SEU effects in deep submicron processes

• Heather QUINN (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium As feature sizes of modern electronics continue to shrink, the study and mitigation of radiation effects in electronics has become an important part of high-reliability computing. In this talk trends in memory devices, field-programmable gate arrays and microprocessors that cause data corruption or computational failures will be presented. Mitigation methods that attempt to suppress the affect of radiation-induced failures will also be discussed.

Redundancy methods in ASICs

• Sandro Bonacini (CERN)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

A 20-b accelerometer-based front-end for instrumentation

• Andréa Baschirotto (University of Milan-Bicocca)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

High performance sensor interfaces: Efficient system architectures and calibration techniques

• Marc Pastre (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium This lecture presents the different system-level and block-level techniques that allow efficient sensor interfacing with A/D conversion. In particular, open- and closed-loop topologies are presented, as well as voltage- and charge-mode readout interfaces. Several examples demonstrate the application of the techniques proposed. Finally, a very efficient technique for self-calibration is presented: Sub-binary radix DACs. Marc Pastre is research and teaching associate at EPFL. He received his MSc degree in computer science and PhD degree in microelectronics from EPFL in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Besides his teaching activities in electronics and microelectronics, he is conducting research projects in the areas of high-performance sensor interfaces, low-power analog and mixed-signal circuits, digital enhancement of analog circuits, and CAD tools.

CMOS Technologies for HV applications

• Rainer Minixhofer (Austria Micro Systems)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

Experience with 0.35 um

• Christophe de La Taille (IN2P3/LAL Orsay)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

Designing charge-pump based converters

• Floriberto Lima (Silicon Gate)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

Coding for High Speed Serial Transmission

• Izzat Darwazeh (Univeristy College of London)

Room: 30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium