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No.

Year

Year Presented

Author(s)

Title

20th

1977

1978

W. Kenneth Jenkins

Techniques for High-Precision Digital Filtering with Multiple Microprocessors

21st

1978

1979

Sung Mo Kang

An Efficient Design of Large-Scale Communication Networks with a Decomposition Technique

22nd

1979

1980

None

No Winner was Selected for MWSCAS 1979

23rd

1980

1981

Clement F. Lee and W. Kenneth Jenkins

Switched-capacitor circuit analysis based on modified nodal analysis

24th

1981

1982

R.L. Geiger and P.E. Allen

Switched Resistor Filters

25th

1982

1983

Ann Miller Millman

An Application of Computer Graphics to Combat Vehicle Design

26th

1983

1984

Byeong G.  Lee and Alan Willson

All Two-Transistor Circuits Possess at Most Three DC Equilibrium Points

 

 

 

C.S. Gargour, B. Nowrouzian and V. Ramachandran

Design Biquadratic Stray Insensitive Switched Capacitor Filters Using Unit Delays and Finite Gain Amplifiers as Basic Building Blocks

27th

1984

1985

M. Odyniec and L.O. Chuo

Synchronization in Nonlinear Circuits

 

 

 

A.A. Sakia and E.I. El-Masry

Generation of Equivalent Canonical Digital Filters

28th

1985

1986

G.M Wierzba and J.V. Svobada

A Comparison of Circuits Generated by Op-Amp Relocation

29th

1986

1987

H.T. Young and K.S. Chao

A Hight-Resolution Twin-Resistor A/D Conversion Technique

30th

1987

1988

None

No Winner was Selected for MWSCAS 1987

31st

1988

1989

Allen Yi-Jen Chan and C.Y. Roger Chen

A-Algorithm -- A New Algorithm for Automatic Test Pattern Generation

32nd

1989

1990

Moncef Gabborig and Edward J. Coyle

Design of Stack Filters with Structural Constrints Under the MRE Criterion

33rd

1990

1991

Hiroyuki Wasaki and Yoshihiko Morio

A Localized Learning Rule for Analog VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks

34th

1991

1992

Russ Duren and Behrouz Peikari

A New Neural Network Architecture for Rationally Invariant Object Recognition

35th

1992

1993

Axel Thomson and Martin M. Booke

A Temperature Stable Current Reference Source with Programmable Output

36th

1993

1994

Kaining Wang and Anthony N. Michel

Stability of Dynamical Systems Determined by Differential Inequalities with Applications to Nonlinear Circuits

37th

1994

1995

Andreas Andreou and Kwabena Doahen

A 48,000 Pixel 580,000 Transistor Silicon Retina in Current-Mode Subthreshold CMOS

 

 

 

Shomit M. Ghosh and Wafsy B. Mikhael

Comparative Evaluations of 2-D Predictor Implementations for Lossless Compression of Images

38th

1995

1996

A.G. Dempster and M.D. Macleod

Variation of FIR Filter Complexity with Order

39th

1996

1997

Mark N. Martin, Philippe O. Pouliquen, Andreas G. Andreou and Martin Fraeman

Current-mode Differential Logic Circuits for Low Power Digital Systems

40th

1997

1998

Celestino A. Corral, Claude S. Lindquist and Peter B. Aronhime

Sensitivity of the Band-Edge Selectivity of Various Classical Filters

41st

1998

1999

E. Alarcon, M. Ianazzo, J. Madrenas, J.M. Moreno, S. Gomariz, F. Guinjoan and A. Povada

Implementation of an Application-Specific Fuzzy Controller by Means of a Mixed-Signal Sequential Architecture

42nd

1999

2000

Samuel L. San Gregory, Charles Brothers, and David Gallagher

A Fast Low Power Logarithm Approximation with CMOS VLSI Implementation

43rd

2000

2001

Asad Azam, Dhinesh Sasidaran, Karl Nelson, Gary Ford, Louis Johnson and Michael Soderstrand

Single-Chip Tunable Heterodyne Notch Filters Implemented in FPGA's

44th

2001

2002

Henry H. Y. Chan and Dr. Zeljko Zilic

Substrate Coupled Noise Reduction

and Active Noise Suppression for Mixed-Signal System-on-a-Chip

45th

2002

2003

Geoffrey A Williamson and Daniel A. Bailey

Channel Equalization Using Adaptive Subband Filters

46th

2003

2004

Mr. Alexandre Marsolais, Prof. M. El-Gamal, Prof. M. Sawan

A CMOS Frequency Synthesizer Covering the Lower and Upper Band of 5GHz WLANs

47th

2004

2005

K. M. Tsui, S. C. Chan and K. W. Tse

Design of Complex-Valued Variable Digital Filters and Its Application to the Realization of Arbitrary Sampling Rate Conversion for Complex Signals

48th

2005

2006

B. Choubey and S. Collins

Low dark current logarithmic pixels

49th

2006

2007

Ta-chien Huang and Charles Zukowski

Reconfigurable Digital/Analog Processor Array for the Simulation of Gene Regulatory Networks

50th

2007

2008

José C. Garcia, J. A. Montiel–Nelson, H. Navarro, J. Sosa, and S. Nooshabadi

High Performance CMOS Symmetric Low Swing to High Swing Converter for On–Chip Interconnects

51st

2008

2009

No winner selected

 

52nd

2009

2010

Niklas Zimmermann, Björn Thorsten Thiel, Renato Negra, and Stefan Heinen

System Architecture of an RF-DAC Based Multi-Standard Transmitter

53rd

2010

2011

Matthew Turner and John Naber

The Design of a Bi-directional, RFID-based ASIC for Interfacing with SPI Bus Peripherals

54th

2011

2012

Masaaki Fujii

Adaptive and Interactive ITI Canceller for Inter-Track Asynchronous shingled Write Recording

55th

2012

2013

Socrates D. Vamvakos, Claude R. Gauther, Chethan Rao, Karthisha Ramoshan Canagasaby Prashant Choudhary, Sanjay Dabral, Shaishav Desai, Mahmudul Hassan, KC. Hsieh, Bendik Kleveland, Gurupada Mandal, Richard Rouse, Ritesh Saraf, Alvin Wang and Ying Cao

A 2.488-11.2 Gb/s Multi-Protocol SerDes in 40 nm Low-Leakage CMOS for FPGA Applications

56th

2013

2014

Kushal Das and Torsten Lehmann

Mismatch Insensitive Automatic Tuning Control for the Single Electron Transistor Readout Circuit

57th

2014

2015

Ho Joon Lee, Young-Bin Ki and Kyung Ki Kim

Mismatch Full Custom Implementation of a S-Box Circuit Architecture Using Power Bated PLA Structure

58th

2015

2016

Areeb Ali, Neelanjana Pal and Peter Levine

CMOS Inpedance Spectroscopy Sensor Array with Synchronous Voltage-to-Frequency and Core Scaling

59th

2016

2017

Tim Poguntke and Karltheinz Ochs

Linear time-variant system identification using FMCW radar systems

60th

2017

2018

Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Mihailo Isakov
Mustafa Darbi
Amad Patooghy
Michael Kinsy

Janus: An Uncertain Cache Architecture to Cope With Side Channel Attacks

61st

2018

2019

TBD

Award will be presented at MWSCAS 2019 in Dallas, TX