For the Ultra Wide Band area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. A.Mazzanti, E.Sacchi, P.Andreani, F.Svelto
   "Analysis and design of a double quadrature CMOS VCO for sub-harmonic mixing at Ka-band"
   Transactions on Microwave theory and techniques, February 2008
2. L.Larcher, A.Mazzanti, F.Svelto
   "A 30.5dBm 48%PAE CMOS class-E PA with integrated balun for RF application"
   Journal of Solid-state Circuit, August 2008

For the 24-77GHz area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. A.Mazzanti, M.Sosio, M.Repossi, F.Svelto
   "A 24GHz sub-harmonic receiver front-end with integrated multi-phase LO generation in 65nm CMOS"
   Proceedings of ISSCC, February 2008
2. F.Svelto, M.Repossi, M.Sosio, A.Mazzanti
   "A CMOS mm-wave approach for 60GHz transceiver"
   Proceedings of RF-IC Workshop on high data rate 60GHz link applications and design, June 2008
3. F.Vecchi, M.Repossi, A.Mazzanti, P.Arcioni, F.Svelto
   "A simple and complete circuit model for the coupling between symmetrical spiral inductors in silicon RF-ICs"
   Proceedings of RFIC Symposium, June 2008
4. S.Bozzola, D.Guermandi, A.Mazzanti, F.Svelto
   "An 11.5% frequency tuning, -184dBc/Hz noise FOM 54GHz VCO"
   Proceedings of RFIC Symposium, June 2008

For the All Digital PLL area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. C.Weltin-Wo, E.Temporiti, D.Baldi, F.Svelto
   "A 3GHz fractional N all digital PLL with precise time to digital converter calibration and mismatch correction"
   Proceedings of ISSCC, February 2008
2. F.Svelto, C.Weltin-Wo, E.Temporiti, D.Baldi
   "All digital PLL architecture for fully integrated receiver SOC"
   Proceedings of RFIC workshop on advanced PLL architectures for embedded SOC applications, June 2008

For the Serial Interface area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. M.Pozzoni, S.Erba, P.Viola, M.Pisati, E.Depaoli, D.Sanzogni, R.Brama, D.Baldi, M.Repossi, F.Svelto
   "A multi standard 1.5 to 10Gb/s latch-based 3-tap DFE receiver with a SSC tolerant CDR for serial backplane communication"
   Proceedings of Symposium on VLSI ciruits, June 2008
2. M.Pozzoni, S.Erba, P.Viola, M.Pisati, E.Depaoli, D.Sanzogni, R.Brama, D.Baldi, M.Repossi, F.Svelto
   "Clock recovery and equalization techniques for lossy channels in multi Gb/s serial links"
   Proceedings of AACD, April 2008
3. S.Erba, M.Pozzoni, M.Pisati, R.Brama, D.Sanzogni, E.Depaoli, P.Viola, F.Svelto
   "A 10Gb/s receiver with linear backplane equalization and mixer-based self-aligned CDR"
   Proceedings of CICC, September 2008

For the HDD R/W Channel area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. M.Castellano, P.Baldrighi, C.Vacchi, M.Natuzzi
   "Algorithm and architecture for high speed merged arithmetic FIR filter generation"
   Proceeding of International Symposium on Communications, Control and Processing (ISCCSP), March 2008
2. P.Baldrighi, M.Maggi, M.Castellano, C.Vacchi, D.Crespi, P.Bonifacino
   "Implementation of microprogrammed Hard Disk Drive servo sequencer"
   Proceedings of Digital System Design, September 2008
3. M.Castellano, P.Baldrighi, C.Vacchi
   "Pipelined inner product function generator"
   Proceeding of ESSCIRC, September 2008
4. A.Marinone, P.Savazzi, S.Valle
   "Efficient design of non-binary LDPC codes for magnetic recording channels, robust to error bursts"
   Proceedings of International Symposium on Turbo Codes and related topics, September 2008
5. P.Savazzi, P.Gamba
   "Iterative symbol timing recovery for short burst transmission schemes"
   IEEE Transactions on Communications, October 2008
6. M.Castellano, P.Baldrighi, C.Vacchi, M.Natuzzi, A.Furlan
   "Custom formal verification technique for partial product reduction tree"
   Proceeding of International Conference of Microelectronics, December 2008

For the MEMORY area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. F. Bedeschi, R. Fackenthal, C. Resta, E. M. Donzé, M. Jagasivamani, E. Buda, F. Pellizzer, D. Chow, A. Cabrini, G. M. A. Calvi, R. Faravelli, A. Fantini, G. Torelli, D. Mills, R. Gastaldi, and G. Casagrande
   "A multi-level-cell bipolar-selected phase-change memory”
   Proceedings of ISSCC, February 2008

For the Power Circuit area:

Recent Conference and Journal publications

1. V.Bottarel, E.Dallago, G.Frattini, D.Miatton, G.Ricotti, M.Schipani, G.Venchi
   "Active self-supplied AC-DC converter for piezoelectric energy scavenging system with supply independent bias"
   Proceedings of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008
2. V.Bottarel, E.Dallago, G.Frattini, D.Miatton, G.Ricotti, M.Schipani, G.Venchi
   "Electronic interface for piezoelectric energy scavenging system"
   Proceedings of ESSCIRC, Spetember 2008
3. V.Bottarel, E.Dallago, G.Frattini, D.Miatton, G.Ricotti, M.Schipani, G.Venchi
   "Active autonomous AC-DC converter for piezoelectric energy scavenging system"
   Proceedings of CICC, September 2008
4. V.Bottarel, D.Miatton, D.Paci, M.Schipani
   "Optimization of a piezoelectric energy harvester for enviromental braodband vibrations"
   Proccedings of International Conference on Electronics, Circuit and System, September 2008
5. V.Bottarel, E.Dallago, G.Frattini, D.Miatton, G.Ricotti, M.Schipani, G.Venchi
   "Comparison of two autonomous AC-DC converters for piezoelectric energy scavenging systems"
   Proceeding of VLSI SoC, October 2008