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A number of high-quality Plenary Sessions are scheduled where distinguished invited speakers will discuss issues of interest for the attendees of both Conferences:




Georges Gielen (KU Leuven)
Design Methodologies and Tools for Circuit Design in CMOS Nanometer Technologies

Karl McGoldrick (Polymer Vision)
Mobile Friendly Rollable Displays

Henry Baltes (ETH Zürich)
From Microsystems To Biosystems

Clark T.-C. Nguyen (University of Michigan)
Integrated Micromechanical Circuits for RF Front-Ends

Ken Uchida (Toshiba Advanced LSI Laboratory)
Single Electron Transistors and Circuits for Future Low Power LSI

Tadahiro Kuroda (Keio University)
Low-Power Inter-Chip Wireless Communication


Rinaldo Castello (University of Pavia)
Multimode Reconfigurable Wireless Terminals

Steve Kang (University of California - Santa Cruz)
The Role of Bioelectronics for Quality of Life

Asad Abidi (University of California - Los Angeles)
Evolution of the Software-Defined Radio Receiver


Special Session Invited Speakers

Satoshi Inaba (Toshiba Corporation)
FinFET: the prospective multi-gate device for future SoC applications

Gerhard Knoblinger (Infineon Technologies)
Multi-Gate MOSFET Design

Gianluca Piazza (University of Pennsylvania)
AlN Contour-Mode Vibrating RF MEMS for Next Generation Wireless Communications

Abstracts of the talks and biographies of the invited speakers will be posted shortly.



20 September 2006 (Wednesday) 19:30
Casino Montreux Salon Deauville

Swiss Origins of Very Low-Power Integrated Circuits (Download Slides)
by Eric A. Vittoz, EPF-Lausanne

The search for electronic watches has been the cradle for early developments of very low-power integrated circuits in Switzerland.
Bipolar technology used for the first realizations was soon replaced by low-voltage CMOS, with first working chips as early as 1968. The speaker was involved in these actions since the very beginning in 1962. He will evoke the main steps along the first 20 years of this technological epic, using photographic documents. He will conclude with the present and possible future impact of these early developments.