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