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Theses

  1. Tufan Coskun Karala, Implementation of a Localization System for Sensor Networks, Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey).
  2. Renaldi Winoto, A Radio Frequency Bandpass ΣΔ A/D , M.S. (Advisor: Professor Borivoje Nikolic).
  3. Michael Alan Sheets, Standby Power Management Architecture for Deep-Submicron Systems,  Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey).
  4. Sriram Balasubramanian, Nonoscale Thin-body MOSFET Design and Applications, Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Tsu-Jae King, Co-Advisor: Professor Borivoje Nikolic).
  5. Christopher R. Baker, A System Architecture for Ambient Intelligent Environments, M.S. (Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey).
  6. Shuo-Wei Michael Chen, High-Speed, Low-Power A/D Converter for a Low-Cost UWB Sub-sampling Radio, Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Bob Brodersen).
  7. Simone Gambini, Design of Low-Voltage Analog to Digital Converter in Submicron CMOS, M.S. (Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey).
  8. Yuen Hui Chee, Ultra Low Power Transmitters for Wireless Sensor Networks, Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Jan Rabaey).
  9. Ian David O'Donnell, Robert W. Brodersen, A Baseband, Impulse Ultra-Wideband Transceiver Front-End for Low Power Applications, Ph.D. (Advisor: Professor Bob Brodersen)

Presentations and Publications

  1. J. Ammer and J.M. Rabaey, "The Energy-per-Useful-Bit Metric for Evaluating and Optimizing Sensor Network Physical Layers," Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, June 2006.
  2. Y.H. Chee, A. Niknejad,  J. Rabaey. "A 46% Efficient 0.8dBm Transmitter for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 15-17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  3. A. Sahai, S.M. Mishra, R. Tandra, N. Hoven. "Sensing for Communication: A Case for Cognitive Radios," Invited Paper, 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 27-29, 2006.
  4. A. Sahai, R. Tandra, S.M. Mishra, N. Hoven, "Fundamental Design Tradeoffs in Cognitive Radio Systems," ACM TAPAS, August 5, 2006.
  5. S.M. Mishra, A. Sahai, R.W. Brodersen,  "Cooperative Sensing among Cognitive Radios," ICC '06, June 6-10, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.
  6. J.M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A. Niknejad, B. Nikolic, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Embedding Mixed Signal Design in Systems-on-a-Chip," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, no.6, pp. 1070-1088, June 2006.
  7. D. Fang, R. Roberts, B. Nikolic, "A 6-b DAC and Analog DRAM for a MasklessLithography Interface in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference,  November 13-15, 2006, Hangzhou, China.
  8. A. Carlson, Z. Guo, S. Balasubramanian, L.-T. Pang, T.-J. King Liu, B. Nikolic, "FinFET SRAM with Enhanced Read/Write Margins,"  IEEE International SOI Conference,  pp. 105-106, October 2-5, 2006, Niagra Falls, New York.
  9. D. Markovic, R.W. Brodersen, B. Nikolic, "A 70GOPS, 34mW Multi-carrier MIMO Chip in 3.5mm2," 2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 196-197, June 15-17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  10. S.D. Vamvakos, V. Stojanovic, J.L. Zerbe, C.W. Werner, D. Draper, B. Nikolic, "PLL On-Chip Jitter Measurement: Analysis and Design,"  2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 90-91, June 15-17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  11. C.W. Tsang, Y. Chiu, B. Nikolic, "A 1.2V, 10.8mW, 500kHz Sigma-delta Modulator with 84dB SNDR and 96dB SFDR,"  2006 Symposium of VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 202-203, June 15-17, 2006.
  12. L.T. Pang, B. Nikolic, "Impact of Layout on 90nm CMOS Process Prameter Fluctuations," 2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 84-85,  June 15-17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  13. D. Markovic, B. Nikolic, R.W. Brodersen, "Power and Area Efficient VLSI Architectures for Communication Signal Processing," ICC '06, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on  Communications, Vol. 7, pp. 3323-3328, June  11-15, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.
  14. A.M. Niknejad, M. Bohsali, E. Adabi, B. Heydari, "Integrated Circuit Transmission-line Transformer Power Combiner for Millimetre-wave Applications," Electronic Letters, Vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 290-291, March 2007.
  15. S.B.T. Wang, A.M. Niknejad, R.W. Brodersen, "Design of a Sub-mW 960-MHz UWB CMOS LNA," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 41, pp. 2449-2456, November 2006.
  16. Z. Deng,  A.M. Niknejad, "9.6/4.8 GHz Dual-Mode Voltage-controlled Oscillator with Injection Locking," Electronic Letters, Vol. 42, pp. 1344-1343, November 9, 2006.
  17. P. Haldi, G. Liu, A.M. Niknejad, "CMOS Compatible Transformer Power Combiner," Electronic Letters, Vol. 42, no. 19, pp. 1091-1092, September 2006.
  18. M.V. Dunga, C.-H. Lin, X. Xi, D. Lu, A.M. Niknejad, C. Hu, "Modeling Advanced FET Technology in a Compact Model," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 53,  pp. 1971-1978, September 2006.
  19. S. Gambini, J.M. Rabaey, " A 6b 1.5MS/s A/D with 0.5V Supply,"  Proceedings of the 2006 Asian Solid State Circuits Conference, November 2006, Hanghzou, China.
  20. N. Poobuapheun, W-H. Chen, Z. Boos, A.M. Niknejad, "Quadrature Demodulator for Multi-Band Direct-Conversion Receivers," Proceedings of the CICC, pp. 797-800, 2006.
  21.  J.T. Sauth, S.R. Sanders, "Power Supply Rejection for Common-Source Linear RF Amplifiers: Theory and Measurements,"  IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium,  June 11-13, 2006.
  22. S.B.T. Wang, A.M. Niknejad, R.W. Brodersen, "Circuit Modeling Methodology for UWB Omnidirectional Small Antennas,"  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, pp. 871-877, April 2006.
  23. N. Poobuaphen, W-H. Chen, Z. Boos, A.M. Niknejad,  "A 1.5V 0.7-2.5GHz CMOS Quadrature Demodulator for Multi-band Direct-conversion Receivers," Proceedings of the CICC, pp. 797-800, 2006.
  24. G. Liu, T-J. King, A.M. Niknejad,  "A 1.2V, 2.4GHz Fully Integrated Linear CMOS Power Amplifier with Efficiency Enhancement," Proceedings of the CICC, pp. 389-392, 2006. 
  25. B. Afshar, A.M. Niknejad, "X/Ku Band CMOS LNA Design Techniques," Proceedings of the CICC, pp. 389-392, 2006.
  26. J.M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A.M. Niknejad, B. Nikolic, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Embedding Mixed-Signal Design in Systems-on-Chip," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1070-1088, June 2006.
  27. D. Petrovic, K. Ramchandran, J.M. Rabaey, "Overcoming Untuned Radios in Wireless Networks with Network Coding," IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, Vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 2649-2657, June 2006.
  28. J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, B. Otis, F. Burghardt, Y. H. Chee, N. Pletcher, M. Sheets, H. Qin, "Ultra-Low-Power Design," IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, pp. 23-29, July/August 2006.
  29. Y.H. Chee, A.M. Niknejad, J.M. Rabaey, "An Ultra-Low-Power Injection Locked Transmitter for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 1740-1748, Aug. 2006.
  30. J.M. Rabaey, F. De Bernardinis, A.M. Niknejad, B. Nikolic, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Embedding Mixed-Signal Design in Systems-on-Chip," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 1070-1088, June 2006.
  31. J. van Greunen, Y. Markovsky, C. R. Baker, J.M. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz, "ZUMA: A Platform for Smart-Home Environments; The Case for Infrastructure," In Proceedings of IET Intelligent Environments, 2006.
  32. C.R. Baker, Y. Markovsky, J. van Greunen, J.M. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz, "ZUMA: A Platform for Smart-Home Environments," In Proceedings of IET Intelligent Environments, 2006.
  33. M. Sheets, F. Burghardt, T. Karalar, J. Ammer, Y.H. Chee, J.M. Rabaey, "A Power-Managed Protocol Processor for Wireless Sensor Networks," Digest of Papers 2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2006.
  34. T. C. Karalar, J.M. Rabaey, "An RF ToF Based Ranging Implementation for Sensor Networks," 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 3347-3352, 2006.
  35. R. Marculescu, J.M. Rabaey, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Is 'Network' the Next 'Big Idea' in Design?" Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2006.    
  36.  B. Afshar, A. Niknejad, " X/Ku Band CMOS LNA Design Techniques," IEEE 2006 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 389-392, September 2006.
  37. D. Cabric, A. Tkachenko, R.W. Brodersen, "Experimental Study of Spectrum Sensing Based on Energy Detection and Netwok Cooperation," The 2nd Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), TAPAS Workshop, August 2006.
  38. D. Cabric, A. Tkachenko, R.W. Brodersen, "Cognitive Radio Experiments Using Reconfigurable BEE2," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2006.
  39. D. Cabric, A. Tkachenfo, R.W. Brodersen, "A Unified Hardware/Software Runtime Environment for FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Computers Using BORPH,"  International Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis, October 2006.
  40. D. Cabric, A. Tkachenko, R.W. Brodersen, "Spectrum Sensing Measurement Using Pilot, Energy, and Collaborative Detection,"  Military Communication Conference (MILCOM), October 2006.
  41. H. K.-H. So, R.W. Brodersen, "Improving Usability of FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Computers through Operating System Support," Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2006, Madrid, Spain.
  42. H. K.-H. So, A. Tkachenko and R.W. Brodersen, "A Unified Hardware/Software Runtime Environment for FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Computers using BROPH," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, pp. 259-264, 2006, Seoul, Korea.
  43. N. Poobuapheun, W.-H. Chen, Z. Boos, and A.M. Niknejad,  "A 1.5V  0.7-2.5CHz CMOS Quadrature Demodulator for Multi-Band Direct-Conversion Receivers," Proceedings of the 2006 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 797-800, September 10-13, 2006, San Jose, CA.
  44. A. Parsons, D. Backer, C. Chang, D. Chapman, H. Chen, P. Crescini, C. de Jesus, C. Dick, P. Droz, D. MacMahon, K. Meder, J. Mock, V. Nagpal, B. Nikolic, A. Parsa, B. Richards, A. Siemion, J. Warzynek, D. Werthimer, M. Wright, "PetaOp/Second FPGA Signal Processing for SETI and Radio Astronomy,"  Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals and Computers, November 2006, Pacific Grove, CA.
  45. Z. Zhang, L. Dolecel, B. Nikolic, V. Anantharam, M. Wainwright, "Investigation of Error Floors of Structured Low-Density Parity-Check Codes by Hardware Emulation," Proceedings of Globecom 2006, November - December 2006, San Francisco, CA.
  46. M.S.-W. Chen, R.W. Brodersen, "Digital Complex Signal Processing Techniques for Impulse Radio," Proceedings Globecom Conference 2006, November 27 - December 1, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
  47. M.S.-W. Chen, R.W. Brodersen, "Implementation Considerations for a Sub-sampling Impulse Radio," Proceedings of the  IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wideband, September 24-25, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
  48. D. Cabric, I.D. O'Donnell, M.S.-W.Chen, R.W. Brodersen, "Spectrum Sharing Radios", IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine," pp. 30-45, Second Quarter 2006.
  49. I.D. O'Donnell,R. W. Brodersen, "A  Flexible, Low Power, DC-1GHz  Impulse-UWB Transceiver Front-end," Proceedings of the International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), pp. 275-9, September, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
  50. I.D. O'Donnell, R.W. Brodersen, "A  2.3mW Baseband Impulse-UWB Transceiver Front-End in CMOS," VLSI Circuits Technical Digest, pp. 248-9, June, 2006.
  51. Sebastian Hoyos, Brian M. Sadler, “Frequency-Domain Implementation of the Transmitted-Reference Ultra-Wideband Receiver ", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 54, No. 4,  pp. 1754 – 1753, April 2006.
  52. F. Sheikh, M. Ler, R. Zlatanovici, D. Markovic, B. Nikolic, "Power-Performance Optimal DSP Architectures and ASIC Implementation", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,  October 29 - November 1, 2006. Pacific Grove, CA.
  53. D. Markovic, B. Richards, R.W. Brodersen, "Technology Driven DSP Architecture Optimization within a High-Level Block Diagram Based Design Flow ", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, October  29 - November 1, 2006.  Pacific Grove, CA.
  54. A. Parsons, D. Backer, Chen Chang, D. Chapman, H. Chen, P. Crescini, C. de Jesus, C. Dick, P. Droz, D. MacMahon, K. Meder, J. Mock, V. Nagpal, B. Nikolic, A. Parsa, B. Richards, A. Siemion, J. Wawrzynek, D. Werthimer, M. Wright, "PetaOp/Second FPGA Signal Processing for SETI and Radio Astronomy ", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, October 29 - November 1, 2006. Pacific Grove, CA.
  55. D. Cabric, M. S.W. Chen, D. Sobel, S. Wang, J. Yang, R.W. Brodersen, "Novel Radio Architectures for UWB, 60 GHz and Cognitive Wireless Systems", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2006, Article ID 17957.
  56. B. Nikolic, L.-T. Pang, "Measurements and Analysis of Process Variability in 90nm CMOS", 8th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, pp. 505-508, October, 2006.
  57. L.-T. Pang, B. Nikolic, "Impact of Layout on 90nm CMOS Process Parameter Fluctuations",  2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 69-70, 2006.
  58. S. Kao, R. Zlatanovici, B. Nikolic, "A 240ps 64b Carry-Lookahead Adder in 90nm CMOS", IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Circuits, pp. 1735-1744,  San Francisco, CA., February 6-9, 2006.
  59. Z. Hyder, J. Wawrzynek, "Defect Tolerance in Multiple-FPGA Systems", IEEE Proceedings: Computers and Digital  Techniques, Volume 153, Issue  3,  pp. 139 - 145, May 2, 2006.
  60. J. van Greunen,  Y. Markovsky, C.R. Baker, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz, "ZUMA: A Platform for Smart-home Environments - The Case for Infrastructure",  2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Volume 1,  pp. 257 - 266, July 5-6, 2006.
  61. C.R. Baker, Y. Markovsky, J.V. Greunen, J. Rabaey, J. Wawrzynek, A. Wolisz, "ZUMA: A Platform for Smart-home Environments", 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Volume 1, pp. 51-60, July 2006.
  62. J.M. Rabaey, "Short Distance Wireless and Its Opportunities", IEEE Dallas/CAS Workshop on Design, Applications, Integration and Software, pp. 1 -8, October, 2006, Dallas, Texas.
  63. K. Vandenborre, C. Milligan, M. Rabaey, H. Tromp, "Challenges in Semantic Web Technologies: A First Iteration towards a Root Cause Analysis"  Technology Management for the Global Future (PICMET 2006), Volume 3, pp. 1290 - 1293, July 2006, Istabul, Turkey.