Former MS Students (2000-2016)

Name	Advisor	Graduation Year	Thesis
Ntiamoah Kwarteng	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2016	A Fast Transient Response ESR-controlled Fixed Hysteretic Buck Converter
Francy Varghese	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2015	A Fast Response Dual Mode Change
Mengde Wang	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2014	A Capacitor-Less Wide-Band PSR LDO With Capacitance Multiplier
Roland Nii Ofei Ribeiro	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2014	A Single Inductor Multiple Input Piezoelectric Interface Circuit Capable of Harvesting Energy from Asynchronously Vibrating Sources
Judy Marian Amanor-Boadu	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2013	A User Programmable Battery Charger Capable of Supporting Energy Harvesting Applications
Yango Gao	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2013	An Energy Efficient Asynchronous Time-Domain Comparator
Hui Chen	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2013	A Dual-Supply Buck Converter with Improved Light-Load Efficiency
Jingjing Yu	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2012	EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) Resisting Analog Design Techniques
Jun Yan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2012	A Low THD Sinusoidal Oscillator Based on Harmonic Cancellation Technique
Aravind Padyana	Aydin Karsilayan / Jose Silva-Martinez
Seokmin Hwang	Aydin Karsilayan / Jose Silva-Martinez
Arun Sundar	Jose Silva-Martinez	December 2011	A 3-Bit Current Mode Quantizer for Continuous Time Delta Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converters
Hongbo Chen	Jose Silva-Martinez	December 2011	Integrated Circuit Blocks for High Performance Baseband and RF Analog-to-Digital Converters
William Torke	Samuel Palermo	December 2011	A PLL-Based Frequency Shift Measurement System for Chemical and Biological Sensing
Chao Zhang	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2011	Coming soon
Reza Abdullah	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	May 2011	A High CMRR Instrumentation Amplifier for Biopotential
Ebenezer Dwobeng	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio / Kamran Entesari	December 2011	A Current Balancing Instrumentation Amplifier (CBIA) Bioamplifier with High Gain Accuracy
Cheng-Ming Chien	Jose Silva-Martinez/ Aydin Karsilayan	December 2011	Design of a Wide Bandwidth Continuous-time Low-pass Sigma-delta Modulator
Akshay Godbole	Jose Silva-Martinez /  Aydin Karsilayan	December 2011	DAC Linearization Techniques for Sigma-delta Modulators
Richard Turkson	Jose Silva-Martinez	August 2011	An Efficient Supply Modulator for Linear Wideband RF Power Amplifiers
Charles Sekyiamah	Aydin Karsilayan	August 2011	Design Of A 20MHz Transimpedance Amplifier With Embedded Low-pass Filter For A Direct Conversion Wireless Receiver
Shriram Kalusalingam	Aydin Karsilayan	December 2010	Superharmonic Injection Locked Quadrature LC VCO Using Current Recycling Architecture
Arun Palaniappan	Samuel Palermo	December 2010	Modeling, Optimization and Power Efficiency Comparison of High-speed Inter-chip Electrical and Optical Interconnect Architectures in Nanometer CMOS Technologies
Bharadvaj Bhamedipati	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	2010	Coming soon
Seenu Gopalraju	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	December 2010	An Off-Chip Capacitor Free Low Dropout Regulator with PSR Enhancement at Higher Frequencies
Marcelino Armendariz	Kamran Entesari	December 2010	Tunable Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters Implemented with PIN Diodes and RF MEMS Switches
Saikrishna Ganta	Jose Silva-Martinez	August 2010	Power Supply Rejection Improvement Techniques In Low Drop-Out Voltage Regulators
Karthik Raviprakash	Sebastian Hoyos	August 2010	Reduced Area Discrete-Time Down-Sampling Filter Embedded With Windowed Integration Samplers
Krishna Anand Pentakota	Sebastian Hoyos	August 2010	Digitally Assisted Multi-Channel Receivers
Vijayaramalingam Periasamy	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2010	System Design of a Wide Bandwidth Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulator
Shan Huang	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2010	Design of a Low Power 70MHz-110MHz Harmonic Rejection Filter with Class-AB Output Stage
Venkata Gadde	Jose Silva-Martinez	December 2009	Filter Design Considerations for High Performance Continuous-Time Low-Pass Sigma-Delta ADC
Marcos Lopez Rivera	Jose Silva-Martinez	December 2009	A 3.125 Gb/s 5-TAP CMOS Transversal Equalizer
Joung Won Park	Jose Silva-Martinez	August 2009	A Highly Linear Broadband LNA
Hyung-Joon Jeon	Jose Silva-Martinez	August 2009	A 10Gb/s Full On-chip Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery System Using an Adaptive Loop Bandwidth Strategy
Fabian Silva Rivas	José Silva-Martínez / Aydin Karsilayan	May 2009	High Performance Integrated Circuit Blocks for High-IF Wideband Receivers
James K. Hodgson	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2009	Design of a 10 MHz Transimpedance Low-Pass Filter with Sharp Roll-Off for a Direct Conversion Wireless Receiver
Haritha Eachempatti	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2009	Single Inductor Dual Output Buck Converter
Xi Chen	Sebastian Hoyos	May 2009	Design of the Transconductance Amplifier For Frequency Domain Sampling Receiver
Pradeep Kotte Prakasam	Sebastian Hoyos	May 2009	Joint Synchronization and Calibration of Multi-Channel Transform-Domain Charge Sampling Receivers
Mandar Kulkarni	Sebastian Hoyos	December 2008	Implementation of a 1GHz Front-End Using Transform Domain Charge Sampling Techniques
Vikram Sekar	Kamran Entesari	December 2008	Novel RF mems tunable filters with adjustable spurious suppression
Praveena Kode	Jose Silva-Martinez	August 2008	Design techniques for high intermediate frequency bandpass (sigma/delta) modulator
Ahmad Tavakoli	Kamran Entesari	December 2007	Fully integrated cmos phase shifter/vco for mimo/ism application
Evan Lee Eschenko	Kamran Entesari	December 2007	A low power prescaler, phase frequency detector, and charge pump for a 12 GHz frequency synthesizer
Marvin Onabajo	Jose Silva-Martinez	December 2007	Design methodologies for built-in testing of integrated RF transceivers with the on-chip loopback technique
Richard Kamprath	Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2007	Impedance matching techniques for ethernet communication systems
Amit Kumar Gupta	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	December 2006	Design techniques for low noise and high speed A/D converters
Oluwafemi Ibukunoluwa Adeyemi	Aydin Karsilayan	December 2006	The design of GaAs HEMT and HBT Bessel-type transimpedance amplifiers
Manisha Ghambir	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio / Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	Low power architecture and circuit techniques for high boost wideband Gm-C filters
Rangakrishna Srinivasan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio / Jose Silva-Martinez	May 2006	Design and implementation of a frequency synthesizer for an IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Transceiver
Sivakumar Ganesan	Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio /José Silva-Martínez	May 2006	Highly linear low noise amplifier
Choong Hoon Lee	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2006	Design of high speed low voltage data converters for UWB communication systems
Lin Chen	José Silva-Martínez	May 2006	A low power, high dynamic-range, broadband variable gain amplifier for an ultra wideband receiver
Radhika Venkatasubramanian	José Silva-Martínez	December 2005	High frequency continuous-time circuits and built-in-self-test using CMOS RMS detector
Robert Milliken	Jose Silva-Martinez / Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio	December 2005	A capacitor-less Low Dropout Voltage Regulator with fast transient response
Abraham Islas Ohlmaier	José Silva-Martínez	December 2005	Design of programmable, low power, low dropout voltage regulators for portable applications
Nikolaos Stefanou	Sameer Sonkusale	May 2005	A 1Gsample/s 6-bit flash A/D converter with a combined chopping and averaging technique for reduced distortion in 0.18um CMOS
Sivasankari Krishnanji	Aydin Karsilayan	August 2005	Design of a Variable Gain Amplifier for an Ultra Wideband Receiver
Feyza Berber	Aydin Karsilayan	August 2005	CMOS temperature sensor utilizing interface-trap charge pumping
Julio Ayala	Takis Zourntos/Steven Wright	August 2005	A 200-MHz Fully-Differential CMOS Front-End with an On-Chip Inductor for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Youngbok Kim	Sameer Sonkusale	August 2005	Front-end Circuits for Chemical And Molecular Sensing
Arun Ramachandran	Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio	May 2005	Nonlinearity and Noise Modeling of Operational Transconductance Amplifiers for Continuous Time Analog Filters
Jun He	Takis Zourntos	May 2005	A Prototype of A New Class of  Oversampling ADC
Guang Zhang	José Silva-Martínez	May 2005	CMOS Front-end Amplifier for Broadband DTV Tuner
Pushkar Sharma	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2005	Design of A 3.1-4.8 GHz RF Front-end for An  Ultra Wideband Receiver
Augustin Jinwoo Hong	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2005	Self-calibrating random access logarithmic pixel for on chip camera
Sanghoon Park	Aydin Karsilayan	August 2004	Design of Compact Frequency Synthesizer for Self-Calibration in RF Circuits
Sanjay Tumati	José Silva-Martínez	December 2004	Design of large time constant switched-capacitor filters for biomedical applications
Xuemei Liu	José Silva-Martínez	December 2004	Design of a 125 MHz Tunable Continuous-time Bandpass Modulator for Wireless IF Applications
Wenjian Yan	José Silva-Martínez	August 2004	A wideband frequency synthesizer for built-in self testing of analog integrated circuits
Mellachervu Ramachandra Murthy	José Silva-Martínez	August 2004	Low voltage vertical recording preamplifier for hard disk drives
Chinmaya Mishra	Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio	August 2004	Design and Implementation of Low Power Multistage Amplifiers and High Frequency Distributed Amplifiers
Sung-Ling Huang	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2004	Automatic tuning for linearly tunable filter
Pankaj Pandey	José Silva-Martínez	May 2003	A CMOS 500 MHz Continuous-Time Fourth Order 0.05 Equiripple Linear Phase Filter With Automatic Tuning
Narayan Prasad Ramachandran	Aydin Karsilayan	May 2003	Design of a 3.3 V Analog Video Line Driver with Controlled Output Impedance
George Thomas	José Silva-Martínez	May 2003	A Switched Capacitor, Fourth-Order Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator for 20MHz IF Digitization
Jozef Adut	José Silva-Martínez	December 2002	A Narrow-Band High-Speed Switched-Capacitor Sixth Order Bandpass Ladder Filter
Marcia Mendez-Rivera	José Silva-Martínez	December 2002	On Chip Spectrum/Vector Analyzer for Built-In Testing of Analog Integrated Circuits
Chaitanya K. Chava	José Silva-Martínez	December 2002	Stability Issues in IC Low Drop Out Voltage Regulators
Adriana Becker-Gómez	Ugur Cilingiroglu	May 2002	Charge Pumping Techniques in Ultra-Low-Current Transconductor Design.
Jinki Park	José Silva-Martínez	May 2002	Design of A Fast-Settling OTA for High Frequency Switched-Capacitor Applications
Siang Tong Tan	José Silva-Martínez	December 2001	A Very High-Frequency Variable gain Amplifier
Praveen Kallam	Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio	December 2001	Design of a High Frequency Continuous-Time filter and an Automatic Tuning Schem
Bharath Kumar Thandri	José Silva-Martínez	December 2001	20 MHz if Bandpass Switched Capacitor Modulator Using a High Performance OTS with NCFF Compensation Scheme
Kenton Todd Veeder	Ugur Cilingiroglu	August 2001	Analog Applications of Interface-Trap Charge Pumps
Asit Shankar	José Silva-Martínez	August 2001	Low Voltage Amplifier Architecture for High-Frequency Switched-Capacitor Circuits
Reza Sharifi	Ugur Cilingiroglu	May 2001	Interface-Trap Charge-Pump Temperature Sensor.
Anand Veeravali	Edgar Sánchez- Sinencio	May2001	Transconductance Amplifier Structures With Very Small Transconductance A Comparative Design Approach
Luthuli Edem Dake	Ugur Cilingiroglu	December 2000	Analog Rank-Order Filter Using Multiple-Winners-Take-All.
Siew Kuok Hoon	Ugur Cilingiroglu	August 2000	Threshold Voltage Extraction Circuit