Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter 7

The list of most cited JSSC arti-cles has been updated with a58% increase in since the last

2003 update. The list, dubbed Clas-sics, includes all JSSC articles cited byauthors more than 100 times accord-ing to Thomson ISI, a publishernoted for presenting quantifiable sta-tistical data that provides a systemat-ic, objective way to evaluate theworld's leading journals and theirimpact and influence in the globalresearch community. Each highlycited JSSC article title in the list islinked directly to the abstract andfull text in IEEE Xplore. Recentlyadded articles are labeled in theonline list.

In 2003 there were just 24 articlesand only one from as recently asthe 90s, Chandrakasan, Sheng and

Brodersen’s Low-power CMOS dig-ital design published in 1992. Todaythere are 38 papers cited more than100 times. Seven articles publishedin the 1990s are now on this list.For the first time there are primaryauthors having two articles on thelist; those are by Barrie Gilbert andTakayasu Sakurai.

The most recent additions to thetop-cited list are from 1998; one byAdCom members Ali Hajimiri andThomas Lee, “A general theory ofphase noise in electrical oscillators”and another by C.Patrcik Yue and S.Simon Wong, “On-chip spiral induc-tors with patterned ground shieldsfor SI-based RF ICs.”

From 1997 there is global posi-tioning article describing a lownoise amplifier at 1.5-v 1.5 Ghz by

Derek K. Shaeffer and ThomasLee. From 1995, Asad Abidi pub-lished “Direct-conversion radiotransceiver for digital communica-tions.” In 1993 David Su alongwith Loinaz, Masui, and Wooleypublished "Experimental resultsand modeling techniques for sub-strate noise in mixed-signal inte-grated circuits.”

Two papers from 1990 includeNhat M. Nguyen and Robert Meyer’s“Si IC-compatible inductors and LCpassive filters,” and K. Yano et al.from Hitachi on A 3.8-ns CMOS 16 x16-b multiplier using complemen-tary pass-transistor logic.

Different lists are maintained forthe most frequently downloadedarticles which are usually the mostrecently posted in Xplore.

stand the importance of the team-work in IC design.”

A-SSCC IC Design Contest Off ShootIn light of the success of the domes-tic IC design contest, a special postersection was included in this year’s A-

SSCC conference program, wherestudents submitted their existing ICdesign works and entered the Stu-dent IC Design Contest. Althoughthe contest format is different fromthe domestic one, both aim at pro-moting students’ involvement in IC

design. The 2005 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan in Nov.1-3, 2005

Prof. Shen-Iuan Liu, National Taiwan University

Recent JSSC Articles Are Classics

TECHNICAL LITERATURE

IEEE Adds 1,700 Papers from European Solid-StateCircuits and Device Conferences to Online Collection

The IEEE has posted online ver-sions of more than 1,700 papersfrom Europe's flagship confer-

ences on solid-state device researchand circuits, dating back to 1997.

The proceedings of the two sisterconferences, the European Solid-State Device Research Conference(ESSDERC) and the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESS-CIRC), were not previously avail-able through a single, consolidatedsource. Many of conference articlesin this collection were never previ-ously available online.

"The availability of the ESS-DERC/ESSCIRC proceedings throughthe IEEE Xplore digital librarymakes the conference papers easi-ly traceable for the first time," saidGiorgio Baccarani, Chair of theESSDERC/ESSCIRC Steering Com-mittee. "It represents a warrantyfrom the authors’ perspective thattheir contributions will becomefully available to the scientificcommunity. We acknowledge thecollaboration of IEEE to make thisoutcome possible."

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits

Society and the IEEE ElectronDevices Society have had a historyof cooperation with the confer-ences since they began in the1970s. Many of the papers fromthe early years of the conferenceswere later expanded and pub-lished in IEEE journals. The Soci-eties sponsored the conferencearticles in the IEEE Xplore digitallibrary beginning 2003.

View abstracts from these pro-ceedings, or purchase access toindividual papers: ESSCIRC, ESS-DERC,