{"title":"SSCS Poland Chapter and Microelectronic Industry Reaches Out to Future Engineers [Chapters]","authors":"Krzysztof Kasinski","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497620","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"157-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857692","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143107080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Columbus Chapter Completes Series of IC and PCB Design Workshops and Prepares for New 2025 Sponsorship Initiative [Chapters]","authors":"Ramy Tantawy;Roman Fragasse","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497392","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"147-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143106968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Future Engineers: SSCS Egyptian Chapter Inspires Innovation at IEEE Egyptian Student Paper Contest [Chapters]","authors":"Sameh Ibrahim;Samar Ismail;Ahmed Saeed","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3497472","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"153-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857614","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143107225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chirp Generation Techniques and Tradeoffs for Integrated FMCW Radar: A tutorial review","authors":"Pratap Tumkur Renukaswamy;Jan Craninckx","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3487144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3487144","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar sensors enable the simultaneous measurement of the range and velocity of a target. In a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration, FMCW radar enables angle estimation <xref>[1]</xref>, <xref>[2]</xref>. Today, automotive FMCW radar sensors in the 76–81-GHz band <xref>[1]</xref> and indoor short-range sensors in the 57–64-GHz band <xref>[3]</xref>, <xref>[4]</xref> are commercialized.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"86-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143184347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2024 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference [Conference Reports]","authors":"Wim Dehaene;Michiel Steyaert;Patrick Reynaert;Filip Tavernier;Anne Verhulst;James Myers;Marian Verhelst;Georges Gielen;Cor Claeys;Ann Naeye","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3490132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3490132","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"134-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10857609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143105793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital-to-Time Converter and Its Application to Fractional-N Frequency Synthesis: Circuits from a Systems Perspective","authors":"Wanghua Wu","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3496833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3496833","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a tutorial on digital-to-time converters (DTC), which are the core blocks of many electronic applications. Common DTC circuit topologies and major DTC timing errors are explained in detail. Various advanced DTC circuit design and calibration techniques are elaborated and demonstrated in the examples of using DTCs for high-performance CMOS fractional-N synthesizers. These techniques can be used to design DTCs for other applications as well.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"52-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143184344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sampling-Based PLLs: A brief overview and tutorial","authors":"Xiang Gao","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3501215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3501215","url":null,"abstract":"A PLL is one of the most ubiquitous components in modern ICs and often used for clock generation and frequency synthesis. <xref>Figure 1</xref> shows a classical PLL architecture. It consists of a VCO locked to a reference clock by a feedback loop with a PFD, a charge pump (CP), a loop filter (LF), and a frequency divider with ratio <italic>N</i> (÷<italic>N</i>). The RMS jitter <inline-formula><tex-math>${sigma}_{t}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and power consumption <italic>P</i> are critical performance parameters for a PLL design.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"46-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143184346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Noise and Distortion, Part II” [Circuit Intuitions]","authors":"Ali Sheikholeslami","doi":"10.1109/MSSC.2024.3473730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2024.3473730","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the 40th article in the “Circuit Intuitions” column series. As the title suggests, each article provides insights and intuitions into circuit design and analysis. These articles are aimed at undergraduate students but may serve the interests of other readers as well. If you read this article, I would appreciate your comments and feedback as well as your requests and suggestions for future articles in this series. Please e-mail me your comments at ali@ece.utoronto.ca.","PeriodicalId":100636,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine","volume":"16 4","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142636355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}