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Silicon Microwave Integrated Circuits and Systems

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Last updated: January 03, 2007

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· January 28, 2008: Semiconductor International - UF-SIMICS in press release on CMOS crash-avoidance radar

· January 28, 2008: EETimes - UF-SIMICS in news on CMOS collision-avoidance chip

· October 2007: Dr. Chih-Ming Hung - Former SIMICS member presents course on Digital-RF in Taiwan, SSCS news

· October 23, 2006: Dr. Zhenbiao Li - Former member at SIMICS in EETimes news

· May 11, 2006: UF-SIMICS in news: SSCS news letter

· February 21, 2006: CNN Money: UMC Fabricates World's Highest Frequency Silicon Circuit Using CMOS - 192-GHz Voltage-Controlled Oscillator; Push-push Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) designed by the University of Florida reaches 192-GHz Operating Frequency

· February 21, 2006: Electronic Engineering Times: "UMC claims silicon frequency record of 192 GHz"

· Press released by UMC: “Chip designed by the University of Florida achieves 105-GHz Operating Frequency. UMC Fabricates Record-Setting Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Using CMOS Technology”

· Electronic Engineering Times---“UMC fabricates record-setting VCO using CMOS tech”

· PhysOrg.com (The latest physics and technology news) ---“UF builds record-setting 105 GHz chip”

· Tod Dickson, a former member of SIMICS has won the best student paper award for 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits.

· Dr. Brian A. Floyd, a former member of SIMICS, won the 2004 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for the outstanding paper with the paper titled “60GHz Transceiver Circuits in SiGe Bipolar Technology”.

· Dr. Chih-Ming Hung, a former member of SIMICS honored as Engineer of the Year!

             2005 Dallas Section IEEE Banquet Program.

             Dr. Hung’s biography

· Science----“Leading edge” presented by Geoff Watts of BBC: “The latest news from the world of science”

· Design News (http://www.designnews.com/) reported the SIMICS single-chip radio in the article “Tiny Transmitter -- On-chip antennas are less than one-tenth of an inch on a computer chip”

· Magazine “Homeland Security & Defense” reported the ultra-small radio chips in an article “Researcher sees HS benefits from work on tiny radio chips”.

· An article published in www.sciencedaily.com “In Step Toward Ultra small Radio, UF Team Demonstrates On-chip Antenna” (English Version)

· An article published in www.cleveland.com “UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Professor Kenneth O at the University of Florida has created a microchip-sized radio antenna that is dwarfed by this penny.”

· An article published in a brazilian site devoted to science and technology news about the release IN STEP TOWARD ULTRASMALL RADIO, UF TEAM DEMONSTRATES ON-CHIP ANTENNA.

· Dr. O awarded the 2003-4 UF Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award

· Ran Li, Wayne Bomstad, James Caserta, Xiaoling Guo and Kenneth O win the 2003 IITC Best Student Paper Award, with the paper titled "Evaluation of Integrated Antennas for Wireless Connection between an Integrated Circuit and an Off-chip Antenna" presented at the 2003 International Interconnect Technology Conference.

· HSSP RF Design Engineer Feng-Jung Huang awarded the 2003 analogZONE Product of the Year Award, received for the MAX2055 differential ADC driver, which he designed.

· RFID Journal : On chip antenna could advance RFIDs

· November 2002: "PUSHING THE PC TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT", Discover Magazine

· Integrated Antennas for a clock radio to be announced at IEDM 2000

· IEEE Computer Magazine, September 2002, Researchers bring wireless communications to the chip.

· May 2000: Wireless Interconnection in Scientific American

· June 2002: Focus (German Magazine) Story on Integrated Antennas of SiMICS

· May 30, 2002: Wireless News Factor : 'Radio on a Chip' Debuts

· January 2002: The 15-GHz Wireless Interconnect cited as one of the highlights for the 2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium in the SSCS Newsletter (Page 11)

· January 2002: The 15-GHz Wireless Interconnect cited as one of the highlights for the 2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium in the SSCS Newsletter (II)

· January 2002: The 15-GHz Wireless Interconnect cited as one of the highlights for the 2001 VLSI Circuits Symposium in the SSCS Newsletter (I)

· December 11, 2000: Integrated Antennas from U. of Florida discussed in a New York Times article

· October 2000: An RF switch from SiMICS featured in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, (Page 2), (Page 3)

· October 2000: An RF switch from SiMICS featured in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, (Page 1)

· September 22, 2000: The team from SiMICS finishes second in the SRC Copper IC design challenge

· March 02, 2000: Wireless Interconnection in EETIMES - Headline

· February 09, 2000: One of the five ``Phase One'' monetary winners in the SRC Copper design challenge