Memories of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council Transition to the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society [Society News]

Solid-State Circuits Society

New Research Laboratory This story starts in 1962 with the foundation of CEH (Centre Electronique Horloger or “Watchmakers Electronic Center”). The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was 14 years old and had already replaced the vacuum tube in most electronic systems. A few years had passed since the invention of the integrated circuit, followed by that of the planar process by Swiss born physic...

IEEE Xplore - Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Skew-Tolerant Domino Circuits - Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Domino circuits are widely used in high-performance CMOS microprocessors. However, textbook domino pipelines suffer significant timing overhead from clock skew, latch delay, and the inability to borrow time. To eliminate this overhead, some designers provide multiple overlapping clock phases such that domino gates are always ready for evaluation by the time critical inputs arrive and do not pre...

Guest Editorial - Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

THIS special issue consists of papers which have been presented at the 23rd European Solid-State Circuits Conference, held September 16–18, 1997 in Southampton, U.K. Three hundred sixteen people attended this ESSCIRC conference, which has a strong focus on integrated circuit design, including sensor interfaces, various analog functions, communication circuits, mixed-signal systems, memories and...

Jitter in Ring Oscillators - Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Jitter in ring oscillators is theoretically described, and predictions are experimentally verified. A design procedure is developed in the context of time domain measures of oscillator jitter in a phase-locked loop (PLL). A major contribution is the identification of a design figure of merit , which is independent of the number of stages in the ring. This figure of merit is used to relate funda...