- Jan 23 2022, Research Seminar (remote), Silicon Laboratories
(Austin, Texas): "A Very High Linearity Twin Phase Interpolator with
a Low-Noise, Wideband Delta Quadrature DLL for High-Speed Data-Link
Clocking"
- December 11, 2020, Research Seminar (remote), Silicon
Laboratories (Austin, Texas): "A High Accuracy, Multi-Phase
Injection-Locked, 8-Phase, 7GHz Clock Generator in 65nm with 7bit
Phase Interpolators for High-Speed Data Links"
- December 12 2019, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC),
Workshop on New Trajectories for Analog Electronics, IBM Research,
(Almaden, CA): "The World is Analog - Future Challenges"
- November 21 2019, IEEE SSCS/CASS Atlanta Joint Chapter Seminar,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute
of Technology (Atlanta, GA): "Connecting Bits to the Physical World"
- September 26 2019, Distinguished Lecture, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University (Boston, MA):
"Connecting Bits to the Physical World"
- August 20 2019, Invited Talk, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Benelux Chapter, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): "A 420
picoWatt Wake-Up Receiver; Are you serious?"
- July 2 2019, Research Seminar in 'ATX - TechTalk Tuesdays,'
Cirrus Logic (Austin, Texas), "Connecting Bits to the Physical
World"
- April 24 2019, Electrical and Systems Engineering Seminar,
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): "Connecting Bits to the
Physical World"
- March 8 2019, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin,
Texas): "A 420 picoWatt Wake-Up Receiver; Are you serious?"
- November 29 2018, Invited Talk, US Army CERDEC Lab, (Aberdeen,
Maryland): "Compressed Sensing Based Radio Architectures for Rapidly
Finding Interferers in the Spectral and Spatial Domains"
- October 17 2018, Invited Talk, Naval Research Laboratory,
(Washington, DC): "Compressed Sensing Based Radio Architectures for
Rapidly Finding Interferers in the Spectral and Spatial Domains"
- August 9 2018, Invited Talk, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Benelux Chapter, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium):
"Ambient-Aware Receiver Systems for Next Generation Shared Spectrum
Access Deployments���or���How to Leverage Compressed Sampling in RF
Scanners"
- November 4 2017, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin,
Texas): "Ambient-Aware Receiver Systems for Next Generation Shared
Spectrum Access Deployments"
- March 29 2017, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society Ireland Chapter, (Tyndall Institute, Cork, Ireland):
"RF Circuit and System Innovations to Enable a New Generation of
Wireless Terminals: Field programmability, Ultra-high Linearity, and
Compressive Spectrum Scanning"
(slides)
- October 31 2016, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society Macau Chapter, (Macau, SAR, China): "RF Circuit and
System Innovations to Enable a New Generation of Wireless Terminals:
Field programmability, Ultra-high Linearity, and Compressive Spectrum
Scanning"
- September 29 2016, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin,
Texas): "Frequency Translational Quadrature Hybrid Receivers for Carrier
Aggregation"
- July 28 2016, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Society Benelux Chapter, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium):
"Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How"
- May 20 2016, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Society Boston Chapter, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston,
MA): "Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How"
- January 11 2016, IEEE SSCS Distinguished
Lecture, IEEE
Solid-State Circuits Webinar: "Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How"
- July 10 2015, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin, Texas):
"RF Circuit and System Innovations for a New Generation of Wireless
Terminals"
- May 27, 2015, University Seminar Series Lecture, GlobalFoundries (Malta,
NY): "Scaling Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How"
- April 30, 2015, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter, (Santa Clara, CA): "Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How"
- November 13, 2014, Distinguished Lecture, Dept. of Electrical
Engineering, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan): "Scaling
Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How"
- November 12, 2014, Research Seminar, United Microelectronics (Hsin-Chu,
Taiwan): "Scaling Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How"
- November 12, 2014, Research Seminar, VIA Telecom (Taipei,
Taiwan): "Scaling Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How"
- September 20, 2014, Invited Lecture, 2014 IEEE North Jersey Advanced
Communications Symposium (Hoboken, NJ): "Ultra Low Power, Short Range
Wireless Communications: From Using RF Pulses To Ultrasound Clicks."
- August 20, 2014, Research Seminar, NXP Semiconductors (Leuven, Belgium):
"Ultra Low Power, Short Range Wireless Communications: From Using RF
Pulses To Ultrasound Clicks."
- April 11, 2014, Invited Lecture, Workshop on "Connected, Autonomous
Systems" organized by NY EDS/SSCS Chapter, (New York, NY): "Ultra low
power, short range wireless communications: from using RF pulses to
ultrasound clicks."
- April 2, 2014, Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas at
Austin, (Austin, Texas): "Scaling Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How."
- March 19, 2014, Microelectronics Colloquium, T.U. Delft, (Delft,
The
Netherlands): "Scaling
Analog and RF Circuits: Why and How."
- December 4, 2013, Keynote for the Honorary Professorship of
M. Pelgrom at the Sint-Barbara Festival at the K.U.Leuven Engineering
and Applied Sciences School (Leuven, Belgium): "The Perfect Match: Why
It Matters for Transistors."
- November 22, 2013, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories
(Austin, Texas): "Scaling Analog Circuits."
- October 9, 2013, invited tutorial, IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold
Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (Monterrey, CA):
"Designing Analog and RF Circuits for Ultra-Low Voltage Supplies."
- Sept. 19 2013: European Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ESSCIRC); Bucharest, Romania, plenary talk, "Scaling
Analog Circuits."
- July 26, 2013, Research Seminar, IMEC Holst Centre (Eindhoven,
The Netherlands): "Ultra low power, short range wireless communications:
from using RF pulses to ultrasound clicks."
- July 26, 2013, Research Seminar, NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven,
The Netherlands): "Power and Area-Efficient Reference Charging
Techniques for Pipeline ADCs."
- July 16, 2013, Research Seminar, Broadcom Corporation (Bunnik,
The Netherlands): "Power and Area-Efficient Reference Charging
Techniques for Pipeline ADCs."
- March 5, 2013, Remote Research Seminar, ST Microelectronics
(Noida, Delhi, India): "Trends in CMOS Technologies: An Analog
Designer's Perspective."
- January 9, 2013, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin, Texas):
"Power and Area- Efficient Reference Charging Techniques for Pipeline
ADCs."
- October 24, 2012, Research Seminar, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments
(Dallas, TX): "Ultra low power, short range wireless communications:
from using RF pulses to ultrasound clicks."
- July 25, 2012, Research Seminar, NXP Research and IMEC Holst Centre
(Eindhoven, The Netherlands): "Ultra low power, short range wireless
communications: from using RF pulses to ultrasound clicks."
- July 17, 2012, Research Seminar, Ansem N.V. (Heverlee, Belgium): "Ultra
low power, short range wireless communications: from using RF pulses to
ultrasound clicks."
- July 16, 2012, IMEC Academy IDESA Short Course (Leuven, Belgium),
invited: "Ultra low voltage analog + RF design techniques."
- June 2012 Workshop on Recent Development in Active and Passive
CMOS Mixer Design and Applications, invited, IEEE Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) (Montreal, Canada) "Linearity
Improvement Of Mixers Using Digitally Assisted Mismatch Calibration And
Interferer Cancellation."
- April 27, 2012, Research Seminar, Silicon Laboratories (Austin,
Texas): "Ultra low power, short range wireless communications: from
using RF pulses to ultrasound clicks."
- April 26, 2012, Research Seminar at the Advanced Design Group,
Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, Oregon): "Voltage scaling trade-offs in
VCOs and PLLs."
- July 14, 2011, Research Seminar at NXP Research, NXP (Eindhoven,
The Netherlands): "Enhancing RF Receivers using Interference
Cancellation and Digital Assistance."
- June 23, 2011, Research Seminar, ST Microelectronics (Grenoble,
France): "Enhancing RF Receivers using Interference Cancellation and
Digital Assistance."
- March 17, 2011, Seminar in Electronics and Communications,
Universit�� catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium): "Nanoscale
CMOS: Challenges and Opportunities for Cyber Physical/Bio Systems."
- February 2011, International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC), Ultra-low Voltage VLSIs for Energy-efficient Systems Forum,
invited, (San Francisco, CA): "Voltage Scaling Trade-offs in VCOs,
PLLs and I/Os."
- Jan. 15, 2011, IEEE SSCS Distinguished
Lecture, IIT Delhi IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Chapter (Delhi, India):
"Advanced Design Techniques for Integrated Voltage Controlled Oscillators"
- Jan. 5, 2011, Keynote talk at the 24th International Conference
on VLSI Design at IIT Madras (Chennai, India): "Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS
Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates."
(slides pdf 10MB)
- May 20, 2010: University of Texas at Austin; ICs research
seminar series, Austin,
TX, "Enhancing RF Receivers
using Interference Cancellation and Digital Assistance"
- March 8, 2010, IEEE SSCS Distinguished
Lecture, Benelux IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Chapter and IMEC
(Leuven, Belgium): "Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS
Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates."
- February 2010, International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC), Short Course on CMOS Phase-Locked Loops for Frequency
Synthesis, invited, (San Francisco, CA): "Transistor-Level Design of
Critical PLL Circuits"
- February 4,
2010, Electrical and Computer
Engineering Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA):
"Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale
the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates."
- Nov. 20,
2009,
Research Seminar University of Texas at Dallas, TxACE Texas
Analog Center of Excellence (Dallas, TX): "Designing Analog
and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale the Supply,
Reduce the Area and Use Digital
Gates." (slides)
- Nov. 11,
2009,
Research Seminar Technion (Haifa, Israel): "Designing Analog
and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale the Supply,
Reduce the Area and Use Digital
Gates." (slides)
- Nov. 8,
2009, IEEE
SSCS Distinguished Lecture, Tel Aviv University and IEEE SSCS
Israel Chapter (Tel Aviv, Israel): "Short Course: Designing Analog
and RF Circuits for Ultralow Supply Voltages" (slides)
- Sept. 24, 2009, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, National Taiwan University and IEEE SSCS
Taipei Chapter (Taipei, Taiwan): "Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS
Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates."
- Sept. 22, 2009, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Chinese
University of Hong Kong and IEEE EDS/SCSS Hong Kong Chapter (Hong Kong SAR): "Designing
Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area
and Use Digital Gates."
- July 28, 2009, University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France): "Designing Analog and RF Circuits in
Nanoscale CMOS Technologies: Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates."
- July 23, 2009, Thomson Labs (Paris, France): "Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags."
- Feb. 19 2009: CMOS Emerging
Technologies Workshop, Banff; "Ultra-low voltage circuit design."
- July 8 2008: LETI-Minatec,
Grenoble, France, "Designing Analog and RF Circuits for
Ultra-low Supply Voltages."
- June 24 2008: IMEC Holst
Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
"Analog and RF IC Design: From Ultra-low Voltage to
Ultra-wideband."
- June 23 2008: Technical University of
Delft; Dimes colloquium;
Delft, The Netherlands,
"Designing Analog and RF
Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages."
- June 15
2008: Analog-Digital
Co-Design for Nanometer CMOS Transceiver SoC Integration Workshop,
IEEE 2008 International Microwave Symposium (IMS)/RFIC Symposium,
Atlanta, GA, "Circuit Design Techniques for Ultra-low Voltage RF
Receivers."
- April 2 2008: Special Symposium 'From Signal to Information
Displayed in a Wireless World', Columbia University Science &
Technology Ventures (New York, NY), "Self-powered wireless sensor
systems" (with John Kymissis).
- Jan. 18 2008: University of Toronto Engineering Science
Education Conference; Toronto, CA, "Moore's
Law and Integrated Analog and RF Circuits" .
- Jan. 17 2008: University of Toronto and IEEE Toronto Section; Toronto, CA, "Designing Analog and RF
Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" (slides pdf
2.8MB).
- Oct. 2 2007: Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting
(BCTM); Boston, MA, invited talk, "Ultra-low Voltage Analog
Integrated Circuits for Nanoscale CMOS" (slides available
upon request).
- Oct. 1 2007: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; High Speed
Circuits and Systems Group Research Seminar; Cambridge, MA, "Designing Analog and RF
Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" (slides pdf
5MB).
- Sept. 19 2007: Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC); San
Jose, CA, invited talk, "Advanced Design Techniques for
Integrated Voltage Controlled LC Oscillators" (slides available
upon request).
- Sept. 17 2007: Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC); San
Jose, CA, panelist, "Are analog designers hopeless at
scaling? Will digital designers eat their lunch at 45nm and below?"
- Sept. 11 2007: European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC); Munich,
Germany, plenary talk, "Designing Analog and RF Circuits
for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" (slides available upon
request).
- April 20 2007: University of California at Berkeley; Berkeley Wireless Research
Center Seminars, Berkeley, CA, "Designing Analog and RF
Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" (slides pdf
5MB).
- April 19 2007: Stanford University; RAD seminar series, Stanford, CA,
"Designing Analog and
RF Circuits for Ultra-low Supply Voltages" (slides pdf
5MB).
- Feb. 15 2007: International Solid State Circuits Conference, San
Francisco, CA; co-organized and chaired the Low-Voltage Analog
Amplifier Design for Filtering and A/D Conversion design forum.
- Feb. 15 2007: International Solid State Circuits Conference,
Low-Voltage Analog Amplifier Design for Filtering and A/D Conversion
design forum, San Francisco, CA; presented a talk on "True Low-Voltage
OTAs for 0.5V Active Filters, THAs and CT Delta-Sigma Converters" .
- Jan. 18 2007: Oregon State University; Analog IC
research seminar series, Corvallis, OR, "0.5V Analog
integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS technologies".
- Jan. 17 2007: University of Washington, Analog IC
research seminar series, Seattle, WA, "0.5V Analog
integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS technologies".
- Dec. 10 2006: 13th IEEE International
Conference on Circuits, Electronics and Systems, (pdf) Nice, France; tutorial
"Ultra-low voltage analog circuit design for for nanoscale CMOS
technology" (with U.K. Moon).
- Oct. 19 2006: University of Texas at Austin; Analog and RF IC
research seminar series, Austin, TX, "0.5V Analog
integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS technologies" .
- May 31 2006: Institut de Micro��lectronique, Electromagn��tisme et
Photonique, MINATEC, INPG, Institut National Polytechnique de GRENOBLE
(pdf) Grenoble,
France;
seminar "0.5V Analog
integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS technologies"
(slides
[pdf; 2.6Mb]).
- May 30 2006: Ecole Polytechnique
de Lausanne (EPFL) and The Western Switzerland Chapter on Solid State
Circuits (pdf) Lausanne,
Switzerland;
seminar "0.5V
Analog integrated circuits for nanoscale CMOS technologies"
(slides
[pdf; 2.6Mb]).
- December 19 2005: 2005 IEEE
International conference on Electronic Devices and Solid-State
Circuits (pdf) (EDSSC
2005), Hong Kong; plenary talk "Ultra low
voltage analog design techniques for nanoscale CMOS technologies."
- December 14 2005: National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan);
IEEE SSCS Taipei Chapter Short Course "Ultra low voltage analog
design techniques for nanoscale CMOS technologies" [Photo1|Photo2|Photo3].
- September 2005: Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
(San Jose, CA); panelist for Will
Continued process-Node Shrinks Kill High-Performance Analog
Design?.
- June 16 2005: Symposium
on VLSI Circuits (Kyoto, Japan);
Moderated the rump session "Digitizing
the radio to the antenna. Will Radios still need analog in 2010?".
- June 15 2005: Tokyo University (Tokyo, Japan);
Seminar: "0.5 V Analog Integrated Circuits for Nanoscale
CMOS Technologies". "(slides
pdf)".
- April 8 2005: IMEC (Leuven, Belgium);
Seminar: "0.5 V Analog Integrated Circuits for Nanoscale
CMOS Technologies".
- April 7 2005: Advances in Analog
Circuit Design workshop (AACD) (Limerick, Ireland);
invited
paper; "0.5 V Analog Integrated
Circuits for Nanoscale CMOS Technologies".
- March 18 2005: Harvard University;
Electrical Engineering
Seminar: "0.5 V Analog Integrated Circuits for
Nanoscale CMOS Technologies".
- March 17 2005: Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Analog
VLSI and Biological Systems Group Seminar: "0.5
V Analog Integrated Circuits for Nanoscale CMOS Technologies".
- June 2004: Symposium on VLSI
Circuits (Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA):
Co-organized (with
A. Matsuzawa) and Moderated the rump session: "Analog CAD: computer aided design, or,
computer accelerated disasters?" (see Digest of Technical Papers
Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2004, June 2004, pp. 117 - 117)
- September 26 2003: IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, NY):
"Current Research at the high speed analog and RF IC
laboratory" and "An injection locking scheme for precision quadrature
generation".
- September 23 2003: Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference 2003 (San Jose, CA):
Organized
and moderated the evening panel: Are (analog) device models
really that bad, or are they just a convenient excuse?
- September 19 2003: Silicon Laboratories (Austin, TX):
"Current Research at the high speed analog and RF IC laboratory"
and "An injection locking scheme for precision quadrature
generation".
- May 19 2003: California Institute of Techology (Passadena,
CA):
An
injection locking scheme for precision quadrature generation.
- February 27 2003: IBM Research (Yorktown, NY):
High
Frequency, Integrated Oscillators
- January 14 2003: Second Annual New York State Conference on
Microelectronics Design (Rochester, NY):
High
Frequency, Integrated Oscillators
- December 5 2002: National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA):
An
injection locking scheme for precision quadrature generation
- December 5 2002: University of California (Berkeley, CA):
An
injection locking scheme for precision quadrature generation
- August 27 2002: Texas Instruments (Warren, NJ):
An injection locking
scheme for precision quadrature generation