Conference
1. IEEE International Symposium on Radio Frequency Integration Technology, 9 – 11 December 2009.
Short courses
1. “High-Performance RF and mmWave CMOS Design” – 16 -17 March 2009
By Professor Behzad Razavi, UCLA
IEEE Distinguished Lecturers
1. “New Calibration Technique for CMOS ADCs” – 18 March 2009
By Professor Behzad Razavi, University of California, Los Angeles
2. “Designing CMOS Wireless System-on-Chip” – 29 October 2009
By Dr David Su, VP of Analog/RF Engineering, Atheros Communications, USA
3. “CMOS Power Amplifier – Introduction & Digital Approach” – 30 October 2009
By Dr David Su, VP of Analog/RF Engineering, Atheros Communications, USA
4. “Point-of-Care Infectious Disease Test Based on CMOS” – 19 November 2009
By Professor Bernhard Boser, UC Berkeley
5. “Low Power Electronics for Inertial Sensors” – 19 November 2009
By Professor Bernhard Boser, UC Berkeley
6. “Bio-inspired Polarization Imaging – Making the Invisible Visible” – 23 November 2009
By Professor Jan van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania
7. “All you need to know to write a winning ISSCC paper and give a smashingly good presentation” – 23 November 2009
By Professor Jan van der Spiegel, University of Pennsylvania
8. “Power efficient Data Converters” – 8 December 2009
By Professor Franco Maloberti, University of Pavia, Italy
9. “Analog circuit design in modern CMOS technologies” – 18 December 2009
By Professor Bram Nauta, University of Twente, Netherlands
10. “RF frontend and phase locked loop technologies” – 17 December 2009
By Professor Bram Nauta, University of Twente, Netherlands
Technical seminars
1. “Robust High Resolution Time-to-Digital Converter Design” – 9 January 2009
By Dr Stephan Henzler, TUM Germany
2. “Adiabatic logic: Beating the fundamental power limit of static CMOS ” – 9 January 2009
By Dr Philip Teichmann, TUM Germany
3. “Development of chipless RFID for Australian Polymer Banknotes ” – 11 December 2009
By Professor Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Monash University, Australia
4. “ThruChip Interface ” – 11 December 2009
By Professor Tadahiro Kuroda, Keio University, Japan
5. “Will the multimode wireless transceiver soon resemble a software defined radio ” – 11 December 2009
By Professor Asad Abidi, UCLA
6. “Towards CMOS Terahertz circuits” – 9 December 2009
By Professor Kenneth K. O. University of Texas
7. “Design and considerations of fast transient integrated switching converters ” – 15 December 2009
By Professor Ki Wing-Hung
8. “Loopback Architecture for wafer-level at-speed testing of embedded hyperTransport processor links ” – 28 December 2009
By Dr Alvin Loke, AMD, USA
Social Event
1. Outing at Bottle Tree Park – 7 November 2009
Administrative meeting
Four committee meetings in January, April, August and October, respectively.