MTL
Annual Research Report 2006
Circuits & Systems
- Error-correcting
Codes that Minimize Receiver Turn-on Time
M. Bhardwaj, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: NSF, IBM Fellowship
- A Robust Digital Baseband for UWB Communications
R. Blázquez, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: NSF
- CAD for
Tile-based 3-D Field Programmable Gate Arrays
V. Chandrasekhar, A.P. Chandrakasan, D. Troxel
Sponsorship: DARPA
- A Power-efficient Multi-local PLL Clock Distribution
F. Chen, V. Stojanovic, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: MARCO IFC
- Carbon Nanotube - CMOS Chemical Sensor Integration
T.S. Cho, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, Samsung Lee
Kun Hee Scholarship Foundation
- An Energy Efficient Transceiver
for Wireless Micro-Sensor Applications
D.C. Daly, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA Power Aware Computing/Communication
Program
- Prediction
of Variation in Advanced Process Technology Nodes
N. Drego, A.P. Chandrakasan, D. Boning
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2
- Deep Sub-micron CMOS Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Ultra-wideband
Radio
B.P. Ginsburg, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: NDSEG Fellowship,
DARPA
- Fine-grain
Power Control for Field Programmable Gate Arrays
F. Honoré, A.P. Chandrakasan, D. Troxel
Sponsorship: MARCO
IFC
- A Micropower
DSP Architecture for Self-powered Microsensor Applications
N. Ickes, D. Finchelstein, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA
Power Aware Computing/Communication Program
- CMOS Circuit Techniques
for Data-rate Enhancement in VCSEL-based Chip-to-chip Optical Links
A.M. Kern, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: MARCO IFC, Intel, NSF
- A Sub-threshold Cell Library and Methodology
J. Kwong, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: Texas Instruments, DARPA
- Design of a High-speed, High-resolution DAC in 2-D and 3-D Processes
P. Lajevardi, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA
- An Energy-efficient
Ultra-wideband Radio Receiver
F.S. Lee, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: NSF
- 3-D SRAM Architecture
and Circuits
T. Pan, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA
- An Energy-optimal
Power Supply for Digital Circuits
Y.K. Ramadass, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA, Texas Instruments
- An Energy-efficient Digital Baseband Processor for Pulsed UWB
Using Extreme Parallellization
V. Sze, R. Blázquez, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA
- An Ultra Low-power ADC for Wireless Micro Sensor Applications
N. Verma, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: DARPA Power Aware Computing/Communication
Program
- An All-digital, Pulsed-UWB Transmitter in 90-nm CMOS
D.D. Wentzloff, A.P. Chandrakasan
Sponsorship: NSF
- Parameterized
Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Circuits and MEMS
B. Bond, L. Daniel
Sponsorship: MARCO GSRC, NSF
- Development of
Specialized Basis Functions and Efficient Substrate Integration
Techniques for Electromagnetic Analysis of Interconnect and RF
Inductors
X. Hu, T.A.E. Moselhy, J. White, L. Daniel
Sponsorship: SRC, MARCO
GSRC, NSF
- A Quasi-convex Optimization Approach to Parameterized
Model-order Reduction
K.C. Sou, L. Daniel, A. Megretski
Sponsorship: MARCO GSRC, SRC,
NSF
- RF PA Linearization: Open-loop Digital Predistortion Using
Cartesian Feedback for Adaptive PA Characterization
J.W. Holloway, S. Chung, J. Huang, J.L. Dawson
Sponsorship: MARCO
C2S2
- Convex Optimization of Integrated Systems Using Geometric
Programming
T. Khanna, R. Sredojevic, J.L. Dawson, V. Stojanovic
Sponsorship:
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advanced Concepts Committee
- High-Resolution,
Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using Comparator-Based Switched-Capacitor
Techniques
L. Brooks, H.-S. Lee
Sponsorship: NSDEG Fellowship, CICS
- High
Speed Time-Interleaved Comparator-Based Switch Capacitor ADC
A. Chow, H.-S. Lee
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2
- Low-Voltage Comparator-Based
Switched-Capacitor Sigma-Delta ADC
M. Guyton, H.-S. Lee
Sponsorship: CICS
- Noise Analysis of Threshold
Detection Comparators
T. Sepke, J.K. Fiorenza, P. Holloway, C.G. Sodini, H.-S. Lee
Sponsorship:
MARCO C2S2, CICS
- Massively Parallel ADC with Self-Calibration
M. Spaeth, H.-S. Lee
Sponsorship: CICS
- Intelligent Night-Vision
Human Detection System
Y. Fang, I. Masaki, B.K.P. Horn
Sponsorship: Intelligent Transportation
Research Center
- Vision-Based System for Occupancy and Posture
Analysis
M. Farrell, I. Masaki, B.K.P. Horn
Sponsorship: Intelligent Transportation
Research Center
- Techniques for Low-jitter Clock Multiplication
B. Helal, M.H. Perrott
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2 (partial)
- Advanced
Delay-locked Loop Architecture for Chip-to-Chip Communication
C.-M. Hsu, M.H. Perrott
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2
- Digital Techniques
for the Linearization of RF Transmitters
K. Johnson, M.H. Perrott 36
- Techniques for Highly Digital Implementation
of Clock and Data Recovery Circuits
C. Lau, M.H. Perrott
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2
- Digital Implementation
and Calibration Technique for High-speed Continuous-time Sigma-Delta
A/D Converters
M. Park, M.H. Perrott
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2, Applied Materials
- High-performance Time-to-Digital Conversion and Applications
M. Straayer, M.H. Perrott
Sponsorship: Lincoln Laboratory
- Fast
Cochlear Amplification with Slow Outer Hair Cells
T.K. Lu, S. Zhak, P. Dallos, R. Sarpeshkar
Sponsorship: NSF, David
and Lucille Packard Foundation, ONR, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Circuits for an RF Cochlea
S. Mandal, S. Zhak, R. Sarpeshkar
Sponsorship: NSF, Center for Bits
and Atoms
- An Analog Storage Cell with 5 Electrons/sec Leakage
M. O’Halloran, R. Sarpeshkar
Sponsorship: Center for Bits
and Atoms, NSF Research Grant, ONR, Catalyst Foundation, David
and Lucille Packard Foundation, Swartz Foundation.
- A Time-based
Energy-efficient Analog-to-Digital Converter
H. Yang, R. Sarpeshkar
Sponsorship: Center for Bits and Atoms,
NSF Research Grant, ONR
- Optimization
of System and Circuit Parameters in Wideband OFDM Systems
F. Edalat, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: NSF, Texas Instruments
- Comparator-based
Switched-capacitor Circuits (CBSC)
J.K. Fiorenza, T. Sepke, P. Holloway, H.-S. Lee, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship:
MARCO C2S2, CICS
- A Wideband Delta-Sigma Digital-RF Modulator
A. Jerng, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: CICS
- Area- and Power-Efficient
Integrated Transceivers for Gigabit Wireless LAN
L. Khuon, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2, CICS
- Optical-feedback
OLED Display Using Integrated Organic Technology
I. Nausieda, I. Kymissis, V. Bulovic, A.I. Akinwande, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: MARCO C2S2, MARCO MSD
- A 77-GHz Receiver for Millimeter
Wave Imaging
J. Powell, K.M. Nguyen, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: NSF, Lincoln Laboratory
- Realization
of Baseband DSP Core for the Wireless Gigabit LAN
J.K. Tan, K.M. Nguyen, C.G. Sodini
Sponsorship: NSF, CICS
- Channel-and-Circuits-Aware,
Energy-Efficient Coding for High-speed Links
N. Blitvic, M. Lee, L. Zheng, V. Stojanovic
Sponsorship: MARCO IFC
- Efficiency of High-speed On-Chip Interconnect: Trade-off and
Optimization
B. Kim, V. Stojanovic
Sponsorship: NEC research fund
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