano, Ph.D., Sr. VP, Chief Technology Officer, Synopsys, Inc. Joining Synopsys in 1994, he has served in several executive roles, including General Manager of the Design Tools Business Group. His technical expertise has played a key part in establishing Synopsys as an acknowledged industry leader in system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology.
Dr. Raul Camposano holds a B.S. and M.S. in E.E. from the University of Chile, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. He was a professor at Paderborn University and the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), and was a staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab. He has published over 70 technical papers and written and/or edited three books on electronic design automation. In addition to being named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999, he has received many awards, including the ACM Recognition of Service Award, and Best Paper at the VLSI ’87 Conference. He is also an Advisory Professor at Fudan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Skilled as a teacher, researcher and businessperson, Dr. Camposano has contributed significantly to building the EDA community as a whole. He serves as an editor of many journals such as the IEEE Transactions on CAD and the Integration Journal and the International Journal of Design Automation for Embedded Systems. He is and has been a member of numerous technical committees and advisory boards.
Gene A. Frantz, Principal Fellow, Digital Signal Processing, Texas Instruments. As DSP Business Development Manager,
Gene Frantz is presently responsible for creating new businesses within TI utilizing digital signal processing technology. In recognition of his leadership role in establishing TI as the world’s leading DSP solutions provider, Frantz was elected as TI’s Principal Fellow in 2002, a privilege enjoyed by less than 0.1 percent of TI’s technical personnel.
Frantz joined TI’s consumer products division in 1974. While in that division, he took a leadership role in the development of TI’s educational products: he was the program manager for the Speak & Spell TM learning aid, and led the development team for all of the early speech products for TI. In 1984, he transferred to Semiconductor Group’s DSP Department to become the applications manager. Since this position, he has been recognized as a leader in DSP technology both within TI and throughout the industry.
Frantz received his BSEE from the University of Central Florida in 1971, his MSEE from Southern Methodist University in 1977, and his MBA from Texas Tech University in 1982.
Frantz is a Fellow of the Institution of Electric and Electronics Engineers. He holds 30 patents in the area of memories, speech, consumer products and DSP. He has written more than 50 papers and articles and continually presents at Universities and conferences worldwide. Frantz is also among industry experts widely quoted in the media due to his tremendous knowledge and visionary view of DSP solutions.
Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Professor Goldsmith received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1986, 1991, and 1994, respectively. From 1986-1990 she was affiliated with Maxim Technologies, where she worked on packet radio and satellite communication systems, and from 1991-1992 she was affiliated with AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she worked on propagation models and channel estimation for cellular systems. She was an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from 1994-1998, and then joined the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University where she is now an associate professor. Her research includes work in the capacity of wireless channels and networks, wireless communication and information theory, adaptive resource allocation in wireless networks, multiantenna wireless systems, energy-constrained wireless communications, wireless communications for distributed control, and cross-layer design for cellular systems, ad-hoc wireless networks, and sensor networks.
Dr. Goldsmith holds the Bredt Faculty Development Scholar Chair at Stanford and is a recipient of the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Development Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the National Semiconductor Faculty Development Award, the Okawa Foundation Award, and the David Griep Memorial Prize from U.C. Berkeley. She was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1995 to 2002 and has been an editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine since 1995. She is also an elected member of Stanford's Faculty Senate and the Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Thomas H. Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Professor Lee received the S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively.
He joined Analog Devices in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, CA where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs.
He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS.
He has twice received the "Best Paper" award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a "Best Student Paper" at ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation Fellowship recipient.
He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Societies. He holds 33 U.S. patents and authored "The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits," Cambridge Press, 1998. He is a co-author of three additional books on RF circuit design, and also co-founded Matrix Semiconductor.
Boris Murmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Professor Murmann received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Communications Engineering from FH Dieburg, Germany in 1994. He received the MS degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 1999. In 2003, he received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation focusing on high performance A/D conversion.
From 1994 until 1997 he was with Neutron Mikrolektronik GmbH, Hanau, Germany, where he was involved in the design of high-voltage, smart-power, and low power ASICs in CMOS technology. In 1992 and 1999 he held Engineering Intern positions in the field of Analog Circuit Design with R&E International Inc., King of Prussia, PA. During the summer of 2001, Dr. Murmann was with the High-Speed Converter group of Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA. Since 2004, he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he serves as an Assistant Professor.
In the year 2000, Boris Murmann received the EECS Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award from UC Berkeley. In 2001, he was a recipient of the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer award. In 2003, Dr. Murmann received the CalVIEW Citris Award for Excellence in Distance Education .
Jan Rabaey, Ph.D., Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Director of the GigaScale Systems Research Center (GSRC), Scientific Co-Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), University of California, Berkeley. Professor Rabaey received the EE and Ph.D degrees in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, respectively in 1978 and 1983. From 1983 till 1985, he was connected to the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Engineer. From 1985 till 1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium, and in 1987, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pavia ( Italy), Waseda University ( Japan), Technical University Delft ( Netherlands), and Victoria Technical University and the University of New South Wales ( Australia).
He was the associate chair of the EECS Dept. at Berkeley from 1999 till 2002, and is currently the Scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of the GigaScale Systems Research Center (GSRC). He is an IEEE Fellow.
His main research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems. This includes the analysis and optimization of communication algorithms and networking protocols, the study of ultra low-energy implementation architectures and circuits, and the supporting design automation environments.
T. J. Rodgers, Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. T.J. Rodgers is founder, president, CEO, and a director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. He is a former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and sits on the board of directors of SolarFlare Communications, Silicon Light Machines, Ion America, Silicon Magnetic Systems, Infinera, SunPower Corp., and Cypress MicroSystems.
Rodgers was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth College, where he graduated as Salutatorian with a double major in physics and chemistry. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master's degree (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) in electrical engineering. At Stanford, Rodgers invented, developed, and patented VMOS technology, which he sold to American Microsystems Inc. (AMI). He managed the MOS memory design group at AMI from 1975 to 1980 before moving to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he ran AMD's SRAM product group. Rodgers was the founding CEO of Cypress in 1982 and has since built it into an international integrated circuit supplier with 4,100 employees. Called "a quintessential entrepreneurial company" by The Wall Street Journal, Cypress and its management team have received many awards for excellence in financial management. These include an Encore Award from the Stanford University Business School as entrepreneurial company of the year in 1988; an Entrepreneur of the Year award from the global consulting company, Ernst & Young, in 1991; three Bronze Awards and two Silver Awards from The Wall Street Transcript for outstanding management; and a Kachina Award from market-research company In-Stat Inc. for excellence in financial management.
Rodgers has been cited for his achievements in supporting the philosophy of capitalism and freedom, and for his contributions to philanthropic and other non-business groups. In 2001, Rodgers received the Silicon Valley Capitalism Award for "exemplifying the virtues of capitalism and defending capitalism with ethical principles in the media." Also that year, Rodgers was presented with an Angel Award by the International Angel Investors organization for his venture-capital activities supporting the semiconductor industry, and the inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University at Hayward. He joined a short list of scholars, including Milton Friedman, in receiving an Honorary Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Guatemala for his numerous essays on the topics of capitalism and freedom. Rodgers accepted a Director Award from Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. in 1998 for his contributions to that company as a member of its Board of Directors between 1987 and 1997. He received an Outstanding Individual Entrepreneurship Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 1997, and he was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1986 by the City of Santa Clara, California.
Jason Stinson, Principal Engineer, Enterprise Processor Division, Intel Corporation. Jason Stinson is a principal engineer in the Enterprise Processor Division at Intel Corporation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1991, respectively. In 1992, he joined Intel Corporation in the Microprocessor Design Division, working on the design of the original Pentium® Processor. For the past twelve years, Jason has been part of various microprocessor design projects at Intel, including the Pentium II Processor, Mobile Pentium II Processor and Celeron® Processor. During this timeframe, he has split his time between design methodology and post-silicon validation. In the area of design and design methodology, Jason has been responsible for dynamic circuits, clocking, signal integrity and timing analysis on various projects. In the area of post-silicon validation, Jason’s expertise areas are primarily in marginality
For the past four years, Jason has been the circuit technical lead for the 0.13um Itanium® 2 Processor, responsible for both the global design methodologies as well as post-silicon validation.
Jason has authored 10 papers in refereed conference and technical journals. He has been awarded 3 US patents. Additionally, Jason has taught classes in advanced digital design at Stanford University and post-silicon validation at international conferences.
David Su, Ph.D., Director of Analog Design, Atheros Communications. David Su is the Director of Analog IC Design at Atheros Communications in Sunnyvale, California. He received the B.S and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1982 and 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1994. From 1985 to 1989, he was with Hewlett-Packard Company in Oregon and Singapore. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Member of Technical Staff with the High Speed Electronics Department of Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. He joined Atheros Communications in February 1999 to work on the design and development of integrated CMOS transceivers for wireless LAN. He has also been with Stanford University since 1997, where he is a consulting associate professor. His research interests include the design of RF, analog, mixed-signal, and data conversion circuits.
Dr. Su is a technical program subcommittee member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference and an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 2002 Best Paper Award and the 2004 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Editorial Award.
Bruce A. Wooley, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Dr. Wooley is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966, 1968, and 1970, respectively. From 1970 to 1984 he was a member of the research staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980, and he joined Stanford in 1984. His research is in the field of integrated circuit design, where his interests include oversampling A/D and D/A conversion, low-power mixed-signal circuit design, circuit design techniques for video and image data acquisition, high-speed embedded memory, high-performance packaging and test systems, noise in mixed-signal integrated circuits, and circuits for wireless communications.
Prof. Wooley is a Fellow of the IEEE and the President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He has served as the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and as the Chairman of both the International Solid-State Circuits Conference and the Symposium on VLSI Circuits. He is also a past Chairman of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Technology Committee. He was awarded the University Medal by the University of California, Berkeley, and he was an IEEE Fortescue Fellow. He received the Winner Editorial Award for papers presented at the 1991 and 1997 ISSCC. He has published more than 100 technical articles, coauthored The Design of Low-Voltage, Low-Power Sigma-Delta Modulators, and is a coeditor of Analog MOS Integrated Circuits, II.
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