<B>Keywords:</B> ANALOG/DIGITAL CIRCUIT DESIGN: Analog ICs – Digital ICs – Mixed analog/digital ICs – Novel design concepts and methods – DACs and ADCs – Amplifiers – Integrated filters – Communications ICs – Sensors – Gate arrays – Cell libraries – Voltage references – Analog subsystems within a VLSI chip – Packaging of high–performance ICs.<BR>RADIO FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DESIGN: Low noise amplifiers – Automatic gain control – VCOs Active mixers – Active gyrators – Power amplifiers – Switches – Noise suppression techniques – Frequency synthesizers – Radio subsystems – Packaging of RF components – Designing with integrated passive components at RF frequencies – Optical networking ICs.<BR>WIRELINE COMMUNICATIONS: LAN, WAN, FDDI, Ethernet, Metro, Fiber channel, SONET, ATM, ISDN, xDSL, optical data links – Power–line/phone–line networks – Cable modems, broadband circuits – MUX/DEMUX – Clock and data recovery – Error coding and correction – Crosspoint switches – Laser and modulator drivers – Preamplifiers – AGC amplifiers – Decision circuits – Equalizers.<BR>DEVICE PHYSICS: New device physics phenomena in Si, SiGe, and III–V devices – Device design issues and scaling limits – Hot electron effects and reliability physics – Transport and high field phenomena – Noise – Linearity/Distortion – Novel measurement techniques – ESD phenomena.<BR>MODELING/SIMULATION: Improved BJT and HBT models – Behavioral modeling techniques – Parameter extraction methods and test structures – RF and thermal simulation techniques – Modeling of passives, interconnect and packages – Statistical modeling – Device, process and circuit simulation.<BR>PROCESS TECHNOLOGY: Advances in processes and device structures demonstrating high speed, low power, low noise, high current, high voltage, etc. – BiCMOS processes – Advanced process techniques – Si and Si–C homojunction bipolar/BiCMOS devices, III–V and SiGe heterojunction bipolar/BiCMOS devices – Fabrication of high–performance passive components including MEMs.<BR>POWER DEVICES: Discrete and integrated bipolar/BiCMOS power devices, RF power devices, high–voltage ICs – Automotive electronics, disc drives, display drivers, power supplies, electric utility, medical electronics, motor controls, regulators, amplifiers, converters, aerospace electronics – BiCMOS circuits for power device control – CAD/modeling of power devices – Packaging of power devices.<BR>
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