- Circuit design to address challenges of deeply scaled technologies - e.g. DFM, variability, reliability
- Digital circuit techniques
- Analog and mixed signal circuits such as data converters and amplifiers to address performance, power, technology scaling, and variability
- Complex SOC systems describing new architectures and implementations
- Circuit approaches for clock generation and distribution
- Advances in memory circuits; especially for embedded memories in scaled technologies
- Power minimization techniques for analog and digital circuits, including novel energy harvesting, battery management and renewable energy topics.
- Power management circuits, including linear and switching voltage regulators and voltage references.
- Techniques for digitally-assisted analog and analog-assisted digital including digital implementation of previously analog functions
- Architectures and circuits for RF and wireless communications.
- Circuits for sensors and displays
- Wireline transceiver and I/O design optimized for high bandwidth and low-power spanning from chip-to-chip through long-reach applications
- Fundamentals related to the above, including innovative transistor-level circuit design and circuits for characterizing technology changes and variations |