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The ESSCIRC Conference
The aim of the ESSCIRC conference is to provide an annual European forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in solid-state circuits. ESSCIRC, and its sister conference ESSDERC, (which focuses on solid-state devices and technologies), share a single Steering Committee, and are held together to enable both communities to share advances in the technologies and design which enable increasing levels of sophistication and performance in integrated systems. The advances in silicon technology and the conflicting opportunities and constraints on designers demand closer than ever interaction between technologists, device experts, and circuit and system designers. While keeping separate Technical Programmes, ESSCIRC and ESSDERC will share Plenary Keynote Presentations and Joint Technical Sessions on topics chosen to bridge both communities. Attendees registered for either conference are encouraged to attend any of the scheduled parallel sessions of their choice. Submissions to ESSCIRC 2010 are solicited describing original contributions in the field of silicon design and implementation.
The conference’s core themes are set out below. The programme committee also welcomes novel contributions from other related areas.
Analogue Circuits
Amplification stages, Power amplifiers for audio applications, Continuous- and discrete-time fil- ters, Switched-capacitor circuits, Comparators, Nonlinear circuits, Voltage/current references, HV circuits.
Data Converters
Nyquist rate converters, Oversampled A/D and D/A converters, Sample-and-hold circuits, A/D and D/A converter calibration and error correction circuits, Adaptive and smart data converters.
RF and mm Wave
RF/IF/analog baseband circuits, LNAs, Mixers, Power amplifiers, IF amplifiers, Power detec- tors, Modulators-Demodulators, VCOs, PLLs, Frequency synthesizers, Frequency dividers, In- tegrated passive components.
Wireless and Wireline Communication Circuits and Systems
Receivers/transmitters/transceivers for wireless systems, Base stations and handsets, Advanced modulation systems, TV/radio/satellite receivers, Radar.
Sensors, Imagers and MEMs
Sensor subsystems and interfaces, Accelerometers, Temperature sensing, Imaging and smart imaging chips, Vision systems on chip, AMOLED, MEMs subsystems, RF MEMs.
Digital Circuits
Digital circuit techniques, I/O and inter-chip communication, Reconfigurable digital circuits, Clocking, Arithmetic building blocks.
Processors, Memories and Interfaces
Memories, Microprocessors, DSPs, Gigabit serial links, Clock data recovery, Equalization, Mem- ory interfacing, Bus interfacing, Multi-rate link IC ́s.
Bio-Medical and Bio-Electronic Circuits & Systems
Implantable electronic ICs, Bio-electronic integrated systems, Bio-medical imagers, Bio-MEMS integrated systems, Lab-on-chip, Wireless body area networks.
Circuit & Systems in Emerging Technologies
Digital, analogue and mixed-signal circuits using emerging devices such as: Multi-gate MOS- FETs (Double-Gate MOSFETs, FinFETs, Triple-Gate MOSFETs); Flexible electronic compo- nents; Organic transistors; Nano-wires/nano-tubes; Quantum devices.
Power Management and Energy Scavenging
Energy transducers, Power regulators, DC-DC converters, LDOs, Boost converters, Buck con- verters, LED drivers, Sequencers and supervisors, Green circuits.
ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Joint Sessions
These sessions will focus on topics at the boundary between design and technology depending on the submitted abstracts. Contributions are solicited (but not limited) in the areas of circuit design and simulation techniques for process variability in nm-scale technologies as well as of microwave components over silicon substrates.