Research

Active TxACE Research Summary

No.	Task	Thrust	Task / Theme Title	Task Leader(s)	Task / Theme University
1	2810.079	EE	High-Power-Density In-Package SIMO Converters for Next-Generation Microprocessors	Huang, Cheng	Iowa State
2	2810.080	EE	Efficient and High-Density Fully In-Package GaN-Based High-Ratio DC-DC Converters	Huang, Cheng Fu, Houqiang	Iowa State
3	2810.081	FA	Development of 70-95 GHz Terabit Beamformer	Wang, Huei, Huang, Tian-Wei Lin, Kun You	National Taiwan Univ.
4	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
5	2810.083	FA	Automated Layout Of Analog Arrays in Advanced Technology Nodes	Sapatnekar, Sachin Harjani, Ramesh	Univ. of Minnesota
6	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
7	2810.086	SS	Machine Learning-based Functional Safety Improvement of AMS components in Automotive SoCs	Basu, Kanad	UT Dallas
8	2810.087	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness – Toronto	Najm, Farid	Univ. of Toronto
9	2810.088	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness – Minnesota	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
10	2810.089	SS	Techniques for Low-cost Design, Test, and Calibration of RF MIMO Systems	Ozev, Sule      Trichopoulos, Georgios	Arizona State
11	2810.091	SS	Development of Two-Photon Absorption Laser System for Creating Single Event Effects	Baumann, Robert Quevedo-Lopez, Manuel	UT Dallas
12	2810.092	EE	Battery-Charging CMOS Voltage Regulator for Resistive Low-Voltage DC Sources	Rincón-Mora, Gabriel	Georgia Tech
13	2810.093	FA	Applications of Circuit Transient Sensitivity Simulation to Semiconductor Circuit Analysis and Design	Rohrer, Ronald	Carnegie Mellon
14	3160.002	EE	tinyASR: Self-Supervised, Sub-10μW Automatic Speech Recognition Hardware for IoT Devices	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
15	3160.003	SS	Techniques for Online Ageing Detection and In-field Characterization of Aging Phenomena	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
16	3160.004	SS	Inductive Fault Analysis for Determining Statistical Analog Test Metrics	Ozev, Sule	Arizona State
17	3160.005	SS	ML-Assisted Scalable DfT and BIST of AMS Systems	Chatterjee, Abhijit	Georgia Tech
18	3160.006	FA	Machine-Learning Based Analog Mixed-signal Design Tool	Chen, Shuo-Wei       Gupta, Sandeep             Levi, Tony	USC
19	3160.007	FA	AI-Assisted and Layout-Aware Analog Synthesis and Optimization with Design Intent	Pan, David	UT Austin
20	3160.008	FA	High-Speed DAC with High Output Power and Linearity	Chen, Shuo-Wei	USC
21	3160.009	FA	100+GS/s Time-Domain Analog-to-Digital Converters	Palermo, Samuel	Texas A&M
22	3160.010	FA	Design Automation of Low Phase Noise PLL	Chen, Shuo-Wei	USC
23	3160.011	SS	G-Band CMOS mm-Wave Imager and Sensor for Biomedical Applications	Niknejad, Ali	UC Berkeley
24	3160.012	SS	Small-area Low-power DAC Designs with In-field Digital Calibration Ensuring Lifetime High Linearity	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
25	3160.013	EE	Energy-Efficient Circuits and Architectures for Cryogenic Operation	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
26	3160.015	EE	ULP Receivers	Wentzloff, David	Univ. of Michigan
27	3160.016	EE	MODO: Hybrid SIMO-DLDO DC-DC Converter for Multi-Core Microprocessors and System-on-Chips	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
28	3160.017	EE/FA	Multi-phase Sub-100fs Jitter Ring-oscillator-based Clock Multipliers for Beyond 100Gb/s Links	Hanumolu, Pavan	UIUC
29	3160.018	FA	Pseudo-Static Storage Circuits for Extreme Low Voltage Cryo-CMOS Applications	Kulkarni, Jaydeep	UT Austin
30	3160.019	FA	Mixed-Domain High-Performance CT-ΔΣ ADCs	Maghari, Nima	Univ. of Florida
31	3160.020	SS	Transient Reliability and Condition Monitoring of GaN HEMTs	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
32	3160.021	FA/EE	Automated Generation of Comprehensive Voltage/Frequency Domains – Logic+PLL+Voltage Regulation	Sathe, Visvesh	Georgia Tech
33	3160.022	EE	Domain-Voltage Regulator Co-design for Enhanced SoC Energy Efficiency	Sathe, Visvesh	Georgia Tech
34	3160.024	EE	On-the-Go Battery Charging/Battery Monitoring SIMIMO Voltage Regulator	Rincón-Mora, Gabriel	Georgia Tech
35	3160.027	SS/EE	Information-Centric Secure Conversion Interfaces for Energy-Efficient Wireless Systems	Yazicigil Kirby, Rabia	Boston Univ.
36	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
37	3160.029	SS	Arrayed Texas Instruments DMD and PLM for Advanced Solid-state Lidar and Holographic Display	Takashima, Yuzuru   Kaneda, Yushi	Univ. of Arizona
38	3160.030	SS/EE	Study of Active Discharge and Efficient Driver Architecture for High Power Systems	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
39	3160.031	SS	Steerable focal plane arrays for high resolution submillimeter electromagnetic wave radar imaging	Choi, Wooyeol	Seoul National Univ.
40	3160.032	FA	Hardware-Algorithm codesign for on-chip learning at the edge	Shah, Sahil           Manocha, Dinesh       Yeung, Donald	Univ. of Maryland
41	3160.033	FA	On-chip hyperdimensional computing using mixed-signal circuits for Edge AI	Sanyal, Arindam	Arizona State
42	3160.034	FA/EE	Energy-Efficient Pipelined GS/s+ 12-bit TDC/ADC with Time-Domain RNS Encoding	Chiu, Yun	UT Dallas
43	3160.035	SS	Computational Analog Security Hardware for Neuromorphic Anomaly Detection	Cao, Ningyuan	Univ. of Notre Dame
44	3160.036	SS	Electromigration Lifetime Characterization under Realistic Chip Operating Conditions	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
45	3160.037	FA	Causal AI for Interpretable and Robust AMS Topology Synthesis and Optimization	Forte, Domenic      Woodard, Damon	Univ.  of Florida
46	3160.038	EE	VERTICAL: Multi-Core Voltage-Stacked Microprocessor with a Dynamic Load Shuffling and a SIMO Converter	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
47	3160.039	EE	Proactive Power and Clock Management for System-on-Chip	Gu, Jie	Northwestern Univ.
48	3160.040	FA	Low-Area and Wideband Fractional-N PLL Design Utilizing Acoustic Resonators and Fractional Noise Cancellation	Mercier, Patrick	UC San Diego
49	3160.041	FA	Scalable Antenna-in-Package Approaches Supporting Heterogeneous Integrated Arrays	Floyd, Brian	North Carolina State
50	3160.042	EE	High Step-Down SISO and SI2MO Hybrid Converters for 48/120V Inputs and Beyond	Pande, Partha      Heo, Deuk	Washington State
51	3160.043	FA	Next-Generation Interleaved Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs	Flynn, Michael	University of Michigan
52	3160.044	FA	Direct-Carrier Modulated Transmitter for Extremely High Data Rate Millimeter-Wave Radios	Chang, Frank MauChung	UC Los Angeles
53	3160.045	FA/EE	Design Techniques for Dense Energy-Efficient 100+Gb/s/Wire Die-to-Die Interconnect Transceivers	Palermo, Samuel	Texas A&M
54	3160.046	SS	CDM Reliability Prediction: From the Test Circuit to the IC Product	Rosenbaum, Elyse	UIUC
55	3160.047	FA	Highly Efficient 100-dB+ Pipelined SAR ADC with kT/C Noise Cancellation	Chiu, Yun	UT Dallas
56	3160.048	SS	Data-Driven Framework for Cross-Modal Wireless Human Sensing in Complex Environments	Torlak, Murat         Al-Dhahir, Naofal	UT Dallas
57	3160.049	SS	In-situ Electrical Biasing TEM/STEM Study of E-mode GaN HEMT Devices for Reliability	Kim, Moon               Shichijo, Hisashi	UT Dallas
58	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
59	3160.051	EE	Gate Driving Techniques and Circuits for Wide Bandgap Bidirectional Power Switches	Ma, D. Brian	UT Dallas
60	3160.052	EE	Advanced Self-Commissioning Modules and Type-5 PWM Modulation Schemes for EV Traction Drives & Chargers	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
61	3160.053	FA	Precision Capacitively-Coupled Programmable-Gain Amplifiers	Geiger, Randall	Iowa State
62	3160.054	SS	Reinforcement Learning with Process and Ageing Tracking for Efficient Site Error Correction in Massive Multisite AMS Testing	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
63	3160.055	FA	Exploring Large Language Models and Design Knowledge Extraction for Analog Optimization	Li, Peng	UC Santa Barbara
64	3160.056	SS	Generative AI-based Test Generation for Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits	Makris, Yiorgos	UT Dallas
65	3160.057	SS	Protect-On-Demand: A Chip that can Self-Defend if Someone Tampers It	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
66	TCI 2024 Task 1	EE	Energy-efficient power and thermal management for 3D packaged electronics	Dai, Simon	UT Dallas
67	TCI 2024 Task 2	EE	Device-Circuit Co-Design of Ising Machine using CMOS+X Technology	Dutta, Sourav	UT Dallas
68	TCI 2024 Task 3	EE	Interface and Surface Engineering of Low-Temperature Nitrides for Thermal Management of Analog Devices	Brenner, Kevin	UT Dallas
69	TCI-Bio 2024 Task 1	SS	Ultrasound Platform for Wearable Applications	Brown, Katherine	UT Dallas