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Year

Place

Authors

Affiliation

Title

 

1997

 

1

 

C.E. Savin, M.O. Ahmad, M.N.S. Swamy

 

Concordia University Montreal Canada

 

A General Framework for the Design of Stack Filters using the Lp Norm Objective Function

 

2

Wolfgan Himmelbauer  and Andreas G. Andreou

Johns Hopkins University

Masic Log-Domain Circuits in Subthreshold MOS

 

3

Jasbir S. Takhar, Daphne J. Gilbert, Sheffield Hallam

University of Sheffield Hallam University UK

The Derivation of Minimal Test Sets for Combinational Logic Circuits Using Genetic Algorithms

1998

1

Klemens Letsch and R. Matzner

Universitaet der Bunderswehr, Munich Germany

On the Construction of a Random Process with Given Power Spectrum and Probability Density Function

 

2

Arm G. Wassal and M.A. Hasan

University of Waterloo

A VLSI Switch Architecture for Broadband Satellite Networks

1999

1

Per Lowenborg, Hakan Johansson and Lars Wanhammar

Linkoping University

Sweden

A Class of Two-Channel Hybrid Analog/Digital Filter Banks

 

2

Ahmed Shams and Magdy Bayoumi

University of Southwestern Louisiana

A Framework for Performance Evaluation of 1-bit Full Adder Cells

 

3

Tuna B. Tarim, Mohammed Ismail and H. Hakan Kuntman

Istanbul University and Ohio State University

Statistical Desing of the Four-MOSFET Structure

2000

1-A

Alyssa Apsel and Andreas Andreau

John Hopkins University

Quality of Data Reconstruction Using Stochastic Encoding and an Integrating Receiver

 

1-B

Ahmed H. Mostafa, Mourad N. El-Gamal and Ramez A. Rafla

McGill University

CMOS 5-10 GHZ Oscillators for Low Voltage RF Applications

 

2-A

H. Aboushady, Y. Dumonteix, M.M. Louerat and H. Mehrez

Universite Paris VI

Efficient Polyphase Decomposition of Comb Decimation Filters in Analog-to-Digital Converters

 

2-B

Lin Cong and William C. Black

Iowa State University

A New Charge Redistribution D/A and A/D converter Technique -- Psuedo C-2C Ladder

 

3-A

Warren J. Gross, Vincent C. Gaudet and P. Glenn Gulak

University of Toronto

A VLSI Architecture or Soft-Output PR4 Detection

 

3-B

Riku Uusikartano and Jarkko Niitylahti

Tampere University of Technology

A Digital Frequency Synthesizer for a 2.4 GHZ Fast Frequency Hopping Transceiver

 

3-C

Roman Genov and Gert Cauwenberghs

John Hopkins University

Gharge-Mode Parallel Architecture for Matrix-Vector Multiplication

 

3-D

Ko-Chi Kuo and Adriau Leucim

SUNY at Stony Brook

A Novel Linear Tunable MOS Transconductor

2001

1

Afshin Rezayee and Ken Martin

University of Toronto

A Coupled Two-Stage Ring Oscillator

 

2

Khurran Waheed and Fahti Salam

Michigan State University

A Mixed Mode Neuro-VLSI Chip for High-Speed Applications

 

3

Gazi A. Al-Rawi

Stanford

Exploiting Bondwire Parasitic Impedance in the Design of a 1.6 GHz Narrow-Band CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier

2002

1-A

Mourad El-Gamal and Tommy Tsang

McGill University

Micro-Electromechanical Variable Capacitors for RF Applications

 

1-B

Anthony Long, Jingshi Yao, and Stephen Long

University of California, Santa Barbara

A 13W Current Mode Class D High Efficiency 1 GHz Power Amplifier

 

2

Sebastian Magierowski and Stefan Zukotynski

University of Toronto

Nonlinear Analysis of CMOS LC-Tuned VCO Phase Noise

 

3

Omar Elkeelany and G. Chaudhry

University Missouri

A Prototype of WideBand/Ethernet Bridge Using WEMAC

 

4-A

Biju Mullul Veedu and M.A. Soderstrand

Oklahoma State University

Simple Adaptive Heterodyne Filter

 

4-B

Chuang Zhang, Ashok Srivastava, and Pratul Ajmera

Louisiana State University

A 0.8V Ultra-low Power CMOS Operational Amplifier Design

 

4-C

Zhangwen Tang and Hao Min

Fudan University

High-Performance All-Digital Quadrature Frequency Synthesizer/Mixer

2003

 

 

 

 

2004

1

Muhammad Akhtar, M. Abe and M. Kawamata

Tohoku University, Japan

Modified-Filtered-x LMS Algorithm Based Active Noise Control System with Improved Online Secondary-Path Modeling

 

2

Weng-Ieng Mok, Pui-In Mak, Seng-Pan U and R.P. Martins

University of Macao, China

Modeling of Noise Sources in Reference Voltage Generator for Very-High-Speed Pipelined ADC

 

3

Yuh-Jue Chuang, Ting-Jian Pan and Ja-Ling Wu

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

General Splitting and Merging of 2-D DCT in the DCT Domain

2005

1

Flavio Carbognani, F. Buergin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, and W. Fichtner

 ETH Zurich

A 2.7-UW/MHZ Transmission-Gate-Based 16-Bit Multiplier for Digital Hearing Aids

 

2

Peter Singerl and H. Koeppl

Technical University Graz

A Low-Rate Identification Method for Digital Predistorters Based on Volterra Kernel Interpretation

 

3

Hemal Shah, Abdel-Aty-Zohdy and M. Hashem Sherif

Oakland University

Novel Usage of Wavelets as Basis in RDNN for Telecommunication Applications

2006

1

Henning Ehm, Liu Yang and Jiguang Yue

Tongji University

Time Domain Phase Noise Synthesis for System Simulation

 

2

Moataz Abdelwahab and Wasfy Mikhael

University of Central Florida

Recognition of Noisy Facial Images Employing Transform - Domain Two-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis

 

3

Albert Saiz-Vela, Pere Miribel-Catala, Jordi Colomer, Manel Puig-Vidal and Josep Samitier

University of Barcelona

Low-Power High-Voltage Non-Overlapping Clock Generators for Switched-Capacitor Step-Up DC-DC Converters

2007

1

Behzad Mesgarzadeh, M. Hansson and A. Alvandpour

Linkoping University - Sweden

Low-Power Bufferless Resonant Clock Distribution Networks

 

2

Matthias Keller, A. Buhmann, M. Ortmanns and Y. Manoli

University of Freiburg - Germany

Systematic Approach to the synthesis of Continuous-Time

 

3

Pukar Malla, H. Lakdawala, K. Kornegay and K. Soumyanath

Cornell

 

2008

1

Abhay Vasudev and Jiang Zhe

University of Akron

An Electrowetting Based Microgripper

 

2

Qiuning Chen, Kamal El-Sankary, Ezz El-Masry

Dalhousie University

A UHF Continuous-Time Current-Mode Band-Pass Delta Sigma Modulator Based on Active Inductor

 

3

Christy M. Bogard, Benjamin Arazi and Eric C. Rouchka

University of Louisville

Toward DNA-Based Security Circuitry: First Step – Random Number Generation

2009

1

Rajdeep Bondade, Dongsheng Ma

University of Arizona

A DLL Regulated SIMO Power Converter for DVS-Enabled Power-Aware VLSI Systems

 

2

Christine Leuer

Ruhr University Bochum Germany

Systematic Derivation of Reference Circuits for Wave Digital Modeling of Passive Linear Partial Differential Equations

 

3

Juan Zeng, Valencia Joyner, Jun Liao, Shanging Deng, Zhauran Huang

Tufts University

A 55 Gb/s 7-Channel Current-Mode Imaging Receiver Front-End for Free-Space Optical MIMO

2010

1

Matteo Agostinelli, Robert Priewasser, Stefano Marsili, Mario Huemer

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Non-Linear Control for Energy Efficient DC-DC Converters Supporting DCM Operation

 

2

Bhavin Shastri, David Plant

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Probabilistic Theory for Semi-Blind Oversampling Burst-Mode Clock and Data Recovery Circuits

 

3

Marcos Turqueti, Jafar Saniie, Erdal Oruklu

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

MEMS Acoustic Array Embedded in an FPGA Based Data Acquisition and Signal Processing System

2011

1

Hemasundar Geddada, Jose Silva-Martinez and Stewart S. Taylor

Texas A&M University

Inductorless Wideband CMOS LNAs with Nonlinearity Cancellation

 

2

Yisong Chang, Jizeng Wei, Wei Guo and Jizhou Sun

Tianjin University, China

A Multi-Functional Dot Product Unit with SIMD Architecture for Embedded 3D Graphics Engines

 

3

Li Ding, Zhangcai Huang, Minglu Jiang, Atsushi Kurokawa and Yasuaki Inoue

Waseda University, Japan

Modeling the Overshooting Effect of Multi-input Gate in Nanometer Technologies

2012

1-A

John Kota, Dezarae Holman, Kyle Wilson, Eric Matas, Arjuna Madanayake and Malik Elbuluk

University of Akron, Akron OH

High-Voltage Class-D Direct-Drive Audio Amplifier for Electrostatic Lougspeakers

 

1-B

Siva Sudani, Degan Chen and Randy Geiger

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

A Method for Accurate Full Spectrum Testing without Requiring Coherency

 

2

Bastian Mohr, Wenjia Li and Stefan Heinen

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Analysis of Digital Predistortion Architectures for Direct Digital-To-RF Transmitter Systems

 

3

Toby Balsom, William Redman-White1 and Jonathan Scott

University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand and 1Southampton University, Southampton, UK

Bipolar Amplifier Bias Technique for Robust IM3 Null Tracking Independent of Internal Emitter Resistance

2013

1

Christopher Condrat, Priyank Kalla and Steve Blair

University of Utah

Crossing-Aware Chanel Routing for Photonic Waveguides

 

2

Te-Wen Liao, Jun-Ren Su and Chung-Chih Hung

National Chiao Tung University

Sub-Sampling Charge Pump and Random Pulsewidth Matching Technique for Frequency Synthesizer

 

3

Xuan Zhang, Chengcheng Yao, Feng Guo and Jin Wang

Ohio State University

Reverse Power Flow Study of an Isolated Quasi-Switched-Capacitor DC/DC Converter for Automotive Applications

 

HM

Payam S Rahmdel, Damining Shi and Richard Comley

Middlesex University

Radon Sinogram Decomposition for Line Segmentation (Video Presentation)

 2014

 1

B. Min, N. H. W. Yang, and S. Palermo

Texas A&M University

10Gb/s adaptive receiver-side near-end and far-end crosstalk cancellation circuitry

 

2

Y. K. The and P. K. T. Mok

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

A bipolar output voltage pulse transformer boost converter with charge pump assisted shunt regulator for thermoelectric energy harvesting

 2015

 1

Sagar Ray and Mona M. Hella

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

A 10-Gb/s Inductorless AGC Amplifier with 45-dB Linear Variable Gain Control in 0.13-m CMOS

 

2

Nicholas Preyss, Lorenz Koestler and Andreas Burg

Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60 GHz Wireless Communication

  

 3

Bin Liu, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Soheil Ghiasi and Benam M. Baas

University of Calif. Davis

Optimizing Power of Many-Core Systems by Exploiting Dynamic Voltage, Frequency and Core Scaling

2016

1

Adam G. Kimura and Steven B. Bibyk

The Ohio State University

Quantifying Metrics for Analyzing Integrated Circuit Design Integrity

 

2

M.A. Maktoomi, M.H. Maktoomi, A.P. Yadav, M.S. Hashmi and F.M. Ghannouchi

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Dual-Frequency Admittance Property of Two Sections Transmission-Line and Application

 

3-A

Anastasis Keliris and Michail Maniatakos

New York University

Remote Field Device Fingerprinting Using Device-Specific Modbus Information

 

3-B

Muna Darweesh, Hani Saleh, Baker Mohammad and Mohammed Ismail

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE

Novel Logarithmic ECG Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Pan and Tompkins

2017

1

Feiran Lei and Marvin H. White

The Ohio State University

A Low Noise, inductor-less, integer-N RF synthesizer using phase-locked loop with reference injection (PLL-RI)

 

2

Carolin Kollegger,
Philipp Greiner,
Christoph Steffan,
Martin Wiessflecker,
Heiko Froehlich,
Thoralf Kautzsch,
Gerald Holweg and
Bernd Deutschmann

Indraprastha Infineon Technologies, Australia

A system-on-chip NFC bicycle tire pressure measurement system

 

3

Ryan Weiss Gangotree Chakma and Garrett S. Rose

University of Tennessee, Knowxville, TN

A synchronized axon hillock neuron for memristive neuromorphic systems