Kinget Group

Publications

2009

Y. Feng, G. Takemura, S. Kawaguchi, N. Itoh and P. Kinget, "A Low-power Low-noise Direct-Conversion Front End with Digitally Assisted IIP2 Background Self Calibration," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, accepted, 2010.

M. Crepaldi, C. Li, K. Dronson, J. Fernandes and P. Kinget, "An Ultra-Low-Power Interference-Robust IR-UWB Transceiver Chipset Using Self-Synchronizing OOK Modulation," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, accepted, 2010.

X.Y. He, K.P. Pun and P. Kinget, "A 0.5V Wideband Amplifier for a 1MHz CT Complex Delta Sigma Modulator," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, accepted, 2009

A. Jha, F. Zhang, Tien-Ling Hsieh, R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "A Discrete-Time, Digital-IF, Interference-Robust Ultra-Wideband Pulse-Radio Transceiver Architecture," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, online and in print, 2009.

R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "Channelized Front Ends for Broadband Analog & RF Signal Processing with Merged LO Synthesis," Eigth IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop (DCAS), Oct. 2009.

Maria Gorlatova, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis, Dan Rubenstein, Xiaodong Wang and Gil Zussman, "Challenge: Ultra-Low-Power Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs)", Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM 2009, Beijing, China, September, 2009.

S.A. Yu and P. Kinget, "A 0.65-V 2.5-GHz Fractional-N Synthesizer with 2-Mbps GFSK Modulation", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 2411-2425, Sept. 2009.

S.A. Yu, Y. Baeyens, J. Weiner, U.V. Koc, M. Rambaud, F.R. Liao, Y.K. Chen and P. Kinget, "A Single-Chip 0.125-26GHz Signal Source in 0.18um SiGe BiCMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), pp. 427-430, June 2009.

S.A. Yu and P. Kinget, "Scaling LC Oscillators in Nanometer CMOS Technologies to Smaller Area but with Constant Performance," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 354-358, May 2009.

Y. Feng and P. Kinget, "A High Performance 2-GHz Direct-Conversion Front End with Single-Ended RF input in 0.13 um CMOS," invited, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1380-1390, May 2009.

F. Zhang, A. Jha, R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "An Agile, Ultra-wideband Pulse Radio Transceiver with Discrete-Time Wideband-IF," invited, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1336-1351, May 2009.

2008

A. Jha and P. Kinget, "Wideband Signal Synthesis using Interleaved Partial-order Hold Digital-to-Analog Converters," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 1109 - 1113, Nov. 2008.

S. A. Yu and P. Kinget, "A 0.042-mm2 Fully Integrated Analog PLL with Stacked Capacitor-Inductor in 45nm CMOS," European Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 94-97, Sept. 2008.

P. Kinget, C. Vezyrtzis, E. Chiang, B. Hung and T.L. Li, "Voltage References for Ultra-low Supply Voltages," invited, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 715-720, Sept. 2008.

Y. Feng, G. Takemura, S. Kawaguchi and P. Kinget, "A High Performance 2-GHz Direct-Conversion Front End with Single-Ended RF input in 0.13 um CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC), pp. 339-342, June 2008.

T.L Hsieh, P. Kinget and R. Gharpurey, "A Rapid Interference Detector for Ultra Wideband Radio Systems in 0.13um CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC), pp. 347-350, June 2008.

F. Zhang, R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "A 3.1-9.5 GHz Agile UWB Pulse Radio Receiver with Discrete-Time Wideband-IF Correlation in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC), pp. 31-34 , June 2008. Recipient of "Best Student Paper Award - 1st Place".

A. Jha, R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "A 3 to 5-GHz UWB Pulse Radio Transmitter in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC), pp. 35-38, June 2008. "Best Student Paper Award Finalist".

N. Stanic, A. Balankutty, P. Kinget and Y. Tsividis, "A 2.4-GHz ISM-Band Sliding-IF Receiver with a 0.5 V Supply," invited, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Special issue on the 2007 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1138-1145, May 2008.

J. Shen and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V 8-bit 10-Ms/s Pipelined ADC in 90 nm CMOS," invited, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 787-795, Apr. 2008.

J. Tompson, A. Dolin and P. Kinget, "2.6 GHz RF Inductive Power Delivery for Contactless On-Wafer Characterization," accepted for presentation, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics Test Structures (ICMTS), pp. 175 - 179, March 2008.

G. Gangasani and P. Kinget, "Time-Domain Model for Injection Locking in Non-Harmonic Oscillators," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1648 - 1658, July 2008.

A. Balankutty, S.-A. Yu, Y. Feng and P. Kinget, "A 0.6 V 32 mW Highly Integrated Receiver for 2.4 GHz ISM-Band Applications," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), (accepted) February 2008.

2007

P. Kinget, "Ultra-low Voltage Analog Integrated Circuits for nanoscale CMOS," INVITED, IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, October 2007.

X. Y. He, K. P. Pun and P. Kinget, "A dynamic common-mode level shifting technique for ultra-low-voltage CT delta-sigma modulators employing a return-to-open DAC," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 43, Issue 20,pp. 1071-1073, September 2007.

P. Kinget, "Designing Analog and RF Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages," plenary talk, IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference, September 2007.

A. Balankutty, T. C. Chih, C. Y. Chen and P. Kinget, "Mismatch Characterization of Ring Oscillators," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September 2007.

P. Kinget, B. Soltanian, S. Xu, S. Yu and F. Zhang, "Advanced Design Techniques for Integrated Voltage Controlled Oscillators," INVITED, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September 2007.

B. Soltanian, H. Ainspan, W. Rhee, D. Friedman and P. Kinget, "An Ultra Compact Differentially Tuned 6 GHz CMOS LC VCO with Dynamic Common Mode Feedback," INVITED, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, September 2007.

N. Stanic, A. Balankutty, P. Kinget and Y. Tsividis, "A 0.5 V Receiver in 90 nm CMOS for 2.4 GHz Applications," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference, June 2007.

J. Shen and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V 8 bit 10 Msps Pipelined ADC in 90 nm CMOS", IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits, June 2007.

P. Kinget, "Device mismatch: an Analog Design Perspective", INVITED, Special session: Circuit design in the presence of device variability, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2007.

E. Chiang and P. Kinget, "Voltage Reference Generators for Low Voltage Operation Using Alternate Solid State Devices" Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Dominican University (CA), April 2007.

S. Chatterjee, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5-V 1-Msps Track-and-Hold Circuit with 60-db SNDR," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, pp. 722-729, April 2007.

K. P. Pun, S. Chatterjee, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5-V 74-dB SNDR 25-kHz Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator with a Return-to-Open DAC," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, pp. 496-507, March 2007.

S.-A. Yu and P. Kinget, "A 0.65 V 2.5 GHz Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer in 90nm CMOS," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 2007.

2006

Tien-Ling Hsieh, P. Kinget, R. Gharpurey, "An Approach to Interference Detection for Ultra Wideband Radio Systems," Fifth IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop, October, 2006.

F. Zhang and P. Kinget, "Design of Components and Circuits Underneath Integrated Inductors," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, October 2006.

G. Gangasani and P. Kinget, "A time-domain model for predicting the injection locking bandwidth of non-harmonic oscillators," Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, October 2006.

B. Soltanian, and P. Kinget, "A Low Phase Noise Quadrature LC VCO Using Capacitive Common-Source Coupling," European Solid-State Circuits Conference, September 2006.

B. Soltanian, H. Ainspan, W. Rhee, D. Friedman and P. Kinget, "An Ultra Compact Differentially Tuned 6 GHz CMOS LC VCO with Dynamic Common Mode Feedback," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September 2006.

B. Soltanian and P. Kinget, "Tail Current-Shaping to Improve Phase Noise in LC Voltage Controlled Oscillators," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, August 2006.

S. Chatterjee, Y. Tsividis and P. Kinget, "Ultra-Low Voltage Analog Integrated Circuits," INVITED, IEICE Transactions on Electronics, June 2006.

F. Zhang and P. Kinget, "Low Power Programmable Gain CMOS Distributed LNA," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, June 2006.

S. Chatterjee, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5-V 1-Msample/s 60-dB SNDR Track-and-Hold Circuit," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits, June 2006.

N. Stanic, P. Kinget, and Y. Tsividis, "A 0.5 V 900 MHz CMOS Receiver Front End," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits, June 2006.

B. Soltanian and P. Kinget, "AM-FM Conversion by the Active Devices in MOS LC-VCOs and its Effect on the Optimal Amplitude," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Conference (RFIC), June 2006.

A. Jha, R. Gharpurey and P. Kinget, "Quadrature-DAC based pulse generation for UWB pulse radio transceivers," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006.

G. Gangasani and P. Kinget, "Injection-Lock Dynamics in Non-Harmonic Oscillators," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006.

M. Abdulai and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V Fully Differential Gate-input Operational Transconductance Amplifier with Intrinsic Common-Mode Rejection," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006.

P. Kinget, "Amplitude detection inside CMOS LC oscillators," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006.

K. P. Pun, S. Chatterjee, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V 74dB SNDR 25kHz CT Delta-Sigma Modulator with Return-to-Open DAC," Digest of Technical Papers IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 2006, pp. 72-73.

2005

P. Kinget, S. Chatterjee, and Y. Tsividis, "Ultra low voltage analog design techniques for nanoscale CMOS technologies," plenary talk at the 2005 IEEE International conference on Electronic Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2005), Hong Kong, December 2005, pp. 9-14.

S. Chatterjee, Y. Tsividis and P. Kinget, "0.5 V Analog Circuit Techniques and Their Application in OTA and Filter Design," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no 12, pp. 2373 - 2387, December 2005.

Babak Soltanian and P. Kinget, "A tail current-shaping technique to reduce phase noise in LC VCOs," Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2005.

F. Zhang, Chen-Feng Chu and P. Kinget, "Voltage-controlled oscillator in the coil," Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2005.

P. Kinget, "Device mismatch and trade-offs in the design of analog circuits," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), pp.1212-1224, June 2005.

P. Kinget, S. Chatterjee, and Y. Tsividis, "0.5 V Analog Integrated Circuits," Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) workshop, (invited, 21 pages), April 2005.

F. Zhang and P. Kinget, "Low power progammable-gain CMOS distributed LNA for ultra-wideband applications," Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2005.

S. Chatterjee, T. Musah, Y. Tsividis, and P. Kinget, "Weak inversion MOS varactors for 0.5 V analog integrated filters," Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp.272-275, June 2005.

S. Chatterjee, Y. Tsividis, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V filter with PLL-based tuning in 0.18um CMOS," Digest of Technical Papers, International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2005.

2004

S. Chatterjee, Y. Tsividis, and P. Kinget, "A 0.5 V bulk input fully differential operational transconductance amplifier," Proceedings of European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp.147-150, September 2004.