NEWS

2023

Subhajit Ray received a 2023 SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Petar Barac was the recipient of a "Millman Teaching Assistant Award" from the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2023 for his exemplary service as a teaching assistant.

Ph.D. student Petar Barac was the recipient of the "Graduate Service Award" from the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2023.

M.S./Ph.D. student Hongzhe Jiang received the "Armstrong Award for MS students" awarded to one M.S. student per year by the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2023.

2022

Zhaowen Wang received a 2022 SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Zhaowen Wang received the "Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award" at Columbia University in May 2022.

Rui (Ray) Xu received a NASA Graduate Research Fellowship.

2020

Peter Kinget is the inaugural recipient of the “IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Innovative Education Award” (Feb. 2020)
Guoxiang Han was the recipient of a "Millman Teaching Assistant Award" from the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2020 for his exemplary service as a teaching assistant.

2019

Sarthak Kalani received the "Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award" at Columbia University for his research on High Dynamic Range ADCs for the CERN LHC in collaboration with the Columbia Physics Nevis Laboratory in May 2019.
Guoxiang Han was the recipient of a "Millman Teaching Assistant Award" from the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University for her exemplary service as a teaching assistant in May 2019.
Zhaowen Wang received an "EE MS Award of Excellence" for his outstanding academic performance during his MS studies at the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2019.

2018

Matt Bajor, and Peter Kinget received the "Best Student Paper Award – 3rd Place” at the 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium for “An 8-Element, 1-3GHz Direct Space-to-Information Converter for Rapid, Compressive-Sampling Direction-of-Arrival Finding Utilizing Pseudo- Random Antenna-Weight Modulation”
D. de Godoy, S. Xia, W. Fernandez, X. Jiang, and Peter Kinget received the “Best Demo Award” at the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) for “An Ultra-Low-Power Custom Integrated Circuit based Sound-Source Localization System”

Shravan Nagam and Peter Kinget received the “Outstanding Student Paper – Runner up (2nd place)” award at the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) for “A-236.3dB FoM Sub-Sampling Low-Jitter Supply- Robust Ring-Oscillator PLL for Clocking Applications with Feed-Forward Noise-Cancellation,” April 2018

2017

Yang Xu will present his research on "A Chopping Switched-Capacitor RF Receiver with Integrated Blocker Detection, +31dBm OB-IIP3, and +15dBm OB-B1dB" at the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits in June 2016. Congratulations Yang!
Jianxun Zhu received the "Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award" at Columbia University for his research on Frequency-Translational Quadrature-Hybrid Receivers in May 2017.
Guoxiang Han was the recipient of a "Millman Teaching Assistant Award" from the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University for her exemplary service as a teaching assistant in May 2017.
Guoxiang Han received the "Armstrong Award for MS students" awarded to one M.S. student per year by the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University in May 2017.

2016

Yang Xu will present his research on "A Chopping Switched-Capacitor RF Receiver with Integrated Blocker Detection, +31dBm OB-IIP3, and +15dBm OB-B1dB" at the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits in June 2016. Congratulations Yang!

Tugce Yazicigil will present a paper entitled "Time-Segmented Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter for Rapid Detection of up to 6 Interferers in the 2.7-3.7GHz PCAST Band" at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium in June 2016. This research was a collaboration with Tanbir Haque (Ph.D.), Manoj Kumar (M.S.), J. Yuan (B.S.) and co-supervised by John Wright. Congratulations on a great team effort!

Our group has four papers at the 2016 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in May.
- Tugce Yazicigil will present an invited paper on "RF Circuit and System Innovations for a New Generation of Wireless Terminals" that is co-authored by Tanbir Haque, Jianxun Zhu and Yang Xu. Congratulations!
- Sarthak Kalani will present his research in collaboration with Shravan Nagam on "Charge Pump Optimization and Output Spur Reduction in VCO-based OTAs for Active-RC Analog Filters." Congratulations Sarthak and Shravan!
- Scott Newton will present a paper on "A 4th-Order Analog Continuous-Time Filter Designed Using Standard Cells and Automatic Digital Logic Design Tools." Congratulations Scott.
- M.S. students Zhongjie Dai and Sanket Gupta in collaboration with Ph.D. student Sarthak Kalani will present a poster on "3.7uW 0.8V VCO-Integrator-Based High-Efficiency Capacitor-Free Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator." Congrats Zhongjie, Sanket and Sarthak!

Tugce Yazicigil received the "Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award" (link) for her research on Compressive Sampling Applications in Rapid RF Spectrum Scanning, co-advised by John Wright. Congratulations Tugce!

Jianxun Zhu will present his research on "Very-Low-Noise Frequency-Translational Quadrature-Hybrid Receiver for Carrier Aggregation" at the 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). ISSCC is the premier conference for the latest advances in IC design research with presentations from industrial and academic research from all over the world. Jianxun will also present a live demonstration of his chip receiving 6 wireless signals concurrently at the ISSCC Demo Sessions. Congratulations Jianxun! EE Website (pdf)

Jianxun Zhu received an Pre-doctoral Achievement Award from the Solid-State Circuits Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (pdf). The award recognizes Ph.D. students specializing in IC design for an excellent academic record and outstanding doctoral research achievements among a competitive slate of applicants from world-wide premier academic institutions. Congratulations Jianxun! EE Website (pdf)

Peter Kinget will present an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Webinar on "Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How" in Jan. 2016. (link with video and slides)(pdf)

2015

Tugce Yazicigil was selected to participate in the 2015 MIT Rising Stars workshop. This annual workshop unites the top women in EECS for two day of research presentations and informal panels and is aimed at those navigating the initial stages of their academic career. Tugce was further selected to give a presenation on her research entitled "Enabling 5/Next-G Wireless Communications with Energy-EPicient, Compressed Sampling Rapid Spectrum Sensors" (pdf). Congratulations Tugce! SEAS Website (pdf)
Tugce Yazicigil won Second place at the Bell Labs Future X Days Student Research Competition with her research on "Enabling Cognitive Radio Systems with Compressed-Sampling Rapid Spectrum Sensors." Only 10 students were invited to present their innovative research at Bell Labs out of 50 applicants. Congratulations Tugce! SEAS Website (pdf)
Jianxun Zhu will present his research on "A Field-Programmable Noise-Canceling Wideband Receiver with High- Linearity Hybrid Class-AB-C LNTAs" at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in Sept. 2015. Congratulations Jianxun!
Jianxun Zhu and Peter Kinget received the “Best Poster Award” at the 2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) for "A Field-Programmable Noise-Canceling Wideband Receiver with High-Linearity Hybrid Class- AB-C LNTAs,” Sept. 2015
Peter Kinget will present an invited talk on "Scaling Analog Circuits into Deep Nanoscale CMOS: Obstacles and Ways to Overcome Them" at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in Sept. 2015.
Yang Xu presented "A Switched-Capacitor RF Front End with Embedded Programmable High Order Filtering and a +15dBm OB-B1dB" at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) in June 2015. He received the Best Student Paper Award -- 2nd place for his paper. Congratulations Yang!
Tugce Yazicigil will present her research on "A 2.7-3.7GHz Rapid Interferer Detector Exploiting Compressed Sampling with a Quadrature Analog-to-Information Converter" at the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Tugce is co-advised by Prof. J. Wright and collaborated with Tanbir Haque (also at Interdigital Communications), Michael Whalen, and Jeffrey Yuan. Congratulations for a great team effort! The team will also present a demo at the ISSCC Demo Sessions showing a live demonstration of compressive-sampling interferer detector. A video is available here.
Teng Yang (Seok Group) will present his research on "In-situ Techniques for In-field Sensing of NBTI Degradation in an SRAM Register File" at the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Teng is co-advised by Peter Kinget. Congratulations Teng!
At the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco (CA, USA), Peter Kinget will present an invitedtutorial on "Designing Ultra-Low-Voltage Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits."

2014

A new company -- Seamless Devices -- was formed and funded to develop and commercialize the switched-mode analog signal processing technology developed in the group. Here is the press release (pdf). SEAS Website (pdf). Columbia Front Page (pdf).

Peter Kinget will present an invited Tutorial at the 2014 IEEE Asian Solid-State Conference in KaoHsiung (Taiwan) on "Low Voltage Analog and RF Circuits in Scaled Technologies."

Our group in collaboration with the research groups of John Kymissis and John Wright has been awarded a $750K National Science Foundation EARS award (EE Webpage News (pdf)) to research scanning and filtering technologies for future cognitive radios. The project is also in collaboration with Dr. Ariela Zeira from InterDigital Communications (see website (pdf). The EARS program focusses on "Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum."

Chun-Wei Hsu will present his research on "A Supply-Scalable Differential Amplifier With Pulse-Controlled Common-Mode Feedback" at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). Congratulations Chun-Wei.

Chun-Wei Hsu will present his paper entitled "A 40MHz 4th-order Active-UGB-RC Filter using VCO-Based Amplifiers with Zero Compensation" at the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). Congratulations Chun-Wei!

Peter Kinget was quoted in the PRESS in an article on "The Internet of You" (pdf) that appeard in MIT Technology Review News and Analysis. The article related to the EnHANTs project.

Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy presented an invited paper at the International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) on "RF Channelizer Architectures using Iterative Downconversion for Concurrent or Fast-Switching Spectrum Analysis" based on joint work between our groups (students: K. Tripurari, Y. Xu, L. Zhang, D. Gidony, B. Jovanovic). Congratulations to all.

Jayanth Kuppambatti's March 2014 JSSC paper "Current Reference Pre-Charging Techniques for Low Power Zero-Crossing Pipeline-SAR ADCs" appeared in the Most Popular of Journal of Solid State Circuits (top 25) in March, April, and May.

Rabia Tugce Yazicigil was the recipient of a "Millman Teaching Assistant Award" from the Electrical Engineering Dept. (link) for her exemplary service as a teaching assistant. Congratulations Tugce!

Baradwaj Vigraham and Jayanth Kuppambatti received the "Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award" (link) for their research on Switched Mode Analog Circuits. Congratulations Baradwaj and Jayanth!

Yang Xu and Jianxun Zhu will present the paper "A Blocker-Tolerant RF Front End with Harmonic-Rejecting N-Path Filtering," at the2014 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). Congratulations Yang and Jianxun.

Jayanth Kuppambatti's paper "Current Reference Pre-Charging Techniques for Low Power Zero-Crossing Pipeline-SAR ADCs" appeared in the March issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. Congratulations Jayanth!

Baradwaj Vigraham's paper "A Self-dutycycled and Synchronized UWB Pulse-Radio Receiver SoC with Automatic Threshold-Recovery Based Demodulation" appeared in the March issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. Congratulations Baradwaj!

Chengrui Le and Peter Kinget are co-recipients of the "Student Poster Award 2nd Place" for "Metacapacitor: Large Area, Low Cost, High Performance Capacitors for Power Electronics," presented at the FlexTech Alliance Conference in Feb. 2014 (co-authors are S. Yang, B. Van Tassell, S. Liu, E. S. Leland, D. A. Steingart, S. O'Brien, and I. Kymissis). Congratulations Chengrui!

Jayanth Kuppambatti and Baradwaj Vigraham will present their research on switched mode signal processing at the 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2014): "A 0.6V 70MHz 4th-Order Continuous-Time Butterworth Filter with 55.8dB SNR, 60dB THD at +2.8dBm Output Signal Power." Congratulations Jayanth and Baradwaj!

Teng Yang (co-advised with Mingoo Seok) will present the paper "0.6-to-1.0V 279um2, 0.92uW Temperature Sensor with Less Than +3.2/-3.4 degC Error for On-Chip Dense Thermal Monitoring" at the 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2014). Congratulaions Teng!

Jin Zhou (Krishnaswamy Group) will present the paper, co-authored by Peter Kinget, "A Blocker-Resilient Wideband Receiver with Low- Noise Active Two-Point Cancellation of >0dBm TX Leakage and TX Noise in RX Band for FDD/Co-existence" at the 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2014). Congratulations Jin!

2013

The 2013 summer research students presented their work at the EnHANTs poster and demo session.

Chengrui Le will present a paper at the 2013 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) entitled: "A Stackable Switched-Capacitor DC/DC Converter IC for LED Drivers with 90% Efficiency." The paper is in collaboration with Prof. Seth Sanders from Berkeley and his students Mitchell Kline and Daniel Gerber. Congratulations Chengrui, Mitchell and Daniel!

Jayanth Kuppambatti will present "A Low Power Zero-Crossing Pipeline-SAR ADC with On-Chip Dynamically Loaded Pre-Charged Reference" at the 2013 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). Congratulations Jayanth.

Peter Kinget will present a plenary talk "Scaling Analog Circuits" at the 2013 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC).

Jayanth Kuppambatti's paper "A radiation-hard dual channel 4-bit pipeline for a 12-bit 40 MS/s ADC prototype with extended dynamic range for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter readout electronics upgrade at the CERN LHC" appears in the September issue of the Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). This research was done in collaboration with Jaro Ban, Tim Andeen and Gustaaf Brooijmans of the Columbia Physics Nevis Lab.

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 theInterdigital 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." SEAS Website News Item (pdf)

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. 2006and #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

Our group became part of Microelectronics Design Center and received associated funding from New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research.