Benchmarking High-Speed Circuits in Advanced SiGe-BICMOS

Co-sponsored by: GLOBALFOUNRIES & IBM Technical Vitality Council

IEEE Green Mountain Section and the BTV GLOBALFOUNDRIES and IBM Technical Vitality Council is pleased to announce the following invited speaker to the Essex Junction GLOBALFOUNDRIES site:  Professor John R. Long, Department of E&CE University of Waterloo, Canada 

Speaker:  Professor John R. LongDate: Friday, June 24th Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EDT Location:  Presentation Center 969 Cafeteria, Essex Junction, VT Invited Talk Topic:  Benchmarking High-Speed Circuits in Advanced SiGe-BICMOS

People who do not have GLOBALFOUNDRIES or IBM badges need to send the following information to Jeanne Bickford (jeanne.bickford@globalfoundries.com) by end of day on Jun 20 and include name, citizenship, current country of residence, and company affiliation.

People without GLOBALFOUNDRIES or IBM badges must be at the GLOBALFOUNDRIES Building 969 lobby by 8:40 AM on Monday June 24 (to allow time to get to the Presentation Center.  Attendees w/o badges must show a form of identification (driver’s license or passport) when entering the site and again when the temporary badge is provided.  Attendees may park in the GLOBALFOUNDRIES 969 Lobby Visitor parking lot.

Agenda:

Abstract

Wideband, high-speed circuits for 5G wireless and wireline backbone networks are a new frontier in circuit development.  Experimental results for high-speed benchmarking circuits fabricated in SiGe-9HP are presented. The circuits include: a 130 GHz-bandwidth Darlington feedback amplifier, DC-100GHz frequency multiplier, and frequency dividers capable of > 78 GHz in static and > 133 GHz in dynamic modes of operation. The performance of 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s optical modulator drivers developed in 7WL and 8HP, respectively, are also described. The wideband modulator drivers – analogous to the function of an RF PA in wireless systems – develop 6-V pk-pk output swing across 50 Ohms with rise/fall times better than 15ps at 10Gb/s and <6ps at 40Gb/s. Built-in self-test and calibration features of the 40Gb/s driver will also be outlined.

Speaker Biography

John R. Long received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in  
1984, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa,  
Canada, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He worked in industry for 12 years in the Advanced  
Technology Laboratory at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, and an academic at the University  
of Toronto (1996-2002) and in the Netherlands as Chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft  University of Technology (2002-2014). In January 2015 he was appointed  
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His  
current research interests include low-power and broadband circuits for highly-integrated  
wireless transceivers, energy-efficient wireless sensors, mm-wave IC design, and electronics  
design for high-speed data communications. He is an IEEE Fellow and editor of the IEEE Virtual Journal on RFICs:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/virtual-journal/virtualJournalHome?pub=rfic&tag=1

Location:
Room: Presentation Center
Bldg: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Cafeteria (Meet at Main Lobby) Building 969
1000 River Street
Essex Junction, Vermont
05452