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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
April 11, 2024. Congratulations to Michael Keyser for receiving the prestigious NSF GRFP 2024 award [Link]. Michael’s research is focused on design of high-performance computing systems using advanced circuit architectures and training schemes. This is a great achievement, and wish him all the best in the continuation of his PhD work !
March 11, 2024. Congratulations to Behdad Jamadi for having his article accepted for publication in IEEE TVLSI 2024. The title of their article is: “Trade-Offs in Design of Wideband Inverter-Based Amplifiers” [Link].
January 18, 2024. Congratulations to Rajath Bindiganavile and Asif Wahid for their article being accepted for presentation in the IEEE ISCAS 2024 (Singapore). The title of their article is: “Hadamard Multi-Tone Signaling in Multi-Wire Pulse Amplitude Modulation for Next Generation Wireline Communication” [Link].
January 6, 2024. Congratulations to LCAS C/ID team, for their article being accepted for presentation in the IEEE LASCAS 2024 (Punta del Este, Uruguay). The title of their article is: “Speed-Noise-Power Trade-Offs in Design of Scaled FET Circuits Using C/ID Methodology”.
January 6, 2024. Congratulations to Rajath Bindiganavile and Asif Wahid for their article being accepted for presentation in the IEEE CICC 2024 (Denver, Colorado). The title of their article is: “A 29 GHz Sub-Sampling PLL with 25.6-fs-rms RJ based on a Discrete-Time Integrating PD in 45nm RF SOI”.
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…
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…
September 30, 2021. LCAS team, together with two other groups at the ECE department, at the University of Utah, has received a DOE award to implement future visual-based technology system to substantially reduce the cost of cooperative driving automation. This $3.5M project will be performed in collaboration with the University of Florida [LINK]. LCAS is…
April 30, 2021. Congratulations to Tina Hayward for receiving the EE Student Excellence Award (2020-2021) !
May 25, 2021. Congratulations to Rajath Bindiganavile for his paper accepted in the IEEE MWSCAS’2021, being held at the Michigan State University. The title of his paper is: “A Controllable KVCO Ring VCO Topology“. The main focus of this paper is on design of ring VCO circuits, with controllable KVCO. The target application for these…
April 30, 2021. Congratulations to Armin Tajalli for winning 2021 EE Professor Teacher Award [LINK]!
April 30, 2021. Congratulations to Sophie Wang for EE Student Excellence Award (2020-2021) [LINK] !
