News
- Four different papers involve CISL members at the upcoming ISSCC 2010. They are:
"An Ultra-Low-Power Interference-Robust IR-UWB Transceiver Chipset Using Self-Synchronizing OOK Modulation",
"A Low-power Low-noise Direct-Conversion Front End with Digitally Assisted IIP2 Background
Self Calibration",
"A 4-Channel, 4-Beam, 24-26GHz, Spatio-Temporal RAKE Radar Transceiver in 90nm CMOS for Vehicular Radar Applications",
"A 3.5GHz Wideband ADPLL with Fractional Spur Suppression Through TDC Dithering and Feedforward Compensation".
The first two report on
work done at CISL; the first paper is by Marco Crepaldi, Chen Li, Keith Dronson, Jorge Fernandes and Prof. Peter Kinget with the second
paper being co-authored by Yiping Feng and Prof. Peter Kinget and collaborators from Toshiba. The third paper reports on work performed
by a CISL member, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy, primarily at the University of Southern California. The last paper involves the participation of a CISL member, Colin Weltin-Wu, in work primarily done at the University of Pavia, Italy in collaboration with ST Microelectronics. Also at ISSCC 2010, Prof. Peter Kinget will be co-teaching in the short course, "CMOS Phase-locked Loops for Frequency Synthesis", and Prof. Yannis Tsividis will be on an Evening Panel, "Stump the Panel".
- Frank Zhang received the 2009 Jury Award 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 to EE faculty member, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy, who has just won the Best Thesis in Experimental Research across the entire Viterbi School of Engineering at USC for the 2008-09 academic year
- CISL welcomes Assistant Professor Harish Krishnaswamy. Brief bio here
- 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.
- IEEE Spectrum November 2008 reports on CISL Research: New Class of Digital Signal Processor Wipes Out Wasted Power
- Ph.D. Student Shih-An Yu (Advisor P. Kinget) receives an IEEE
2008 Solid-State Circuits Society Pre doctoral Fellowships. (link)
Congratulations Shih-An!!
- 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!
- Prof. Yannis Tsividis is the recipient of the 2008 Guillemin-Cauer Award of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems.
Congratulations Prof. Tsividis!
- CISL members contributed 4 presentations at the IEEE RFIC
Symposium (June 15-17, 2008) in Atlanta. Congratulations to Frank
Zhang, Anuranjan Jha, and Yiping Feng.
- Bob Schell's ISSCC talk on continuous-time DSP in the news: http://www.dspdesignline.com/howto/206504118.
- CISL members contributed 4 presentations at the ISSCC 2008.
Congratulations to Ajay Balankutty, Yiping Feng, Na Lei, Bob Schell,
Colin Weltin-Wu and Shih-An Yu.
- Professor Tsividis wins the 2007 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Award "For contributions to active filters, MOS devices, and circuit
modeling." More....
- Professor Kenneth Shepard has been presented with a Faculty
Development Award. More
...
- A. Balankutty, T. C. Chih and C. Y. Chen presented their
research work at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
September 2007.
- Junhua Shen presented his research work at IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits,
June 2007.
- Nebojsa Stanic and Ajay Balankutty presented their research work at IEEE
RFIC Conference in June 2007.
- Shih-An Yu presented his research work at the International Solid-State
Circuits Conference, San Francisco in Feb. 2007.
- Babak Soltanian presented his research works at IEEE European
Solid-State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC) 2006 and at IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2006.
- Shouri Chatterjee and Nebojsa Stanic presented their work at
the Symposium for VLSI Circuits in Honolulu, Hawai'i, in June 2006.
- Ali Bastani won a best TA award for Spring 2006.
- Ali Bastani and Bob Schell won best TA awards for Fall 2005.
- Babak Soltanian presented his research at RFIC Symposium in
June 2006.
- Anuranjan, Mustapha, and Gautam presented their research in 4
contributions to the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(ISCAS) in May 2006.
- CISL contributed three presentations to the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February 2006. Congratulations
to Anup, Atsushi, K.P. Pun and Shouri!
- Babak Soltanian received Analog Devices' 2006 Outstanding Student
Award.
- Na Lei won the Super TA award for having won the Excellent TA award
three times in the last 4 semesters.
- Frank Zhang won a best TA award for E4318 (Microwave Circuit
Design) for Fall 2005 semester.
- Frank Zhang, Babak Soltanian and Yee Li presented their respective
works at Custom Integrated Circuits Conference(CICC) in San Jose, in
Sept. 2005.
- Our students presented their latest research in 4
presentations at the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in June, 2005.
Congratulations to Frank, Shouri, Anup and George!
- Our students presented their latest research in 5 presentations
at International Solid State Circuits Conferenc (ISSCC) in February,
2005. Congratulations to Glenn, Mehmet, Sara, Shouri, and Steven!
- Prof. Yannis Tsividis is recognized with the IEEE Undergraduate
Teaching Award:
More ....
- Sanjeev Ranganathan and Yannis Tsividis won the ISSCC 2003 Best Paper Award for their work, "A MOS capacitor-based discrete-time parametric amplifier with 1.2 V output swing and 3 uW power dissipation".
- Electrical Engineering students celebrate Project Lab opening. See details.