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Fall 2005


Seminars:


Prof. Georges Gielen

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Place: 414 CEPSR

Title: Reconfigurable Front-End Architectures and A/D Converters for Software-Defined Radios

Abstract:
Flexibility is a key feature in 4G telecom systems, where there is a demand for reconfigurable transceivers that 
can cope with multiple standards (cellular, WLAN, Bluetooth, etc.). Additionally, these transceivers should adapt
 to the environment (presence of received blockers or not, status of battery power levels, etc.) to minimize
power consumption and optimize performance according to the needs of the customer and the desired Quality of Service.
In addition, flexibility is required to cut the development time and cost to implement a new future standard into
the 4G system. All this calls for a digitally controlled front-end architecture ("software-defined radio") with
reconfigurable RF and analog baseband blocks controlled through digital programmable software. This poses serious
challenges to the design of such reconfigurable yet power-efficient RF/analog blocks. For the analog-to-digital
converters in the receiver, this comes down to designing a power- and area-efficient reconfigurable converter
with variable bandwidth and dynamic range. The general requirements for such converters in 4G systems will be
described. This will then be illustrated with the design of a reconfigurable continuous-time delta-sigma A/D
converter with a pipelined multibit quantizer and 1-bit feedback. The chip has been realized in a 0.18 µm CMOS
technology. It has 3 different modes (20 MHz BW/58dB SNDR, 4 MHz BW/60dB SNDR, 0.2MHz BW/70dB SNDR). The chip has an
active area of 0.9 mm2 and the power consumption for the most demanding mode (20 MHz/58 dB) is 37 mW.



Prof. Donhee Ham

Harvard University
Date: Friday, October 7, 2005, 2:00pm
Place: Dept of EE, Conference room, 13th Floor, Mudd

Title: Soliton Electronics and Biolab-on-Chip

Abstract: 

This talk consists of two topics, that have been important research foci in my lab.

In the first part of this talk, I will present the first stable self-sustained electrical soliton oscillator
that we have recently developed. The soliton oscillator consisting of a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) and
a nonlinear amplifier that "tames" the instability-prone dynamics of the NLTL self-starts by amplifying
background noise to generate a stable soliton train in steady-state. While the NLTL has been extensively
exploited as a sharp soliton pulse generator in the past decades, this traditional approach utilizes the NLTL
as a 2-port system that requires an external high-frequency input to generate the soliton output. Our soliton
oscillator is a self-contained 1-port system that does not require any external high-frequency input in generation
 of the soliton train. The soliton oscillator, as a direct analogue of the optical soliton mode-locked
system such as the soliton fiber ring laser, is expected to find a variety of applications in high-speed metrology.

The second part of this talk covers a CMOS/microfluidic hybrid microsystem, which our group is developing as a
new biolab-on-IC in collaboration with Westervelt group at Harvard. The hybrid system consists of a CMOS chip and a
microfluidic system fabricated on top. A microcoil array circuit in the CMOS chip produces a spatially-patterned
microscopic magnetic field pattern to simultaneously manipulate multiple individual biological cells (tagged by
magnetic beads) suspended inside the microfluidic system. Fullying exploiting the programmability and speed of the
 CMOS chip, the manipulation operations are performed with low power and high spatial manipulation resolution.
The hybrid system may be used as a micro cellular assembler.



Dr. Jack Kenney

Analog Devices Inc.
Date: Friday, December 2, 2005, 2:00pm
Place: 414 CEPSR

Title: Clock and Data Recovery Circuit of 10Gbps Serial Data in 0.13um CMOS

Abstract:

Prior to the introduction of 0.13um CMOS, circuits for 10Gbps serial receivers were implemented in high-speed processes such as SiGe. CMOS processes at channel lengths of 0.13um and smaller have sufficiently fast core devices to process 10Gbps data streams. The architecture and circuit design for a 10Gbps clock and data recovery circuit based upon a half-rate binary phase detector using a delay interpolating VCO will be described; the binary phase detector is the basis of a bang bang phase-locked loop.

The talk will begin with a tutorial overview of the operation and jitter properties of a bang bang phase-locked. It will next delve into the architecture for a half-rate binary phase detector and describe some of the circuit challenges.

Biography:

Jack Kenney was born in Springfield, MA. He received BS degrees from both Providence College and Columbia University in 1984. His first exposure to analog circuit design was at Motorola Corp. where he developed analog front ends for voiceband telephone applications. Jack received an MSECE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988 and 1991 respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of ECE at Oregon State University from 1992 until 1997 where he achieved the rank of Associate Professor. His other academic posts include Visiting Researcher at the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) of the National University of Singapore in Summer 1996, and Visiting Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in Fall 1999. Jack is now employed by Analog Devices Inc. in Somerset, NJ, where he spent 3 years developing CMOS analog integrated circuits for the ADSL application and is currently designing clock and data recovery circuits for 10Gbps fiber optic channels in 0.13um CMOS.

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