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From: rmvale@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ruth Vale)
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Subject: ICR Evening Lecture Series
Keywords: silicon chips computer programs
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Date: 15 Jan 90 15:53:56 GMT
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ICR Evening Lecture Series

Fast Silicon Chips from Fast Computer Programs

Dr. David J. Roulston
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

Monday, January 22, l990
Davis Centre Room l302
8:00 p.m.

Admission is free.  
Refreshments served after the talk.
Everyone welcome!

Abstract

The talk will describe the most widely used type of computer
chip for high speed applications, emitter coupled logic (ECL),
in which a combination of fast computer analysis and new laboratory
fabrication procedures have produced significant improvements.  The
presentation will include an overview of fabrication methods used at
the Silicon Devices and Integrated Circuits (SiDIC) laboratory at the
University of Waterloo.  It will explain the problems associated with
making high speed logic chips on silicon and how the use of a fast
computer program - BIPOLE, developed at Waterloo - can assist
researchers and industrial engineers to reduce the propogation delay
time of ECL circuits.  The talk will conclude with a brief outline
of present trends and anticipated performance for both silicon and GaAs
structures.