The
Center for Advanced Silicon Electronics (CASE)
is a research collaboration between the «IBM
Zurich Research Laboratory» and several institutes from
the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department
of the the «ETH
Zürich». CASE allows an intensive cooperation in
the field of high-speed IC development build on the access of
leading-edge IBM CMOS and BiCMOS technologies.
Goals are the design of circuits for optical communication up
to 40 Gbit/s and wireless systems from 5 to 60 GHz. Furthermore,
signal processors using nonlinear analog circuits are investigated.
IBMs access to ETH's design and characterization expertise, and
ETH's opportunity to use IBM's IC technology for students and
engineers are a win-win situation for both partners.
Recently, also the University of Berlin has been included in
this collaboration.
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| Three research laboratories from
the ETHZ are involved |
| Laboratory for Electromagnetic fields
and Microwave Electronics |
Prof. em. Baechtold |
| Electronics Laboratory |
Prof. Jaeckel |
| Signal and Information Processing Laboratory |
Prof. Loeliger |
| Research laboratories from TU
Berlin involved |
| Microwave Engineering |
Prof. Böck |
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ETHZ has over 10'000 students in total, about 800 of them studying
electrical engineering science.
TU Berlin has over 30'000 students in total, more than 3'000
of them are studying electrical engineering.
At the four labs mentioned above there are about 25 PhD students
working on high speed analog integrated circuits. |
