Active TxACE Research Summary

	Task	Thrust	Title	Task Leader	Institution
1	2810.019	FA	Design Automation for Coverage Management in Analog and Mixed-Signal SOCs	Dasgupta, Pallab Hazra, Aritra	Indian Institute of Tech. Kharagpur
2	2810.028	FA	Robust ATE Multi-Site HW Design to Enable Effective Analog Performance Testing in Analog-Mixed-Signal (AMS) SoCs	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
3	2810.029	FA	170GHz – 260GHz Wideband PA and LNA Design in Silicon	Babakhani, Aydin	UC Los Angeles
4	2810.030	FA	Neural Network Recognition & On-Chip Online Learning with STT-MRAM	Friedman, Joseph	UT Dallas
5	2810.032 & 3160.025	EE	DRIVR: A Digital, Re-configurable, Unified Clock-Power (UNICAP) Fabric	Sathe, Visvesh	Univ. of Washington & Georgia Tech
6	2810.033	FA	Interleaved Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs for High-Speed and High-Resolution	Flynn, Michael	Univ. of Michigan
7	2810.034	EE	Always-on Keyword Spotting based on Analog-Mixed-Signal Computing Hardware	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
8	2810.035 & 3160.026	EE	Computationally Controlled Integrated Voltage Regulators	Sathe, Visvesh	Univ. of Washington & Georgia Tech
9	2810.036	FA	Highly Stable Integrated Frequency References	Hanumolu, Pavan	UIUC
10	2810.037	FA	High-performance Ringamp-based ADCs	Moon, Un-Ku	Oregon State
11	2810.038	SS	Extreme Temperature Digital, Analog, and Mixed-Signal Circuits (ET-DAMS)	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
12	2810.039	EE	Development of Compact and Low Cost Fully Integrated DC-DC Converter with Resonant Gate Drive and Intelligent Transient Response	Gu, Jie	Northwestern
13	2810.040	EE	Hybrid/Resonant Sc Converters with Integrated Lc Resonator for High-Density Monolithic Power Delivery	Stauth, Jason	Dartmouth College
14	2810.041	SS	ESD Protection for IO Operating at 56 Gb/s and Beyond	Rosenbaum, Elyse	UIUC
15	2810.042	EE	Digitally Enhanced High Efficiency, Fast Settling Augmented DCDC Converters	Bakkaloglu, Bertan	Arizona State
16	2810.043	FA	Analog Optimization Hybridizing Designer’s Intent and Machine Learning	Li, Peng	UC Santa Barbara
17	2810.044	FA	Hierarchical Characterization and Calibration of RF/Analog Circuits Using Lightweight Built-in Sensors	Ozev, Sule	Arizona State
18	2810.046	SS	Generating Current Constraints for Electromigration Safety	Najm, Farid	Univ. of Toronto
19	2810.047	SS	Architecture and DfT methods for improving life time reliability and functional safety of electronic circuits and systems out of application context	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
20	2810.048	SS	Characterization and Mitigation of Electromigration Effects in Advanced Technology Nodes	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
21	2810.049	EE	1-W Battery-Charging CMOS Buck Regulator	Rincón-Mora, Gabriel	Georgia Tech
22	2810.050	SS	Integrating Metasurfaces and MEMS for Gas Sensing	Gómez-Díaz, Sebastian	UC Davis
23	2810.052	FA	TI PLM as Hologram Generator for HUD and AR	Kaneda, Yushi	Univ. of Arizona
24	2810.053	FA	TI PLM to Advanced Lidar and Display Systems	Takashima, Yuzuru	Univ. of Arizona
25	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
26	2810.055	SS/EE	EMI‐Regulated Secure Automotive Power ICs	Ma, D. Brian	UT Dallas
27	2810.056	FA	Millimeter Wave Packaging Research – Antenna in Package	Henderson, Rashaunda Lee, Mark Lu, Hongbing Lu	UT Dallas
28	2810.057	SS	Reliability Study of E-mode GaN HEMT Devices by AC TDDB and High Resolution TEM	Kim, Moon Shichijo, Hishashi	UT Dallas
29	2810.058	SS/FA	Machine Learning‐Based Overkill/Underkill Reduction in Analog/RF IC Testing	Makris, Yiorgos	UT Dallas
30	2810.059	SS/EE	Ultra‐Low‐Power Robust SAR ADC for PMCW Automotive RADAR	Chiu, Yun	UT Dallas
31	2810.060	FA	Intelligent, Learning ADCs for the Post Figure-of-Merit World	Flynn, Michael	Univ. of Michigan
32	2810.061	EE	Two-Stage Vertical Power Delivery and Management for Efficient High-Performance Computing	Le, Hanh-Phuc Mercier, Patrick	UC San Diego
33	2810.062	FA	Multi-Carrier DAC-Based Transmitter Architectures for 100+Gb/s Serial Links	Palermo, Samuel  Hoyos, Sebastian	Texas A&M
34	2810.063	FA	Analog and Digital Assist Techniques to Improve Mixed-Signal Performance	Sylvester, Dennis Blaauw, David	Univ. of Michigan
35	2810.064	SS	Characterization and Tolerance of Ageing in Integrated Voltage Regulators	Mukhopadhyay, Saibal	Georgia Tech
36	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
37	2810.066	SS	Demonstrably Generalizable Compact Models of ESD Devices	Rosenbaum, Elyse	UIUC
38	2810.067	EE	Highly Efficient Extreme-Conversion-Ratio Buck Hybrid Converters	Pande, Partha Heo, Deukhyoun Doppa, Janardhan	Washington State
39	2810.068	EE	Active EMI Filtering with Switch‐Mode Amplifier for High Efficiency	Hanson, Alex	UT Austin
40	2810.070	SS	Early and Late Life Failure Prediction Methods for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
41	2810.071	FA	Accurate Compact Temperature Sensors for Thermal Management of High Performance Computing Platforms	Geiger, Randall Chen, Degang	Iowa State
42	2810.072 & 2810.073	EE	AI/ML Edge Hardware for Ultra-reliable Wireless Networks	Allstot, David Markis, Yiorgos	Oregon State & UT Dallas
43	2810.074	SS	Thermal Performance Characterization and Degradation Monitoring of LDMOS based Integrated Power IC with On-Die Temperature Sensors	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
44	2810.075	EE	Hybrid Step-Down DC-DC Converters with Large Conversion Ratios for 48V Automotive Applications	Lee, Hoi Liu, Jin	UT Dallas
45	2810.076	FA	High Precision Positioning Techniques Based on Multiple Technologies and Frequency Bands	Al-Dhahir, Naofal Torlak, Murat	UT Dallas
46	2810.077	SS	Increasing Lifetime of Nano-Scale CMOS Circuits	O, Kenneth	UT Dallas
47	2810.078	EE	Programmable Mixed-Signal Accelerator for DNNs with Depthwise Separable Convolution Layers	Murmann, Boris	Stanford
48	2810.079	EE	High-Power-Density In-Package SIMO Converters for Next-Generation Microprocessors	Huang, Cheng	Iowa State
49	2810.080	EE	Efficient and High-Density Fully In-Package GaN-Based High-Ratio DC-DC Converters	Huang, Cheng Fu, Houqiang	Iowa State
50	2810.081	FA	Development of 70-95 GHz Terabit Beamformer	Wang, Huei Huang, Tian-Wei Lin, Kun-You	National Taiwan Univ.
51	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
52	2810.083	FA	Automated Layout of Analog Arrays in Advanced Technology Nodes	Sapatnekar, Sachin Harjani, Ramesh	Univ. of Minnesota
53	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
54	2810.085	FA	Applications of Circuit Transient Sensitivity Simulation to Semiconductor Circuit Analysis and Design	Rohrer, Ronald	SMU
55	2810.086	SS	Machine Learning-based Functional Safety Improvement of AMS components in Automotive SoCs	Basu, Kanad	UT Dallas
56	2810.087	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness	Najm, Farid	Univ. of Toronto
57	2810.088	EE	Grid Optimization and Silicon Validation for Chip Robustness	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
58	2810.089	SS	Techniques for Low-cost Design, Test, and Calibration of RF MIMO Systems	Ozev, Sule Trichopoulos, Georgios	Arizona State
59	2810.090	SS	Motor Health Monitoring	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
60	2810.091	SS	Development of Two-Photon Absorption Laser System for Creating Single Event Effects	Baumann, Robert & Quevedo-Lopez, Manuel	UT Dallas
61	2810.092	EE	Battery-Charging CMOS Voltage Regulator for Resistive Low-Voltage DC Sources	Rincón-Mora, Gabriel	Georgia Tech
62	3160.002	EE	tinyASR: Self-Supervised, Sub-10μW Automatic Speech Recognition Hardware for IoT Devices	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
63	3160.003	SS	Techniques for Online Ageing Detection and In-field Characterization of Aging Phenomena	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
64	3160.004	SS	Inductive Fault Analysis for Determining Statistical Analog Test Metrics	Ozev, Sule	Arizona State
65	3160.005	SS	ML-Assisted Scalable DfT and BIST of AMS Systems	Chatterjee, Abhijit	Georgia Tech
66	3160.006	FA	Machine-Learning Based Analog Mixed-signal Design Tool	Chen, Shuo-Wei Gupta, Sandeep Levi, Tony	USC
67	3160.007	FA	AI-Assisted and Layout-Aware Analog Synthesis and Optimization with Design Intent	Pan, David Z. Jia, Yaoyao	UT Austin
68	3160.008	FA	High-Speed DAC with High Output Power and Linearity	Chen, Shuo-Wei	USC
69	3160.009	FA	100+GS/s Time-Domain Analog-to-Digital Converters	Palermo, Samuel Hoyos, Sebastian	Texas A&M
70	3160.010	FA	Design Automation of Low Phase Noise PLL	Chen, Shuo-Wei Gupta, Sandeep Levi, Tony	USC
71	3160.011	SS	G-Band CMOS mm-Wave Imager and Sensor for Biomedical Applications	Niknejad, Ali	UC Berkeley
72	3160.012	SS	Small-area Low-power DAC Designs with In-field Digital Calibration Ensuring Lifetime High Linearity	Chen, Degang	Iowa State
73	3160.013	EE	Energy-Efficient Circuits and Architectures for Cryogenic Operation	Kim, Chris	Univ. of Minnesota
74	3160.015	EE	ULP Receivers	Wentzloff, David	Univ. of Michigan
75	3160.016	EE	MODO: Hybrid SIMO-DLDO DC-DC Converter for Multi-Core Microprocessors and System-on-Chips	Seok, Mingoo	Columbia
76	3160.017	EE/FA	Multi-phase Sub-100fs Jitter Ring-oscillator-based Clock Multipliers for Beyond 100Gb/s Links	Hanumolu, Pavan	UIUC
77	3160.018	FA	Pseudo-Static Storage Circuits for Extreme Low Voltage Cryo-CMOS Applications	Kulkarni, Jaydeep	UT Austin
78	3160.019	FA	Mixed-Domain High-Performance CT-ΔΣ ADCs	Maghari, Nima	Univ. of Florida
79	3160.020	SS	Transient Reliability and Condition Monitoring of GaN HEMTs	Akin, Bilal	UT Dallas
80	3160.021	FA/EE	Automated Generation of Comprehensive Voltage/Frequency Domains – Logic+PLL+Voltage Regulation	Sathe, Visvesh	Georgia Tech
81	3160.022	EE	Domain-Voltage Regulator Co-design for Enhanced SoC Energy Efficiency	Sathe, Visvesh	Georgia Tech
82	3160.024	EE	On-the-Go Battery Charging/Battery Monitoring SIMIMO Voltage Regulator	Rincón-Mora, Gabriel	Georgia Tech