Awards

2012

Kailiang Chen, "Best Design Award" of A-SSCC 2012 Student Design Contest, "Ultrasonic Imaging Front-End Design for CMUT: A 3-Level 30Vpp Pulse-Shaping Pulser with Improved Efficiency and a Noise-Optimized Receiver," Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Nov. 2012.

2010

C. -C. Cheng, Y. -M. Tsai, L. -G. Chen, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2010 CICC Best Regular Paper Award, "A 0.077 to 1.168 nJ/bit/iteration Scalable 3GPP LTE Turbo Decoder with an Adaptive Sub-Block Parallel Scheme and an Embedded DVFS Engine", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Bonnie Lam, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Low-Power Multi-Standard Ultra-HD Video Codec"

Marcus Yip, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Digitally-Assisted Sensor Interface for Biomedical Applications"

Patrick Mercier, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Connected Health for Remote Patient Monitoring"

2009

D. C. Daly, P. P. Mercier, M. Bhardwaj, A. L. Stone, J. Voldman, R. B. Levine, J. G. Hildebrand, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2009 ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper, "A Pulsed UWB Receiver SoC for Insect Motion Control", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Joyce Kwong, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Wearable Medical Monitoring Platform"

Daniel Finchelstein, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "A Low-Power 0.7-V H.264 720p Video Decoder"

Denis Daly, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Energy Efficient Pulsed-UWB Circuits and Systems for Cyborg Moths"

2008

D. F. Finchelstein, V. Sze, M. E. Sinangil, Y. Koken, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2008 A-SSCC Student Design Contest - Outstanding Design Award, "A Low-Power 0.7-V H.264 720p Video Decoder", IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference

T. S. Cho, K.-J. Lee, J. Kong, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2008 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, "The Design of a Low Power Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor System", ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp. 84-89, Anaheim, June 8-13, 2008.

Joyce Kwong, Yogesh Ramadass, Naveen Verma, M. Koesler, K. Huber, H. Moormann, A. Chandrakasan, "A 65nm Sub-Vt Microcontroller with Integrated SRAM and Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter," 2008 ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Patrick Mercier, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Fully Integrated Pulsed-UWB Transceivers for Small Lightweight Flying Vehicles"

Vivienne Sze, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Algorithms and Architectures for Ultra-Low-Power Video Compression"

2007

T. S. Cho, K.-J. Lee, J. Kong, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2007 AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award, "A Low Power Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor System", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 181-184, September 2007

Yogesh K. Ramadass and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2007 IEEE ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award, "Minimum Energy Tracking Loop With Embedded DC-DC Converter Enabling Ultra-Low-Voltage Operation Down to 250 mV in 65 nm CMOS"

Fred S. Lee and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2007 ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award. "A 2.5nJ/b 0.65V 3-to-5GHz Subbanded UWB Receiver in 90nm CMOS"

Yogesh K. Ramadass and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence. "Minimum Energy Tracking Loop with Embedded DC-DC Converter Delivering Voltages Down to 250mV in 65nm CMOS"

Vivienne Sze and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest, "Design of an Ultra-low-voltage UWB Baseband Processor"

2006

Brian P. Ginsburg and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2006 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. "500-MS/s 5-b ADC in 65-nm CMOS With Split Capacitor Array"

Denis C. Daly and Anantha P Chandrakasan, RFIC Student Paper Competition, 3rd Place. "An Energy Efficient OOK Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks"

Denis C Daly, Daniel Finchelstein, Nathan Ickes, Naveen Verma, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest, 3rd place, Operational System Design Category. "An Ultra Low Power Wireless Microsensor Node"

2004

Johnna Powell and Anantha P Chandrakasan, 2004 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Student Paper Competition, 1st Place. "Differential and Single Ended Elliptical Antennas for 3.1-10.6 GHz Ultra Wideband Communication"

Fred S. Lee, Raul Blazquez, Puneet P. Newaskar, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest, 1st place, Operational Category, Best Overall. "A Single Chip Ultra-Wideband Transceiver"

2003

Alice Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan, DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest, 3rd place, Operational Category. "Energy-Aware Design of a Real-Valued FFT"

2002

Nathan Ickes, Fred Lee, Rex Min, Piyada Phanaphat, Anantha Chandrakasan, ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award, 1st Place. "A Power-Award Wireless Microsensor Node"

2000

Rex Min, Manish Bhardwaj, Seong Hwan Cho, Eugene Shih, Amit Sinha, Alice Wang and Anantha Chandrakasan, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation (SiPS'00), Oct. 2000, Best Student Paper. "An Architecture for a Power-Aware Distributed Microsensor Node"

1999

J. Goodman, A. P. Dancy, A. P. Chandrakasan, DAC Student Design Contest, 1st place. "Design and Implementation of a Scalable Encryption Processor with Embedded Variable DC/DC Converter"