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Conference Program

	•	Keynote Speeches	•	Program at Glance

Keynote	Speech I -- September 22, 8:40 -- 9:40 Sunny Chamber ( 阳光厅 )
Topic:	Analysis of Internet Topologies
Speaker:	Professor Ljiljana Trajkovic
	School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

LJILJANA TRAJKOVIC received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986.

She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to 1997, she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990.

Her research interests include high-performance communication networks, control of communication systems, computer-aided circuit analysis and design, and theory of nonlinear circuits and dynamical systems.

Dr. Trajkovic served as 2007 President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2001 - 2003 and 2004 - 2005). She serves as Vice President Publications of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2010 - 2011) and served as Vice President Long-Range Planning and Finance (2008 - 2009) and as a Member at Large of its Board of Governors (2004 - 2006). She is Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections. She was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (1998). She was Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005 and served as Technical Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I) (2004 - 2005 and 1993 - 1995), the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II) (1999 - 2001 and 2002 - 2003), and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (2001 - 2003). She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Abstract:
Discovering properties of the Internet topology is important for evaluating performance of various network protocols and applications. The discovery of power-laws and the application of spectral analysis to the Internet topology data indicate a complex behavior of the underlying network infrastructure that carries a variety of the Internet applications. In this talk, we present analysis of datasets collected from the Route Views and RIPE projects. The analysis of collected data shows certain historical trends in the development of the Internet topology. While values of various power-laws exponents have not substantially changed over the recent years, spectral analysis of the adjacency matrix and the normalized Laplacian matrix of the associated graphs reveals notable changes in the clustering of Autonomous System (AS) nodes and their connectivity.

Keynote	Speech II -- September 22, 9:40 -- 10:40 Sunny Chamber ( 阳光厅 )
Topic:	Power Efficient Data Converters
Speaker:	Professor Franco Maloberti
	Head of the Micro Integrated System, University of Pavia, Italy Honorary Professor, University of Macau, China

Prof. Franco Maloberti received the Laurea degree in physics (summa cum laude) from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1968, and the Doctorate Honoris Causa in electronics from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (Inaoe), Puebla, Mexico, in 1996. He was the TI/J.Kilby Chair Professor at the A&M University, Texas and the Distinguished Microelectronic Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He was a Visiting Professor at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-PEL), Zurich, Switzerland and at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Presently Dr Maloberti is Microelectronics Professor, Head of the Micro Integrated Systems Group, University of Pavia, Italy and Honorary Professor, University of Macau, China SAR.

His professional expertise is in the design, analysis, and characterization of integrated circuits and analog digital applications, mainly in the areas of switched-capacitor circuits,

data converters, interfaces for telecommunication and sensor systems, and CAD for analog and mixed A/D design.

Dr Maloberti has written more then 400 published papers on journals or conference proceedings, four books, and holds 30 patents. Prof. Maloberti was the recipient of the Italian XII Pedriali, in 1992. He was co-recipient of the 1996 Fleming Premium, IEE, the best Paper award, ESSCIRC-2007, and the best paper award, IEEJ Analog Workshop-2007.

Dr Maloberti received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 IEEE CAS Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the IEEE Millenium Medal. He was Vice-President, Region 8, of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (1995-1997), Associate Editor of IEEE-Transaction on Circuit and System-II 1998 and 2006-07, President of the IEEE Sensor Council (2002-2003), member of the BoG of the IEEE-CAS Society (2003-2005) and Vice-President, Publications, of the IEEE CAS Society (2007-2008). He is Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid State Circuit Society and Fellow of IEEE.

Abstract:
Portable and nomadic systems require developing power effective and power aware design methodologies for either analog or digital circuits. For data converters, low power and optimal resolution imply a favorable allocation of the noise budget. The noise comes from different sources: quantization, sampling, clock jitter, spur interference and board interference. The distribution of the available noise budget, that becomes lower and lower as the supply diminishes, depends on the specification of the system and it may require one or more extra-bits in the data converter. The noise budget issue is new; it was rarely faced in the past when power was just a concern for limiting the chip temperature. The growing relevance of power efficiency is demonstrated by the great attention on the figure of merit (FoM) of data converters that, in the past few years, has been reduced by almost two orders of magnitudes. The presentation will show that obtaining power effectiveness is a matter of trade-offs between architecture, design methodologies, and implementation of circuits. Advancements in technology challenge data converter design. In addition to a reduced supply voltage, the worsening of transconductance and output resistance degrades the intrinsic gain and makes it difficult to design high gain op-amps. Noise, both thermal and 1/f, also increases. Moreover, accuracy and linearity of passive and active components is problematic at minimum features. All those limits must be understood and accounted for to ensure effective data converters design. After discussing the above general issues this presentation will describe the design of significant achievements and illustrate their experimental verifications. The given design examples, pertaining data converters operating in different regions of conversion speed and resolution, are a band-pass sigma-delta, a power effective sigma-delta for DVB-H, some digital-assisted sigma-delta schemes and an ultra low-power SAR.