CICC'07

The 2007 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) will take place on September 16-19, 2007, at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

CICC is one of the top conferences on circuit design. The main topics of the conference are Analog Circuit Design, Digital Circuit amd SoC/ASIP/SiP Design and Methodology, Custom Applications and Power Management, Sensors, MEMs, Manufacturing and Test, Wireless Designs, Wireless Communications, Programmable Devices, Embedded Memory, Signal and Data Processing and Simulation and Modeling, including Compact Device Modeling.

CICC 2007 will intend to show the latest developments in Compact Modeling, for the training of designers and to facilitate a close interaction between designers and compact model developers.

I will present an invited paper at CICC 2007, which will present charge based modeling techniques for multiple-gate MOSFETs.

Not all is business in San Jose. It is a wonderful city with many other attractions: golf courses, wineries, and for hikers and nature lovers, the Alum Rock Park. Besides, San Jose, which is called the "Safest Big City in America", has an intense nightlife, with many dance clubs and sports bars.

ICMTS'08

The 21st IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 24-27 2008.

ICMTS has become a well established conference addressing topics such as test structures, material, process and device characterization techniques, compact device model parameter extraction and reliability analysis.

In 2008 ICMTS will be organized by the University of Edinburgh. Extended abstracts should be submitted by September 14 2007.

From my experience, ICMTS is a very interesting forum to present new methods to extract parameters of compact device models. In the recent times there has been emphasis on parameter extraction from RF measurements. Also ICMTS allows a very useful interaction between researchers coming from characterization teams and compact modeling teams. On the other hand, I want to highlight that ICMTS uses to have a very nice social programme.