WSL:
ESD Protection for RFIC's: Science or Black Magic?
Date & Time: Sunday, June 6; 8:00AM
to 12:00 NOON
Location: Fort Worth Convention Center, Room
203C
Topics & Speakers:
- ESD Protection for Sub-Quarter-Micron CMOS Circuits,
Dr. T.C. Ong, Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company
- Compact MOSFET Model for Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
Applications,
Prof. Juin J. Liou, University of Central
Florida
- Modeling Requirements for Simulation of ESD Protected
RFICs,
Prof. Elyse Rosenbaum, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Design Methodology of ESD Protection Circuits for RFICs,
Prof. Albert Wang, Illinois Institute
of Technology
- ESD Protection for an 802.11a CMOS Transceiver with L-C
Tuned Circuits,
Prof. Patrick Yue, Carnegie Mellon
University
Organizers:
C. Patrick Yue, Carnegie Mellon University
Albert Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology
Sponsors:
MTT-6: Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits
MTT-23: RF Integrated Circuits
2004 RFIC Symposium
As wireless communication standards move towards higher frequency
band for more bandwidth, the loading effects on the RF I/O
pins due to electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices
become increasingly difficult to overcome. Today, trial-and-error
remains to be the dominant approach for qualifying RF ESD
protection designs, which is costly and tedious. RFIC designers
are often responsible for the design of ESD protection circuits
for the RF ports. The purpose of this half-day workshop is
to provide the attendants with practical ESD know-how’s
from a circuit design perspective. This workshop will begin
with an overview of ESD device physics and reliability issues
in today's deep-sub-micron technology. The challenges and
recent advancements in ESD device modeling, simulation techniques
and CAD tools will be presented. Finally, RF ESD circuit design
methodology will be addressed followed by a description of
the ESD design strategy employed in a 5-GHz CMOS IEEE 802.11a
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Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Deadline:
5 Sept, 2003
Paper Deadline:
5 Jan., 2004
Final Manuscripts (for print & CD):
15 March, 2004
RFIC 2004:
6-8 June, 2004
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