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광운대학교 차세대 집적 회로 및 시스템 설계 연구실에서 학석연계/석사/박사/석박통합 대학원생을 모집합니다.
NICS Design Lab.은 4차 산업혁명의 트렌드에 대응하기 위한 다양한 차세대 집적회로 및 시스템 설계와 관련된 연구를 진행하고 있습니다. 이 과정에서 인공지능/시스템/메모리 반도체 설계의 최신 토픽을 연구하고 주도하고 있으며, 이를 바탕으로 다양하고 흥미로운 분야로 연구를 확장해가고 있습니다. 해당 연구는 삼성전자, SK hynix, LX세미콘 등을 비롯한 다양한 인공지능/시스템/메모리 반도체 설계 기업에서 큰 관심을 가지고 있으며, 본 연구실에서 관련 연구 및 프로젝트를 통해 다양한 연구 및 실무 경험을 쌓을 수 있습니다. 반도체 설계 분야는 석박사인력에 대한 수요가 매우 크므로 활발한 연구활동을 수행하고 우수한 결과를 내고 있는 본 연구실을 통해 더 큰 세상으로 나아가길 바랍니다.
인공지능/시스템/메모리 반도체의 차세대 집적회로 및 시스템 설계에 관심이 있고, 열정 및 뚜렷한 목표 의식이 있는 학생들은 자기 소개와 성적표를 첨부하여 다음의 이메일 주소로 (jhchae at kw.ac.kr) 연락주시길 바랍니다.
지원 자격: 회로 설계 관련 교과목 (회로이론, 전자회로, 집적회로 설계 등) 이수
모집 인원: 2026년도 1학기 - 3명(마감), 2026학년도 2학기 - 1명(마감), 2027학년도 1학기 - 2명, 2027학년도 2학기 - 1명
학석연계/석사/박사/석박통합 - 지원자가 많을 시 석박통합과정 지원자 우선 선발
NICS Design Lab. 대학원생 지원 사항
인공지능/시스템/메모리 반도체의 최신 산학연 연구 프로젝트 참여
등록금 및 최고 수준의 연구비 (기본급 + 프로젝트 참여에 따른 추가 급여) 지급
연구 실적에 따른 다양하고 풍부한 인센티브 지급
쾌적한 연구 환경 제공 / 국내외 학술대회 발표 및 출장, 참가 경비 지원 / 국내외 워크샵 및 다양한 교육 기회 제공 / 국내외 최우수 대학 및 연구 기관, 대기업과의 학술 교류 및 인턴십, 박사 및 박사후연구원 연계, 취업 관련 기회 제공
석박통합 및 박사과정 진입 시 논문 제출 여부와 관계없이 본인이 원하는 해외 Top Conference 참관 및 관련 경비 지원✈️
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*학부 연구생 활동(Full/Part Time)을 원하는 학생들은 연구책임자의 이메일 주소(jhchae at kw.ac.kr)로 자기 소개/성적표를 첨부하여 연락주세요.
- 선정 조건: 1. 디지털공학, 회로이론, 전자회로 과목 등 이수, 2. NICS Desing Lab. 대학원 진학
Latest News in NICS Design Lab.
[2025.08] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0130002).
[2025.09] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI).
[2025.09] Congratulations👏 Collaborative PIM research paper (w/ KAIST, Yonsei Univ., and Sungkyunkwan Univ.) have been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Yong-Gyu Yu and Chaehyeon Lim have been selected as recipients of "2025 석사과정생연구장려금."
[2025.09] Welcome🙋 Jinseok Baek, Junsung Park, and Seungwook Kim have joined our research group as graduate students.
[2025.09] Prof. Chae has been promoted to Associate Professor.
[2025.08] Congratulations👏 Two US patents have been applied (US 19/286,961 & US 19/286,927).
[2025.08] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Transceiver Design for Single-Ended Signaling."
[2025.08] Congratulations👏 Two research papers have been accepted to 2025 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC).
[2025.08] Welcome🙋 Siyeon Kim has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2025.07] Congratulations👏 Three KR patents have been registered (KR 10-2828949, KR 10-2828960, and KR 10-2842041).
[2025.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Memory Interface Design and Its Recent Technology Trends."
[2025.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "High-Bandwidth Short-Reach Interconnect for Hyper-Scale Computing."
[2025.07] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0095096).
[2025.07] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been registered (KR 10-2823144).
[2025.07] Two research papers have been presented in 2025 Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods, and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD).
[2024.07] Congratulations👏 NICS Design Lab (Chanheum Han, Ki-Soo Lee, and Jun-Cheol Lee) has won the Best Poster Award in the 2025 IDEC Congress Chip Design Contest (CDC).
[2025.07] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers. [Link]
[2025.06] Our research paper has been presented in 2025 IEIE Summer Annual Conference.
[2025.06] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been registered (KR 10-2817486).
[2025.06] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IDEC Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
[2025.05] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers. [Link]
[2025.05] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "High-speed DRAM interface design" at IDEC.
[2025.05] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0069138).
[2025.05] Chip Gallery of NICS Design Lab has been opened. [Link]
[2025.05] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to 2025 IEIE Summer Annual Conference.
[2025.05] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0064727).
[2025.04] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk at the XSR Target Interconnect Workshop hosted by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation.
[2025.04] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). [Link]
[2025.04] Welcome🙋 Jaewon Shim has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2025.04] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0050653).
[2025.04] Congratulations👏 Two research papers have been accepted to 2025 Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods, and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD).
[2025.04] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI). This work will also be presented in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS).
[2025.04] Congratulations👏 Prof. Chae has been elevated to Senior Member grade of IEEE.
[2025.03] Welcome🙋 Jeongeun Ko has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2025.03] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0033799).
[2025.03] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers.
[2025.03] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2025-0031346).
[2025.03] Welcome🙋 Jongmin Lee and Chaehyeon Lim have joined our research group as graduate students.
[2025.02] Chanheum Han has awarded IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) in the 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
[2025.02] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted and published to IEEE Access [Link].
[2025.02] NICS Design Lab has attended the 32nd Korean Conference on Semiconductors and had a pleasant time.
[2025.02] Welcome🙋 Jungsung Park and Seungwook Kim have joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2025.02] Welcome🙋 Jinseok Baek has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2025.01] Three research papers have been presented in the International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) 2025.
[2025.01] NICS Design Lab has started the research project titled "Memory Interface Architecture 탐구 및 검증."
[2025.01] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been registered (KR 10-2740335).
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[2024.12] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers.
[2024.12] Our research paper has been published in the Electronics Letters. [Link]
[2024.12] Our research paper has been published in the IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS). [Link]
[2024.12] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to Electronics Letters.
[2024.12] Congratulations👏 Ju-Hyeong Yun, Yong-Gyu Yu, and Jongmin Lee have won Bronze Prize in the 2024 한국 대학생 반도체 회로설계 경진대회.
[2024.11] Congratulations👏 M. Jeon and J. Lee have won the Best Paper Award in Autumn Annual Conference of IEIE, 2024.
[2024.11] Our research paper (with Sejong Univ.) has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers. [Link]
[2024.11] Congratulations👏 Chanheum Han has been selected as an awardee of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) for 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
[2024.11] Our research paper has been presented in the 2024 IEIE Autumn Annual Conference.
[2024.11] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "DRAM interfaces" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2024.11] Our research paper has been published in the IEEE Access. [Link]
[2024.11] Our research paper has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM). [Link]
[2024.11] Congratulations👏 Our two research papers have been accepted to International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) 2025.
[2024.11] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Access.
[2024.10] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEIE Autumn Annual Conference.
[2023.10] Congratulations👏 Chanheum Han and Ki-Soo Lee have won 기업특별상 (삼성전자) in the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition.
[2024.10] Congratulations👏 Our US patent has been applied (US 18/913,317).
[2024.10] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2024-0136286).
[2024.10] Our research paper has been published to Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICAS). [Link]
[2024.09] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk in the Samsung Science & Technology Foundation Global Technology Conference.
[2024.09] H.-S. Lee has entered M.S. and Ph.D. integrated course.
[2024.09] Our joint research paper (with KAIST, UNIST, and KNU) has been presented in the 2024 European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2024-0121537).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Our review paper has been accepted to IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (with Sejong Univ.) has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).
[2024.09] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICAS).
[2024.09] Welcome🙋 Yong Gyu Yu, Joohyeong Yun, and Eunbi Koh have joined our research group as graduate students.
[2024.08] Congratulations👏 Hosung Lee and Juncheol Lee have been selected as recipients of "2024 석사과정생연구장려금."
[2024.08] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk in the AI-SRC Summer Education Workshop .
[2024.08] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. [Link]
[2024.08] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (with Sejong Univ.) has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers.
[2024.08] J. Lee and H. Lee have presented their research results in 21st International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC).
[2024.08] Prof. Chae has presented a short tutorial in 21st International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC).
[2024.08] Welcome🙋 Geonwoo Ha has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2024.07] NICS Design Lab (KWIX team) has presented our research work in the 2024 ISE Summer Annual Conference.
[2024.07] Congratulations👏 NICS Design Lab (Chanheum Han and Ki-Soo Lee) has won the Best Poster Award in the 2024 IDEC Congress Chip Design Contest (CDC).
[2024.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Recent R&D trends for next-generation memory interfaces" at Samsung Electronics.
[2024.07] Welcome🙋 Chaehyeon Lim has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2024.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "DRAM interfaces" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2024.06] Congratulations👏 Our research paper about "SRAM CIM" has been accepted to 2024 ISE Summer Annual Conference.
[2024.05] Congratulations👏 Our two research papers about "DRAM and SRAM for CIM" have been accepted to 21st International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC).
[2024.05] Congratulations👏 Our joint research paper (with KAIST, UNIST, and KNU) about "Processing-in-Memory" has been accepted to 2024 European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC).
[2024.05] Research description of our new project supported by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation has been posted on the website (Link).
[2024.05] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk of this year's our ISSCC paper at ISSCC 2024 Review Workshop.
[2024.04] Congratulations👏 Our research proposal for Tbps-scale light-field display system has been accepted. This research is supported by NRF.
[2024.04] Congratulations👏 Our one KR patent has been registered (KR 10-2658272).
[2024.04] Congratulations👏 Our research proposal for next-generation HBM interconnect has been accepted. This research is supported by NRF.
[2024.04] Congratulations👏 Our research proposal for design optimization of high-density parallel data bus has been accepted. This research is supported by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation and will be start in June 2024.
[2024.04] Congratulations👏 Three KR patents have been applied (KR 10-2024-0045093, KR 10-2024-0048764, and KR 10-2024-0048769).
[2024.03] C. Han has entered M.S. and Ph.D. integrated course.
[2024.03] Congratulations👏 Our one KR patent has been registered (KR 10-2646553).
[2024.03] Congratulations👏 Our two KR patents have been registered (KR 10-2644052 and KR 10-2644034).
[2024.03] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (with SNU & Sejong Univ.) about "ZQ calibration" has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
[2024.03] Welcome🙋 Juncheol Lee and Ikhyeon Jeon have joined our research group as graduate students (M.S. Course).
[2024.03] Welcome🙋 Jongmin Lee has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2024.02] NICS Design Lab (Chanheum Han and Kisoo Lee) has presented our work in the 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
[2024.01] Congratulations👏 NICS Design Lab (Hosung Lee) has won the Bronze Prize (Best Paper Awards) in the 2024 international Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC).
[2024.01] NICS Design Lab (Hosung Lee) has presented our work in the 2024 international Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC).
[2024.01] NICS Design Lab has presented our work in 2024 international Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC).
[2024.01] Congratulations👏 NICS Design Lab (Jongchan Lee, Chanheum Han, and Kisoo Lee) has won the Silver Prize in the 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) University LSI Design Contest.
[2024.01] NICS Design Lab (Jongchan Lee, Chanheum Han, and Kisoo Lee) has presented our work in the 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) University LSI Design Contest.
[2024.01] Our research paper has been published to Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICAS). [Link]
[2023.12] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers. [Link]
[2023.12] Our lab held the recruiting event from Samsung Electronics (Foundry Division).
[2023.12] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2023-0175770).
[2023.12] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems (JICAS).
[2023.11] Congratulations👏 Ikhyeon Jeon has won two prizes (과학기술정보통신부 장관상/광운대학교 총장상) in the 2023 AI Semiconductor Idea Contest.
[2023.11] Congratulations👏 Our research paper has been accepted to 2024 international Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC). This work will be presented on Jan. 2024.
[2023.11] Congratulations👏 Our KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2023-0153680).
[2023.11] Welcome🙋 Y. Yu and J. Yun have joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2023.11] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "DRAM interfaces" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2023.10] Prof. Chae has presented two invited talks titled "RX equalization" and "Adaptive equalization" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2023.10] Our research lab has successfully presented our work in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS).
[2023.10] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (C. Han and K.-S. Lee were equally contributed) has been accepted to 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). This work will be presented on Feb. 2024.
[2023.10] Our research paper has been published to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM). [Link]
[2023.10] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "PIM circuit design basics" in the Semiconductor Engineering Short Course.
[2023.09] Congratulations👏 KR patent about "Transmission circuit" has been registered (KR 10-2583820).
[2023.09] Qualitas Semiconductor (https://www.q-semi.com/) has presented seminar and recruiting session.
[2023.09] Congratulations👏 US patent about "Data alignment" has been registered (US 11,756,598). [Link]
[2023.09] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Energy-efficient data-dependent equalization for memory interfaces" in the 23rd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop.
[2023.09] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Introduction to memory interfaces" at Korean Intellectual Property Office.
[2023.09] Congratulations👏 Hosung Lee's team has won 기업특별상(실리콘마이터스) in the 24th Korea Semiconductor Design Competition.
[2023.09] Congratulations👏 Our design result has been accepted to 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) University LSI Design Contest.
[2023.09] Congratulations👏 Our research paper about "DRAM measurement" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).
[2023.09] Welcome🙋 Hosung Lee has joined our research group as graduate students (B.S.-M.S. Integrated Course).
[2023.08] Congratulations👏 US patent about "Clocked comparator" has been registered (US 11,735,239). [Link]
[2023.08] Our research paper (with Sejong Univ. and SNU) has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). [Link]
[2023.08] Congratulations👏 J. Lee's KR patent has been applied (KR 10-2023-0109808).
[2023.08] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "eDRAM Architecture and Operation" at AI-SRC Summer Education Workshop.
[2023.08] Seven students have participated in 2023 AI-SRC Summer Education Workshop [Link].
[2023.07] NICS Design Lab. has started the research project "차세대 LPDDR5/6급 메모리 인터페이스 IP 기술 개발 (2023.07~2024.12)."
[2023.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Energy-efficient data-dependent equalization for memory interfaces" at Qualitas Semiconductor.
[2023.07] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "High-speed DRAM interface design" at IDEC.
[2023.06] K.-S. Lee, J.-C. Lee, C.-H. Han, and B.-D. Choi have successfully presented their research results in 2023 IEIE Summer Annual Conference.
[2023.06] B.-D. Choi and W.-G. Lee have successfully presented their research results in 38th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC).
[2023.06] Congratulations! our research paper (with SNU, SK hynix & Sejong Univ.) about "FEXT Cancellation" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers. This work will also be presented in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS).
[2023.06] Congratulations👏 Team CIMson has participated in the 2023-1 Chambit Design Semester and won the prize (우수상).
[2023.05] Congratulations👏 Four research papers have been accepted to Summer Annual Conference of IEIE, 2023.
[2023.05] Congratulations👏 Two research papers have been accepted to 38th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC).
[2023.04] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "DRAM interfaces" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2023.04] Congratulations👏 US patent about "Clock distribution" has been registered (US 11,625,062). [Link]
[2023.04] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (with SNU & Sejong Univ.) about "TX equalization" has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
[2023.04] Prof. Chae has presented two invited talks titled "Signaling and transmitter basics" and "Receiver basics" at Samsung Electronics (HSIO Expert Program).
[2023.04] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Signaling basics" at Qualitas Semiconductor.
[2023.03] Our research paper (with SNU) about "Duty-Cycle Corrector" has been published to IEEE Access. [Link]
[2023.03] Congratulations👏 Our research paper (with SNU) about "Duty-Cycle Corrector" has been accepted to IEEE Access.
[2023.03] Welcome🙋 Kisoo Lee, Jiwon Lee, Jongchan Lee, and Chan Heum Han have joined our research group as graduate students (M.S. Course).
[2023.02] J.-C. Lee and T.-O. Kim have presented their research paper in 2023 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC).
[2023.02] Welcome🙋 I. Jeon, J. Ko, and J. Lee have joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2023.01] Congratulations👏 B.D. Choi's KR patent about "ZQ calibration" has been applied (KR 10-2022-0181582).
[2022.12] Congratulations! Two teams have participated in the 2022-2 Chambit Design Semester, and Team Prevengers have won the prize.
[2022.12] Prof. Chae has presented a lecture titled "High-speed memory interface design," at IC design education center (IDEC).
[2022.12] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Transmit-side equalizer and its recent trends" at Qualitas Semiconductor.
[2022.11] KR patent about "Triangular waveform generator" has been registered (KR 10-2468786).
[2022.11] Prof. Chae has presented an invited talk titled "Transceiver design technique for highly-reflective memory interfaces" in 2022 IEIE Autumn Annual Conference.
[2022.11] NICS Design Lab has attended 2022 IEIE Autumn Annual Conference, and H. Choen, J. Lee, D.-W. Kang, and S.-I. Kang have presented their research results.
[2022.11] Dr. Duho Kim, CEO of Qualitas Semiconductor (https://www.q-semi.com/), has presented seminar and recruiting session.
[2022.11] We have introduced our Lab in 2022 KW Semiconductor Industry-University-Institute Cooperative Symposium.
[2022.11] Congratulations! Three papers (① H. Cheon, ②J. Lee, and ③ D.-W. Kang and S.-I. Kang) have been accepted to 2022 IEIE Autumn Annual Conference.
[2022.11] Our research paper (with SNU) about "Transmitter equalization" has been published to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II). [Link]
[2022.10] Congratulations! J.-C. Lee and T.-O. Kim's paper has been accepted to 2023 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC).
[2022.10] Prof. Chae has presented a lecture titled "DRAM interfaces" in Samsung Electronics HSIO Expert Program.
[2022.10] Prof. Chae has presented a lecture titled "Equalization" in Samsung Electronics HSIO Expert Program.
[2022.10] Welcome! Ho Sung Lee has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant. He will join as a B.S.-M.S. candidate next year.
[2022.09] Two US patents have been registered (US 11,450,365, US 11,435,381). [Link1] [Link2]
[2022.09] Prof. Chae has presented a talk titled "Channel basics for high-speed interfaces," which is invited from Qualitas Semiconductor.
[2022.09] Welcome! Hyeonjun Cheon and Jiang Jiao have joined our research group as graduate students (M.S Course).
[2022.08] Prof. Chae has presented a lecture titled "High-speed memory interface design," in AI-SRC Summer Education Workshop.
[2022.08] AI-SRC (which NICS design lab is participating in) has held Summer Education Workshop, 2022. [Link]
[2022.07] Prof. Chae has presented a lecture titled "High-speed memory interface design," at IC design education center (IDEC).
[2022.07] Welcome! Jongchan Lee has joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2022.07] Prof. Chae has presented a talk titled "I2C and USB2.0 interface," which is invited from Uniqconn.
[2022.07] Congratulations! B.-D. Choi (M.S. candidate) has won "우수학생논문상" in Summer Annual Conference of IEIE, 2022. [Link]
[2022.07] NICS Design Lab has attended Summer Annual Conference of ISE, 2022.
[2022.07] Welcome! Jiwon Lee, Juncheol Lee, and Taeoh Kim have joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2022.06] NICS Design Lab has attended Summer Annual Conference of IEIE, 2022. [Link]
[2022.06] Congratulations! our research paper (with SNU) about "Transmitter equalization" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II).
[2022.06] Congratulations! our research paper (J.-S. Shin and B.-D. Choi) has been accepted to Summer Annual Conference of ISE, 2022.
[2022.06] "KW 반도체 회로 설계 인재 양성 (2022.07~2025.02)" program has been accepted.
[2022.06] KR patent about "Receiver circuit" has been registered (KR 10-2409744).
[2022.06] Congratulations! J.-W. Song, K.-S. Lee, and W.-K. Hong have won the "우수상" in the 2022-1 Chambit Design Semester. [Link]
[2022.06] We have presented Lab introduction in 2022 IEEE AICAS. [Link]
[2022.05] Congratulations! our three research papers (① B.-D. Choi, ② D.-W. Kang and S.-I. Kang, and ③ K.-S. Lee, J.-W. Song, and W.-K. Hong) have been accepted to Summer Annual Conference of IEIE, 2022.
[2022.05] KR patent about "Transmitter equalization" has been applied (KR 10-2022-0056390).
[2022.05] Prof. Chae has presented a talk titled "High-bandwidth memory interface design and challenges," which is invited from Qualitas Semiconductor.
[2022.04] NICS Design Lab. has started the research project "DRAM 기반 고성능 PIM 메모리 반도체 기술 개발 (2022.04~2025.12)."
[2022.04] NICS Design Lab. has started the research project "엣지용 연산기능강화 DRAM PIM 반도체 기술 개발 (2022.04~2025.12)."
[2022.04] Congratulations! our research paper about "Regulator-based Flexible Feed-forward Equalizer" has been accepted and published to IEEE Access. [Link]
[2022.03] NICS Design Lab. has invited CEO (Jaegan Ko) of Ramschip and held seminar and recruiting session with SeoulTech.
[2022.03] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "Transmitter for dual-rank mobile memory interfaces" has been published to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I). [Link]
[2022.03] Prof. Chae's room has been moved to Room #804, Chambit-Kwan.
[2022.03] Welcome! B. Choi has joined our research group as graduate students (M.S Course).
[2022.03] Prof. Chae has been selected for 2022 IC Design Education Center (IDEC) participating professor.
[2022.02] US patent about "Offset detection of receiver" has been registered (US 11,239,872). [Link]
[2022.02] Prof. Chae has presented a talk titled "Digital serial interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART, USB, LVDS, and CSI," which is invited from SeoulTech and Dong-A University.
[2022.02] NICS Design Lab. has joined "AI Hardware Center (인공지능 반도체 융합연구센터)." [Link]
[2022.01] Research paper (with SK hynix) about "GDDR6 memory design" has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC). [Link]
[2022.01] Welcome! S. Kwon and J. Shin have joined our research group as undergraduate research assistants.
[2021.11] NICS Design Lab. has invited CEO (Duho Kim) of Qualitas Semiconductor (https://www.q-semi.com/) and held seminar and recruiting session.
[2021.11] NICS Design Lab. has joined the "Intel FPGA Joint Laboratory".
[2021.11] KR patent about "duty-cycle corrector" has been registered (KR 10-2327498).
[2021.10] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "dual-rank mobile memory interfaces" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I).
[2021.10] KR patent about "impedance calibration" has been registered (KR 10-2310508).
[2021.09] Prof. Chae has presented the invited talk "high-bandwidth memory interface design and challenges for AI applications" in 21st RF/Analog Circuit Workshop.
[2021.09] US patent about "PAM4/NRZ receiver" has been applied.
[2021.09] Research paper (with SK hynix) about "GDDR6 memory design" has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC).
[2021.09] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "dual-rank mobile memory interfaces" has been published to IEEE Access. [Link]
[2021.09] Research project "development of next-generation memory interface based on GDDR for high-bandwidth AI semiconductor" has been started.
[2021.08] Prof. Chae has presented the invited talk "new trends and challenges of memory for AI era" in 2021 SoC Conference.
[2021.08] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "dual-rank mobile memory interfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
[2021.08] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "high-capacity memory interfaces" has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC). [Link]
[2021.07] KR patent about "duty-cycle corrector" has been registered (KR 10-2279606).
[2021.07] Welcome! Y. Kim, W. Lee, W. Hong, K. Lee, J. Song, and J. Shin have joined our research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
[2021.07] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "PAM-4 transmitter with adaptive impedance matching" has been accepted and published to Electronics. [Link]
[2021.07] Research project "digital interface for automotive semiconductor" has been started.
[2021.06] Research project "next-generation system IC research and developer nurturing project" has been started.
[2021.06] KR patent about "PAM4/NRZ receiver" has been applied (KR 10-2021-0082613).
[2021.06] CN patent about "on-chip clock transmission" has been applied (CN 202110632882.3).
[2021.06] US patent about "data receiving circuit" has been registered (US 11,011,214). [Link]
[2021.05] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "quadrature clock signal correction" has been presented to IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). [Link]
[2021.05] US patent about "noise removing method" has been applied (US 17/308,458).
[2021.04] US patent about "on-chip clock transmission" has been applied (US 17/226,952).
[2021.04] US patent about "clocked comparator" has been applied (US 17/221,312).
[2021.03] Research project about AI semiconductor has been started.
[2021.03] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "ZQ calibration for PAM-4 signaling" has been published to IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC). [Link]
[2021.03] US patent about "data-dependent equalization" has been registered (US 10,944,600). [Link]
[2021.03] Prof. Chae has been selected for 2021 IC Design Education Center (IDEC) participating professor.
[2021.02] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "high-capacity memory interfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits(JSSC).
[2021.02] Research paper (with SK hynix) about "24Gb/s/pin GDDR6 (the fastest data-rate/pin among the existing DRAMs so far)" has been presented to IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference(ISSCC). [Link]
[2021.02] Homepage for Next-Generation Integrated Circuits and Systems(NICS) Design Lab. has been opened.
[2021.01] Research paper (with AMiC Design Lab. in SNU) about "quadrature clock signal correction" has been accepted for presentation in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).