New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA)

NECINA SemiTech Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA

To register, please go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=TBD

Topics:
Enabling Technologies for Analog, Mixed Signal, RF and mmWave ICs
CMOS Silicon on Insulator: Enabling changes in RF designs

Silicon on insulator (SOI) refers to the use of an insulator substrate instead
of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing to reduce
device parasitic and thereby improve performance. After a journey of more than
20 years and leveraging with low currents consumption and high speed, SOI
triumphantly shows off its successes in digital and mixed signal IC, from
processors to game consoles. Benefiting from low cost and high integration, it
is also quietly reaching into high performance RF/MW field which traditionally
is dominated by III-V compound. The purpose of this talk is to give an overview
of SOI from RF circuit designers' perspective, and to share with you what SOI
has substituted, and what kind of innovations may be enabled in multi-mode
multi-band front end module as well as in millimeter wave fields.

Agenda

6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pm RF/Analog Technology (Dawn Wang )
7:40pm-7:55pm Questions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pm RF CMOS SOI (Dr. Yang Li )
8:15pm-8:30pm Questions and Answers

Speakers

Dawn Wang has held various senior technical positions in Texas Instruments,
TriQuint Semiconductors, and IBM Microelectronics. She has over many years of
wide range of experience in technology and product development for RF,
Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) integrated circuits. Currently she works as a senior
foundry application engineer in IBM.

Dawn has published many technical papers and holds 6 US patents in analog and
radio frequency integrated circuit designs. She is one of the honoree in the
11th National Woman of Color Technology Award as Technology All-star for 2006.
She is a member in wireless working group of International Technology Roadmap of
Semiconductor (ITRS) & a program member in IEEE ICSICT program committee. Her
current research interests include the RF reference circuit designs in advanced
SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS technologies.

Dawn Wang received her BSEE and MSEE from Tsinghua University in China. She also
received her M. S. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University.

Dr. Yang Li is a principal engineer in Skyworks developing 3G/LTE power
amplifier and front-end module. Before joining Skyworks, he was with Peregrine
Semiconductor working on RF front-end designs on SOI. He also co-founded XEL
focusing on short-range wireless communication technologies.

Yang Li received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively.

Registration:

This event is open to all public. To register, please go to
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm? bevaid=TBD.


Organizers: Bo Zhang<bzhg2000@...>, Dawn Wang <dawn_wang@...> and
Yang Li <edwardliyang@...>

For more information, please visit the following sites

NECINA Semi SIG: http://www.yahoogroups.com/groups/necina_sig_semiconductor

NECINA: http://www.necina.org/

Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com/