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Our lab is part of the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. The faculty and graduate students conduct research in the area of integrated circuit design ranging from analog and digital to mixed signal and radio-frequency circuits.

News

Four different papers involve CISL members at the upcoming ISSCC 2010. They are:
"An Ultra-Low-Power Interference-Robust IR-UWB Transceiver Chipset Using Self-Synchronizing OOK Modulation",
"A Low-power Low-noise Direct-Conversion Front End with Digitally Assisted IIP2 Background Self Calibration",
"A 4-Channel, 4-Beam, 24-26GHz, Spatio-Temporal RAKE Radar Transceiver in 90nm CMOS for Vehicular Radar Applications",
"A 3.5GHz Wideband ADPLL with Fractional Spur Suppression Through TDC Dithering and Feedforward Compensation".
The first two report on work done at CISL; the first paper is by Marco Crepaldi, Chen Li, Keith Dronson, Jorge Fernandes and Prof. Peter Kinget with the second paper being co-authored by Yiping Feng and Prof. Peter Kinget and collaborators from Toshiba. The third paper reports on work performed by a CISL member, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy, primarily at the University of Southern California. The last paper involves the participation of a CISL member, Colin Weltin-Wu, in work primarily done at the University of Pavia, Italy in collaboration with ST Microelectronics. Also at ISSCC 2010, Prof. Peter Kinget will be co-teaching in the short course, "CMOS Phase-locked Loops for Frequency Synthesis", and Prof. Yannis Tsividis will be on an Evening Panel, "Stump the Panel".
Frank Zhang received the 2009 Jury Award from the Electrical Engineering Department for his Ph.D. thesis "Ultra Wideband Pulse Radio Receivers in Digital CMOS". The Jury Award was established in 1991 for outstanding achievement by a graduate student in the areas of system communication or signal processing.
Congratulations to EE faculty member, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy, who has just won the Best Thesis in Experimental Research across the entire Viterbi School of Engineering at USC for the 2008-09 academic year
CISL welcomes Assistant Professor Harish Krishnaswamy. Brief bio here
Peter Kinget won a Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award with Gil Zussman, John Kymissis, Dan Rubenstein and Xiaodong Wang. Details are available from here and The Vodafone Americas Foundation Website and Press Release.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 reports on CISL Research: New Class of Digital Signal Processor Wipes Out Wasted Power
Ph.D. Student Shih-An Yu (Advisor P. Kinget) receives an IEEE 2008 Solid-State Circuits Society Pre doctoral Fellowships. (link) Congratulations Shih-An!!
Ph.D. student Frank Zhang and Prof. Peter Kinget in collaboration with Prof. Ranjit Gharpurey from University of Texas at Austin received the "Best Student Paper Award -- 1st place" at the 2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium for their paper entitled "A 3.1-9.5 GHz Agile UWB Pulse Radio Receiver with Discrete-Time Wideband-IF Correlation in 90nm CMOS". Congratulations Frank!
Prof. Yannis Tsividis is the recipient of the 2008 Guillemin-Cauer Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. Congratulations Prof. Tsividis!
CISL members contributed 4 presentations at the IEEE RFIC Symposium (June 15-17, 2008) in Atlanta. Congratulations to Frank Zhang, Anuranjan Jha, and Yiping Feng.
Bob Schell's ISSCC talk on continuous-time DSP in the news: http://www.dspdesignline.com/howto/206504118.
CISL members contributed 4 presentations at the ISSCC 2008. Congratulations to Ajay Balankutty, Yiping Feng, Na Lei, Bob Schell, Colin Weltin-Wu and Shih-An Yu.
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