Session 7B

San Juan Room

3:30PM – 5:35pm

Issues in On-Chip Communication and Analog/RF Designs

Chairs:    Amit Mehrotra, Berkeley Design Automation

George Alexiou, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece

3:30pm

Introduction

3:35pm

7B.1       

Joint Equalization and Coding for On-Chip Bus Communication

Srinivasa R. Sridhara*, Ganesh Balamurugan**, Naresh R. Shanbhag*, *University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, **Intel

4:05pm

7B.2         

A More Effective C_eff

Sani R. Nassif*, Zhuo Li**, *IBM, **Texas A&M University

4:35pm

7B.3       

An Interconnect Insensitive Linear Time-Varying Driver Model for Static Timing Analysis

Chung-Kuan Tsai, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, University of California at Santa Barbara

5:05pm

7B.4

Design a Band-pass Pseudo-2-path Switched Capacitor Ladder Filter

A. Zahabi, O. Shoaei, Y. Koolivand, University of Tehran, IRAN

5:20pm

7B.5

Design Considerations for Low-Power Ultra Wideband Radio Receivers

Payam Heydari, University of California, Irvine