Specialization profile--RF/Analog Circuit Design

This profile has two focus points:

1. LAnalog circuit design concentrating on low-power, low voltage amplifier and AD converter design for sensor interface electronics.
2. RF Circuit design concentrating on circuit design and optimization for RF.

Suggested courses

EE4525	Analog CMOS design II		3 EC		details
EE4600	Wireless Concepts and Systems		5 EC		details
EE4605	Integrated Circuits and Systems for Wireless Applications		5 EC		details
EE4615	Digital IC Design II		3 EC		details
ET4252	Analog integrated circuit design		4 EC		details
ET4278	Over-sampled data converters		4 EC		details
ET4369	Nyquist-rate data converters		4 EC		details
ET4371	Advanced Wireless Transceivers		4 EC		details

MSc project proposals

Some examples of thesis topics (this list is not exhaustive):

BE	[2021] Body Coupled Communication for Microscale Implants
	[2020] Body-coupled communication to enhance IMD security
	[2023] Project 1 at Nexperia: Battery Life Conscious Energy Harvesting Energy
	[2023] Project 4 at Nexperia: Wide supply range Level Shifter for Energy Harvesting Systems
	[2023] Project 2 at Nexperia: MIMO Capacitive Power Converter
	[2023] Project 3 at Nexperia: Project 3: Implementation of a MPPT Analog Signal Processing Block
	[2023] Project 5 at Nexperia: Fully Integrated Multi Ratio Capacitive Power Converter
	[2023] Project 6 at Nexperia: Adaptive Capacitive Power Converter for On Board Supply
	[2021] Network of individually addressable ultrasonically powered implants
	[2023] Project 7 at Nexperia: Fully integrated DC-DC Converter for energy harvesting
ECTM	RF spectroscopy sensing array for tissue barrier monitoring
	Advanced Class-D audio amplifier
	High efficiency next generation PV micro-inverters
	All-around precision amplifiers
	Low-power DC-DC converters for energy harvesting with smart maximum power point tracking
	Next generation motor drivers
EI	High-speed (RF) chopping (NXP)
	RF Digital-to-analog Converters (NXP)
	Broadband analog delay filter and amplifier (NXP)
	Low-latency Interleaved SAR ADC (NXP)
	Broadband sigma-delta modulation (NXP)
	Broadband frequency dependent calibration (NXP)
	[2023] A Programmable High-Voltage Pulser for Miniature Ultrasound Probes
	[2023] A Compact Noise-Shaping SAR ADC for Smart Ultrasound Probes
	[2023] A compact ultrasound low-noise amplifier with built-in time-gain compensation
	[2023] Power management circuitry for battery-powered ultrasound patches
	[2023] A transceiver ASIC for a wearable ultrasound patch
	[2023] Data reduction by mixed-signal processing of ultrasound echo signals for wearable ultrasound devices
	[2023-24] GaN Accelerometers for Space Exploration
ELCA	[2023] Build your own Mini-ChatGPT on Jetson Nano
	[2023] Neuromorphic Real-Time Audio Denoiser
	[2022] Wake-Up Receiver for Low-Power Internet of Things Applications
	[2022] A Low-Power Sub-GHz WiFi Receiver
	[2022] Charge-Sampling Fractional-N PLL (SiTime)
	[2022] Design of a Cryogenic Isolator and MUX for Quantum Computers
	[2022] Low-Phase-Noise VCO for Sub-10fs-Jitter PLL (SiTime)
	[2022] a Reference-less Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) Block for Wireline Applications

Thesis examples

BE	2021	Berend Koele	Integrating Ultrasound Neuromodulation and Imaging. A System Concept for a Non-Invasive Image-Guided Vagus Nerve Stimulator
		Aitor del Rivero Cortázar	Microelectronic design of a pseudo voltage clamp for a 0.18um CMOS-based mesoscale neural interface for intracellular in-vitro recording and stimulation
		Joey van Rijn	Near-Realtime Low Power Epileptic Seizure Detection Using ANNs
		Olmar van Beurden	Illuminance Calculation Algorithm and Hardware for Simultaneous Sensing and Energy Harvesting Using Solar Cell Harvester at Maximum Power Point
		Ishaan Ghosh	CMOS driving channel for ultrasonic neurovascular stent
		Joram van der Velden	SINGLE-CHANNEL HETEROGENEOUS-SOURCE ENERGY HARVESTING PMIC DESIGN
		Xinyu Yang	Ultrasound Transmitter for Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation
		Emmanouil (Manos) Kandilakis	Ultra-Low Energy Time-Mode ADC with Background Calibration for Biomedical Sensing Applications
	2020	Francesc Varkevisser	A Charge Controlled Switched-Voltage Mode Neurostimulator
		Shuang Wang	An ultrasound receiver channel for vagus nerve imaging
		Asli Yelkenci	A 16-Channel CMOS Reconfigurable Recording Unit for Simultaneous In-Vitro Microelectrode Array and Current-Clamp Measurements
		Shengjie Chen	A 3-by-3 400-MHz LC microsensor array for wireless capacitive biosensing
		Gayatri Agarwal	PVT Tolerant Transconductor for Low-Voltage Highly-Selective High-Frequency Filter of MRI Front-end Receiver
		Pedro Gaizka Zufiria Gerboles	An Efficacious and Safe Multichannel Neurostimulator Powered by an Ultrasonic Wireless Link
		Alberto Gancedo Reguilon	Design and Analysis of a General Purpose Biosignal Acquisition System
	2019	Anirudh Kumar Parag	ENMOS - Energy Module for Self-Sustainable Wearable Sensors
		Aurojyoti Das	Multichannel LC ADC to Record Atrial Electrograms
		Yashwanth Sai Reddy Vyza	Capacitive Microelectrode Arrays for In-Vitro Analysis of Neural Activity
		Luc van Wietmarschen	Energy harvesting on the human body -- Hybrid charge pump design for cold start compatibility and high efficiency harvesting with minimal footprint
		Marc Bisschop	Resistive Matching using an AC Boost Converter for Efficient Ultrasonic Wireless Power Transfer
		Koen Emmer	Analysing the performance of KHFAC nerve block stimulation parameters
	2018	Gerard Baquer Gómez	Optimal stimulation waveform for efficacious high-frequency block of the pudendal nerve with minimized electrochemical damage: A computer simulation optimization approach
		Dieuwert Mul	Stochastic Resonance Analog-to-Digital Conversion -- 1-Bit Signal Acquisition Employing Noise
		Tim Steunebrink	Low-power low-cost readout electronics for inductive vital-sign measurements
		Ali Kaichouhi	IQ Offset and Gain Mismatch Compensation for Phase-Domain ADC
	2017	Lichao Wu	Design of a Pipeline Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) Suitable for Transducer Array Channel Multiplexing
		Ernesto Gonzales Huaman	A Low-Complexitry CMOS Receiver for UWB Signals
		Hongming Yu	Structured Design of an External NMOS based Linear Voltage Regulator for Automotive Applications
	2016	Yang Jiang	8uW to 1mW Input Power Management IC Design for RF Energy Harvester
		Yao Li	A 0.6V Low Noise Current Generator for Bio-Impedance Measurements in 40nm CMOS
		Qiuyang Lin	A 0.6V, 1 uW, Low-Power Low-Noise Instrumentation Amplifier for ECG/BioZ measurement in 40nm CMOS
		Samprajani Rout	Structured Electronic Design of High-Pass ∆Σ Converters and their application to cardiac signal acquisition
		Ide Swager	Passive Wireless ECoG Monitoring on Multiple Subjects
		Matthijs Weskin	A compact multi-electrode system to measure in vivo electrical activity in the olivocerebellar system -- measuring sub-threshold oscillations and action potentials spatially and over time
	2014	Menno Vastenholt	A Sub-GHz UWB Correlation Receiver for Wireless Biomedical Communication
	2010	Mark Stoopman	A Sub-GHz UWB Pulse Generator for Wireless Biomedical Communication
	2009	Y. Shamsa	LC Ladder Based Orthonormal Filter for Impulse-Radio UWB Pulse Generation.
		M.A. Grashuis	A fully differential switched capacitor wavelet filter
		S. Wang	A 10-bit 25Msps Pipeline ADC for Companding Baseband Processing in Wireless Application
EI	2022	Yu-Chieh Tai	On-chip Temperature Compensation with a Reference Voltage Method for CMOS Image Sensors
	2014	Luis Edoardo Rueda Guerrero	An Algorithmic Readout Approach for Thermal Conductivity Based CO2 Sensors
		Yuming He	Capacitive Sensor Interface Using an Inverter-Based Period Modulator
ELCA	2023	Erwin Allebes	A Doherty-Like Class-G HoC SCPA With Deep Power Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement
	2022	Jiang Liu	An Energy-Efficient High-Speed Full-Duplex IR-UWB Transceiver For Joint Radar and Communication (RadCom)
		Pieter van der Kamp	Reciprocal mixing and inherent nonlinearity in N-path filters
	2021	Praneetha Sannidhanam	A novel frequency-tracking loop based on sub-Nyquist samplers for a wide locking range and fast locking
		Haris charalampidis	A HIGH EFFICIENCY SWITCHED-CAPACITOR POWER AMPLIFIER WITH REAL-TIME CALIBRATION FOR HARMONIC SUPPRESSION
	2020	Madhumitha Jayavel	Design and implementation of a Low Power Mixer-first Receiver for IEEE 802.11ah standard
		Bagas Prabowo	Characterization and Design of a Cryogenic CMOS Receiver for Superconducting and Spin Qubit Readout
		Anil Kumar Kumaran	A Linear and Efficient Power Amplifier for WiFi
		Jun Feng	A 10 Gbps Wireline Transceiver Link To Interface
	2019	Armin Šabanović	Low-SNR Operation of FSK Demodulators
		Charlotte Treffers	Design of a wideband low-power low noise transconductance amplifier for sub-GHz IoT applications
		Sarthak Sharma	Design of Wide Range Injection Locked Bang-Bang Phase Locked Loop for Dielectric Spectroscopy
	2018	Sunil Sheelavant	Design of Frequency locked loop and Receiver front-end for Burst-Chirp UWB Radar Transceiver for Vital Signs and Occupancy Sensing by monitoring the respiration and heartbeat rate
		Amitava Giri	Energy Efficient Wideband Transmitter for Millimeter-Wave 5G System
		Shubham Vyas	Uncertainty Estimation in Vision-Aided Robot Teleoperation System
	2017	Xiao Wang	An IR-UWB pulse generator based on switched capacitors RF-DAC
		Anand Ramesh	High Efficiency Power Amplifiers for 77GHz Automative RADARs
		Jiang Gong	Analysis and Design of a Ring-Oscillator-Based Fractional-N Injection-Locked Digital PLL for IoT Applications
		Pengqi Chen	Distributed Algorithms Design for Zebro Swarming
		Hongming Yu	Structured design of an external NMOS based linear voltage regulator for automotive applications
		Michael Polushkin	A Wideband Frequency-Agile Phase Modulator for Digital Polar Transmitters
	2016	Bishnu Patra	Cryogenic frequency generationfor scalable control and read-out of qubits
		Lei Chen	High Efficiency IQ-sharing Transmitter
		Vijaya Purushothaman	An Ultra-low power Direct Frequency Demodulator for Bluetooth Smart applications
	2015	J.M.M. van der Meulen	Linearity Analysis and Enhancement Techniques for the Base-Collector Capacitance Dominated Distortion in Bipolar Amplifiers
		Georgios Sarris	A medium power 135 GHz power amplifier
	2014	Yuan Gao	Design of a Duty-Cycled Fractional-N ADPLL Based on Instantaneous Start-up LC DCO and High-precision DTCs
		Lianbo Wu	An Ultra-Low-Power ADPLL for BLE Applications
		Alan Chen	DTC and TDC IC Design for Ultra-Low-Power ADPLL
		R.G. Venter	A Package Integratable Six Port Reflectometer for RF Power Devices
		A. Pillai	LNA and Square Law Detector at 60 GHz for Passive Radiometers
		Bindi Wang	Edge-prediction DTC and Clock-gating TDC Design for Ultra Low Power All Digital PLL
	2013	Gerasimos Vlachogiannakis	Low Power, All-Digital Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers for Multi-GHz Applications
		Satoshi Malotaux	Full-Duplex CMOS Duplexer: Passive self-interference cancellation
		Sanganagouda Patil	An Ultra-Linear LNA for Base stations
		Jianghai He	Wideband High Power Doherty Amplifiers
	2012	Yang Li	A NMOS Linear Voltage Regulator for Automotive Applications
		Santosh Astgimath	A low noise, low power dynamic amplifier with common mode detect and a low power, low noise comparator for pipelined SAR-ADC
		Md. Shakil Akter	A Low-Power Class-AB Residue Amplifier for a 12bit 500MS/sec Pipeline ADC with Digital Calibration
		Armin Tavakol	Digitally Controlled Oscillator for WiMAX in 40 nm
	2011	Ajay Kumar Manjanna	Design and development of active baseband loadpull system
		Wenlong Jiang	ADPLL Design for WiMAX
		Jing Li	Wideband High Power Amplifier Design
		S. Motoroiu	Multi-band/Multi-Mode RF Front-end Receiver for Basestation Applications
		X. Zhang	Design of a Baseband Section for LTE-Advanced Mobile Communiation
		Ao Ba	Ultra-low-power Digitally-controlled Oscillator for Event-driven Transmitter
		Popong Effendrik	Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) for WiMAX ADPLL in State-of-The-Art 40-nm CMOS
	2010	G. Mishra	An Oscillator System for a Quadrature Downconversion Auto-Correlation Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Receiver
		R. Sehgal	A 12-bit 500MS/s Pipeline Split-ADC
		K.I.M.I. Khalaf	60GHz front-end receiver chain in 90nm CMOS technology
		J. Shen	60GHz Quadrature Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Radar Application
		X. Deng	Wideband Doherty Power Amplifier Design for Base Station Application
		K. Shi	A 60W Compact Highly Efficient Wideband Class-E Power Amplifier
		Y. Wang	Wideband Class-B Power Amplifiers
		B. Wu	Highly Linear LNA Design for Base Station Applications
		R. Zhang	Design Study on the Switched and Linear Operation of Broadband CMOS Class-E Power Amplifiers
		R.F. Kearey	A high-efficiency switch-mode amplitude modulator for class E power amplifiers in nano-satellites
	2009	M.H. Sadeghi	New architecture for remote powered wireless transmitter
		A. Donmez	WideBand PLL as a clock multiplier
		L. Jiang	Signal Up-conversion for Integrated Radar Systems
	2008	J. Wan	Design of a Distributed Clock Generator for Multiple Power Domain System-on-Chip Integrated Circuits

Contact person

For more information about the research group, possible thesis topics, and suggestions for your ISP:

prof.dr. Leo de Vreede

Electronic Circuits and Architectures Group

Department of Microelectronics