[ICMC] Registration Reminder

Less Than 2 Months Until ICMC 2026 Save $50 if you register before June 30, 2026 Join the global compact modeling community this July at the International Compact Modeling Conference (ICMC 2026), taking place July 30–31, 2026, aboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. ICMC brings together leaders in compact modeling, process technology, circuit design, and device development for two days of technical exchange, collaboration, and discussion around the future of semiconductor modeling and simulation. By attending ICMC 2026, participants will have the opportunity to: • Engage in discussions shaping the evolution of compact models • Learn from leading academic researchers and industry experts • Explore technical sessions focused on real-world applications and emerging technologies • Connect with peers across academia, foundries, EDA, and device engineering • Participate in poster sessions, networking opportunities, and collaborative discussions Hosted aboard the iconic Queen Mary in Long Beach, attendees will experience a venue unlike any other conference setting. Once a renowned transatlantic ocean liner and historic World War II troopship, the Queen Mary now serves as a floating hotel and event destination rich in history, architecture, and atmosphere. With less than two months remaining, now is the time to finalize your plans and join the conversations advancing compact modeling technologies and applications. We look forward to welcoming you to Long Beach! View the Program Register Now Conference Sponsors Media Sponsors Industry Sponsors

[Lecture 13-16] supplementary by Prof. Kim

Prof. Kwantae Kim, Analog Integrated Circuits at Aalto University, recorded additional videos that cover walkthroughs of the CAD exercises in his Integrated Analog Systems course. These videos should provide useful guidance for ADC design simulation and verification practice! 

• Integrated Analog Systems D - Lecture 13S CAD (Bootstrapped Sampling Switch)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDzmijax3c
• Integrated Analog Systems D - Lecture 14S CAD (Linearity and FFT)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJ_tlZTaq8
• Integrated Analog Systems D - Lecture 15S CAD (Transient Noise and VerilogA Modeling)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW2nnI3DD_c
• Integrated Analog Systems D - Lecture 16S CAD (ADC ENOB Verification)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFXidfTYxE

Visit also webpage: https://kwantaekim.github.io

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May 9, 2026

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[QEMU 11.0] Brings New RISC-V Extensions, Fixes

QEMU 11.0 Brings New RISC-V Extensions and Fixes

The latest release of the QEMU emulator, version 11.0, is out and brings with it support for the RISC-V Zilsd, Zclsd, Zalasr, and Smpmpmt extensions, plus various compatibility and security fixes.

“We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 11.0.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 237 authors,” the project maintainers write of the new release. “Thank you to everybody who contributed to this release, whether that was by writing code, reporting bugs, improving documentation, testing, or providing the project with CI resources. We couldn’t do these without you!”

The latest QEMU release brings with it support for four new extensions to the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture: Zilsd and Zclsd, RV32-exclusive extensions to add register pair load and store instructions by reusing existing RV64-only instruction encodings; Zalasr, an atomic load-acquire store-release extension; and Smpmpmt, which provides a memory attribute control mechanism analogous to the RV64-only Rvpmt using PMP registers.

The full changelog is available on the QEMU wiki; releases are available on the project website, with full source code available on GitLab under the reciprocal GNU General Public Licence 2 or later.

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[paper] FDSOI Based Cryogenic Circuit

Tapas Dutta, Fikru Adamu-Lema, Djamel Bensouiah, German Cherstvov, Plamen Asenov,

and Asen Asenov

FDSOI Based Cryogenic Circuit Performance Enhancement 

Using Back Biasing and Threshold Voltage Engineering

IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (2026)

DOI 10.1109/JEDS.2026.3691285

Device  Modelling  Group,  University of Glasgow, UK
Pramana  Modelling  Labs,  Glasgow, UK
School of  Engineering,  University of Glasgow, UK
Semiwise  Ltd.,  Glasgow, UK

Synopsys,  Glasgow, UK

Abstract : In this work, we use predictive cryogenic spice based compact models derived using a process design kit re-centering approach for 22 nm FDSOI technology to analyze the impact of back-gate biasing on circuit performance. We focus on analysis of power-delay trade-offs while varying the supply voltage at room and cryogenic temperature (4K). We show that back-biasing is necessary to mitigate the effects of the higher threshold voltages observed at cryogenic temperature. We further show that simple “threshold voltage engineering” has the potential to provide much better performance, compared to room temperature.

Fig : IDS −VGS characteristics for different VBG going to much higher values 

than the previous sections (without applying anyVth shift).

Acknowledgement : We are grateful to GlobalFoundries for providing the 22FDX PDK and allowing us to customize it for cryogenic temperature operation. The device measurements were performed by Incize SRL, Belgium. This work was supported partially by Innovate UK funded project “Development of Cryo-CMOS to enable the next generation of scalable quantum computers” under the grant number of 10006017 and was also partially supported by Semiwise Ltd, UK.