Publication

Sehwan Lee, TaeryoungSeol, Geunha Kim, Minyoung Song, Gain Kim, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, Arup K. George, Junghyup Lee, "A 97dB-PSRR 178.4dB-FOMDR Calibration-Free VCOΔΣ ADC Using a PVT-Insensitive FrequencyLocked Differential Regulation Scheme for Multi-Channel ExG Acquisition," accepted in Proc.  IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Jun. 2024.

Jaehyun Lee, Dong-gu Choi, Minyoung Song, Gain Kim, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, "BEE-SLAM: a 65nm 17.96 TOPS/W 97.55%-sparse-activity hybrid mixed-signal/digital multi-agent neuromorphic SLAM accelerator for swarm robotics," in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr. 2024.

Chris Marshall, Erwin Allebes, Alireza Sheikh, Minyong Song, Mohieddine El Soussi and Nick Winkel, "A UWB pulse with precursor for ToA measurement," in Proc. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Sep. 2023.

Minyoung Song, Erwin Allebes, Chris Marshall, Anoop Narayan Bhat, Elbert Bechthum, Johan Dijkhuis, Stefano Traferro, Evgenii Tiurin, Peter Vis, Johan van den Heuvel, Mohieddine El Soussi, Pepijn Boer, Alireza Sheikh, Bernard Meyer, Jiang Liu, Stan van der Ven, Nick Winkel, Martijn Hijdra, Gururaja Kasanadi Ramachandra, Yunus Baykal, Huib Visser, Peng Zhang, Arjan Breeschoten, Yao-Hong Liu and Christian Bachmann, "An 8.7 mW/TX, 21 mW/RX 6-to-9GHz IEEE 802.15.4a/4z Compliant IR-UWB Transceiver with Pulse Pre-Emphasis achieving 14mm Ranging Precision, " in Proc.  IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Jun. 2023.

Elbert Bechthum, Minyoung Song, Gaurav Singh, Erwin Allebes, Charis Basetas, Pepijn Boer, Arjan Breeschoten, Stefan Cloudt, Johan Dijkhuis, Ming Ding, Sherwin Gatchalian, Yuming He, Johan van den Heuvel, Martijn Hijdra, Paul Mateman, Bernard Meyer, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Mohieddine El Soussi, Bart Thijssen, Stefano Traferro, Evgenii Turin, Peter Vis, Nick Winkel, Peng Zhang, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann, “A 3-10GHz 21.5mW/channel RX and 8.9mW TX IR-UWB 802.15.4a/z SIMO transceiver”, in Proc.  IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2022.

Minyoung Song, Yu Huang, Yiyu Shen, Chengyao Shi, Arjan Breeschoten, Mario Konijnenburg, Huib Visser, Jac Romme, Barundeb Dutta, Morteza S. Alavi, Christian Bachmann, Yao-Hong Liu, “A 1.66Gb/s and 5.8pJ/b transcutaneous IR-UWB telemetry system with hybrid impulse modulation for intracortical brain-computer interfaces”, in Proc.  IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2022.

Hubregt J. Visser, Esmee Huismans, Minyoung Song, Yao-Hong Liu, “Design of a miniature smart pill antenna”, in Proc.  European Microwave Week (EuMW), 2022.

Ming Ding, Minyoung Song, Evgenii Tiurin, Stefano Traferro, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann, “A 0.9pJ/cycle 8ppm/oC DFLL-based wakeup timer enabled by a time-domain trimming and an embedded temperature sensing”, in Proc.  IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits (VLSI), Jun. 2020.

Minyoung Song, Ming Ding, Evgenii Tiurin, Kai Xu, Erwin Allebes, Gaurav Singh, Peng Zhang, Stefano Traferro, Hannu Korpela, Nick van Helleputte, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann, “A 3.5mm×3.8mm crystal-less MICS transceiver featuring coverages of ±160ppm carrier frequency offset and 4.8-VSWR antenna impedance for insertable smart pills”, in Proc.  IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2020, pp. 474-476.

Elbert Bechthum, Johan Dijkhuis, Ming Ding, Yuming He, Johan Van den Heuvel, Paul Mateman, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Kenichi Shibata, Minyoung Song, Evgenii Tiurin, Stefano Traferro, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann, “A low-power BLE transceiver with support for phase-based ranging, featuring 5μs PLL locking time and 5.3ms ranging time, enabled by staircase-chirp PLL with sticky-lock channel-switching”, in Proc.  IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2020, pp. 470-472.

Ao Ba, Johan van den Heuvel, Paul Mateman, Cui Zhou, Benjamin Busze, Minyoung Song, Yuming He, Ming Ding, Johan Dijkhuis, Evgenii Tiurin, Suryasarman Madampu, Pepijn Boer, Stefano Traferro, Yan Zhang, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann, and Kathleen Philips, “A 0.62nJ/b multi-standard WiFi/BLE wideband digital polar TX with dynamic FM correction and AM alias suppression for IoT applications”, in Proc.  IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Jun. 2018.

Ming Ding, Xiaoyan Wang, Peng Zhang, Yuming He, Stefano Traferro, Kenichi Shibata, Minyoung Song, Hannu Korpela, Keisuke Ueda, Yao-Hong Liu, Christian Bachmann and Kathleen Philips, “A 0.8V 0.8mm2 bluetooth 5/BLE digital-intensive transceiver with a 2.3mW phase-tracking RX utilizing a hybrid loop filter for interference resilience in 40nm CMOS”, in Proc.  IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2018, pp. 446-448.

Minyoung Song, Taeik Kim, Jihyun Kim, Wooseok Kim, Sung-Jin Kim, Hojin Park, “A 0.009mm2 2.06mW 32-to-2000MHz 2nd-order ΔΣ Analogous Bang-Bang Digital PLL with Feed-Forward Delay-Locked and Phase-Locked Operations in 14nm FinFET Technology”, in Proc.  IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2015, pp. 266-267.

Sung-Jin Kim, Wooseok Kim, Minyoung Song, Jihyun Kim, Taeik Kim, Hojin Park, “A 0.6V 1.17ps PVT Tolerant and Synthesizable Time-to-Digital Converter using a Stochastic Phase Interpolation with 16x Spatial Redundancy in 14nm FinFET Technology”, in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2015 pp. 280-281.

Chulwoo Kim and Sewook Hwang, Minyoung Song, " A cost-effective design of non-linear modulation profile for spread spectrum clock," in Proc.  IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Oct. 2012.

Sewook Hwang, Minyoung Song, Youngho Kwak, Inhwa Jung and Chulwoo Kim, "A 0.076mm2 3.5GHz Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator with Newton-Raphson Modulation in 0.13um CMOS," in Proc. IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2011, pp. 360-362.

Chulwoo Kim and Minyoung Song, " A cost-effective design of spread spectrum clock generator," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Nov. 2010.

Minyoung Song, Young-Ho Kwak, Sunghoon Ahn, Wooseok Kim, ByeongHa Park and Chulwoo Kim, "A 10MHz to 315MHz Cascaded Hybrid PLL with Piecewise Linear Calibrated TDC," in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2009, pp. 243-246.

Minyoung Song, Sunghoon Ahn, Inhwa Jung, Yongtae Kim, and Chulwoo Kim, "A 1.5 GHz Spread Spectrum Clock Generator with 5000ppm Piecewise Linear Modulation," in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2008, pp. 455-458.

Minyoung Song, Ming Ding and Yao-Hong Liu,  "An Energy Efficient and Temperature Stable Digital FLL-based Wakeup Timer with Time-Domain Temperature Compensation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), 2024, Early Access.

Minyoung Song, Erwin Allebes, Chris Marshall, Anoop Narayan Bhat, Elbert Bechthum, Johan Dijkhuis, Stefano Traferro, Evgenii Tiurin, Peter Vis, Johan van den Heuvel, Mohieddine El Soussi, Pepijn Boer, Alireza Sheikh, Bernard Meyer, Jiang Liu, Stan van der Ven, Nick Winkel, Martijn Hijdra, Gururaja Kasanadi Ramachandra, Yunus Baykal, Huib Visser, Peng Zhang, Arjan Breeschoten, Yao-Hong Liu and Christian Bachmann, "A Low-Power 6-to-9GHz IEEE 802.15.4a/4z Compliant IR-UWB Transceiver with Pulse Pre-Emphasis Achieving High ToA Precision," IEEE Solid-State Citcuits Letters (SSC-L), vol.6, pp. 297-300, 2023.

Christian Bachmann, Minyoung Song, "The Future of UWB: Reconciling Sensing with Low Energy Consumption and High Bitrates," Microwave Journal, vol. 66, no. 2, Feb. 2023. 

Minyoung Song, Yu Huang, Hubregt J. Visser, Jac Romme and Yao-Hong Liu, “An energy-efficient and high-data-rate IR-UWB transmitter for intracortical neural sensing interfaces," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 3656-3668, Dec. 2022.

Chengyao Shi, Minyoung Song, Zhenyu Gao, Andrea Bevilacqua, Guido Dolmans and Yao-Hong Liu, " Galvanic-coupled Trans-dural Data Transfer for High-bandwidth Intra-cortical Neural Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), vol.70, no.10, pp.4579-4589, Oct. 2022.

Ming Ding, Peng Zhang, Yuming He, Stefano Traferro, Minyoung Song, Hannu Korpela, Kenichi Shibata, Keisuke Ueda, Yao-Hong Liu and Christian Bachmann, "A Bluetooth 5 transceiver with a phase-tracking RX and its corresponding digital baseband in 40-nm CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 254-266, Jan. 2021.

Minyoung Song, Ming Ding, Evgenii Tiurin, Kai Xu, Erwin Allebes, Gaurav Singh, Peng Zhang, Hubregt J Visser, Reza Aminzadeh, Wout Joseph, Luc Martens, Nick Van Helleputte, Christian Bachmann and Yao-Hong Liu, "A millimeter-scale crystal-less MICS transceiver for insertable smart pills," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1218-1229, Dec. 2020.

Nick Van Helleputte, Aniek JG Even, Francesca Leonardi, Stefano Stanzione, Minyoung Song, Carmine Garripoli, Wim Sijbers, Yao-Hong Liu and Chris Van Hoof, " Miniaturized Electronic Circuit Design Challenges for Ingestible Devices," IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 645-652, Jul. 2020.

Minyoung Song, Chuang Lu, Ao Ba, Xiaoyan Wang, Yao-Hong Liu, Kenichi Shibata, Christian Bachmann and Kathleen Philips, "An energy-efficient antenna impedance detection using electrical balance for single-step on-chip tunable matching in wearable/implantable applications," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1236-1244, Dec. 2017.

Minyoung Song, Inhwa Jung, Sudhakar Pamarti and Chulwoo Kim, "A 2.4 GHz 0.1-Fref-Bandwidth All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop With Delay-Cell-Less TDC," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3145-3151, Dec. 2013.

Minyoung Song, Young-Ho Kwak, Sunghoon Ahn, Hojin Park and Chulwoo Kim, "10-315-MHz Cascaded Hybrid Phase-Locked Loop for Pixel Clock Generation," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 2080-2093, Nov. 2013. 

Minyoung Song, Sunghoon Ahn, Inhwa Jung, Yongtae Kim and Chulwoo Kim, "Piecewise Linear Modulation Technique for Spread Spectrum Clock Generation," IEEE Transactions on  VLSI Systems (TVLSI), vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1234-1245, Jul. 2013.

Junyoung Song, Inhwa Jung, Minyoung Song, Young-Ho Kwak, Yongtae Kim, Phi-Hung Pham and Chulwoo Kim, "A 1.62Gb/s-2.7Gb/s Referenceless Transceiver for DisplayPort v1.1a with Weighted Phase and Frequency Detection," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 60,no. 2, pp. 268-278, Feb. 2013.

Sewook Hwang, Minyoung Song, Youngho Kwak, Inhwa Jung and Chulwoo Kim, "A 3.5 GHz Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator with a Memoryless Newton-Raphson Modulation Profile," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1199-1208, May 2012. 

Minyoung Song, Chulwoo Kim, " Spread spectrum clock generator: a low-cost EMI solution", in Phase-Locked Frequency Generation and Clocking: Architectures and circuits for modern wireless and wireline systems," Edited by Woogeun Rhee, IET, pp. 525 – 552, 2020 (ISBN: 978-1-78561-885-7)

Minyoung Song, Chris Marshall, Erwin Allebes, Elbert Bechthum, "Ultra-wideband Pulse and Ultra-wideband Pulse-based Ranging," US Patent Application No. 18538623.

Minyoung Song, Yao-Hong Liu, "Impulse generation method and impulse-radio transmitter," US Patent Application No. 18160474.

Minyoung Song, Peng Zhang, Barend Wilhelmus Marinus Van Liempd, "Radar transceiver and antenna sharing method thereof," US Patent Application No. 17933253.

Minyoung Song, Yao-Hong Liu, " A method for adjusting an impedance of a tunable matching network," US Patent Application No. 16911938, US Patent No. 11184047.

Minyoung Song, Yao-Hong Liu, Xiaoyan Wang, Shibata Kenichi, Sato Hisayasu, "A tunable matching network for a transceiver," EU Patent Application No. 19189615.8, EU Patent No. 3772184.

Min-Young Song, Tae-Ik Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, "Digital phase-locked loop and method of operating the same," US Patent Application No. 14955802, US Patent No. 9564908.

Min Young Song, Chul Woo Kim, Se Wook Hwang, "Modulation profile generator and spread spectrum clock generator including the same," US Patent Application No. 13034002, US Patent No. 8319537.

Min-Young Song, Chul-Woo Kim, Woo-Seok Kim, Jae-Jin Park, Ji-Hyun Kim, Young-Ho Kwak, "Clock generator to reduce long term jitter," US Patent Application No. 12691023, US Patent No. 8149030.

Minyoung Song, Chulwoo Kim, Sunghoon Ahn, "Apparatus and method for clock generation with piecewise linear modulation," US Patent Application No. 12022761, US Patent No. 8024598.

Minyoung Song, Chulwoo Kim, Sunghoon Ahn, "Hierarchical time to digital converter," US Patent Application No. 12033782, US Patent No. 7791377.