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Theses
1.
Mohan Vamsi Dunga, "Nanoscale CMOS Modeling",
Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Ali Niknejad)
2. David Amory Sobel,
"A Baseband Mixed-Signal Receiver
Front_End for 1Gbps Wireless Communications at 60GHz", Ph.D. (Advisor:
Professor Robert W. Brodersen)
3.
Nathan Michael Pletcher,
"Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Receivers for Wireless Sensor Networks", Ph.D.
(Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey)
4.
Greg Gibeling, "RDLC2: The RAMP
Model, Compiler and Description Language", M.S.
(Advisor: Professor John Wawrzynek)
5.
Alex Krasnov, "RAMP Blue: A Message-Passing
Manycore System as a Design Driver", M.S. (Advisor: Professor John
Wawrzynek)
6.
Kevin Brandon Camera,
"Efficient Programming of Reconfigurable Hardware
through Direct Verification", Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Bob
Brodersen.
7.
Seng Oon Toh, "Energy-Performance Optimization of Synthesized Digital
Integrated Circuits", M.S. (Advisor: Professor Bora Nikolic)
8.
Kenneth Duong, "Circuits
for Measurements of Flip-Flop Performance Variability", M.S. (Advisor:
Professor Bora Nikolic)
9.
Cheongyuen (Bill) Tsang, "Digitally Calibrated
Analog-to-Digital Converters in Deep Sub-micron CMOS", Ph.D. (Advisor:
Professor
Bora Nikolic)
Presentations
and Publications
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Borivoje
Nikolic,
"Design in the Power-Limited Scaling Regime," IEEE Transactions on
Electron Devices, pp. 71 - 82, Vol. 55, No. 1, January, 2008.
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Amin Arbabian, Ali
M. Niknejad,
" A Broadband
Distributed Amplifier with Internal Feedback Providing 660GHz GBW in 90nm
CMOS",
Conference
Proceedings, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp.
196-198,
February 2008, San Francisco, CA.
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Debopriyo Chowdury,
Patrick Reynaert, Ali M. Niknejad,
" A 60GHz 1V +12.3dBm
Transformer-Coupled Wideband PA in 90nm CMOS," Conference Proceedings,
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 6 - 8, February 2008, San
Francisco, CA.
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Bagher Afshar,
Yanjie Wang, Ali M. Niknejad,
"A Robust 24mW 60GHz
Receiver in 90nm Standard CMOS," Conference Proceedings, IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 6 - 8, February 2008, San
Francisco, CA.
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Nathan Pletcher,
Simone Gambini, Jan M. Rabaey,
"A 2GHz 52µW
Wake-Up Receiver with -72dBm Sensitivity Using Uncertain-IF
Architecture," Conference Proceedings,
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 525 - 526, and p.
633, February 2008, San
Francisco, CA.
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Jana van Gruenen, Jan Rabaey,
"Content Management and
Replication in the SNSP: A Distributed Service-based OS for
Sensor Networks,"
Conference Proceedings, IEEE CCNC (Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference), pp. 655-659, January 10-12, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
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Jan M. Rabaey, "A
Brand New Wireless Day", Design Automation Conference, 2008, ASPDAC
2008, Asia and South Pacific, p. 1K-1, March 21 - 24, Seoul, Korea, 2008.
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Gang Liu, Peter Haldi, Tsu-Jae King, and Ali M.
Niknejad, "Fully Integrated CMOS Power
Amplifier with Efficiency Enhancement
at Power Back-Off," IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol.
43, No. 3, pp. 60 - 70, March, 2008.
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Horowitz, M., Stark, D., Alon, E.,
"Digital Circuit Design Trends,"
IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Volume 43, Issue 4, pp. 757-761, April
2008.
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Peter Haldi, Debopriyo Chowdhury, Patrick
Reynaert, Gang Liu, Ali. M Niknejad, "A
5.8 GHz 1 V Linear Power Amplifier Using a Novel On-Chip Transformer Power
Combiner in Standard 90 nm CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp.1054-1063, May 2008
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Wei-Hung Chen, Gang Liu, Boos Zdravko, Ali M..
Niknejad, "A Highly Linear Broadband
CMOS LNA Employing Noise and Distortion Cancellation," IEEE Journal
of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 1164-1176, May 2008.
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Li, Yanmei; Wu, Chang-Ching,
Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto; Rabaey, J.M.,
"Design and Optimization of an MB-OFDM Ultra-Wideband Receiver Front-End",
Circuits and Systems for Communications, 2008. (ICCSC 2008). 4th IEEE
International Conference on Digital Object Identifier, pp.502 - 506, May 26
-28, Shanghai, China, 2008.
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Yanjie Want, Ali M. Niknejad, Vincent Gaudet,
Kris Iniewski, "A CMOS IR-UWB
Transceiver Design for Contact-Less Chip
Testing Applications", IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs, Vol. 55, No. 4,
pp. 334 - 338, April, 2008.
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Chung-Hsun Lin, Mohan V. Dunga, Darsen Lu, Ali
M. Niknejad and Chenming Hu, "Satistical
Compact Modeling of Variations in Nano MOSFETs", International
Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications, 2008. VLSI-TSA
2008., pp. 165 - 166, April 21 - 23, 2008, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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Debopriyo Chowdhury, Patrick Reynaert, Ali M.
Niknejad, "Transformer-Coupled
Power Amplifier Stability and Power Back-Off
Analysis", IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp.
507 - 511, June 2008.
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Liu, Tsung-Te; Alarcon, Louis P.; Pierson,
Matthew D.; Rabaey, Jan M., "Asynchronous
Computing in Sense Amplifier-Based Pass
Transistor Logic", 14th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous
Circuits and Systems, 2008 (ASYNC '08), pp. 105-115, April 7-10, 2008,
Newcastle University, U.K.
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Yanjie Wang, Bagher Afshar, Tuan-Yi Cheng,
Gaudet, Vincent, Niknejad, Ali, "A 2.5W
Inductorless Wideband VGA with DualFeedback DC-Offset
Correction in 90nm CMOS Tehnology, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Symposium 2008. (IEEE RFIC 2008), pp. 91-94, June
15-17, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia
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Arbabian, Amin; Niknejad, Ali M.;
"A Tapered Cascaded Multi-stage Distributed Amplifier
with 370GHz GBW in 90nm CMOS, ", Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Symposium 2008. (IEEE RFIC 2008), pp. 57 - 60, June 15-17, 2008,
Atlanta, Georgia. (Best Student Paper Award - 2nd Place)
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Adabi, Ehsan; Niknejad, Ali M.,
"Broadband Variable Passive Delay Elements Based-on
An Inductance Multiplication Technique".
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2008 (RFIC 2008), pp.
445-448, June 15-17, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Michael D. Seeman, Seth R. Sanders, Jan M.
Rabaey, "An Ultra-Low Power
Management IC for Energy-Scavaged Wireless
Sensor Nodes," IEEE 39th
Power Electronics Specialists Conference Proceedings, pp. 925 -931,
June 15 - 19, 2008, Rhodes, Greece (PESC 2008 Conference Prize Paper Award)
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Elad Alon, Mark Horowitz,
"Integrated Regulation for Energy-Efficient
Digital Circuits", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 8,
pp. 1795 - 1807, August 2008.
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