Abstract: With emerging trends such as machine learning, the internet of everything, brain–machine interfaces, autonomous driving, 6G communications, and quantum computing, circuit designers are increasingly challenged to achieve drastic improvements in accuracy, speed, and power efficiency.
Yet, as CMOS circuit designs have matured over the past five decades, we often find ourselves constrained by well-established topologies and methodologies, making it difficult to realize substantial performance gains. In this webinar, I will introduce several recent ideas that have demonstrated significant improvements in energy efficiency for analog and mixed-signal circuits such as amplifiers, sensor interfaces, oscillators, power converters, data converters, and phase-locked loops.
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Biography: Taekwang Jang received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2013, he worked at Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the same institution. In 2018, he joined ETH Zürich and is currently working as an associate professor, leading the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems group.
He focuses on circuits and systems for highly energy-constrained applications such as wireless sensors and biomedical interfaces. He holds 15 patents and has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed conferences and journal articles. He is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award, the IEEE ISSCC 2021 and 2022 Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper, the IEEE ISSCC 2022 Outstanding Forum Speaker Award, and the 2009 IEEE CAS Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award. Since 2022, he has been a TPC member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference and the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference. Since 2023, he has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid-State Circuits and was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer for the Solid-State Circuits Society in 2024-2025.