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Dec 29, 2024. Congratulations to Alec Adair, for receiving the IEEE SSCS Open-Source Eco-System “Code-a-Chip” travel grant award at ISSCC 2025 ! Alec’s work, entitled Automated Current-Mirror based OTA Design and Optimization – from Specifications to Layout, will be presented at ISSCC 2025, in San Francisco, USA. The submissions for this event have been made in the form of Jupyter notebooks with .ipynb files at predefined git repositories. Alec is using C/ID algorithms to implement a low-complexity design algorithm for implementing Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs). Alec’s long-term plan is to expand these algorithms and generalize them such that they can be applied to different types of circuits.

Relevant material:

• An Introduction to C/ID (Tutorial)
• Video tutorial on C/ID

 

 

Oct 23, 2024. IEEE SSCS Utah Chapter organized a seminar, where Prof. Hyun-Sik Kim, from KAIST, South Korea, was invited to give a lecture on his latest research work. A distinguished lecturer (DL), Prof. Hyun-Sik Kim presented his research team’s work on design of advanced high-performance low-drop-out regulators. We appreciate IEEE SSCS Utah Chapter and Prof. Kim for the excellent event organized at the ECE Department, University of Utah. See the IEEE SSCS summary Here.

Sep 24, 2024. LCAS has moved its focus on developing advanced analog machine learning systems. We have got our first paper published in MWSCAS (Michael Keyser and Farzad Ordubadi). Michael Keyser also has received NSF GRFF fellowship to follow his PhD on this topic [Link]. Congratulations to both of you and looking forward to hearing more from you !

September 17, 2024. Congratulations to Sakthidasan Kalidasan for passing their PhD Research Proposal defense!  Sakthi plans to focus his research on developing ultra low noise and energy efficiency discrete-time circuits. 

July 7, 2024. Congratulations to Michael Keyser for receiving a “Student Travel Grant,” to attend and participate in IEEE MWSCAS 2024. Michael Keyser and Farzad Ordubadi co-authored an article accepted for presentation in the IEEE MWSCAS 2024 (Springfield, USA). The title of their article is: “Effect of Parameter Drift on the Accuracy of Analog CNN Accelerators” [Link]. The paper will be presented on August 11-14, 2024. 

May 18, 2024. Congratulations to Michael Keyser and Farzad Ordubadi for their article being accepted for presentation in the IEEE MWSCAS 2024 (Springfield, USA). The title of their article is: “Effect of Parameter Drift on the Accuracy of Analog CNN Accelerators” [Link]. The paper will be presented on August 11-14 2024.

April 21, 2024. Congratulations to Farzad Ordubadi for successfully passing his qualifying exam ! Good luck for the continuation of your studies. 

April 12, 2024. Professor Tajalli will present the latest results of his team’s research work as part of the “Texas A&M University: ECE Analog and Mixed-Signal Seminar Series.” The title of his presentation will be: “C/ID: A Design Methodology for Implementing Nanoscale Analog FET Circuits,” [Link]. C/ID is an advanced methodology for designing analog circuits and automatize the flow.

April 11, 2024. Congratulations to Asif Wahid for defending his PhD thesis. His research work was focused on developing high-speed wireline communication receivers [Link].  As part of this work, he developed novel circuit architectures to support orthogonal spatial and frequency domain signaling schemes. The results of his work have been published in several conference papers.

April 11, 2024. Congratulations to Rajath Bindiganavile for defending his PhD thesis. His research work was focused on developing high-speed wireline communication transmitters [Link].  As part of this work, he developed novel circuit architectures to support orthogonal spatial and frequency domain signaling schemes. The results of his work have been published in several conference papers.