News
- Our group will present two papers at the 2013 IEEE Radio
Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). Jianxun will present
"A DC-9.5GHz Noise-Canceling Distributed LNA in 65nm CMOS" and Teng Yang
and Karthik Tripurari will present "A 0.5GHz-1.5GHz Order Scalable
Harmonic Rejection Mixer." Congratulations Jianxun, Teng and
Karthik.
- Baradwaj Vigraham's work on ultra-low power wireless links that enable
self-powered sensor nodes was featured in the PRESS. This
research is part of
the EnHANTs
project.
Selection of links:
Columbia Record (pdf);
IEEE Spectrum Nanoclast Blog (pdf);
RFID Journal (pdf);
EE
Times (pdf);
Phys.org (pdf);
Engineering.com (pdf);
- Baradwaj Vigraham will present his research on "A Self-Duty-Cycled
and Synchronized UWB Receiver SoC Consuming 375pJ/bit for -76.5dBm
Sensitivity at 2Mbps" at the IEEE International Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco in February 2013
(paper 25.3). Congratulations Baradwaj!
2012
- Jayanth Kuppambatti will present a paper at the IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2012 entitled "A Current
Reference Pre-charged Zero-crossing Pipeline-SAR ADC in 65nm CMOS."
Congratulations Jayanth!
- The "Ultrasonic Wireless Sensors" team, Kshitij Yadav, John
Kymissis and Peter Kinget, won the $100K First Prize in the
Interdigital Innovation
Challenge (pdf).
The winners were announced on 21st September 2012 at the GigaOM's
Mobilize conference held in San Francisco. The competition drew entries
from top universities all across the United States and Canada, and
consisted of a written proposal submission round followed by an
incubation-phase round in which the teams were interviewed and
submitted a final proposal. The ultrasonic wireless technology can
extend the battery life of wireless sensor nodes by more than an
order-of-magnitude. The team has built a custom integrated circuit to
demonstrate the ultra-low power operation of this technology. It has
further field-tested proof-of-concept ultrasonic communication modules
and a demo
video is available.
SEAS
Website: SEAS
News (pdf)
Press
releases: calit2net
(pdf),
Yahoo!
Finance, DailyFinance
- Professors Harish Krishnaswamy and Peter Kinget have
been awarded a four-year $1.13M DARPA contract under the MTO's RF-FPGA
program for their research effort titled "CMOS RF Field-Programmable
Full-Duplex T/R Module."
- 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 at the RFIC 2012 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!
2011
- 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 IEEE 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.
2010
- 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.
- Ajay Balankutty will present his research on high performance
ultra-low voltage receivers for cellular applications in a paper at
the Symposium on VLSI circuits in June entitled "0.6V, 5dB NF, -9.8dBm IIP3,
900MHz Receiver with Interference Cancellation". Congratulations
Ajay.
- Peter Kinget and Ranjit Gharpurey (University of Texas,
Austin) have been awarded a $540,000 collaborative research grant from
the National Science Foundation entitled "Iterative Downconversion for
Broadband Signal Digitization".
- Awards: Baradwaj Vigraham received
the "Armstrong
Award for MS students" and Jiasi Chen received the
undergraduate "Electrical
Engineering Department Research Award". Congratulations Jiasi and
Baradwaj!
- Our March 2010 JSSC paper "A 0.6V 32.5mW Highly Integrated Receiver
for 2.4GHz ISM-Band Applications" appeared in
the March 2010 (ranked
#42),
Top 100 Downloads of the whole
IEEExplore site!
- Our September 2009 JSSC paper "A 0.65-V 2.5-GHz Fractional-N
Synthesizer with 2-Mbps GFSK Modulation"appeared in
the September 2009
(ranked #74),
Top 100 Downloads of the whole
IEEExplore site!
- We will present two papers at the upcoming IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in Feb. 2010
entitled
- "An Ultra-Low-Power Interference-Robust IR-UWB Transceiver
Chipset Using Self-Synchronizing OOK Modulation"
- and "A
Low-power Low-noise Direct-Conversion Front End with Digitally
Assisted IIP2 Background Self Calibration". The second paper was
in collaboration with Toshiba.
Congratulations Marco, Chen,
Keith, Jorge and Yiping!
- Peter Kinget was invited to participate in the short course at IEEE International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in Feb. 2010. He will talk
about "Transistor-Level Design of Critical PLL Circuits".
2009
- Our May 2009 JSSC paper in collaboration with Toshiba
"Design of a High Performance 2-GHz Direct-Conversion Front-End With a Single-Ended RF Input in 0.13um CMOS" appeared
in the May 2009
(ranked #5), June 2009
(ranked #75), and July 2009 (ranked #73)
Top 100 Downloads of the whole
IEEExplore site!
- Our May 2009 JSSC paper in collaboration with University of Texas
at Austin "An Agile, Ultra-Wideband Pulse Radio Transceiver With
Discrete-Time Wideband-IF" was listed #44 in
the May 2009
Top 100 Downloads of the whole
IEEExplore site!
- Frank Zhang received the 2009 Jury Award
(link)
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 Frank!
- 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.
- Shih-An Yu will his research in collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent at the 2009 IEEE Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuits Symposium in a paper entitled "A Single-Chip 0.125-26GHz Signal Source in 0.18um SiGe BiCMOS".
- Peter Kinget became an Distinguished Lecturer for
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
(SSCS) in 2009.
2008
- Ph.D. Student Shih-An Yu receives a IEEE 2008
Solid-State Circuits Society Pre doctoral
Fellowships.
(link) (pdf)
Congratulations Shih-An!
- Peter Kinget (co-authors: C. Vezyrtzis, E. Chiang, B. Hung and
T.L. Li) presented an invited paper at the 2008 IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference on "Voltage
References for Ultra-low Supply Voltages".
- Shih-An Yu presented his research at the 2008 European Solid-State
Circuits Conference in a paper entitled "A 0.042-mm2 Fully Integrated
Analog PLL with Stacked Capacitor-Inductor in 45nm CMOS".
-
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
Downloads of the whole IEEExplore site!
- 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.
