Student Paper Contest

 

Following the tradition of ISCAS 2007, a student paper contest was held at ISCAS 2008 and sponsored by the Circuits and Systems Society.

 

 

The panel judges were:

Tony Chan Carusone, University of Toronto
Felix Lustemberg, ESPROS Photonics Corporation
Giacomo Indiveri, University of Zurich
Yong Lian, National University of Singapore
Un-ku Moon, Oregon State University
Maciej Ogorzalek, Jagellonian University
Gianluca Setti, University of Ferrara
Mircea Stan, University of Virginia
Mani Soma, University of Washington

 

The four winning papers for the student papers contest are:

Paper Title: A Programmable 25 MHz to 6 GHz Rational-K/L Frequency Synthesizer with Digital Kvco Compensation  
Authors: Jae Y. Kim, Chih-Wei Yao, Alan N. Willson 
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles    
 
Paper Title: Impulse Based Scheme for Crystal-less ULP Radios
Authors:  Fabio Sebastiano, Salvatore Drago, Lucien Breems, Domine Leenaerts, Kofi Makinway, Bram Nauta
Affiliation: NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, Delft University of Technology, University of Twente

Paper Title: VLSI Architecture for Data-Reduced Steering Matrix Feedback in MIMO Systems
Authors:  C. Studer, P. Luethi, W. Fichtner
Affiliation: ETH Zurich

Paper Title: A 600-Mb/s Encoder and Decoder for Low-Density Parity-Check Convolutional Codes
Authors: Tyler Brandon, John C. Koob, Leendert van den Berg, Zhengang Chen, Amirhossein Alimohammad,
Ramkrishna Swamy, Jason Klaus, Stephen Bates, Vincent C. Gaudet, Bruce F. Cockburn, Duncan G. Elliott
Affiliation: University of Alberta

Each of the student authoring one of the above papers will divide the award of 500$ and will receive a certificate.

 

Other finalist of the contest:

Paper Title: Bifurcations in a Silicon Neuron
Authors: Arindam Basu, Csaba Petre, Paul Hasler
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Paper Title: Capacitor Array Structure and Switch Control for Energy-Efficient SAR Analog-to-Digital Converters
Authors: Jeong-Sup Lee, In-Cheol Park
Affiliation: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Paper Title: General Analysis on the Impact of Phase-Skew in Time-Interleaved ADCs
Authors: Manar El-Chammas, Boris Murmann
Affiliation: Stanford University

Paper Title: Image Sensor with Focal Plane Change Event Driven Video Compression
Authors: Yu M. Chi, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Gert Cauwenberghs
Affiliation: University of California, San Diego, Johns Hopkins University

Paper Title: Electrical Modeling and Characterization of 3-D Vias
Authors: Ioannis Savidis, Eby G. Friedman
Affiliation: University of Rochester

Paper Title: 3.1-to-7GHz UWB Impulse Radio Transceiver Front-End Based on Statistical Correlation Technique
Authors: M. Anis, R. Tielert. N. Wehn
Affiliation: Technical University of Kaiserslautern