Events
Seminar
Title: Driving Innovations in Communications and Sensing through Collaborations
Friday, October 28, 2022 2:10 - 3:00 PM
Campus Location: Giedt Hall Room #1001
Abstract:
The Communications, Circuits and Sensing Systems (CCSS) program cluster in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division under the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) supports innovative research in circuit and system hardware and signal processing techniques to advance communications and sensing. In this seminar, I will provide an update on the funding programs that CCSS program directors are involved with. In collaboration with other NSF organizations, ECCS leads several interdisciplinary cross-cutting programs to stimulate innovative communication/sensing technologies in several national priority research areas including semiconductor, wireless, healthcare, and climate. I will use the SWIFT and the ETAUS Ideas Lab as examples to describe how these cross-cutting programs were formed to stimulate interdisciplinary research and education. The recent CHIPS and Science Act puts semiconductor on the national spotlight. I will also describe various programs led by ECCS to support research in semiconductor, microelectronics, and integrated circuits.
Jenshan Lin
Program Director in ENG/ECCS/CCSS, National Science Foundation
Dr. Lin is a Program Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and a Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida (UF). In his early career prior to joining UF, he was with AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories and its spinoff Agere Systems from 1994 to 2003, working on microwave and millimeter-wave circuits using various semiconductor technologies for early wireless technology developments including 3G, wireless LAN (before Wi-Fi), and 28-/38-GHz point-to-point links. At UF, his research focused on wireless sensing, biomedical radar, and wireless power transfer. He has published more than 300 papers and produced 23 patents. At NSF, he leads the Communications, Circuits, and Sensing Systems Program Cluster in the ECCS Division and manages several interdisciplinary cross-cutting programs involving wireless communications, sensing, and semiconductors.
Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1994. He is an IEEE Fellow. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) and chaired several committees and conferences in the IEEE MTT Society. He was the General Chair of 2008 RFIC Symposium, the TPC Co-Chair of 2021 International Microwave Symposium, the General Chair of 2021 Wireless Power Transfer Conference, the Chair of Tatsuo Itoh Prize Award Committee in 2019-2021, and most recently served as the Chair of MTT Fellow Evaluating Committee in 2021-2022.
Seminar
Title: Researches of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave System Applications at National Taiwan University
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 3:00 PM
Campus Location: Kemper 1127
Abstract:
In this presentation, the recent researches of microwave and millimeter-wave (MMW) system applications at National Taiwan University (NTU) will be described. Based on our development of III-V and silicon-based monolithic microwave/MMW integrated MMICs, several applications have been conducted. Our MMICs supported a couple of radio telescope systems, namely, Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA), and Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) systems. A pair of CMOS based 38-GHz transmit/receive chips, together with GaAs pHEMT LNA and PA, have also been developed to support the 38-GHz 5-G RF front end system, and the electronic beam steering function was successfully demonstrated using a pair of 32-element Tx/Rx phased arrays. The similar 38-GHz transmit/receive chips have modified for an application on the drone to transmit the 8K/4K video in real time for wild animal monitoring. Another developed microwave system is a harmonic radar for the tracking of bees in order to help entomologists to identify the cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) of the bees. Brief descriptions of each system and application will be presented, along with the microwave/MMW circuit development at NTU.
Huei Wang
Huei Wang(S’83-M’87-SM’95-F’06) was born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1958. He received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1980, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
During his graduate study, he was engaged in the research on theoretical and numerical analysis of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. He was also involved in the development of microwave remote detecting/sensing systems. Dr. Wang joined Electronic Systems and Technology Division of TRW Inc. since 1987. He has been an MTS and Staff Engineer responsible for MMIC modeling of CAD tools, MMIC testing evaluation and design and became the Senior Section Manager of MMW Sensor Product Section in RF Product Center. He visited the Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in 1993 to teach MMIC related topics and returned to TRW in 1994. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, as a Professor in February 1998. He served as the Director of Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering from Aug. 2006 to July 2009, and the Associate Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Taiwan University from Aug. 2016 to July 2018.
Dr. Wang is a member of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi. He received the Distinguished Research Award of National Science Council, Taiwan, in 2003. He was the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair Professor of National Taiwan University in 2005-2007. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2006 and has been appointed as an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the term of 2007-2009. Dr. Wang received the Academic Achievement Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan, in 2007, and the Distinguished Research Award from Pan Wen-Yuan’s Foundation in 2008. He has been Life National Chair Professor of Ministry of Education, Republic of China since 2014, and has been appointed as National Taiwan University Chair Professor since 2016.ppointed as National Taiwan University Chair Professor since 2016.
Seminar
October 13, 2022 at 10am
Title: 22nm Fully-Depleted SOI for RF & Microwave Systems
Abstract:
The 22nm node saw a split in adopted technologies in mass production CMOS technology architectures - Intel introduced 22nm FinFET, Globalfoundries introduced 22nm Fully Depleted SOI (FDSOI), and others remained with the status quo of planar-bulk. This talk will describe the benefits of 22nm FDSOI for RF and microwave systems using an NB-IOT transceiver reference design example, demonstrating novel LNA, Mixer and PA implementations as well as a fully digital RF PLL showing how the unique features of 22FDX(tm), Globalfoundries' 22nm FDSOI technology can be utilized to reduce area, improve performance, and enable new circuit architectures. One the unique features of 22FDX FDSOI transistors is that they have two-gates: in addition to the normal MOS gate there is a back-gate terminal allowing a wide range of threshold adjustability. This is exemplified in a 4 GHz LC oscillator prototype which can run as low as 0.25 V VDD and 110 uW DC power consumption or achieve -106 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset for 0.9V VDD and about 800 uW of DC power. Finally, reported results for Cryogenic operation of 22FDX will be discussed, a potential opportunity for extremely low noise, space-deployed receivers.
Tom McKay,
Distinguished Technical Staff, Globalfoundries, IEEE Sr. Member since 2014
Tom is an IC designer, architect, and technologist with over 35 years’ experience in wireless IC design and innovation. Tom published original theory and results for a 2-18 GHz GaAs distributed amplifier IC in 1986. In the early 90's at Samsung-Microwave Semiconductor Tom designed LNAs for TV and LEO Satellite phones. At VLSI Technology, Tom demonstrated 180nm CMOS for microwave applications and in 1999, co-founded Zeevo, developer of the first single chip 180nm CMOS Bluetooth RF SoC. Zeevo was acquired by Broadcom in 2005. At RF Micro Devices (now Qorvo), Tom invented compact, frequency agile RF filters with Q’s over 200 in 90nm CMOS. In 2009 at MStar (now MediaTek), Tom patented multi-mode, multi-band cellular CMOS receiver techniques. Since 2014, Tom leads RF pathfinding efforts focused on the synergy between circuit design and GLOBALFOUNDRIES process technologies to address new market needs through hardware demonstrators. Tom holds an MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Sr. Member of the IEEE and is inventor on over 22 US patents and patents-pending.
