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ISSCC 2018
SILICON ENGINEERING A SOCIAL WORLD
February 11-15, 2018 | San Francisco Marriott Marquis | San Francisco, California, USA

Plenary Talks (Monday, February 12th)

Semiconductor Innovation: Brain-Inspired Technologies: Future Mobility Society Enabled 50 Years of Computer
Is the Party Over Towards Chips that Think by Semiconductor Technology Architecture: From Mainframe
or Just Getting Started? CPUs to Neural-Network TPUs

Vince Roche Barbara De Salvo Yukihiro Kato David Patterson

Analog Devices, Norwood, MA CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France Denso, Aichi, Japan Google, Mountain View, CA
University of California, Berkeley, CA

Tutorials (Sunday, February 11th) Evening Events (February 11th - 13th )

Low-Jitter PLLs for Wireless Transceivers
Xiang Gao, Credo Semiconductor, Milpitas, CA, USA
Nonvolatile Circuits for Memory, Logic, and Artificial Intelligence
Meng-Fan Chang, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Basics of Quantum Computing
Edoardo Charbon, EPFL, Switzerland
Figures-of-Merit on Trial
The goal of this panel is to probe the weaknesses and strengths of popular analog Figures-of-
Merit (FoM) in an entertaining and educational way: To this end, the room will become a
tribunal with the moderator as judge. For each FoM on trial, two panelists will officiate, one
becoming the defending advocate of the FoM, and the other the prosecutor, while the audience
will become the jury, that will decide which of the two combatants will win. The panelist with
highest score will receive an entertaining prize!

Error-Correcting Codes in 5G/NVM Applications

Hsie-Chia Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Hybrid Design of Analog-to-Digital Converters
Seng-Pan (Ben) U, University of Macau, Macau
Single-Photon Detection in CMOS
Matteo Perenzoni, FBK, Trento, Italy
Basics of Adaptive and Resilient Circuits
Keith Bowman, Qualcomm, Raleigh, NC, USA
Fundamentals of Switched-Mode Power Converter Design
Hoi Lee, The University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
Digital RF Transmitters
Renaldi Winoto, Tectus, Saratoga, CA, USA
ADC-Based Serial Links: Design and Analysis
Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
Forums (February 11th & February 15th)
Sunday February 11 th
Lessons Learned – Great Circuits That Didn’t Work
(Oops, If Only I Had Known!)
Working on your first (or last) IC can be exciting, stressful, rewarding, and embarrassing.
Whatever the lesson learned, be assured that it was experienced by pioneers before you.
Failures (mistakes or just bad ideas!) can be valuable learning experiences, but are rarely
revealed. Tonight, we provide an opportunity for recognized experts to share their past mistakes
and failures, and disclose lessons learned. After the panelists have confessed, the audience
can also contribute “learning experiences” (in less than a minute). Inevitably, this collection
of revelations will be motivating: inspiring to the young and inexperienced; and virtuous for
gurus in sharing a universal truth – first-time perfection is rare!
Can Artificial Intelligence Replace My Job?
– The Dawn of a New IC Industry with AI
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) capable of human tasks and more and better, is
approaching fast. Shortly, most businesses, including the IC industry, will choose AI over
humans, if AI can deliver the same results with lower risks and costs. Consequently, many
questions arise for us: what will be the respective roles of AI and humans in developing ICs?
How will AI shape the IC industry? What is the right career choice for young people in the
field? This panel will showcase diverse experts who will share their vision on this daunting
new development in our business.

Intelligent Energy-Efficient Systems at the edge of IoT

FINFETs & FDSOI – Circuits for Social Good (February 11th)
A Mixed-Signal Circuit Designer’s Perspective
Thursday February 15 th
Circuits and Architectures for Wireless Sensing, Radar and Imaging
Industry Showcase (February 12th)
Circuit and System Techniques for mm-wave Multi-Antenna Systems
Advanced Optical Communication: Demonstration Sessions (February 12th - 13th)
From Devices, Circuits and Architectures, to Algorithms
Advances in Energy Efficient Analog Design
Technical Sessions (February 12th - 14th)
Student Activities (Sunday, February 11 ) th

Student Research Preview (SRP): Short Presentations w/ Poster Session

Silkroad Award: Scholarships awarded for Far-East full-time students
Short Course (February 15th)
Hardware Approaches to Machine Learning and Inference
Introduction to Machine Learning and Inference
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September 11, 2017 Marian Verhelst, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Efficient Edge Solutions for Deep Learning Applications
Vivienne Sze,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
February 11 - 15, 2018 Efficient Alternatives and Extensions
www.isscc.org to Deep-learning-based Solutions
Naveen Verma, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA