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ISSCC 2026
February 15 - 19, 2026 | San Francisco, USA
Building on 70 years of innovation in solid-state circuit design
Imec
Short course
- SC1: Introduction to Optical Communication Systems: From VCSELs to Photonics to Coherent Solutions
Circuits for Optical Subsystems: Communications and Beyond
Peter Ossieur, University Director
Forum
- 400 Gb/s Coherent Optics
Forum 2: Electrical and Optical Links Towards 400G+ Connectivity
Xin Yin, University Profession - Site-Specific MIMO Channel Optimization in FR3
Forum 4: The Race for 6G FR3 (7-24GHz): From Network Deployment to System Integration and Breakthrough Technology
Sofie Pollin, Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Panel
- Next Generation Circuit Designer 2026 Workshop
Panelist: Carolina Mora Lopez, Scientific Director
Papers
- 3.4 | An Ultrasound-Powering TX with Standing-Wave Peak Tracking Employing Adiabatic Power Sensing Achieving 82% Power-Tracking Accuracy and <90ms Settling Time for Brain Implants
M. Gourdouparis1,2, C. Shi1 , J. Liu1 , Y. He1 , S. Stanzione1 , W. Serdijn2 , Y-H. Liu1
1imec, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - 11.5 | A Compact 7b 175GS/s Linearized Time-Interleaved Slope ADC with Switched Input Buffers
E. Martens, A. Parisi, A. Kankuppe, A. Cooman, H. Li, S. Van Winckel, P. Renukaswamy, L. Moura Santana, J. Lagos Benites, N. Markulic, J. Craninckx
imec, Leuven, Belgium - 23.6 | A 112Gb/s NRZ Heterodyne Detection 23ns Settled Burst-Mode RX with CD Suppression and Envelope Demodulation for 100G PON
C. Wang, Y. Gu, G. Coudyzer, S. Niu, J. Zhang, X. Yin
imec - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium - 29.3 | A 256-Channel Event-Driven Readout for Solid-State Nanopore Single-Molecule Sensing with 193pArms Noise in a 1MHz Bandwidth
S. Crols1,2, C. Mora Lopez2 , F. Tavernier1 , M. Verhelst1,2, N. Van Helleputte2
1KU Leuven - MICAS, Leuven, Belgium; 2imec, Leuven, Belgium - 36.9 | A CMOS Neural Probe with 1280 Electrodes and 88 Emission Sites Featuring Thermo-Optic Switching and On-Chip Calibration for Dual-Wavelength Optogenetics
X. Yang*, P. Neutens*, A. Humblet, C. Sawigun, J. O’Callaghan, T. Geurts, Z. Li, Y. Gubin, K. De Munck, H. A. C. Tilmans, A. De Proft, B. Dutta, C. Mora Lopez
imec, Heverlee, Belgium, *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs)
Event details
The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design and application to maintain technical currency, and to network with leading experts.