ECE Dept Seminar - (1) Low-Power CMOS interface circuit design (2) How to Stand Out In Todays’ Involutionary Competition: An Example of PMICs Finding New Positions in Emerging Applications
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(1) In recent years, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Physical AI have emerged as prominent research topics. To realize such systems, interface circuits — particularly analog and mixed-signal circuits that bridge the analog physical world and the digital cyber space — play a critical role. Our research focuses on low-power RF and mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for sensor and communication interfaces. In addition, we have investigated wireless power transfer and power management circuits to supply power to these systems. More recently, our work has expanded to Cryo-CMOS circuits designed for qubit signal readout in quantum computers. This presentation provides an overview of the low-power, high-efficiency CMOS integrated circuits developed through these efforts.
(2) Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) has been one of the major sub-areas of analog integrated circuits since the very beginning when Prof. Mok and Prof. Ki established the PMIC area back in the 90s. Today, over the years’ of development far beyond the timeless "trifecta" of switching regulators, linear regulators, and charge pumps, PMICs have found existance in almost every electronic device in many different forms. Every emerging application continuously drives new power supply and management demands, thus PMICs must constantly evolve and adapt. In this seminar, Dr. Huang will introduce a variety of seemingly familiar yet novel power management technologies published very recently, using them as an example to introduce how conventional linear and switching regulators find their unique positions in different LiDAR systems to yield unexpectedly interesting results.
(1) Prof. Hiroki Ishikuro
Hiroki Ishikuro received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined the System LSI Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan, where he was involved in the development of CMOS RF and mixed-signal circuits for wireless interface chips. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of Keio University as an assistant professor and started a research on high-speed inductive-coupling links for 3-D chip integration and non-contact connector. He is currently a professor of Keio University, and focuses on the mixed-signal circuit and system designs for low-power sensor interfaces, and cryogenic CMOS circuit design for quantum computers. He was a member of the Technical Program Committee for Symposium on VLSI Circuits and he is a member of the Technical Program Committee for Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).
(2) Prof. Cheng Huang
Cheng Huang received his BEng and PhD from Zhejiang University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008 and 2014, respectively. In 2014, he joined Keio University in Japan as a post-doctoral researcher. In 2016, he moved to the US and worked for Broadcom, San Jose, California. In 2018, he joined the Iowa State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, where he was later awarded the Harpole-Pentair named professorship and promoted to tenured Associate Professor. He is currently with the Institute of Microelectronics in the University of Macau. Since returning to the academia, he has been dedicated to exploring new research directions for PMICs. His research interests include integrated switching regulators, isolated power converters, wireless power and data transfer, and emerging power management applications. Dr. Huang currently serves as a Technical Program Committee member of ISSCC, CICC and the ASP subcommittee of the CAS society. In CICC, he served as the Power Management Subcommittee Chair in the past term. He also served as a ISCAS and MWSCAS track chair, and an associate/guest editor for TCAS-I, TCAS-II and SSC-L. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.