Member Resources

SSCS Resources

The IEEE Solid State Circuits Society publishes a wide variety of educational materials on their website at no additional cost to members. Some of these resources are also available for non-members. Benefits include recordings of tutorial sessions from the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and recorded webinars on various circuit topics.

CAS Resources

The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society provides recordings of webinars for no additional cost to members and many for free to non-members.

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Youtube Channels

There is a large amount of useful information on Youtube about integrated circuits and related topics. We have attempted to curate a list of some of the best channels here.

SSCS Youtube

The Signal Path

RF electronics, test equipment teardowns, electronics tutorials

Asianometry

Semiconductor history and industry trends, sometimes covers other topics.

TechTechPotato

Industry trends and interviews. Hosted by Dr. Ian Cutress.

Zero To ASIC

Tutorials on using open-source tools to design custom ICs.

Breaking Taps

Material science and micro-machining.

CHIPS Alliance

Webinars on open-source IC design.

ProjectsInFlight

Building Integrated Circuits in a home lab.

Applied Science

Projects with electromechanical systems, chemistry, and electronics.

Marco Reps

Precision electronics and machining, also lasers.

w2aew

Amateur radio, hobby electronics, and test equipment.

Phil's Lab

PCB design, FPGA design, analog and digital electronics.

Columbus SSCS/CAS

Our chapter YouTube Channel.
We will post our lecture videos here.

Design Software

Software related to circuit design, most of it either free to use, or free and open-source (FOSS).

Integrated Circuit Design

For further information go to our page on open source IC design tools.
Under construction!

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design

https://www.kicad.org/

Kicad is FOSS PCB design software, it allows for professional level board designs for free.
Official Tutorial: Getting Started with Kicad

Seminal Papers

Links to key papers for circuits and related fields. These papers provide important insights into circuit design or historical background on current topics of interest.

Device Physics

  • T. Sakurai and A. R. Newton, “Alpha-power law MOSFET model and its applications to CMOS inverter delay and other formulas,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 584–594, Apr. 1990, doi: 10.1109/4.52187.
  • A. W. Hull and N. H. Williams, “Determination of Elementary Charge E from Measurements of Shot-Effect.,” Phys. Rev., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 147–173, Feb. 1925, doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.25.147.
  • R. M. Swanson and J. D. Meindl, “Ion-implanted complementary MOS transistors in low-voltage circuits,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 146–153, Apr. 1972, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1972.1050260.

Noise

  • H. Nyquist, “Thermal Agitation of Electric Charge in Conductors,” Phys. Rev., vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 110–113, Jul. 1928, doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.32.110.
  • J. B. Johnson, “Thermal Agitation of Electricity in Conductors,” Nature, vol. 119, no. 2984, pp. 50–51, Jan. 1927, doi: 10.1038/119050c0.
  • A. Van Der Ziel and E. R. Chenette, “Noise in Solid State Devices,” in Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, L. Marton, Ed., Academic Press, 1978, pp. 313–383. doi: 10.1016/S0065-2539(08)60414-X.
  • W. Schottky, “Über spontane Stromschwankungen in verschiedenen Elektrizitätsleitern,” Annalen der Physik, vol. 362, no. 23, pp. 541–567, 1918, doi: 10.1002/andp.19183622304. (Translated: doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.17.4.041001)
  • W. Schottky, “Small-Shot Effect and Flicker Effect,” Phys. Rev., vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 74–103, Jul. 1926, doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.28.74.

Image Sensors

  • R. H. Nixon, S. E. Kemeny, B. Pain, C. O. Staller, and E. R. Fossum, “CMOS active pixel sensor camera-on-a-chip,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 2046–2050, Dec. 1996, doi: 10.1109/4.545830.
  • E. R. Fossum, “Active pixel sensors: are CCDs dinosaurs?,” in Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors III, International Society for Optics and Photonics, Jul. 1993, pp. 2–14. doi: 10.1117/12.148585.
  • M. H. White, D. R. Lampe, F. C. Blaha, and I. A. Mack, “Characterization of surface channel CCD image arrays at low light levels,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1–12, Feb. 1974, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1974.1050448.

Analog-to-Digital Converters and Digital-to-Analog Converters

  • L. McCreary and P. R. Gray, “All-MOS charge redistribution analog-to-digital conversion techniques. I,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 371–379, Dec. 1975, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1975.1050629.
  • R. E. Suarez, P. R. Gray, and D. A. Hodges, “All-MOS charge-redistribution analog-to-digital conversion techniques. II,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 379–385, Dec. 1975, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1975.1050630.
  • B. E. Boser and B. A. Wooley, “The design of sigma-delta modulation analog-to-digital converters,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1298–1308, Dec. 1988, doi: 10.1109/4.90025.

Amplifiers and Analog Design

  • John M. Miller. Dependence of the input impedance of a three-electrode vacuum tube upon the load in the plate circuit. Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, 15(351):367–385, 1920. doi: 10.1016/S0016-0032(19)90474-1
  • M. J. M. Pelgrom, A. C. J. Duinmaijer, and A. P. G. Welbers, “Matching properties of MOS transistors,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1433–1439, Oct. 1989, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1989.572629.
  • B. Gilbert, “A new wide-band amplifier technique,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 353–365, Dec. 1968, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1968.1049924.
  • B. J. Hosticka, R. W. Brodersen, and P. R. Gray, “MOS sampled data recursive filters using switched capacitor integrators,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 600–608, Dec. 1977, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.1977.1050967.

Digital Design

  • A. P. Chandrakasan, S. Sheng, and R. W. Brodersen, “Low-power CMOS digital design,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 473–484, Apr. 1992, doi: 10.1109/4.126534.