Millimeter-wave Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS KU Leuven
Design of mm-wave front-ends for analog signal generation and processing. With the use of guided waves through a polymer fiber.
Design of mm-wave front-ends for analog signal generation and processing. With the use of guided waves through a polymer fiber.
The Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is considered the cornerstone of modern electronics due to its fundamental role in virtually any application requiring the transfer of information between the physical (analog) world and the processing (digital) world. This task comes with myriad challenges due to the complex multi-functional ADC nature, further exacerbated when the relevant applications demand stringent performance requirements. ...
The continuous need for higher data rates and low power dissipation for next-generation communication standards calls for innovation in the design of extremely high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), exceeding 10 GS/s, while maintaining a medium-to-high resolution. Although complex time interleaving ADCs are a partial solution for this demand, the ADC analog front-end remains a speed bottleneck under power constraints. Moreover, even ...
In today's world, daily life is influenced significantly by the connectivity between millions of individuals and devices all around the world, which exchange information and data via the internet. The main architecture in which all internet-enabled objects are connected is called the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has various applications in smart cities, smart farming, smart industry, e-health, etc. In the case of smart cities, the IoT ...
When moving to the 5G telecommunication era, higher data rate and thus higher bandwidth are the main requirements to enable this evolution. For RF ESD protection design in traditional CMOS front-end module (FEM) circuits, the parasitic capacitance of the ESD protection devices should be as low as possible to meet the 5G bandwidth requirements. However, it is usually challenging to reduce the parasitic capacitance without sacrificing the ESD ...
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body and, to be able to understand how it works, large-scale in-vivo sensing of neuron populations has emerged as a key research technique. Microfabricated silicon neural probes have established as the dominant technology in this field and have achieved ever increasing densities and numbers of simultaneous recording electrodes. Imec is the leader in the design and development of CMOS neural ...