Seminars
Each week, two papers are presented at a seminar. Each paper presentation is 20 minutes, after which there is a 10 minute time slot for discussion.
A presentation template is found here: PowerPoint Template
The new default time for these presentations is MONDAYS at 14.00-15.00 in E:2349.
| Date/time | Room | Paper | Presenter |
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Aug 21 1015-1200 |
E2347a |
Goldsmith A.J. & Wicker S.B. Design challenges for energy-constrained ad hoc wireless networks. IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 8-27, Aug 2002. (SLIDES) |
Nafiseh |
| Xiaolei Shi, Stromberg G., Gsottberger Y., & Sturm T. Wake-up-frame scheme for ultra low power wireless transceivers. In proc. 2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM '04), vol.6, pp. 3619-3623, 29 Nov.-3 Dec. 2004. (SLIDES) |
Carl |
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| Aug 28 1015-1200 |
E2311 |
Dong Han & Yuanjin Zheng. An ultra low power GFSK demodulator for wireless body area network. In proc. 34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2008), pp.434-437, 15-19 Sept. 2008. (SLIDES) |
Yasser |
| Bernier C. et al. An Ultra Low Power SoC for 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4 wireless communications, In proc. 34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2008), pp.426-429, 15-19 Sept. 2008 (SLIDES) |
Yasser |
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| Sep 4 1015-1200 |
(tbd) |
Nezhad-Ahmad M.R. et al. A 2mW 400MHz RF Transceiver SoC in 0.18um CMOS Technology for Wireless Medical Applications. In proc. 2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, pp. 285-288, June 15-17 2008. | Reza |
| Bradley P.D. An Ultra Low Power, High Performance Medical Implant Communication System (MICS) Transceiver for Implantable Devices. In proc. 2006 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2006), pp.158-161, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2006. |
Dejan | ||
| Sep 28 |
Rabaey JM., et al. Picoradio supports ad hoc ultra low power wireless networking. Computer, Vol. 33 No. 7, pp. 42-48, Jul 200 |
Nafiseh |
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| Enz C.C., et al. WiseNET: An ultralow-power wireless sensor network solution. Computer, Vol 37, No 8, pp 62-70, Aug 2004 |
Nafiseh |
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| Oct 5 |
Shameli A, Heydari P. A Novel Power Optimization Technique for Ultra-Low Power RFICs. International symposium on Low power electronics and design, pp. 274-279, Oct. 2006. |
Carl | |
| Do AV, et al. A Subthreshold Low-Noise Amplifier Optimized for Ultra-Low-Power Applications in the ISM Band. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 286-292, Feb 2008 |
Carl |
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| Oct 26 |
De Nil M, et al. Ultra Low Power ASIP Design for Wireless Sensor Nodes, In Proc of International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2007), Dec. 2007 |
Yasser |
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| Liu X, et al. An Ultra Low Power Baseband Transceiver IC for Wireless Body Area Networks, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Jun 2008 |
Yasser |
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| Nov 3 |
Conway GA and Scanlon WG. Antennas for Over-Body-Surface Communication at 2.45 GHz. IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57, No. 4, Apr 2009. |
Rohit | |
| Kim J and Rahmat-Samii Y. Implanted Antennas Inside a Human Body: Simulations, Designs, and Characterizations. IEEE Trans Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 52, No. 8, Aug 2004 |
Rohit |
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| Nov 10 0815-1000 |
E2349 |
Hagenauer J., et al. Decoding and Equalization with Analog Non-linear Networks. Telecommunication Transmissions, Elsevier, Vol. 10. No. 6, November-December 1999. (SLIDES) |
Reza |
| Winstead C. and Schlegel C. Analog Decoding: State of the Art. ISSSTA2004, Sydney, Australia, 30 Aug. - 2 Sep. 2004 (SLIDES) |
Reza | ||
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Nov 17 |
E2349 |
Rashdan M, Pai MM, et al. Ultra Low Power Transceiver for Wireless Patient Vital Sign Monitoring. CCECE, pp 1055-1058, 4–7 May, 2008. |
Dejan |
| Peluso V, Steyaert MSJ, et al. A 1.5-V 100-μW Δ∑ Modulator with 12-b Dynamic Range Using the Switched-Opamp Technique, Journal of solid-state circuits, pp 943 - 952, Jul. 7, 1997. | Dejan |
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| Nov 24 0815-1000 |
E2349 |
Ye W., Silva F. & Heidemann J. Ultra-low duty cycle MAC with scheduled channel polling. ACM, SenSys '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, pp.321-334, 2006 (SLIDES) |
Nafiseh |
| Rousselot, J., El-Hoiydi, A. & Decotignie, J.-D. Low power medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks. IEEE, 14th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1-5, June 2008 (SLIDES) |
Nafiseh |
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| Dec 01 0815-1000 |
E2349 | Wang, S.B.T.; Niknejad, A.M.; Brodersen, R.W., Design of a Sub-mW 960-MHz UWB CMOS LNA, Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of , vol.41, no.11, pp.2449-2456, Nov. 2006 (SLIDES) |
Carl |
| Darabi, H.; Chiu, J., A noise cancellation technique in active RF-CMOS mixers, Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of , vol.40, no.12, pp. 2628-2632, Dec. 2005 (SLIDES) |
Carl |
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| Dec 08 0815-1000 |
E2349 | Hendrawan S., Kaushik Roy, et al. Robust Subthreshold Logic for Ultra-Low Power Operation, IEEE Transactions on Very large scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, VOL.9, NO.1, February, 2001. (SLIDES) |
Yasser |
| Benton H. C., Alice Wang, et al. Device Sizing for Minimum Energy Operation in Subthreshold Circuits, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2004. (SLIDES) | Yasser |
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| Jan 26 1015-1200 |
E2349 |
A. Petosa, A. Ittipiboon, et al. Recent Advances in Dielectric Resonator Antenna Technology. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 3, June 1998 |
Rohit |
| A. Alomainy,Y. Hao and D.M Davenport, Parametric Study of Wearable Antennas with Varying Distances from the Body and Different On-Body Positions. IET Seminar on Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications, London, UK, pp. 84-89, 2007 |
Rohit |
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Feb 02 1015-1200 |
E3139 | CH. Winstead, N. Nguyen, V. Gaudet, CH. Schlegel. Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits for Analog Iterative Decoders. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, REGULAR PAPERS, vol. 53, no. 4, April 2006, pages 829-841. (SLIDES) |
Reza |
| S. Hong, W. E. Stark. Decoding Performance and Complexity Analysis for Analog and Digital Channel Decoders. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), May 2001, vol. 2, pages 1277-1281. (SLIDES) |
Reza | ||
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E3315 | Lourans Samid, Yiannos Manoli, A Low Power and Low Voltage Continuous Time ∑Δ Modulator, ISCAS, pp 4066 - 4069, 23 – 26 May, 2005. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
| Christian C. Enz, Nicola Scolari, et al. Ultra Low-Power Radio Design for Wireless Sensor Networks, International Workshop on RF Integration Technology Nov. 30 – Dec 02, 2005. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
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| Feb 16 |
Preparation for specifications meeting |
Nasifeh | |
| Feb 23 1015-1200 | E2349 |
F Bruccoleri, EAM Klumperink, B Nauta. Generating All Two-MOS-Transistor Amplifiers Leads to New Wide-Band LNAs, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1032-1040, July 2001. (SLIDES) |
Carl |
| Mar 02 1015-1200 | E3139 |
Omer Can Akgun and Yusuf Leblebici. Energy Efficiency Comparison of Asynchronous and Synchronous Circuits Operating in the Sub-Threshold Regime, Journal of Low Power Electronics Vol.4, 1–17, Date: 2008. (SLIDES) |
Yasser |
| Mar 16 1015-1200 | E2349 | M. Yiu, C. Winstead, et al. Design for Testability of CMOS Analog Sum-Product Error-Control Decoders, IEEE transactions on circuits and systems, vol 54, no. 8, pp. 675-679, Aug. 2007. (SLIDES) |
Reza |
| M. S. Durante, S. Mahlknecht. An Ultra Low Power Wakeup Receiver for Wireless Sensor Nodes, hird international conference on sensor technologies and applications, pp. 167-170, 2009. (SLIDES) |
Reza | ||
| Mar 23 1015-1200 | E2349 | Shanti Pavan, Nagendra Krishnapura, et al. A Power Optimized Continuous-Time Δ∑ ADC for Audio Applications, Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp 351-360, Feb 2008. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
| Maurits Ortmanns, Yiannos Manoli, et al. A Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulator with Reduced Jitter Sensitivity, ESSCIRC, pp 287-290, 2002. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
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| Apr 12 1400-1500 | E2349 |
Jaechun Lee and Sangwook Nam, Effective Area of a Receiving Antenna in a Lossy Medium, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57, Issue. 6, 2009 , Page(s): 1843 – 1845 (SLIDES) |
Rohit |
| S.K.S. Gupta, et al. Towards a propagation model for wireless biomedical applications, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2003. ICC '03., Vol. 3, 2003 , Page(s): 1993 - 1997 (SLIDES) |
Rohit | ||
| May 10 1400-1500 | E2349 | John F. M. Gerrits, Michiel H. L. Kouwenhoven et al. Principles and Limitations of Ultra-Wideband FM Communications Systems, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2005, Issue 3, pp. 382-396 (SLIDES) | Carl |
| Xiongchuan Huang, Rampu S, A 2.4GHz/915MHz 51μW Wake-Up Receiver with Offset and Noise Suppression, ISSCC, pp. 222-223, Feb 2010 (SLIDES) |
Carl | ||
| May 17 1400-1500 | E2349 | Michael Buettner, Gary V. Yee, Eric Anderson, Richard Han, X-MAC: A Short Preamble MAC Protocol for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, 2006, pages 307-320, ACM (SLIDES) |
Nafiseh |
| May 24 1315-1400 | E2349 | Dejan Markovic´, Cheng C. Wang, et al. Ultralow-Power Design in Near-threshold Region, Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 98 Issue 2, pp. 237-252, Feb 2010 (SLIDES) |
Yasser |
| May 31 1400-1500 | E2349 | Xiaoyu Zhang, et al. An Energy-Efficient ASIC for Wireless Body Sensor Networks in Medical Applications, IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems, Feb 2010 (SLIDES) | Reza |
| June 7 1400-1500 |
E2349 |
A. C. W. Wong, G. Kathiresan, et al. A 1V Wireless Transceiver for an Ultra Low Power SoC for Biotelemetry Applications, ESSCIRC, pp 127-130, 2007. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
| Hugh Thompson, Michael Hufford, et al. A Low-voltage Low-power Sigma-delta Modulator with Improved Performance in Overload Condition, CICC, pp 519-522, 2004. (SLIDES) |
Dejan |
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| Summer hiatus |
