Conference 5274
Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre
Wednesday-Friday 10-12 December 2003
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #5274

Conference Chair: Derek Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) Cochairs: Kamran Eshraghian, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia); Charles A. Musca, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia); Dimitris Pavlidis, Univ. of Michigan (USA); Neil Weste, Cisco Systems (Australia) Program Committee: Bryan D. Ackland, Agere Systems (USA); Said F. Al-Sarawi, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); Atila Alvandpour, Linköping Univ. (Sweden); Gary Baldwin, Univ. of California/Berkeley (USA); Subhas Basu, Silicon Interfaces (India); Neil W. Bergmann, Univ. of Queensland (Australia); Natalie Clark, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA); Robert G. Clark, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Robert Clarke, RADLogic Pty Ltd. (Australia); Sorin D. Cotofana, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Bernard Courtois, TIMA Lab. (France); Anwar Dawood, Queensland Univ. of Technology (Australia); Joan Figueras, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Paul D. Franzon, North Carolina State Univ. (USA); Manfred Glesner, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany); H. Barry Harrison, Griffith Univ. (Australia); Jeffrey Harrison, Macquarie Univ. (Australia); Sung-Mo Kang, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA); Takayuki Kawahara, Hitachi Ltd. (Japan); Sandip Kundu, Intel Corp. (USA); Chee Y. Kwok, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Stefan W. Lachowicz, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia); Ronald A. Lawes, Rutherford Appleton Lab. (United Kingdom); Mike M-O. Lee, Dongshin Univ. (South Korea); Zachary J. Lemnios, DARPA (USA); Kevin C. Liddiard, Electro-Optic Sensor Design (Australia); José F. López, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain); Enrico Macii, Politecnico di Torino (Italy); Franco Maloberti, Univ. of Pavia (Italy) and Univ. of Texas at Dallas (USA); Warren Marwood, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia); John V. McCanny, Queen's Univ. of Belfast (United Kingdom); Sreedhar Natarajan, MoSys Inc. (Canada); Thas A. Nirmalathas, Univ. of Melbourne (Australia); Sri Parameswaran, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Ernesto H. Perea, STMicroelectronics (France); Hans-Jörg Pfleiderer, Univ. Ulm (Germany); Olaf Reinhold, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia); Angel Rodríguez-Vázquez, Ctr. Nacional de Microelectrónica (Spain); Takayasu Sakurai, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Tadashi Shibata, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Jugdutt Singh, Victoria Univ. (Australia); Christian Val, 3D-Plus (France); Jay Yantchev, Motorola (Australia); Xi-Cheng Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA); Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic, Inc. (USA)

Wednesday 10 December

Morning Tea 10.30 to 11.00

SESSION 1

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Wed. 11.00 to 12.30

Wireless I

Chair: Derek Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)

11.00: A new communication system design of M-ary PPM UWB suitable to FCC signal spectrum (Invited Paper), M. M-O. Lee, Dongshin Univ. (South Korea) and Sunchon National Univ. (South Korea); B. Cho, Sunchon National Univ. (South Korea) [5274-01]

11.30: Rapid prototyping of 802.11 wireless modems, P. J. Ryan, Cisco Systems (Australia) [5274-02]

11.45: 1-GHz 2nd-order lowpass sigma delta modulator in CMOS for wireless receivers, Y. Zhu, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-03]

12.00: Architecture tradeoffs for 802.11 wireless LAN radios, A. R. Adams, Cisco Systems (Australia) [5274-04]

12.15: RF building blocks for integrated CMOS sensors, A. J. McCarthy, D. V. Thiel, P. Lisner, Griffith Univ. (Australia) and CRC for Microtechnology (Australia) [5274-05]

Lunch Break 12.30 to 13.30

SESSION 2

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Wed. 13.30 to 15.00

Advanced IC Technology and Packaging

Chair: Kamran Eshraghian, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia)

13.30: Keynote: Gate leakage tolerant circuits in deep sub-100nm CMOS technologies (Invited Paper), S. Kang, G. Yang, Z. Wang, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA) [5274-06]

14.00: AC coupled interconnect for high-density high-bandwidth packaging (Invited Paper), P. D. Franzon, North Carolina State Univ. (USA) [5274-07]

14.30: A new domino failure mechanism in deep sub-100nm technologies and its solution, G. Yang, S. Kang, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA) [5274-08]

14.45: High performance and SER sensitive SOI memories, S. Natarajan, A. Alvandpour, Linköping Univ. (Sweden) [5274-09]

Afternoon Tea 15.00 to 15.30

SESSION 3

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Wed. 15.30 to 17.15

Wireless II

Chair: Neil Weste, Cisco Systems (Australia)

15.30: 2.5D modeling, analysis, and optimization of symmetric on-chip inductors on silicon-on-sapphire, W. Kong, S. F. Al-Sarawi, C. C. Lim, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-10]

15.45: Broadband microstrip patch sensor for high frequency data link operations, A. S. W. Seng, T. S. T. Cho, L. Hall, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); H. J. Hansen, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) and The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-11]

16.00: Practical Rotman lens designs at mm wavelengths, L. T. Hall, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); H. J. Hansen, Defence Science and Technology Organization (Australia) and The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-12]

16.15: Dynamic analysis of a UMTS baseband reconfigurable digital filter, R. Veljanovski, J. Singh, M. Faulkner, Victoria Univ. (Australia) [5274-13]

16.30: Improved techniques for monitoring the HF spectrum, J. Giesbrecht, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); R. Clarke, Ebor Computing (Australia); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-14]

16.45: Finite element simulations of stacked crystal filters, J. Lee, National Ctr. for High-Performance Computing (Taiwan) [5274-15]

17.00: Low power design approaches for 802.11 baseband ASICs in CMOS, P. J. Ryan, Cisco Systems (Australia) [5274-16]

Posters -Wednesday

Posters will be displayed all day Wednesday. Poster presenters will stand by their posters from 17.00 to 18.30 pm to answer questions. Posters must be removed at the end of the poster session.

• Diode UV detectors using oxide semiconductor thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering, T. Minami, H. Tanaka, T. Shimakawa, T. Miyata, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Japan) [5274-52]
• InGaP/InGaAs quantum-well delta-doped-channel field-effect transistor, W. Liu, H. Chuang, C. Chen, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan) [5274-53]
• Layered SAW device for hydrogen gas sensing, S. J. Ippolito, S. Kandasamy, K. Kalantar-Zadeh, W. Wlodarski, RMIT Univ. (Australia) [5274-54]
• InP/InGaAs tunneling-emitter bipolar transistor (TEBT), W. Liu, C. Chen, H. Chuang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan) [5274-55]
• Oscillatory response of catalyst-based CO sensors, L. Li, K. Galatsis, W. Wlodarski, S. K. Bhargava, RMIT Univ. (Australia) [5274-56]
• Ga2O3-based MRISiC capacitors for hydrogen sensing, A. Trinchi, W. Wlodarski, Y. Li, RMIT Univ. (Australia) [5274-57]
• Effects of vacuum baking on the I-V characteristics of LWIR HgCdTe photodiodes, T. H. Nguyen, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) [5274-58]
• Temperature-dependent characteristics of diffused and polysilicon resistors for ULSI applications, W. Liu, H. Chuang, J. Chen, C. Chen, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan) [5274-59]
• InP/InGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) with a multiple-quantum-well (MQW) structure, W. Liu, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan); D. Guo, Chinese Air Force Academy (Taiwan); J. Chen, C. Chen, H. Chuang, National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan) [5274-61]
• Production which uses the plan optimization and a MEMS technique of the wind direction and velocity sensor, S. Kim, Kyungpook National Univ. (South Korea); S. Lee, Agency for Technology and Standards (South Korea); S. Park, Kyungpook National Univ. (South Korea) [5274-62]
• Vertical-diaphragm pump for disposable µ-TAS, M. Kang, Korea Univ. (South Korea) [5274-63]
• On-chip interconnection schemes for reconfigurable system-on-chip, S. A. Lee, N. W. Bergmann, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [5274-65]
• Interfacing methodologies for IP re-use in reconfigurable system-on-chip, T. T. Lee, N. W. Bergmann, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [5274-66]
• Hardware support for real-time reconfigurable system-on-chip, N. W. Bergmann, P. Waldeck, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [5274-67]
• Interpretation of the current dynamics in p-n junctions using laser beam induced current, E. A. Gluszak, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-68]
• Dependence of barrier height and effective electron mass on gate oxide thickness and nitrogen concentration at SiOxNy /Si interface, C. Y. Ng, T. P. Chen, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore); C. H. Ang, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. (Singapore) [5274-74]
• A new user-assisted segmentation and tracking technique for object-based coding scheme of MPEG-4, M. M. Lee, Dongshin Univ. (South Korea); S. Hong, Chonnam National Univ. (South Korea) [5274-70]
• MPLS switch architecture supporting DIFFSERV for high-speed switching and QOS, Y. Kim, Chonnam National Univ. (South Korea) [5274-71]
• SoPC implementation of wavelet-based image encoder, G. Jung, Chonnam National Univ. (South Korea) [5274-72]
• The concept of field emission devices construction on the basis of self-assembling nanostructures, N. I. Mukhurov, Institute of Electronics (Belarus); S. A. Zhdanok, Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Belarus); I. V. Gasenkova, Institute of Electronics (Belarus); F. V. Pliavaka, Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Belarus) [5274-73]
• Pseudo-exhaustive testing using t-distribution, K. H. Rhee, Chosun Univ (South Korea) [5274-75]
• Subband image encoder using discrete wavelet transform, H. K. Seong, Hanyang Womans College (South Korea); K. H. Rhee, Chosun Univ. (South Korea) [5274-76]
• InGaP/GaAs HBT grown by solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy with a GaP decomposition source, P. Niu, Tianjin Polytechnic Univ. (China) and Tianjin Univ. (China) [5274-77]
• A home baked temperature compensated integrated light sensor on silicon, L. Gourdeas, D. A. James, N. Davey, Griffith Univ. (Australia) and CRC for Microtechnology (Australia) [5274-78]
• Semi-automatic calibration technique using six inertial frames of reference, A. Lai, J. Hayes, E. Harvey, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia); D. James, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [5274-79]
• Towards the development of portable, miniature and intelligent electronic colour identification devices, D. V. Nicolau, Jr., P. Livingston, D. Jahshan, R. Evans, Univ. of Melbourne (Australia) [5274-81]
• Phase noise in a Colpitts oscillator, A. G. Allison, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-45]

Thursday 11 December

Morning Tea 10.30 to 11.00

SESSION 4

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Thurs. 11.00 to 11.45

Memory

Chair: Paul D. Franzon, North Carolina State Univ. (USA)

11.00: QSRAM the new memory technology (Invited Paper), H. B. Harrison, S. Dimitrijev, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [5274-17]

11.30: Ultra low power embedded ferro electric memory for SoC, S. Natarajan, A. Alvandpour, Linköping Univ. (Sweden) [5274-18]

SESSION 5

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Thurs. 11.45 to 12.30

Sensors and Display Devices I

Chair: Natalie Clark, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA)

11.45: Magneto-resistance characteristics of gamma-irradiated Al0.35Ga0.65N/GaN HFETs, G. A. Umana-Membreno, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) [5274-69]

12.00: 64x64 CMOS digital pixel array based on pulse width analogue to digital conversion with on chip linearization circuit, A. J. Kitchen, A. Bermak, A. Bouzerdoum, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-20]

12.15: Y2O3-based oxide phosphor thin-film electroluminescent devices, M. Toshihiro, Y. Suzuki, T. Minami, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Japan) [5274-21]

Lunch Break 12.30 to 13.30

SESSION 6

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Thurs. 13.30 to 15.00

Sensors and Display Devices II

Chair: Mike M-O. Lee, Dongshin Univ. (South Korea)

13.30: Measurement and modeling of crosstalk in HgCdTe n-on-p photovoltaic infrared arrays, C. A. Musca, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) [5274-22]

13.45: High-speed high-sensitivity low noise scientific image sensors, S. Kleinfelder, Univ. of California/Irvine (USA) [5274-23]

14.00: On-chip skin color detection using a triple-well CMOS process, F. Boussaid, D. Chai, A. Bouzerdoum, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-24]

14.15: Electrical properties of abrupt MBE grown HgCdTe heterostructures, R. Sewell, J. Dell, C. Musca, L. Faraone, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) [5274-25]

14.30: The active microbolometer: a new concept in infrared detection, K. C. Liddiard, Electro-Optic Sensor Design (Australia) [5274-26]

14.45: Practical hot wire anemometer excitation modes, R. J. Adamec, D. V. Thiel, P. Tanner, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [5274-27]

Afternoon Tea 15.00 to 15.30

SESSION 7

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Thurs. 15.30 to 16.30

Microphotonic Devices

Chair: Sung-Mo Kang, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA)

15.30: Keynote: MicroPhotonics systems: life beyond microelectronics (Invited Paper), K. Eshraghian, K. Alameh, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-28]

16.00: Linearization for directly modulated VCSELs using polynomial predistortion techniques, F. Lin, V. A. Lalithambika, D. M. Holburn, R. J. Mears, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); C. H. Hum, S. D. Walker, Univ. of Essex (United Kingdom) [5274-29]

16.15: Differential optoelectronic subtractor using self electro-optic effect devices for use in sigma delta modulation, T. Sarros, S. Al-Sarawi, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); K. Corbett, K. Grant, B. Clare, W. Marwood, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [5274-30]

SESSION 8

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre: Thurs. 16.30 to 17.30

Analog

Chair: Said F. Al-Sarawi, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)

16.30: Hysteretic comparator's influence on a current-mode ADC, G. Kothapalli, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-31]

16.45: Performance analysis of high-accuracy CMOS sample-and-hold circuits, H. P. Le, A. Zayegh, J. Singh, Victoria Univ. (Australia) [5274-32]

17.00: Differentiators for insect vision motion detection chip, L. Lee, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); S. Al-Sarawi, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) and ChiPTec (Australia); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-33]

17.15: Control unit implementation for a reconfigurable ADC, A. Stojcevski, Victoria Univ. (Australia) [5274-34]

SESSION 9

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Thurs. 17.30 to 18.15

SOC

Chair: H. Barry Harrison, Griffith Univ. (Australia)

17.30: SoC versus SIP: which makes sense for future?, S. Natarajan, Linköping Univ. (Sweden) [5274-35]

17.45: Wavefront sensor and actuator control system on a chip, N. Clark, R. G. Bryant, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA) [5274-36]

18.00: Egret: a platform for reconfigurable system-on-chip, N. W. Bergmann, J. Williams, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [5274-37]

Friday 12 December

Morning Tea 10.30 to 11.00

SESSION 10

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Fri. 11.00 to 12.30

Simulation, Measurement, and Testing I

Chair: Sreedhar Natarajan, MoSys Inc., Canada (Canada)

11.00: Accurate leakage current estimation for silicon nanometer technologies (Invited Paper), K. Roy, Purdue Univ. (USA) [5274-39]

11.30: Propagation delay and harmonic distortion produced by cascaded delay elements, D. Gangeshan, R. M. Howard, Curtin Univ. of Technology (Australia) [5274-40]

11.45: Process management and design for MEMS and microelectronics technologies, K. Hahn, A. Wagener, J. Popp, R. Brueck, Univ. Siegen (Germany) [5274-41]

12.00: Determination of junction depth and related current phenomena using laser beam induced current, E. A. Gluszak, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-42]

12.15: IP validation in remote microelectronics testing, A. Osseiran, K. Eshraghian, L. Stefan, X. Zhao, National Networked Teletest Facility (Australia) and Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-43]

Lunch Break 12.30 to 13.30

SESSION 11

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Fri. 13.30 to 14.30

Simulation, Measurement, and Testing II

Chair: Kevin C. Liddiard, Electro-Optic Sensor Design (Australia)

13.30: Numerical analysis of the process induced stresses in silicon microstructures, V. Senez, LIMMS/CNRS-IIS (Japan) [5274-44]

13.45: Circuit analysis and simulation of the ultra high frequency capacitance sensor of scanning capacitance microscopy, J. Yang, A. Postula, M. Bialkowski, Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [5274-80]

14.00: Signal analysis of accelerometry data using gravity based modelling, N. P. Davey, D. A. James, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [5274-46]

14.15: An integrated platform for micro sensor data acquisition, storage and analysis, D. A. James, N. Davey, L. Gourdeas, Griffith Univ. (Australia) [5274-47]

SESSION 12

Room: Weatherburn Lecture Theatre Fri. 14.30 to 15.15

Digital Design

Chair: Neil W. Bergmann, Univ. of Queensland (Australia)

14.30: Optimized 3D architecture for real time video compression, A. Ehrhardt, A. Rassau, K. Eshraghian, Edith Cowan Univ. (Australia) [5274-48]

14.45: Mixed signal high speed 64-bit adder design and implementation based on threshold logic, P. Celinski, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) and Delft Univ. of Technology (Australia); S. D. Cotofana, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [5274-49]

15.00: Comparative study on low-power high-performance standard-cell flip-flops, S. Tahmasbi Oskuii, A. Alvandpour, Linköping Univ. (Sweden) [5274-50]

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