Welcome to the homepage of the Kinget Group at Columbia University in New York City. Our research group is part of the Columbia Integrated Systems Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department.

Our research focuses on the design, simulation and measurement of

Our ongoing research projects are described in the "Research" section. You can find microphotographs of some of the chips we have designed in the "Chip Gallery". You can find our conference and journal papers listed in the "Publications" section. Our papers regularly appear in the IEEExplore Top 100 download ranking and the JSSC Most Read Articles lists.

In case you wonder: 'The electronic world is going digital, why analog?', check out these quotes.

If you are interested in research projects for undergraduate or M.S. students or in opportunities to join our group, check out the "Prospective Students" section.

News

  • Baradwaj Vigraham will present his research on ultra low power wireless links at the RFIC 2012 with a paper entitled: "An Ultra Low Power, Compact UWB Receiver with Automatic Threshold Recovery in 65 nm CMOS". Peter Kinget will present a workshop tutorial on "Linearity Improvement Of Mixers Using Digitally Assisted Mismatch Calibration And Interferer Cancellation".

  • Jianxun Zhu received an "EE MS Award of Excellence" for his outstanding academic performance during his MS studies. Congratulations Jianxun!

  • Jianxun Zhu, Baradwaj Vigraham and Peter Kinget are co-recipients of the "Best Student Demo Award" for "Demo: Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes" at the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys) 2011 (with G. Stanje, P. Miller, J. Zhu, A. Smith, O. Winn, R. Margolies, M. Gorlatova, J. Sarik, M. Szczodrak, B. Vigraham, L. Carloni, I. Kymissis, and G. Zussman) (see also the EnHANTs website)

  • Our October 2011 JSSC paper "A 0.6V GSM Receiver With In-Band Interference Cancellation in 65nm CMOS" appeared in the October 2011 (ranked #21, highest ranked JSSC paper), Top 100 Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!

  • Our October 2011 JSSC paper "A Low-power Low-noise Direct-Conversion Front End with Digitally Assisted IIP2 Background Self Calibration" appeared in the October 2011 (ranked #45, second highest ranked JSSC paper), Top 100 Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!

  • Peter Kinget and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy in collaboration with Prof. Ranjit Gharpurey of UT-Austin (lead institution) have been awarded a 3-year $1.66M grant from DARPA for research in high performance, ultra high energy efficiency, signal-recognition integrated circuits for next generation wireless communications and radar systems.

  • Ajay Balankutty (now at Intel) will present an invited paper on "Ultra-Low Voltage Integrated Receivers in Nanoscale CMOS" at the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Seoul, Korea, in August 2011.

  • Peter Kinget is a co-recipient of the "2011 Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics" for an outstanding new-topic paper in any IEEE Communications Society publication for the paper entitled "Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) for Ubiquitous Object Networking," (with M. Gorlatova, I. Kymissis, D. Rubenstein, X. Wang and G. Zussman) (see also the EnHANTs website)

  • Kshitij Yadav will present "A 4.4uW Wake-Up Receiver using Ultrasound Data Communications" at the IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits in June 2011.

  • Jianxun Zhu and Baradwaj Vigraham are contributing to a prototype demonstration in the EnHANTs project at the International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys) entitled "Demo: Prototyping UWB Enabled EnHANTs" in June 2011. (see EnHANTs website for more details).

  • Peter Kinget was elevated to IEEE Fellow "for contributions to analog and radio frequency integrated circuits"

  • Peter Kinget presented an invited talk "Voltage Scaling Trade-offs in VCOs and PLLs" at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in the Forum on Ultra-low Voltage VLSIs for Energy-efficient Systems Forum in San Francisco, CA in Feb. 2011.

  • Karthik Tripurari presented his research on "A Digitally Controlled CMOS Phase Shifter with Frequency Doubling for Multiple-Antenna, Direct-Conversion Transceiver Systems" at the IEEE Radio Wireless Week in Jan. 2011.

  • Peter Kinget presented a plenary talk on "Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates," at the 24th International Conference on VLSI Design in Chennai (India) in January 2011.

  • Peter Kinget has been elected to the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society AdCom, the society's governing board for a 2011-2013 term. [SSCS News Article (pdf)]

  • Our group is part of the team of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering investigators the National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to for a research proposal entitled 'Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs)'. The grant has been awarded by the Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) program.

  • John Kymissis and Peter Kinget in collaboration with Profs O'Brien, Couzis, Steingart, and Bannerjee from City University New York and Prof. Sanders from University of California Berkeley have been awarded an $1.6M ARPA-E grant entitled: "Metacapacitors: High Quality Printed Nanoparticle Capacitors with Built-In Switching." Details on the related ARPA-E program can be found here.

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