Research

Active TxACE Research Summary

	Task	Thrust	Title	Task Leader	Institution
1	2810.053	FA	TI PLM to Advanced Lidar and Display Systems	Takashima Yuzuru	Univ. of Arizona
2	2810.054	SS	Reconfigurable AC Power Cycling Setup and Plug‐in Condition Monitoring Tools for High Power IGBT and SiC Modules	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
3	2810.055	SS/EE	EMI‐Regulated Secure Automotive Power ICs	Ma D. Brian	UT Dallas
4	2810.056	FA	Millimeter Wave Packaging Research – Antenna in Package	Henderson Rashaunda, Lee Mark, Lu Hongbing	UT Dallas
5	2810.057	SS	Reliability Study of E-mode GaN HEMT Devices by AC TDDB and High Resolution TEM	Kim Moon, Shichijo Hishashi	UT Dallas
6	2810.058	SS/FA	Machine Learning‐Based Overkill/Underkill Reduction in Analog/RF IC Testing	Makris Yiorgos	UT Dallas
7	2810.059	SS/EE	Ultra‐Low‐Power Robust SAR ADC for PMCW Automotive RADAR	Chiu Yun	UT Dallas
8	2810.060	FA	Intelligent Learning ADCs for the Post Figure-of-Merit World	Flynn Michael	Univ. of Michigan
9	2810.061	EE	Two-Stage Vertical Power Delivery and Management for Efficient High-Performance Computing	Le Hanh-Phuc, Mercier Patrick	UC San Diego
10	2810.062	FA	Multi-Carrier DAC-Based Transmitter Architectures for 100+Gb/s Serial Links	Palermo Samuel, Hoyos Sebastian	Texas A&M
11	2810.063	FA	Analog and Digital Assist Techniques to Improve Mixed-Signal Performance	Sylvester Dennis, Blaauw David	Univ. of Michigan
12	2810.064	SS	Characterization and Tolerance of Ageing in Integrated Voltage Regulators	Mukhopadhyay Saibal	Georgia Tech
13	2810.065	EE/SS	Power-Efficient and Reliable 48-V DC-DC Converter with Direct Signal-to-Feature Extraction and DNN-Assisted Multi-Input Multiple-Output Feedback Control	Seok Mingoo	Columbia
14	2810.066	SS	Demonstrably Generalizable Compact Models of ESD Devices	Rosenbaum Elyse	UIUC
15	2810.067	EE	Highly Efficient Extreme-Conversion-Ratio Buck Hybrid Converters	Pande Partha, Heo Deukhyoun, Doppa Janardhan Rao	Washington State
16	2810.068	EE	Active EMI Filtering with Switch‐Mode Amplifier for High Efficiency	Hanson Alex	UT Austin
17	2810.070	SS	Early and Late Life Failure Prediction Methods for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits	Kim Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
18	2810.071	FA	Accurate Compact Temperature Sensors for Thermal Management of High Performance Computing Platforms	Geiger Randall, Chen Degang	Iowa State
19	2810.072 & 2810.073	EE	AI/ML Edge Hardware for Ultra-reliable Wireless Networks	Allstot David, Makris Yiorgos	Oregon State, UT Dallas
20	2810.074	SS	Thermal Performance Characterization and Degradation Monitoring of LDMOS based Integrated Power IC with On-Die Temperature Sensors	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
21	2810.075	EE	Hybrid Step-Down DC-DC Converters with Large Conversion Ratios for 48V Automotive Applications	Lee Hoi, Liu Jin	UT Dallas
22	2810.076	FA	High Precision Positioning Techniques Based on Multiple Technologies and Frequency Bands	Al-Dhahir Naofal, Torlak Murat	UT Dallas
23	2810.077	SS	Increasing Lifetime of Nano-Scale CMOS Circuits	O Kenneth	UT Dallas
24	2810.078	EE	Programmable Mixed-Signal Accelerator for DNNs with Depthwise Separable Convolution Layers	Murmann Boris	Stanford
25	2810.079	EE	High-Power-Density In-Package SIMO Converters for Next-Generation Microprocessors	Huang Cheng	Iowa State
26	2810.080	EE	Efficient and High-Density Fully In-Package GaN-Based High-Ratio DC-DC Converters	Huang Cheng	Iowa State
27	2810.081	FA	Development of 70-95 GHz Terabit Beamformer	Wang Huei, Huang Tian-Wei, Lin Kun-You	National Taiwan Univ.
28	2810.082	FA	Adaptive Digital Cancellation of Dynamic Error from Clock Skew, Component Mismatches, and ISI in High-Resolution RF DACs	Galton Ian	UC San Diego
29	2810.083	FA	Automated Layout Of Analog Arrays in Advanced Technology Nodes	Sapatnekar Sachin, Harjani Ramesh	Univ. of Minnesota
30	2810.084	SS	Soft and Hard Analog Fault Detection, Injection, Coverage, Diagnosis, and Localization Strategies Suitable for Production Test and In-field Test	Chen Degang	Iowa State
31	2810.085 & 2810.093	FA	Applications of Circuit Transient Sensitivity Simulation to Semiconductor Circuit Analysis and Design	Rohrer Ronald	Carnegie Mellon
32	2810.086	SS	Machine Learning-based Functional Safety Improvement of AMS Components in Automotive SoCs	Basu Kanad	UT Dallas
33	2810.087	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness	Najm Farid	Univ. of Toronto
34	2810.088	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness	Kim Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
35	2810.089	SS	Techniques for Low-cost Design, Test, and Calibration of RF MIMO Systems	Ozev Sule, Trichopoulos Georgios	Arizona State
36	2810.090	SS	Motor Health Monitoring	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
37	2810.091	SS	Development of Two-Photon Absorption Laser System for Creating Single Event Effects	Baumann Robert, Quevedo-Lopez Manuel	UT Dallas
38	2810.092	EE	Battery-Charging CMOS Voltage Regulator for Resistive Low-Voltage DC Sources	Rincón-Mora Gabriel	Georgia Tech
39	3160.002	EE	tinyASR: Self-Supervised, Sub-10μW Automatic Speech Recognition Hardware for IoT Devices	Seok Mingoo	Columbia
40	3160.003	SS	Techniques for Online Ageing Detection and In-field Characterization of Aging Phenomena	Chen Degang	Iowa State
41	3160.004	SS	Inductive Fault Analysis for Determining Statistical Analog Test Metrics	Ozev Sule	Arizona State
42	3160.005	SS	ML-Assisted Scalable DfT and BIST of AMS Systems	Chatterjee Abhijit	Georgia Tech
43	3160.006	FA	Machine-Learning Based Analog Mixed-Signal Design Tool	Chen Shuo-Wei, Gupta Sandeep, Levi Tony	USC
44	3160.007	FA	AI-Assisted and Layout-Aware Analog Synthesis and Optimization with Design Intent	Pan David, Jia Yaoyao	UT Austin
45	3160.008	FA	High-Speed DAC with High Output Power and Linearity	Chen Shuo-Wei	USC
46	3160.009	FA	100+GS/s Time-Domain Analog-to-Digital Converters	Palermo Samuel, Hoyos Sebastian	Texas A&M
47	3160.010	FA	Design Automation of Low Phase Noise PLL	Chen Shuo-Wei, Gupta Sandeep, Levi Tony	USC
48	3160.011	SS	G-Band CMOS mm-Wave Imager and Sensor for Biomedical Applications	Niknejad Ali	UC Berkeley
49	3160.012	SS	Small-area Low-power DAC Designs with In-field Digital Calibration Ensuring Lifetime High Linearity	Chen Degang	Iowa State
50	3160.013	EE	Energy-Efficient Circuits and Architectures for Cryogenic Operation	Kim Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
51	3160.015	EE	ULP Receivers	Wentzloff David	Univ. of Michigan
52	3160.016	EE	MODO: Hybrid SIMO-DLDO DC-DC Converter for Multi-Core Microprocessors and System-on-Chips	Seok Mingoo	Columbia
53	3160.017	EE/FA	Multi-phase Sub-100fs Jitter Ring-oscillator-based Clock Multipliers for Beyond 100Gb/s Links	Hanumolu Pavan	UIUC
54	3160.018	FA	Pseudo-Static Storage Circuits for Extreme Low Voltage Cryo-CMOS Applications	Kulkarni Jaydeep	UT Austin
55	3160.019	FA	Mixed-Domain High-Performance CT-ΔΣ ADCs	Maghari Nima	Univ. of Florida
56	3160.020	SS	Transient Reliability and Condition Monitoring of GaN HEMTs	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
57	3160.021	FA/EE	Automated Generation of Comprehensive Voltage/Frequency Domains – Logic+PLL+Voltage Regulation	Sathe Visvesh	Georgia Tech
58	3160.022	EE	Domain-Voltage Regulator Co-design for Enhanced SoC Energy Efficiency	Sathe Visvesh	Georgia Tech
59	3160.024	EE	On-the-Go Battery Charging/Battery Monitoring SIMIMO Voltage Regulator	Rincón-Mora Gabriel	Georgia Tech
60	3160.025	EE	DRIVR: A Digital, Re-configurable, Unified Clock-Power (UNICAP) Fabric	Sathe Visvesh	Georgia Tech
61	3160.026	EE	Computationally Controlled Integrated Voltage Regulators	Sathe Visvesh	Georgia Tech
62	3160.027	SS/EE	Information-Centric Secure Conversion Interfaces for Energy-Efficient Wireless Systems	Yazicigil Kirby Rabia	Boston Univ.
63	3160.028	SS	0.5-degree Angular Resolution Submillimeter Electromagnetic Wave Radar Imaging Using a 9-cm Diameter Electronically Steerable Reflector	O Kenneth, Quevedo-Lopez Manuel	UT Dallas
64	3160.029	SS	Arrayed Texas Instruments DMD and PLM for Advanced Solid-state Lidar and Holographic Display	Takashima Yuzuru, Kaneda Yushi	Univ. of Arizona
65	3160.030	SS/EE	Study of Active Discharge and Efficient Driver Architecture for High Power Systems	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
66	3160.031	SS	Steerable Focal Plane Arrays for High Resolution Submillimeter Electromagnetic Wave Radar Imaging	Choi Wooyeol	Seoul National Univ.
67	3160.032	FA	Hardware-Algorithm Co-design for On-chip Learning at the Edge	Shah Sahil, Manocha Dinesh, Yeung Donald	Univ. of Maryland
68	3160.033	FA	On-chip Hyperdimensional Computing Using Mixed-Signal Circuits for Edge AI	Sanyal Arindam	Arizona State
69	3160.034	FA/EE	Energy-Efficient Pipelined GS/s+ 12-bit TDC/ADC with Time-Domain RNS Encoding	Chiu Yun	UT Dallas
70	3160.035	SS	Computational Analog Security Hardware for Neuromorphic Anomaly Detection	Cao Ningyuan	Univ. of Notre Dame
71	3160.036	SS	Electromigration Lifetime Characterization under Realistic Chip Operating Conditions	Kim Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
72	3160.037	FA	Causal AI for Interpretable and Robust AMS Topology Synthesis and Optimization	Forte Domenic, Woodard Damon	Univ. of Florida
73	3160.038	EE	VERTICAL: Multi-Core Voltage-Stacked Microprocessor with a Dynamic Load Shuffling and a SIMO Converter	Seok Mingoo	Columbia
74	3160.039	EE	Proactive Power and Clock Management for System-on-Chip	Gu Jie	Northwestern Univ.
75	3160.040	FA	Low-Area and Wideband Fractional-N PLL Design Utilizing Acoustic Resonators and Fractional Noise Cancellation	Mercier Patrick	UC San Diego
76	3160.041	FA	Scalable Antenna-in-Package Approaches Supporting Heterogeneous Integrated Arrays	Floyd Brian	North Carolina State
77	3160.042	EE	High Step-Down SISO and SI2MO Hybrid Converters for 48/120V Inputs and Beyond	Pande Partha, Heo Deuk	Washington State
78	3160.043	FA	Next-Generation Interleaved Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs	Flynn Michael	Univ. of Michigan
79	3160.044	FA	Direct-Carrier Modulated Transmitter for Extremely High Data Rate Millimeter-Wave Radios	Chang Frank Mau-Chung	UC Los Angeles
80	3160.045	FA/EE	Design Techniques for Dense Energy-Efficient 100+Gb/s/Wire Die-to-Die Interconnect Transceivers	Palermo Samuel	Texas A&M
81	3160.046	SS	CDM Reliability Prediction: From the Test Circuit to the IC Product	Rosenbaum Elyse	UIUC
82	3160.047	FA	Highly Efficient 100-dB+ Pipelined SAR ADC with kT/C Noise Cancellation	Chiu Yun	UT Dallas
83	3160.048	SS	Data-Driven Framework for Cross-Modal Wireless Human Sensing in Complex Environments	Torlak Murat, Al-Dhahir Naofal	UT Dallas
84	3160.049	SS	In-situ Electrical Biasing TEM/STEM Study of E-mode GaN HEMT Devices for Reliability	Kim Moon, Shichijo Hishashi	UT Dallas
85	3160.050	EE	Multiphase Hybrid Step-Down DC-DC Converter with High Current Density for Large-Conversion-Ratio 48V Automotive Applications	Lee Hoi, Liu Jin	UT Dallas
86	3160.051	EE	Gate Driving Techniques and Circuits for Wide Bandgap Bidirectional Power Switches	Ma D. Brian	UT Dallas
87	3160.052	EE	Advanced Self-Commissioning Modules and Type-5 PWM Modulation Schemes for EV Traction Drives & Chargers	Akin Bilal	UT Dallas
88	3160.053	FA	Precision Capacitively-Coupled Programmable-Gain Amplifiers	Geiger Randall	Iowa State
89	TCI 2023 Task 1	FA	Nanodielectric Fluids Using a Multi-Nanoparticle System for Two-Phase Heat Transfer in 3D Heterogeneous Microsystems	Ghassemi Mona	UT Dallas
90	TCI 2023 Task 2	SS	Resilient Intelligent Secured Electromagnetic Spectrum Sensing Systems (RISES3) for the Next-Generation of Electronic Warfare	Mahbub Ifana	UT Dallas
91	TCI 2023 Task 3	SS	Germanium Telluride Chalcogenide Switches for RF Applications	Quevedo-Lopez Manuel	UT Dallas