Event Date : Monday October 21, 2019
Event Location : Davidson Auditorium
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Author: Cindy Nghe
Enabling robust and efficient ultra-low power digital systems through runtime energy minimization under performance guarantees: The case-study of a 65nm sub-threshold Cortex-M0 processor
Event Date : Friday July 19, 2019
Event Time : 1:00- 2:00 p.m.
Event Location : Osborne Conference Room (ECSS3.503)
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Tracking the Behavior and Visual Attention of a Driver Using Multimodal Sensors in Naturalistic Scenarios
Event Date : Friday June 21, 2019
Event Time : 1:00- 2:00 p.m.
Event Location : Osborne Conference Room (ECSS3.503)
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Distinguished Lecture : CMOS (Operational and Other) Amplifiers: Then and Now By Professor David Allstot, Oregon State University
Event Date : Friday February 1, 2019
Event Time : 1:00- 2:00 p.m.
Event Location : Osborne Conference Room ( ECSS3.503)
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TI Analog Excellence Graduate Fellowship Opportunity
TxACE offers the TI Analog Excellence Graduate Fellowship to a full-time graduate student who intends to pursue PhD research in analog circuit design and engineering at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Fellowship Benefits*
• $25,000 base stipend per year
• Research assistantship with additional stipends
• Full-time tuition and fee waiver
• Dedicated faculty support
• $70,000 estimated total award per year
• Award duration is three years
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Fall 2019 TxACE Promising Researcher Awards
TxACE offers multiple merit based awards to full time students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in the areas related to the research focus of the center. These are available on a competitive basis from Fall 2019. Depending on the qualifications of the applicants, awards range from $5,000 to $10,000 per year for the first two years of studies. Funds are allocated for the academic year and disbursed on a per-semester basis.
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The Real World is Analog: TxACE Celebrates Its 10-year Anniversary
The proliferation of electronics is everywhere — from consumer products, apps, sophisticated biomedical devices, artificial intelligence (AI), and in many smart devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT).
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2018 Texas Analog Center of Excellence Symposium
Annual TxACE Symposium, October 22, 2018
As electronics continue to bridge the gap between the analog real world and digital information infrastructure, the entire $400 billion per year integrated circuits industry is evolving into an analog-digital mixed signal industry. This one-day symposium will examine trends, emerging opportunities and key challenges in analog integrated circuits and systems, as well as related technologies.
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Transition Design for High Data Rate Links at Submillimeter Wave Frequencies
Rashaunda Henderson, Professor UT Dallas
Friday July 20 at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in the Osborne Conference Room ECSS 3.503
BIO
Rashaunda Henderson received the B.S.E.E. degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a R&D device engineer at Freescale Semiconductor, formerly known as Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector. Since Fall 2007, she has been researching novel passive components and integration techniques for millimeter -wave circuits and systems. She advises a team of students in the design, fabrication and characterization of high performance passive components, antennas and packages for frequencies operating through 325 GHz. Dr. Henderson is a senior member of the IEEE and an elected member of the MTT-S Administrative Committee.
ABSTRACT
High data rate communication systems using electronic circuits have been demonstrated with carrier frequencies up to 100 GHz using flip-chip technology and plastic waveguides. Extending to higher frequencies from 100 to 350 GHz will benefit in higher bandwidths while requiring novel techniques to launch the signals using on-chip antennas. If standard dielectric waveguides are used, they will require multiple structures due to their band-limited nature. In addition, these waveguides do not include IC packaging, which is required for commercial system deployment. Providing a low cost transition realized in printed circuit board technology can reduce the overall costs.
This presentation highlights the design and characterization of vertical transitions to support a high data rate communication system operating at 180 and 315 GHz. Transmitter and receiver circuits have been designed in 65 nm CMOS technology and a dielectric waveguide study has been conducted using holey fiber technology. A vertical transition is used to guide the RF signal from the chip to the dielectric waveguide. Substrate integrated waveguide concepts are utilized to implement the transition with an on-chip cross dipole and holey fiber waveguide in cyclic olefin copolymer. Designs at 3 and 30 GHz have been used to understand performance and then scale up for the system configuration. To support the bandwidth and dual polarization scheme, quadruple ridge waveguide structures with air dielectric are being designed with advanced printed circuit board techniques.
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TxACE-Sponsored North Texas Food Bank Drive in Memory of Dr. Walter Duncan
Dr. Walter Duncan, a research professor at UT Dallas and a member of the TxACE family, passed away from brain cancer. The family requested, in lieu of flowers, donations to the North Texas Food Bank. We exceeded our goal of 250 by 14 donations. The final total is 264! For more information click here.