JSSC Best Paper Award

Best Paper of 2023

Deep-Learning-Based Inverse-Designed Millimeter-Wave Passives and Power Amplifiers

Emir Ali Karahan; Zheng Liu; Kaushik Sengupta

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 58, Issue: 11, November 2023)

10.1109/JSSC.2023.3276315

Emir Ali Karahan

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

Zheng Liu

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

Kaushik Sengupta

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

Past Recipients

YearRecipientsCategory
2022Dihang Yang, David Murphy, Hooman Darabi , Arya Behzad, Asad A. Abidi, Stephen C. Au, Sraavan R. Mundlapudi, Kejian Shi, and Weiyu Leng

A Harmonic-Mixing PLL Architecture for Millimeter-Wave Application

Vol. 57, Issue 12, Page(s): 3552-3566, December 2022

2021Hao Li; Ganesh Balamurugan; Taehwan Kim; Meer N. Sakib; Ranjeet Kumar; Haisheng Rong; James Jaussi; Bryan Casper

A 3-D-Integrated Silicon Photonic Microring-Based 112-Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter With Nonlinear Equalization and Thermal Control

Vol. 56, Issue 1, Page(s): 19 – 29

2020Brian Zimmer; Rangharajan Venkatesan; Yakun Sophia Shao; Jason Clemons; Matthew Fojtik; Nan Jiang; Ben Keller; Alicia Klinefelter; Nathaniel Pinckney; Priyanka Raina; Stephen G. Tell; Yanqing Zhang; William J. Dally; Joel S. Emer; C. Thomas Gray; Stephen W. Keckler; Brucek Khailany

“A 0.32–128 TOPS, Scalable Multi-Chip-Module-Based Deep Neural Network Inference Accelerator With Ground-Referenced Signaling in 16 nm”

Vol. 55, Issue 4, Page(s): 920 – 932

2019Chintan Thakkar; Anandaroop Chakrabarti; Shuhei Yamada; Debabani Choudhury; James Jaussi; Bryan Casper

A 42.2-Gb/s 4.3-pJ/b 60-GHz Digital Transmitter With 12-b/Symbol Polarization MIMO

Vol. 54, Issue 12, Page(s): 3565 – 3576

2018Masaki Sakakibara, Koji Ogawa, Shin Sakai, Yasuhisa Tochigi, Katsumi Honda, Hidekazu Kikuchi, Takuya Wada, Yasunobu Kamikubo, Tsukasa Miura, Masahiko Nakamizo, Naoki Jyo, Ryo Hayashibara, Shinya Miyata, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Ota, Hirotsugu Takahashi, Tadayuki Taura, Yusuke Oike, Keiji Tatani, Takayuki Ezaki, Teruo Hirayama.

A 6.9-μm Pixel-Pitch Back-Illuminated Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor With Pixel- Parallel 14-Bit Subthreshold ADC

Vol. 53, Issue 11, Page(s): 3017 – 3025

2017Bodhisatwa Sadhu ; Yahya Tousi ; Joakim Hallin ; Stefan Sahl ; Scott K. Reynolds ; Örjan Renström ; Kristoffer Sjögren ; Olov Haapalahti ; Nadav Mazor ; Bo Bokinge ; Gustaf Weibull ; Håkan Bengtsson ; Anders Carlinger ; Eric Westesson ; Jan-Erik Thillberg ; Leonard Rexberg ; Mark Yeck ; Xiaoxiong Gu ; Mark Ferriss ; Duixian Liu ; Daniel Friedman ; Alberto Valdes-Garcia

A 28-GHz 32-Element TRX Phased-Array IC With Concurrent Dual-Polarized Operation and Orthogonal Phase and Gain Control for 5G Communications

Vol. 52, Issue 12, Page(s): 3373 – 3391

2016Lucien Breems, Muhammed Bolatkale, Hans Brekelmans, Shagun Bajoria, Jan Niehof, Robert Rutten, Bert Oude-Essink, Franco Fritschij, Jagdip Singh, Gerard Lassache

A 2.2 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣADC With −102 dBc THD and 25 MHz Bandwidth

Vol. 51, Issue 12, Page(s): 2906 – 2916

2015Tzu-Chien Hsueh, Frank O’Mahony, Mozghan Mansuri, Bryan Casper

An On-Die All-Digital Power Supply Noise Analyzer With Enhanced Spectrum Measurements

Vol. 50, Issue 7, Page(s): 1711 – 1721

2014Michael Boers, Bagher Afshar, Iason Vassiliou, Saikat Sarkar, Sean T. Nicolson, Ehsan Adabi, Bevin George Perumana, Theodoros Chalvatzis, Spyros Kavvadias, Padmanava Sen, Wei Liat Chan, Alvin Hsing-Ting Yu, Ali Parsa, Med Nariman, Seunghwan Yoon, Alfred Grau Besoli, Chryssoula A. Kyriazidou, Gerasimos Zochios, Jesus A. Castaneda, Tirdad Sowlati, Maryam Rofougaran, and Ahmadreza Rofougaran.

A 16TX/16RX 60 GHz 802.11ad Chipset With Single Coaxial Interface and Polarization Diversity

Vol. 49, Issue 12, Page(s): 3031 – 3045

2013Ron Kapusta, Junhua Shen, Steven Decker, Hongxing Li, Eitake Ibaragi, Haiyang Zhu

A 14b 80 MS/s SAR ADC With 73.6 dB SNDR in 65 mm CMOS

Vol. 48, Issue 12, Page(s): 3059-3066, December. 2013

2012David Murphy, Hooman Darabi, Asad Abidi, Amr Amin Hafez, Ahmad Mirzael, Mohyee Mikhemar, and Mau-Chung Frank Chang

A Blocker-Tolerant, Noise-Cancelling Receiver Suitable for Wideband Wireless Applications

Vol. 47, Issue 12, Page(s): 2943 – 2963, December 2012

2011Muhammed Bolatkale, Lucien J. Breems, Robert Rutten and Kofi A. A. Makinwa

A 4-GHz Continuous-Time Δ-ΣADC with 70-dB DR and -74 dBFS THD in 125-MHz BW

Vol. 46, Issue 12, Page(s): 2857 – 2868, December 2011

2010Christopher Peter Hurrell, Colin Lyden, David Laing, Derek Hummerston, and Mark Vickery

An 18 b 12.5 MS/s ADC With 93 dB SNR

Vol. 45, Issue 12, Page(s): 2647 – 2654, December 2010

2009Byungsub Kim, Yong Liu, Timothy O. Dickson, John F. Bulzacchelli and Daniel J. Friedman

A 10-Gb/s Compact Low-Power Serial I/O With DFE-IIR Equalization in 65-nm CMOS

Vol. 44, Issue 12, Page(s): 3526 – 3538, December 2009

2008Junghwan Han and Ranjit Gharpurey

Recursive Receiver Down-Converters With Multiband Feedback and Gain-Reuse

Vol. 43, Issue 5, Page(s): 1119 – 1131, May 2008

2007John Poulton, Robert Palmer, Andrew Fuller, Trey Greer, John Eyles, William Dally and Mark Horowitz

A 14-mW 6.25-Gb/s Transceiver in 90-nm CMOS

Vol. 42, Issue: 12, Page(s): 2745 – 2757, December 2007

2006Jonathan B. Ashbrook, Hyeon-Min Bae, Sanjiv Chopra, Jinki Park, Naresh R. Shanbhag and Andrew C. Singer

An MLSE Receiver for Electronic Dispersion Compensation of OC-192 Fiber Links Digital

Vol. 41, Issue: 11, Page(s): 2541 – 2554, November 2006

2005Drs. Michiel. A. P. Pertijs, Kofi A. A. Makinwa and Johan H. Huijsing

A CMOS smart temperature sensor with a 3s inaccuracy of + 0.1° C from -55° C to 125° C

Vol. 40, Issue: 12, Page(s): 2805 – 2815, December 2005

2004Xiang Guan, Hossein Hashemi and Ali Hajimiri

A Fully Integrated 24-GHz Eight-Element Phased-Array Receiver in Silicon

Vol. 39, Issue: 12, Page(s): 2311 – 2320, December 2004

2003Manstretta, Danilo.; Brandolini, Massimo.; Svelto, Francesco

Second-order intermodulation mechanisms in CMOS downconverters

Vol. 38, Issue: 3, Page(s): 394 – 406, March 2003

2002Alireza Shirvani, David K. Su and Bruce A. Wooley

A CMOS RF power amplifier with parallel amplification for efficient power control

Vol. 37, Issue: 6, Page(s): 684 – 693, June 2002

2001Marko Sokolich, Charles H.Fields, Stephen Thomas III, Binqiang Shi, Young Kim Boegeman, Mary Montes, Rosanna Martinez, Allan R. Kramer, and Meena Madhav

A low-power 72.8-GHz Static Frequency Divider in AlInAs/InGaAs HBT Technology

Vol. 36, Page(s): 1328 – 1333, September 2001

2000Ichiro Fujimori, Akihiko Nogi, and Tetsuro Sugimoto

A Multibit Delta–Sigma Audio DAC with 120-dB Dynamic Range

Vol. 35, Page(s): 1066 – 1073, August 2000

1999Brian P. Brandt and Joseph Lutsky

A 75-mW, 10-b, 20-MSPS CMOS Subranging ADC with 9.5 Effective Bits at Nyquist

Vol. 34, Page(s): 1788 – 1795, December 1999.

1998Mark. J. Loinaz, K. J. Singh, Andrew. J. Blanksby, David A. Inglis, Kamran. Azadet, and Brain Ackland

A 200-mW, 3.3-V, CMOS Color Camera IC Producing 352 × 288 24-b Video at 30 Frames/s

Vol. 33, Page(s): 2092 – 2103, December 1998.

1997Todd L. Brooks, David H. Robertson, Daniel F. Kelly, Anthony Del Muro, and Stephen W. Harston

A cascaded sigma-delta pipeline A/D converter with 1.25 MHz signal bandwidth and 89 dB SNR

Vol. 32, Page(s): 1896 – 1906, December 1997.

1996Takanori Saeki, Yuji Nakaoka, Mamoru Fujita, Akihito Tanaka, Kyoichi Nagata, Kenichi Sakakibara, Tatsuya Matano, Yukio Hoshino, Kazutaka Miyano, Satoshi Isa, Shigeyuki Nakazawa, Eiichiro Kakehashi, John M. Drynan, MasahirKomuro, Tadashi Fukase, Haruo Iwasaki, Motohiro Takenaka, Junichi Sekine, Masahiko Igeta, Nobuko Nakanishi, Toshiro Itani, Kazuyoshi Yoshida, Hiroshi Yoshino, Syuichi Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Yoshii, Michihiko Ichinose, Tomoo Imura, Masato Uziie, Shinichi Kikuchi, Kuniaki Koyama, Yukio Fukuzo, and Takashi Okuda

A 2.5-ns Clock Access, 250-MHz, 256-Mb SDRAM with Synchronous Mirror Delay

Vol. 31, Page(s): 1656- 1668, November 1996

1995Loke Kun Tan and Henry Samueli

A 200 Mhz Quadrature Digital Synthesizer/Mixer in 0.8 mm C.M.O.S.

Vol. 30, Page(s): 193-200, March 1995

1993Michiel de Wit. Khen-San Tan. and Richard K. Hester

 Low-Power 12b Analog-to-Digital Converter with On-Chip Precision Trimming

Vol. 28, Page(s): 455 – 461, April 1993

1992Masato Motomura, Hachiro Yamada, Tadayoshi Enomoto

A 2K-Word Dictionary Search Processor (DISP) LSI with an Approximate Word Search Capability

Vol. 27, Page(s): 883 – 891, June 1992