Anantha P. Chandrakasan Joseph F. & Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science GRADUATE STUDENTS S. Bandyopadhyay, Res. Asst., EECS M. Bhardwaj, Res. Asst., EECS J. Bohorquez, Res. Asst., EECS (co-supervised with Prof. J. Dawson) F. Chen, Res. Asst., EECS (co-supervised with Prof. V. Stojanović) H.W. Chung, Res. Asst., EECS D. Daly, Res. Asst., EECS N. Drego, Res. Asst., EECS (co-supervised with Prof. D. Boning) D. Finchelstein, Res. Asst., EECS Y. Koken, Res. Asst., EECS J. Kwong, Res. Asst., EECS P. Lajevardi, Res. Asst., (cosupervised with Prof. H. Lee) B. Lam, Res. Asst., EECS K-J. Lee, Res. Asst., EECS (cosupervised with Prof. J. Kong) S. Lee, Res. Asst., EECS (cosupervised with Prof. H. Lee) H. Liang, Res. Asst., EECS P. Mercier, Res. Asst., EECS M. Qazi, Res. Asst., EECS Y. Ramadass, Res. Asst., EECS R. Rithe, Res. Asst., EECS C. Schmitt, Res. Asst., EECS M. Sinangil, Res. Asst., EECS V. Sze, Res. Asst., EECS N. Verma, Res. Asst., EECS M. Yip, Res. Asst., EECS POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE N. Ickes VISITING SCIENTIST C-C. Cheng F. Pappalardo VISITING STUDENTS J. Rajendrakumar P. Sethi SUPPORT STAFF M. Flaherty, Senior Admin. Asst. J. L. Bohorquez, A. P. Chandrakasan, J. L. Dawson “A 350uW CMOS MSK Transmitter and 400uW OOK Super-Regenerative Receiver for Medical Implant Communications,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1248-1259, April 2009. A. P. Chandrakasan, F. S. Lee, D. D. Wentzloff, V. Sze, B. P. Ginsburg, P. P. Mercier, D. C. Daly, R. Blazquez, “LowPower Impulse UWB Architectures and Circuits,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 332-352, February 2009. T. S. Cho, K.-J. Lee, J. Kong, and A. P. Chandrakasan, “A 32-uW 1.83-kS/s Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor System,” IEEE JSSC, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 659-669, February 2009. N. Drego, A. P. Chandrakasan, and D. Boning, “An AllDigital, Highly-Scalable Architecture for Measurement of Spatial Variation in Digital Circuits,” IEEE Asian SolidState Circuits Conference, pp. 393-396, November 2008. V. Sze, M. Budagavi, A. P. Chandrakasan, and M. Zhou, “Parallel CABAC for Low Power Video Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 2008. M. E. Sinangil, N. Verma, and A. P. Chandrakasan, “A reconfigurable 65nm SRAM achieving voltage scalability from 0.25-1.2V and performance scalability from 20kHz200MHz,” European Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 282285, September 2008. Y. K. Ramadass, A. P. Chandrakasan, “An Efficient Piezoelectric Energy-Harvesting Interface Circuit Using a Bias-Flip Rectifier and Shared Inductor,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 296297, February 2009. P. P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, D. C. Daly, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A 0.55V 16Mb/s 1.6mW Non-Coherent IR-UWB Digital Baseband with +-1ns Synchronization Accuracy,” IEEE ISSCC, pp. 252-253, February 2009. D. C. Daly, P. P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, A. L. Stone, J. Voldman, R. B. Levine, J. G. Hildebrand, A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC for Insect Motion Control,” IEEE ISSCC, pp. 200-201, February 2009. N. Verma, and A. Chandrakasan, “A High-Density 45nm SRAM Using Small-Signal Non-Strobed Regenerative Sensing,” IEEE JSSC, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 163-173, January 2009. J. Kwong, Y. K. Ramadass, N. Verma, and A. Chandrakasan, “A 65nm Sub-Vt Microcontroller with Integrated SRAM and Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter,” IEEE JSSC, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 115-126, January 2009. B.P. Ginsburg, and A. Chandrakasan, “Highly Interleaved 5-bit, 250-MSample/s, 1.2mW ADC with Redundant Channels in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE JSSC, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2641-2650, December 2008. L. Dolecek, M. Qazi, D. Shah, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “Breaking the Simulation Barrier: SRAM Evaluation Through Norm Minimization,“ IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp. 322-329, November 2008. D. F. Finchelstein, V. Sze, M. E. Sinangil, Y. Koken, and A.P. Chandrakasan, “A Low-Power 0.7-V H.264 720p Video Decoder,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 173-176, November 2008. N. Ickes, D. Finchelstein, and A. P. Chandrakasan, “A 10-pJ/instruction, 4-MIPS Micropower DSP for Sensor Applications,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 289-292, November 2008. FRS.9 MICROSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT 2009 Faculty Research Staff & Publications