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Peer-Reviewed Conferences

1. Mingoo Seok, “Performance and Energy-Efficiency Improvement through Modified CPL in Organic Transistor Integrated Circuits,” International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2012, ACM

2. Mingoo Seok, “A Fine-Grained Many VT Design Methodology for Ultra Low Voltage Operations,” International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2012, ACM

3. Mingoo Seok, “Decoupling Capacitor Design Strategy for Minimizing Supply Noise of Ultra Low Voltage Circuits,” ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2012, ACM

4. Mingoo Seok, Dongsuk Jeon, Chaitali Chakrabarti, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Extending Energy-Saving Voltage Scaling in Ultra Low Voltage Integrated Circuit Designs,” International Conference on IC Design and Technology, 2012, IEEE

5. Mingoo Seok, Dongsuk Jeon, Chaitali Chakrabarti, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “A 0.27V, 30MHz, 17.7nJ-transform 1024-pt Complex FFT Core with super-pipelining,” International Solid-State Circuits Conferences, 2011, IEEE

6. Gregory Chen, Hassan Ghaed, Razi-Ul Haque, Michael Wieckowski, Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, David Fick, Daeyeon Kim, Mingoo Seok, Kensall Wise, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “A 1 Cubic Millimeter Energy-Autonomous Wireless Intraocular Pressure Monitor,” International Solid-State Circuits Conferences, 2011, IEEE

7. Mingoo Seok, Dongsuk Jeon, Chaitali Chakrabarti, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Pipeline Strategy for Improving Optimal Energy Efficiency in Ultra-Low Voltage Design,” ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2011, ACM

8. Dongsuk Jeon, Mingoo Seok, Chaitali Chakrabarti, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Energy-Optimized High Performance FFT Processor,” International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2011, IEEE

9. Daeyeon Kim, Gregory K. Chen, Matthew Fojtik, Mingoo Seok, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “A Femtowatt-Scale Ultra-Low Leakage 10T SRAM with Speed Compensation Scheme,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2011, IEEE

10. Mingoo Seok, Gyouho Kim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Variability Analysis of a Digitally Trimmable Ultra-Low Power Voltage Reference,” European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Sep, 2010 IEEE

11. Mingoo Seok, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Clock Network Design for Ultra-Low Power Applications,” International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Aug, 2010 ACM

12. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Michael Wieckowski, Gregory K. Chen, Yu-Shiang Lin, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Circuit Design Advances to Enable Ubiquitous Sensing Environments,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010, invited IEEE

13. Gregory K. Chen, Matthew Fojtik, Daeyeon Kim, David Fick, Junsun Park, Mingoo Seok, Mao-Ter Chen, Zhiyoong Foo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “A Millimeter-Scale Near-Perpetual Sensor System with Stacked Battery and Solar Cells,” International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2010 IEEE

14. Mingoo Seok, Gyouho Kim, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “A 0.5V 2.2pW 2-Transistor Voltage Reference,” Custom Integrated Circuit Conference, 2009 IEEE

15. Michael Wieckowski, Gregory K. Chen, Mingoo Seok, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “A Hybrid DC-DC Converter for Nanoampere Sub-1V Implantable Applications,” Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2009 IEEE

16. Dennis Sylvester, Scott Hanson, Mingoo Seok, Yu-Shiang Lin, David Blaauw, “Designing Robust Ultra-Low Power Circuits,” International Electron Device Meetings, 2008, invited IEEE

17. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Jae-sun Seo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw “Robust Ultra-low Voltage ROM Design,” Custom Integrated Circuit Conference, 2008 IEEE

18. Yoonmyung Lee, Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester “Standby Power Reduction Techniques for Ultra-Low Power Processors,” European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008 IEEE

19. Mingoo Seok, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Optimal Technology Selection for Minimizing Energy and Variability in Low Voltage Applications,” International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2008 ACM

20. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “The Phoenix Processor: A 30pW Platform for Sensor Applications,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2008 IEEE

21. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Analysis and Optimization of Sleep modes in Subthreshold Circuit Design,” ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2007 ACM

22. Scott Hanson, Mingoo Seok, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Nanometer Device Scaling in Subthreshold Circuits,” ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2007 ACM

23. Scott Hanson, Bo Zhai, Mingoo Seok, Brian Cline, Kevin Zhou, Meghna Singhal, Michael Minuth, Javin Olson, Leyla Nazhandali, Todd Austin, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Performance and Variability Optimization Strategies in a 150mV processor,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2007 IEEE

Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Mingoo Seok, Gyouho Kim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “A Portable 2-Transistor Picowatt Temperature-Compensated Voltage Reference Operating at 0.5V,” Journal of Solid State Circuits, 2012, in press

2. Dongsuk Jeon, Mingoo Seok, Chaitali Chakrabarti, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “A Super-Pipelined Energy Emergingcient Subthreshold 240MS/s FFT Core in 65nm CMOS,” Journal of Solid State Circuits, 2012, IEEE

3. Mingoo Seok, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Robust Clock Network Design Methodology for Ultra-Low Voltage Operations,” Journal on Emerging and Special Topics on Circuits and Systems, 2011, invited, IEEE

4. Mingoo Seok, Gregory Chen, Scott Hanson, Michael Wieckowski, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Mitigating Variability in Near Threshold Computing,” Journal on Emerging and Special Topics on Circuits and Systems, 2011, invited, IEEE

5. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, “Sleep Mode Analysis and Optimization with Minimal-Sized Power Gating Switch for Ultra-low Vdd Operations,” Transactions on VLSI systems, 2011, IEEE

6. Scott Hanson, Mingoo Seok, Yu-shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “A Low-Voltage Processor for Sensing Applications With Picowatt Standby Mode,” Journal of Solid State Circuits, Apr., 2009, invited, IEEE

7. Scott Hanson, Bo Zhai, Mingoo Seok, Brian Cline, Kevin Zhou, Meghna Singhal, Michael Minuth, Javin Olson, Leyla Nazhandali, Todd Austin, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Exploring Variability and Performance in a Sub-200mV Processor,” Journal of Solid State Circuits, Apr., 2008, invited, IEEE

8. Scott Hanson, Mingoo Seok, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Nanometer Device Scaling in Subthreshold Logic and SRAM,” Transactions on Electron Devices, 2007, invited IEEE

Design contests

1. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, “Phoenix: an Ultra-Low Power Processor for Cubic Millimeter Sensor Systems,” 2009 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winner pdf