June 23, 2023. Prof. Fernando Silveira from Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay presented his latest research work on design of low-power analog circuits and also methodologies to design such circuits to the LCAS team. In his talk, he provided a short overview on existing design methodologies, and how these methodologies can be applied to modern circuit topologies, such as power amplifiers, among others.
Apr 1, 2023. Congratulations to Behdad Jamadi, Farzad Ordubadi, Sakthidasan Kalidasan for their articles being accepted for publication in the IEEE SMACD Conference. Entitled: “Extending C/ID Methodology for Optimal Implementation of Discrete Time Analog Circuits,” and “Design Flow to Develop Wideband Inverter-Based Circuits Using C/ID Methodology,” two articles on analog design methodology will be presented [Link].
Feb 2, 2023. Congratulations to Asif Wahid, Jacob Atkinson, and Rajath Bindiganavile for their article being accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II. Entitled: “Noise-Aware Circuit Design Using C/ID-Invariant,” a systematic approach to design basic low-noise analog circuits, such as amplifiers and oscillators have been proposed [Link].
Jan 24, 2023. Congratulations to Alec Adair for having his article being accepted for publication in the IEEE ISCAS Conference. Entitled: “Computational Efficiency of Circuit Design and Optimization Algorithms: A Comparative Study,” a comparative study has been provided to compare performance of C/ID with the state-of-the-art [Link].
Nov 4, 2022. Prof. Jeffery Walling from Virginia Tech presented his latest research work on design of Switched-Cap Power Amplifiers (SCPAs) to the faculty and graduate students of our department. This type of circuits have wide range of applications, including MIMO Wireless systems.
June 1, 2022. Prof. Tajalli will present an invited talk in the 2022 IEEE MWSCAS, entitled: “Balanced Circuit Topologies for Wireline Communications”. This lecture will provide a more generalized form of the conventional differential circuit topologies, having wide range of applications in computing and communications [Link].
May 27, 2022. Congratulations to Jacob Atkinson and Anthony Baily for having their article accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. Entitled: “Systematic Design of Loop Circuit Topologies Using C/IDS Methodology,” an innovative approach to design and determine operating point of devices used to implement ring circuit topologies have been introduced [Link].
May 10, 2022. Congratulations to Asif Wahid and Rajath Bindiganavile for passing their PhD Research Proposal defense. Asif and Rajath are collaborating on development of a high-speed serial data transceiver based on novel signaling and modulation schemes.
April 30, 2022. Congratulations to Hayley Tankersley and Braxton Chappell to win the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Project Award, 2022. Hayley and Braxton worked on Analyzing Hardware Security against Side-Channel Attacks. In their Senior Project, they developed a simulation tool to model and analyze sensitivity of digital integrated circuits to the main types of attacks.
March 15, 2022. Congratulations to Rajath Bindiganavile, Asif Wahid, and Jacob Atkinson for their paper accepted in the IEEE RFIC’2022, being held at Denver in June this year. The title of his paper is: “A 59-fs-rms 35-GHz PLL with FoM of -241 dB in 0.18-μm BiCMOS/SiGe Technology“. The main focus of this paper is on design of high-speed and low phase noise Phase Locked Loop circuits. The target application for these type of circuits is mainly in advanced Wireless 5G and Wireline communications.