Low-Power Sensor Interface System Design
■ A design of a smart contact lens IC for glucose monitoring in 0.18μm CMOS
− Design a power management block (rectifier, regulators, bandgap voltage reference, etc.), timer, digital SD-based current ADC, RC oscillator, analog-frontend, and wireless communication block
− Implement a wireless communication system using a 433MHz on-off keying modulation
− Implement a wireless power transfer system using the resonance of external coils
■ A design of a low-power sensor interface IC in 0.18μm CMOS
− Design a power management block (regulators, bandgap voltage reference, etc.), synthesized digital control unit, digital-based current ADC, analog-front ends and an I2C communication block
− Implement a wireless gas sensing system using a designed IC and a commercial BLE chip and gas sensors.
− The IC chip is used by a startup company (Nodetalks) to make a gas sensor product
Analog & Digital Circuit Design
■ A design of a low-noise, low-power RC oscillator in 0.18μm CMOS
− Design a voltage swing controlled RC oscillator by frequency error compensation loop
− Noise analysis of the RC oscillator with a frequency locked loop
− Compensation for a frequency variation over temperature change
Simulated Quantum Annealer
■ Design a Simulated Quantum Annealer for a combinatorial optimization problem in 65nm CMOS
− Design a hardware accelerator for the combinatorial optimization problem
− Mimicking a superposition and tunneling effect of quantum annealing
References
"Wireless smart contact lens for diabetic diagnosis and therapy", Science Advances.
"Quantum annealing with manufactured spins", Nature.