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    Jan. 20, 2003
    Mark your calendars for next month's International Solid-State Circuits Conference, scheduled for Feb. 9-13 at the San Francisco Marriott. Many sessions detailing techniques for circuit operation at low voltages will address the conference's theme,...

    Mark your calendars for next month's International Solid-State Circuits Conference, scheduled for Feb. 9-13 at the San Francisco Marriott. Many sessions detailing techniques for circuit operation at low voltages will address the conference's theme, "Power-Aware Systems." Papers will describe 1.5-V sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters, a 160-mW MPEG-4 video encoder, and a 1.2-V, 72-Mbit DDR III static RAM. There also will be an entire session on sub-500-mV processing. Other topics will include multimedia signal processing, wireless communications, nanotechnology, clock-recovery, and backplane transceivers. Technical paper sessions will be held Feb. 10-12. Tutorials, workshops, and short courses are slated for Feb. 9 and Feb. 13. For registration and program details, go to www.isscc.org. For hotel reservations, contact the Marriott at (415) 442-6755.

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    Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.

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