There are a total of 12 tutorials this year on 12 different topics. Each tutorial, selected through a competitive
process within each subcommittee of the ISSCC, presents the basic concepts and working principles of a
single topic of broad interest. The tutorials are intended for non-experts, graduate students, and practicing
engineers who wish to explore and understand a new topic. Tutorial registration bundles access to all 12 of
the tutorials. Participants are asked to select between the option for only on-demand access to the tutorials
(provided ahead of the conference) or the option to additionally attend a full-day live Q&A and networking
session with the presenters during the conference, at no additional charge. The coordinators for the 2023
ISSCC Tutorials are (in the same order as the tutorials): Jens Anders (T1), Yan Lu (T2), Shahrzad Naraghi
(T3), Chia-Hsiang Yang (T4), Eric J.-W. Fang (T5), Leonardo Gasparini (T6), Yih Wang (T7), Jeff Walling
(T8), Noriyuki Miura (T9), Bodhisatwa Sadhu (T10), Byungsub Kim (T11), Jae-Sun Seo (T12).
Naveen Verma
ISSCC Tutorials Chair
The presentations of all 12 tutorials will be available online, on-demand, as of:
Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, 5:00pm, PST
Live Q&A in person for the tutorials:
Sunday Feb. 19, 2023
10:00 AM - Live Q&A in person - February 19
T1: Fundamentals of Frequency References
Danielle Griffith, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Frequency references are a fundamental building block in a vast array of electronic systems. This tutorial
will introduce several types of oscillators commonly used as frequency references, including crystal and
MEMS oscillators as well as fully-integrated oscillators. Classical circuit architectures and recent advances
will be shown. The tutorial will focus on how system-level requirements influence the circuit-level
architecture, the required frequency accuracy, power consumption, and other design targets. Design
tradeoffs will be described for each oscillator type. At the end of this tutorial, attendees will have a solid
understanding of frequency reference specifications, common oscillator architectures, tradeoffs, and recent
innovations in the field.
Danielle Griffith received the B.S.E.E. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is currently a Fellow at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. Her areas of expertise are circuits and
architectures for efficient wireless systems, low power oscillators, and MEMS circuitry. She has published
a book chapter and >50 papers, and holds 22 issued US patents. Danielle has presented at numerous
conference tutorial and workshop sessions.She has been a TPC member for the RFIC, ISSCC, and VLSI
conferences. She is a senior member of the IEEE, an associate editor of the IEEE JSSC, and a Distinguished
Lecturer of the SSCS.
10:20 AM - Live Q&A in person - February 19
T2: Bridging RF and Power: An Introduction to Envelope Tracking Systems
and Building Blocks
Ji-Seon Paek, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
Envelope tracking (ET) is a well-established power-management technique to improve the power efficiency
of RF power amplifiers. This tutorial covers the principles of envelope-tracking operation, and the design of
building blocks under ET-system link budget considerations. It develops the understanding of standard-
specific system specifications, required by 3GPP and IEEE standards, to enable optimal design of each
building block. Based on the understanding, various supply-modulator (SM) structures and power-
management circuit techniques will be reviewed, which can efficiently power RF power amplifiers while
meeting the requirements of wireless communication standards.
Jiseon Paek received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2004, 2006, and 2011, respectively. Since
2011, he has been with Samsung Electronics, where he leads various projects developing wireless RF
transceivers, envelope tracking (ET) ICs, and fully integrated power ICs for mobile handset applications.
Since 2022, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Pusan
National University (PNU), Korea. He is now serving on the power management sub-committee of ISSCC.
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