AMSV Newsletter 2016

State-of-the-Art Chips - Designed and Tested in 2016 (24 chips)
190 μm
580 μm
1 st Integrator
CLK
Generator
2 nd Integrator
0.35μm, 0.18μm, 65nm and for the first time 6 28nm chips
ISSCC 2017
A team of faculty members and students from the SKL AMS-VLSI and ECE/FST, University of Macau (UM) attended the IEEE 64 th
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February 2017, considered the ‘Chip Olympics’, the most competitive
conference in the world in the field of chip design.
This year SKL AMS-VLSI had a record acceptance of 6 papers/chips with the following titles, "A 5mW 7b 2.4GS/s 1-then-2b/cycle
SAR ADC with Background Offset Calibration", "An Output-Capacitor-Free Analog-Assisted Digital Low-Dropout Regulator with Tri
-Loop Control", "A Dual-Symmetrical-Output Switched-Capacitor Converter with Dynamic Power Cells and Minimized Cross Regulation for
Application Processors in 28nm CMOS", "A 1.7mm 2 Inductorless Fully Integrated Flipping-Capacitor Rectifier (FCR) for Piezoelectric Energy
Harvesting with 483% Power-Extraction Enhancement", "A Reconfigurable
Bidirectional Wireless Power Transceiver with Maximum-Current
Charging Mode and 58.6% Battery-to-Battery Efficiency", and "A 0.18V
382μW Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Receiver with 1.33nW Sleep Power
for Energy-Harvesting Applications in 28nm CMOS". Besides, the SKLab
PhD students received 1 Pre-doctoral Achievement Award and presented
2 Student Research Previews.
Prof. Seng-Pan U and Prof. Pui-In Mak, deputy director and associate
director (research) of SKL AMS-VLSI , were invited to serve as members
of the Technical Program Committee of the ISSCC. In addition, Prof. U is
currently the China Representative of the ISSCC Technical Program
Committee, responsible for coordination of ISSCC activities in China.
Prof. Seng-Pan U became the 1st member
of Ministry of Education’s Science and
Technology Commission from Macao
Prof. Seng-Pan U and Prof. Pui-In Mak
participated in a China Press Conference
held in Shanghai as members of the TPC of
ISSCC 2017
UM’s first ‘Macao Fellow’ appointed visiting
scholar at Harvard and received IEEE
SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award
Prof. Ben U Seng Pan from the University of
Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology,
who is also the deputy director of SKL
AMS-VLSI, was appointed a member of the
Seventh Science and Technology Commission
of the Ministry of Education. Prof U is the
first and only scholar from Macao to be
appointed as member of such commission.
SKL AMS-VLSI student supervised by Prof.
Yan Lu won 2nd prize at National University
Integrated Circuit Design Contest (NUICDC)
Dr. Ka-Meng Lei, a lecturer under the
‘Macao Fellow’ program at the University of
Macau, will be a visiting scholar at the
Harvard University for a two-year term
starting in mid-2017. During his stay, Dr Lei
will explore a parallel nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) platform combining advanced
microfluidic, magnetic-sensing and
integrated circuits technologies, with the
aim of substantially reducing the cost and
time of NMR experiments.
4 New PhD Graduates
4. Jianyu Zhong, High-resolution Power-efficient SAR-
Type ADCs, Sep. 2016.
3. Ka-Meng Lei, Handheld CMOS-Based NMR Devices
for Biological/Chemical Diagnosis, Sep. 2016.
2. Tianlan Chen, Thermal Digital Microfluidic Devices
for Rapid DNA Analysis, Sep. 2016.
1. Chio-In Ieong, Low-Power CMOS Processors Design
for ECG QRS Wave Detection and Data Compression,
Mar. 2016.
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