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  • Design techniques for delta sigma modulators using VCO based ADCs

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    Reddy, Karthikeyan
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    VCO-based ADCs have recently emerged as attractive alternative to conventional DeltaSigma (ΔΣ) modulator architectures. Few salient features of a VCObased ADC are: 1) the quantization noise is 1st order noise shaped, 2) it is an open loop architecture, and, 3) its implementation is mostly digital in nature. Hence, they are...
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    , Jason, Farshad, Jerry and Spencer with whom I spent some wonderful moments. Thanks Ankur for proof­

  • Efficient use of time information in analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Hu, Yue
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    Time-domain data conversion has recently drawn increased research attention for its highly digital nature in favor of process technology scaling. Also, as the time information being carried by binary voltage, time-domain operation is much less sensitive to voltage noise compared to conventional voltage domain operation. However, for analog-to-digital converter (ADC)...
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    new blood of Dr. Moon‟s group: Brandi Coker, Farshad Farahbakhshian, Jason Muhlestein, Jerry Leung

  • Energy and area efficient techniques for data converters

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    Venkatram, Hariprasath
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    Data converters are ubiquitous building blocks of a signal chain. The rapid increase in communication and connectivity devices presents new avenues for pushing the state of the art analog to digital converters. Techniques for improving resolution, bandwidth, linearity and bit-error rate, while reducing the power, energy and area is the...
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    Spencer Leuenberger, Jason Muhlestein, Farshad Farahbakhshian, Brandi Coker and Jerry Leung in their

  • Design techniques for high-performance digital PLLs and CDRs

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    Yin, Wenjing
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    Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are essential building blocks in many communication systems. Designing high performance analog PLLs in the presence of technology imposed constraints such as leakage, poor analog transistor behavior, process variability, and low supply voltage is a challenging task. To overcome these drawbacks, digital PLLs (DPLLs) have recently emerged...
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    D flip- flop (DFF) is a 1bit TDC. The digital output of TDC is filtered by the digital loop filter

  • Digital Friendly Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converters

    Creator:
    Maghami, Hamidreza
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    Conventional Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) utilize operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) in their loop filter implementation followed by multi-bit voltage domain quantizers. As CMOS integrated circuit technology scales to smaller geometries, the minimum transistor length and the intrinsic gain of the transistors decrease. Moreover, with process scaling the voltage headroom decreases...
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    Leuenberger, Hyuk Sun, Praveen Venkatachala, Ahmed El-Shater, Calvin Lee, Farshad Farhabakhshian, Jerry Leung

  • Next generation analog-to-digital conversion using time-based encoding and digital synthesis techniques

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    Muhlestein, Jason, Russell
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    The internet-of-things is a growing market segment which is based on an arrayof portable communication devices with high power efficiency. Advanced semiconductortechnology can easily improve their digital performance, but the samecannot be said for the analog blocks which are vital to their operation. Highperformance analog circuits continue to use conventional...
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    enjoying a meal together. These include Spencer Leuenberger, Farshad Farhabakhshian, Jerry Leung, Brandi

  • Ring Amplifier Design Techniques for High-Precision and High-Speed Amplification

    Creator:
    Leuenberger, Spencer
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    Demands of today's integrated society dependent on communication systems have driven the creation of ever more efficient analog-to-digital converters. For the same reasons, digital circuitry has rapidly expanded to serve all the different systems and needs of consumers. The trend of technology development has been to make these digital circuits...
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    , Tae- whan, Allen, Simon, Jason, Yang, Farshad, Brandi, Jerry, and Tim, thanks for all the support

  • Automated verilog-to-layout synthesis of ADCs using custom analog cells

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    Waters, Allen
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    A procedure for automating the design and layout of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is presented. This procedure makes use of the existing synthesis and place-and-route tools that are common in digital circuit design. A method for adding rudimentary analog cells to the standard library is described, allowing the designer to synthesize...
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    - uated) group members, who have been great friends: Jason Muhlestein, Jerry Leung, Spencer Leuenberger

  • Methods to improve the reliability and resiliency of near/sub-threshold digital circuits

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    Crop, Joseph A.
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    Energy consumption is one of the primary bottlenecks to both large and small scale modern compute platforms. Reducing the operating voltage of digital circuits to voltages where the supply voltage is near or below the threshold of the transistors has recently gained attention as a method to reduce the energy...
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    graciously hosted me for a summer: Junyu Wang, Jerry Fu, MengQin Xiao, and Hao Min. And finally my

  • Power-Efficient Design Techniques and Architectures for Scalable Submicron Analog Circuits

    Creator:
    Xu, Yang
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    As the CMOS process scales down to submicron, digital circuit performance improves, while reduced supply voltage and lower transistor intrinsic gain make it difficult to implement analog circuits in a power efficient manner. Therefore, it has become advantageous to shift more analog signal processing functions conventionally realized in voltage (analog)...
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    Waters, Jerry Leung, Farshad Farahbakhshian, Brandi Coker, Hyuk (Tim) Sun, Jason Muhlestein, Spencer