Recent Journal Papers

2007

 

C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "Design considerations for integrated CMOS reflective-type phase shifters, " Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 50, pp. 221-229, March 2007.

 

H. Zarei, C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "Reflective-type phase shifters for multiple-antenna transceivers, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, pp. 1647-1656, Aug. 2007.

 

Y. Tang, K.-W. Cheng, S. Gupta, J. Paramesh, and D.J. Allstot, "Cascaded complex ADCs with adaptive digital calibration for I/Q mismatch, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, 2007. (to appear)

 

G. Banerjee, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "Desensitized CMOS low noise amplifiers, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, 2007. (to appear)

 

2006

 

K. Choi and D.J. Allstot, "Parasitic-aware design and optimization of a CMOS RF Power Amplifier, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 53, pp. 16-25, Jan. 2006.

 

J. Park and D.J. Allstot, "A matrix amplifier in 0.18um SOI CMOS, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 53, pp. 561-568, Mar. 2006.

 

C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "Amplitude-locked loop analysis for calibration applications, " IEE Electronic Letters, vol. 42, pp. 614-615, May 2006.

 

G. Banerjee, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "Measurement and modeling errors in noise parameters of scaled-CMOS devices, " IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, pp. 2336-2345, June 2006.

 

C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "A calibrated phase/frequency detector for reference spur reduction in charge-pump PLLs, "IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 52, pp. 822-826, Sep. 2006.


S. Shekhar, J.S. Walling and D.J. Allstot, "Bandwidth extension techniques for CMOS amplifiers, " IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, pp. 2424-2439, Nov. 2006.

 

J. Paramesh and D.J. Allstot, "Analysis of the bridged T-coil circuit using the extra-element theorem, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 53, pp. 1408-1412, Dec. 2006.

 

A. Afzali-Kushaa, M. Nagata, N.K. Verghese and D.J. Allstot, "Substrate noise coupling in SoC design: Modeling, avoidance, and validation, " Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, pp. 2109-2138, Dec. 2006. (Invited Paper) 

 

 

2005

 

S.J. Fang, A. Bellaouar, S.T. Lee and D.J. Allstot, "An image rejection down-converter for low-IF receivers, " IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 53, pp. 478-487, Feb. 2005.


M. Chu and D.J. Allstot, "Elitist nondominated sorting genetic algorithm based RF IC optimizer, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 52, pp. 535-545, Mar. 2005.

 

D. Allstot, S. Aniruddhan, M. Chu, J. Paramesh, and S. Shekhar, "Recent advances and design trends in CMOS radio frequency integrated circuits, " International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems (IJHSES), vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 377-428, June 2005. (Invited)


W. Zhuo, X. Li, S. Shekhar, S.H.K. Embabi, J. Pineda de Gyvez, D.J. Allstot and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, "A capacitor cross-coupled common-gate low noise amplifier, "IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 52, pp. 875-879, Dec. 2005.


J. Paramesh, R. Bishop, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "A four-antenna receiver in 90nm CMOS for beamforming and spatial diversity, " IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, pp. 2515-2524, Dec. 2005.


X. Li, S. Shekhar and D.J. Allstot, "Gm-boosted LNA and VCO Circuits in 0.18um CMOS, " IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, pp. 2609-2619, Dec. 2005.

 

2004

 

T. Kim, X. Li and D.J. Allstot, "Compact model generation for on-chip transmission lines, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 51, pp. 459-470, Mar. 2004.


J.H. Park, K.Y. Choi and D.J. Allstot, "Parasitic-aware RF circuit design and optimization, " IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 51, pp. 1953-1966, Oct. 2004.


J. Guo, W. Law, W.J. Helms and D.J. Allstot, "Digital calibration for monotonic pipelined A/D converters, " IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 53, pp. 1485-1492, Dec. 2004.


S.T. Lee, S.J. Fang, D.J. Allstot, A. Bellaouar, A.R. Fridi and P.A. Fontaine, "A quad-band GSM-GPRS transmitter with digital auto-calibration, " IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, pp. 2200-2214, Dec. 2004.

 

 Recent Conference Papers

2007

 

Y. Tang, S. Gupta, J. Paramesh, and D.J. Allstot, "A digital-summing feedforward S-D modulator and its application to a cascade ADC, " IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2007, pp. 485-488.

 

N.M. Neihart, S. Roy, and D.J. Allstot, "A parallel multi-resolution sensing technique for multiple antenna cognitive radios, " IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2007, pp. 2530-2533.

 

J.S. Walling and D.J. Allstot, "Monolithic spiral transformers: A design methodology, " IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2007, pp. 3351-3354.

 

D. Ozis, J. Paramesh, and D.J. Allstot, "A CMOS 5GHz image-reject receiver front-end architecture, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2007, pp. 321-324.

 

S. Shekhar, S. Aniruddhan, and D.J. Allstot, "A tuned-input tuned-output VCO in 0.18µm CMOS, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2007, pp. 607-610.

 

J.S. Walling, S. Shekhar, and D.J. Allstot, "A gm-boosted current-reuse LNA in 0.18µm CMOS, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2007, pp. 613-616.

 

D.J. Allstot, S. Aniruddhan, M. Chu, N.M. Neihart, D. Ozis, S. Shekhar, and J.S. Walling, "Low phase noise CMOS voltage-controlled oscillators, " International Conference on ASIC, Oct. 2007. (Invited - to appear)

 

2006

 

G. Banerjee, R. Bishop, K. Soumynath and D.J. Allstot, "A 1.4V/5GHz, 90-nm system-in-a-package LNA, " IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Jan. 2006, pp. 35-38.


M. Chu, J.M. Huard, K.Y. Wong, and D.J. Allstot, "A 5GHz wide-range CMOS active phase shifter for wireless beamforming applications, " IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Jan. 2006, pp. 47-50.

 

D. Ozis and D.J. Allstot, "A CMOS 5GHz phase-compensated quadrature coupler, " IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Jan. 2006, pp. 51-54.

 

J.S. Walling and D.J. Allstot, "A 25dBm, 35% PAE, 7-12 GHz power amplifier utilizing techniques to increase optimal load impedance, " IEEE Topical Workshop on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications, Jan. 2006, pp. 35-36.


C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "A 2-GHz integrated CMOS reflective-type phase shifter with 675º control range, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 381-384.

 

C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "A 2-GHz CMOS variable gain amplifier optimized for low noise, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 2305-2308.


C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "A variable-offset phase detector for phased array applications, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 3430-3433.

 

S. Aniruddhan, S. Shekhar and D.J. Allstot, "A delay generation technique for fast-locking frequency synthesizers, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 5463-5466.

 

S. Shekhar, S. Aniruddhan and D.J. Allstot, "A fully-differential CMOS Clapp VCO for IEEE 802.11a applications, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 3241-3244.


D. Ozis, J. Paramesh and D.J. Allstot, "Analysis and design of lumped-element quadrature couplers with lossy passive elements, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2006, pp. 2317-2320.

 

D.J. Allstot, C.T. Charles, D. Özis, S. Shekhar and J.S. Walling, "RF CMOS design: Living with the substrate, " IEEE Intl. Microwave Symposium Workshop: Substrate Effects in Si RFIC Interconnects, June 2006, pp. 48-66.

 

D. Ozis, N.M. Neihart, and D.J. Allstot, "Differential VCO and passive frequency doubler in 0.18mm CMOS for 24GHz applications, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2006, pp. 45-48.

 

S. Shekhar, X. Li and D.J. Allstot, "A CMOS 3.1-10.6GHz UWB LNA employing stagger-compensated series peaking, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2006, pp. 63-66.


J. Paramesh, R. Bishop, K. Soumyanath, and D.J. Allstot, "An 11-bit 330MHz 8X OSR S-D modulator for next-generation WLAN, " IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium, June 2006, pp. 206-207.

 

D.J. Allstot, C.T. Charles, S. Kodali, X. Li, D. Ozis, J. Paramesh, S. Shekhar, and J.S. Walling, " CMOS integrated transformers: coming of age, " IEEE Intl. Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, Oct. 2006, pp. 1480-1483. (invited)

 

2005

 

M. Chu and D.J. Allstot, "Elitist distributed particle swarm optimization: An algorithm for analog/RFIC optimization, " Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf., Jan. 2005, pp. 671-674.


M. Chu and D.J. Allstot, "Phase-locked loop synthesis using hierarchical divide-and-conquer multi-optimization, " Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Jan. 2005, pp. 675-678.


J. Paramesh, R. Bishop, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "A 1.4V 5GHz four-antenna Cartesian-combining receiver in 90nm CMOS for beamforming and spatial diversity applications, " IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2005, pp. 210-211.


X. Li, S. Shekhar and D.J. Allstot, "Low-power gm-boosted LNA and VCO circuits in 0.18um CMOS, " IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2005, pp. 534-535.


H. Zarei, A. Ecker, J. Park and D.J. Allstot, "A full-range all-pass variable phase shifter for multiple antenna receivers, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2005, pp. 2100-2103.


K. Naegle, S. Gupta and D.J. Allstot, "Design considerations for a 10GHz CMOS transmit/receive switch, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2005, pp. 2104-2107.


C.T. Charles and D.J. Allstot, "A 360o extended range phase detector for type-I phase-locked loops, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2005, pp. 5457-5460.


S. Aniruddhan and D.J. Allstot, "Architectural issues in base-station frequency synthesizers, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2005, pp. 6034-6037.


D.J. Allstot, S. Aniruddhan, G. Banerjee, M. Chu, X. Li, J. Paramesh, S. Shekhar, and K. Soumyanath, "Circuit techniques for CMOS multiple-antenna transceivers, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2005, pp. 225-228. (Invited)


V. Jandhyala, Y. Kuga, D.J. Allstot and C.J.R. Shi, "Bridging circuits and electromagnetics in a curriculum aimed at microelectronic analog and microwave simulation and design, " IEEE Intl. Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE), June 2005, pp. 45-46.


C.T. Peach, R. Bishop, A. Ravi, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "A 9-b 400 Msample/s pipelined analog-to-digital converter in 90nm CMOS, " European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Sept. 2005, pp. 535-538.

 

2004

 

M. Chu, D.J. Allstot, J.M. Huard and K.Y. Wong, "NSGA-based parasitic-aware optimization of a 5GHz low-noise VCO, " Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Jan. 2004, pp. 169-174. (Best Paper Award Nomination)


S. Lee, S. Fang, D.J. Allstot, A. Bellaouar, A. Fridi and P. Fontaine, "A 1.5V 28mA fully-integrated fast-locking quad-band GSM/GPRS transmitter with digital auto-calibration in 130nm CMOS, " IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2004, pp. 188-189.


H. Zarei and D.J. Allstot, "A low-loss phase shifter in 180nm CMOS for multiple-antenna receivers, " IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2004, pp. 392-393.


D. Ozis, X. Li, J. Paramesh, H. Zarei and D.J. Allstot, "Building blocks for a 10-GHz band smart antenna receiver in 0.25mm SiGe BiCMOS technology, " IEEE Workshop on Wireless Circuits and Systems, May 2004, pp. 43-44.


J. Park and D.J. Allstot, "A 12.5GHz RF matrix amplifier in 180nm SOI CMOS, " IEEE Intl. on Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004, vol. I, pp. 117-120.


K. Choi and D.J. Allstot, "Post-optimization design centering for RF circuits, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004, vol. I, pp. 956-959.


T. Kim and D.J. Allstot, "Tunable transmission line phase shifter (TTPS), " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004, vol. I, pp. 972-975.


S. Aniruddhan, M. Chu and D.J. Allstot, "A lateral-BJT-biased CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004, vol. I, pp. 976-979.


J. Park and D.J. Allstot, "RF circuit synthesis using particle swarm optimization, " IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004, vol. V, pp. 93-96.  


S.J. Fang, A. Bellaouar, S.T. Lee and D.J. Allstot, "An image rejection down-converter for low-IF receivers in 130nm CMOS, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2004, pp. 57-60.


D.J. Allstot, X. Li and S. Shekhar, "Design considerations for CMOS low-noise amplifiers, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2004, pp. 97-100. (Invited)


K. Choi, D.J. Allstot and V. Krishnamurthy, "A 900MHz fully-integrated GSM power amplifier in 250nm CMOS with breakdown voltage protection and programmable conduction angle, " IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium, June 2004, pp. 369-372. (Outstanding Student Paper Third prize)


G. Banerjee, D.T. Becher, C. Hung, D.J. Allstot and K. Soumyanath, "Measurement and modeling of noise parameters for desensitized low noise amplifiers, " IEEE Custom IC Conference, Oct. 2004, pp. 387-390.


M. Chu and D.J. Allstot, "A 6GHz low-noise quadrature Colpitts VCO, " Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2004, pp. 21-24.


M. Chu, S. Shekhar, D.J. Allstot and T.K. Bhattacharyya, "Design considerations for anti-phase injected quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators, " Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2004, pp. 25-28.


G. Banerjee, D.T. Becher, C. Hung, K. Soumyanath and D.J. Allstot, "Desensitized design of MOS low noise amplifiers by Rn minimization, " Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2004, pp. 619-622. (Invited)

 

  Recent Book Chapters

 

D.J. Allstot, S. Aniruddhan, M. Chu, J. Paramesh and S. Shekhar, "Recent Advances and Design Trends in CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, " in Design of High-Speed Communication Circuits, R. Harjani, Editor, World Scientific Publishing Company, vol. 38, pp. 123-174, 2006. ISBN 981-256-590-6

D.J. Allstot, S. Shekhar, and J.S. Walling, "Design of Wideband Amplifiers in CMOS, " in Circuits for Emerging Technologies: CMOS and Beyond, K. Iniewski, Editor, CRC Press, 2008.

 

 Recent Patents

 

K. Choi and D.J. Allstot, "Self-Bias and Digitally Tunable Conduction Angle Circuits for a Differential RF Non-Linear Power Amplifier Employing Low-Voltage Transistors, " U.S. Patent #7,221,217 B2, Issued May 22, 2007.

 

Ph.D. Dissertations

 

K. Choi -- Parasitic-aware design and optimization of CMOS RF power amplifier- 2003 (3.9MB)

S-J Fang -- Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor frequency conversion techniques for WCDMA -2003 (3.8MB)

S-T Lee -- Quad-band Global system for mobile communications complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transmitter - 2003 (1.9MB)

J. Park -- Design of an RF CMOS Ultra-wide amplifier using parasitic-aware synthesis and optimization -2003 (4.2MB)

W. Law -- Digital calibration of non-ideal pipelined analog-to-digital converters - 2003 (1.72MB)

T. Kim -- A CMOS tunable transmission line phase shifter and voltage controlled-oscillator for wireless communications - 2004 (1.51MB)

H. Zarei -- RF variable phase shifters for multiple smart antennas - 2004 (4.29MB)

X. Li -- Low noise design techniques for RFICs - 2004 (1.45MB)

M. Chu -- Phase-shifting techniques for wireless multiple-antenna transmitter applications - 2005 (9.22MB)

D. Ozis -- Image-reject receiver architecture for radio frequency integrated circuits - 2006

Sankaran Aniruddhan -- A fast-locking frequency synthesizer for GSM base-stations in 180nm CMOS - 2006

J. Paramesh -- CMOS Multi-antenna receivers: architectures and circuits - 2006

C. Charles -- A Calibrated Phase and Amplitude Control System for Phased-Array Transmitters - 2006

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