News
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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!
- Our May 2008 JSSC paper in collaboration with Prof. Tsividis' group
"A 2.4-GHz ISM-Band Sliding-IF Receiver with a 0.5 V Supply," appeared
in the May 2008 (ranked #91)
Top 100 Downloads of the whole
IEEExplore site!
- Our group will (co)author four presentations and a tutorial at the
IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC)
Symposium. Congratulations to Frank, Anu, and Yiping.
- Our April 2008 JSSC paper "A 0.5-V 8-bit 10-Ms/s Pipelined ADC in
90-nm CMOS" appeared in the April
2008 (ranked #38) Top 100
Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Jonathan Tompson presented his research on RF inductive power
delivery for contactless test at the IEEE Conference on Microelectronic
Test Structures (ICMTS) in March 2008.
- Peter Kinget joined the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems II as an associate editor.
- Ajay Balankutty, Shih-An Yu and Yiping Feng will present a paper
entitled "A 0.6V 32.5mW Highly-Integrated Receiver for 2.4GHz ISM-Band
Applications" at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC), San Francisco in Feb. 2008.
2007
- Peter Kinget co-founded the NY EDS/SSCS IEEE chapter and
serves as its SSCS vice-chair (SSCS newsletter
article).
- Peter Kinget gave an invited talk on "Ultra-low Voltage Analog
Integrated Circuits for Nanoscale CMOS" at the IEEE Bipolar and BiCMOS
Circuits and Technology Meeting in Boston (MA) in October 2007.
- Peter Kinget gave a plenary talk at the IEEE European
Solid-State Circuits Conference in Munich, Germany, entitled "Designing
Analog and RF circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" in September 2007.
- Peter Kinget gave an invited talk at the IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, CA, on "Advanced Design
Techniques for Integrated Voltage Controlled LC Oscillators" in
September 2007.
- Ajay Balankutty, T.C. Chih and C.Y. Chen presented their results
on "Mismatch Characterization of Ring Oscillators" at the IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, CA in September 2007.
- Our August 2007 JSSC paper "An Ultra Compact Differentially Tuned 6
GHz CMOS LC VCO with Dynamic Common Mode Feedback" was ranked #55 in the
July 2007 and #27 in the
August 2007 Top 100
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- Junhua Shen presented his ultra-low voltage ADC research at the
IEEE VLSI symposium in Kyoto, Japan in June 2007 in a paper entitled
"A 0.5V 8bit 10Msps Pipelined ADC in 90nm CMOS."
- Nebojsa Stanic (Tsividis group) and Ajay Balankutty presented
their research results on an ultra-low voltage receiver at the IEEE RFIC
Symposium in June 2007 in a paper entitled "A 0.5 V Receiver in 90nm
CMOS for 2.4GHz Applications."
- Peter Kinget gave an invited talk at the IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and System in New Orleans, LA,
on "Device Mismatch: An Analog Design Perspective" in
May 2007.
- Our April 2007 JSSC paper "A 0.5-V 1-Msps Track-and-Hold Circuit
with 60-dB SNDR" was ranked #31 in the April 2007 Top 100
Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Our March 2007 JSSC paper "A 0.5-V 74-dB SNDR 25-kHz
Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator with a Return-to-Open DAC" was
ranked #45 in the March 2007
Top 100 Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Our Oct. 2006 JSSC paper "Design of Components and Circuits
Underneath Integrated Inductors" is included in the list of "Most Read Articles of the 2006 IEEE
Journal of Solid State Circuits"
- Peter Kinget gave an invited talk at the IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits (ISSCC) Low Voltage Analog Amplifier Design for
Filtering and A/D Conversion Design Forum on "True Low-Voltage OTAs for
0.5V Active Filters, THAs and CT Delta-Sigma Converters" in Feb. 2007.
- Shih-An Yu presented his research work on ultra-low voltage RF
synthesizers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC), San Francisco in Feb. 2007 in a paper entitled "A 0.65 V 2.5
GHz Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer in 90nm CMOS."
- Our 2007 ISSCC contribution "A 0.65 V 2.5 GHz Fractional-N
Frequency Synthesizer in 90nm CMOS." is highlighted as a significant
result in the 2007 ISSCC Press
Kit (p. 5, 15, 31) and highlighted in the "ISSCC 2007 Preview" of the EDN
(Electronics, Design, Strategy, News).
2006
- Our Oct. 2006 JSSC paper "Design of Components and Circuits
Underneath Integrated Inductors" was ranked #55 in the Sept. 2006 and #27 in the Oct. 2006 Top 100 Downloads
of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Babak Soltanian presented his compact VCO and quadrature VCO
research results at the IEEE European Solid-State Circuit Conference
(ESSCIRC) 2006 and at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC) 2006.
- Our August 2006 JSSC paper "Tail-Current Shaping to Improve Phase
Noise in LC Voltage Controlled Oscillators" was ranked #68 in the July 2006
Top 100 Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Our June 2006 JSSC paper "Low Power Programmable Gain CMOS
Distributed LNA" was ranked #19 in the June 2006 Top 100 Downloads
of the whole IEEExplore site!
- Shouri Chatterjee and Nebojsa Stanic (Tsividis group) presented
their work on "A 0.5-V 1-Msample/s 60-dB SNDR Track-and-Hold Circuit"
and "A 0.5 V 900 MHz CMOS Receiver Front End" at the Symposium for VLSI
Circuits in Honolulu, Hawai'i, in June 2006.
- Babak Soltanian presented his paper "AM-FM Conversion by the
Active Devices in MOS LC-VCOs and its Effect on the Optimal Amplitude"
at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC) in San
Francisco in June 2006.
- Babak Soltanian successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "Design Techniques for Low-Noise LC Voltage-Controlled
Oscillators" on May 8 2006. Congratulations Babak!
- Anuranjan, Mustapha, and Gautam presented their research in 4 contributions
to the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in May
2006.
- Our December 2005 JSSC paper "0.5V Analog Circuit Techniques and
Their Application in OTA and Filter Design" is included in the list of "Most Read Articles of the 2005 IEEE
Journal of Solid State Circuits"
- Our June 2005 JSSC paper "Device Mismatch and Trade-offs in the
Design of Analog Circuits" is included in the list of "Most Read Articles of the 2005 IEEE
Journal of Solid State Circuits"
- Bell Laboratories approved our research proposal on "Ultra Wideband
Frequency Synthesizers" for funding.
- Our 2006 ISSCC contribution "A 0.5 V 74dB SNDR 25kHz CT Delta-Sigma
Modulator with Return-to-Open DAC" is highlighted in the article "ADCs at ISSCC" of the
Electronic Design Magazine.
- Shouri Chatterjee and K.P. Pun presented their work on "A 0.5 V 74dB
SNDR 25kHz CT Delta-Sigma Modulator with Return-to-Open DAC" at the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in Feb. 2006.
- Our June 2005 JSSC paper "Device Mismatch and Trade-offs in the
Design of Analog Circuits" was listed for 8 months on the Top 100
Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site! (July 2005, Aug. 2005, Sept. 2005, Oct. 2005, Nov. 2005, Dec. 2005, Jan. 2006, Feb. 2006)
- Our December 2005 JSSC paper "0.5V Analog Circuit Techniques and
Their Application in OTA and Filter Design" was ranked #11 in the Dec. 2005, #17 in the Jan. 2006, and #57
in the Feb. 2006 Top 100 Downloads
of the whole IEEExplore site!
2005
- Frank Zhang has received a best TA award for E4318 (Microwave Circuit Design) for
Fall 2005.
- Shouri Chatterjee successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "Analog Design Techniques at 0.5V" on October 21
2005. Congratulations Shouri!
- Babak Soltanian and Frank Zhang will present their work on "Tail
current shaping VCOs" and "VCO-in-the-coil" at the IEEE CICC in San
Jose (CA, USA) in September.
- United Microelectronics has donated IC fabrication services for the
fabrication of our test-chips in their 90nm CMOS process.
- Toshiba Corporation approved our research proposal on "Highly
linear RF Front-ends" for funding.
- Peter Kinget has received an IBM Faculty Award.
- Frank Zhang and Shouri Chatterjee presented their work on "CMOS
Distributed Low Noise Amplifier" and "MOS Varactors for ultra-low
Voltage Filters" at the Symposium for VLSI Circuits in Kyoto (Japan)
in June.
- Peter Kinget presented his work (with A. Lazar and Laszlo Toth)
on the robustness of the analog implementation of a time encoding
machine at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
in Kobe (Japan) in May.
- Intel Corporation has selected our research proposal (with
Prof. Tsividis) on 0.5V circuits for funding.
- Realtek semiconductors approved our research proposal for 0.5V
analog interfaces for funding.
- Our 2005 ISSCC contribution "A 0.5V continuous time low pass filter
with PLL tuning" is listed as a significant result in the 2005 ISSCC Press Kit (p. 6, 15,
27, 31) and hightlighted in the ISSCC overview of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Society January 2005 Newsletter .
- Shouri Chatterjee presented his work on "A 0.5V continuous time low pass
filter with PLL tuning" at the International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco (CA, USA) in February 2005.
2004
- Our collaborative proposal with Prof. R. Gharpurey (U. of Texas)
for UWB circuit research has been selected to be funded by the
National Science Foundation.
- The Semiconductor Research Corporation has selected our proposal
in the area of integrated oscillators for funding.
- Philips Semiconductors has donated IC fabrication services for
the fabrication of our test-chips in their 0.25um/40GHz BiCMOS
process.
- Silicon Laboratories has approved sponsoring for our research
work.
- Analog Devices has approved funding for our 0.5V analog
integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS research (with Prof. Tsividis).
2003
- Our group (with Prof. Tsividis) received an NSF MRI grant and
associated matching funding from Columbia University and the School of
Engineering to upgrade our IC characterization lab.
- Motorola approved funding for our research proposal on UWB
circuit research.
2002
