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Michiel Pertijs will present at ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Virtual Educationals
- Friday, 4 September 2020
Michiel will contribute to the upcoming ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Virtual Educational events (see https://www.esscirc-essderc2020.org/educationals). He will give an invited talk in the Workshop on Emerging Solutions for Imaging Devices, Circuits and Systems. In his talk, Michiel will show how integrated circuits play an enabling role for the next generation of smart ultrasound devices. The ESSCIRC/ESSDERC Virtual Educational events are available online between Sept. 7 and Oct. 16, with a live sessions on Sept. 14 and 15.
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Best student paper award VLSI Symposium for PhD Efraïm Eland
- Wednesday, 12 August 2020
At the 2020 VLSI Symposium, Efraïm Eland got selected for the 2020 Best Student Paper Award! He will receive the award at the 2021 VLSI Symposium in Kyoto, Japan. The award was for the design of a high dynamic range zoom ADC for audio applications with state-of-the-art energy-efficiency in audio ADCs. Shoubhik Karmakar, Burak Gönen, Robert van Veldhoven and Kofi Makinwa were co-authors, and the work was done in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors. The resulting paper can be found here.
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SSCS WYE Webinar
- Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Webinar: To Academia, or to Industry, That is the Question. Presented by: Kofi Makinwa and Shin-Lien Lu
Abstract:
You are about to finish graduate school or perhaps a young or seasoned professional, contemplating a career transition. Which is better - a career in academia or industry? What are the pros and cons of one versus the other? How can you start exploring and build up your career accordingly? In this webinar, we will interview Dr. Linus Lu, a professor-turned-industry veteran, and Prof. Kofi Makinwa, an industry veteran-turned-professor, who will share their insights and perspectives from their personal journeys in both academia and industry careers. They will also address what triggered their transitions, how they staged their transitions, and offer their crystal ball projections on present and future career prospects in the solid-state-circuits profession. More ...
Burak gets Predoctoral Achievement Award
- Friday, 21 December 2018
The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Awards Committee has granted Burak Gönen a Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2018-19. For a small number of promising graduate students, the award provides a $1000 honorarium and reimbursement for travel expenses to ISSCC, the Society's flagship conference. Awards are made on the basis of academic record and promise, quality of publications, and a graduate study program well matched to the charter of SSCS.
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Prof. dr. Makinwa installed as KNAW member
- Monday, 24 September 2018
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On 17 September 2018 Prof. Kofi Makinwa was inaugurated as KNAW (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Member. KNAW Members are selected for their scientific and scholarly achievements. The 21 new Dutch KNEW Members were installed during a festive ceremony at the The Amsterdam Public Library, central branche.
Professor Kofi Makinwa builds sensors based on chip technology. One of his achievements is a wind sensor without moving parts. Sensors form the connection between the real world and computers. ‘My field involves designing smart sensors: microchips that combine sensors and signal processing,’ explains the TU Delft Professor of Microelectronics. ‘I build chips that can ‘feel’ their environment, as it were, that can process this information and subsequently transfer it to a computer, all in one. Chip technology means that we can produce them very cheaply. Tyre pressure sensors in cars are one example of such a sensor. They measure the pressure in a rotating tyre and communicate the information wirelessly to the dashboard. Or the temperature sensors that can be found everywhere nowadays: in your smartphone, your car, your household appliances. Sensors that I developed at TU Delft are now in production at companies including SiTime, AMS and NXP, and are being used in Apple’s latest gadgets, for example’. Students appreciate Makinwa's enthusiasm and involvement. Thanks to Makinwa's contacts with the industry, they can often convert their designs into real prototypes. Makinwa was previously a member of the Young Academy of the KNAW and invented a cheap weather station for developing countries.
Kofi @Plantenna
- Monday, 7 May 2018
Plantenna - Botanic sensor networks, towards an Internet Of Plants
The Plantenna programme focuses on the heavily intertwined problems of climate change, pollution and food shortages. In view of the growing world population and increasing urbanisation, these are issues that are set to intensify. A key component of the project will be the development of sensor technology that will collect information within plants about the condition of the crop and its immediate environment. By linking together plants equipped with this technology in networks – an ‘internet of plants’ – the information collected can be used to monitor the climate and weather and increase crop yields through more efficient fertilisation and irrigation. Kofi Makinwa is one of the researchers involved in Plantenna project.
KNAW chooses Kofi Makinwa
- Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prof. Dr. Kofi Makinwa, Professor Electronic Instrumentation and chair of the Micro Electronic department to the faculty of EEMCS, is selected as a new member of The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Members of the KNAW, leading scientists from all disciplines, are chosen on their scientific achievements. The new academy members will be installed in September.
Professor Kofi Makinwa builds sensors based on chip technology. One of his achievements is a wind sensor without moving parts. Sensors form the connection between the real world and computers. ‘My field involves designing smart sensors: microchips that combine sensors and signal processing,’ explains the TU Delft Professor of Microelectronics. ‘I build chips that can ‘feel’ their environment, as it were, that can process this information and subsequently transfer it to a computer, all in one. Chip technology means that we can produce them very cheaply. Tyre pressure sensors in cars are one example of such a sensor. They measure the pressure in a rotating tyre and communicate the information wirelessly to the dashboard. Or the temperature sensors that can be found everywhere nowadays: in your smartphone, your car, your household appliances. Sensors that I developed at TU Delft are now in production at companies including SiTime, AMS and NXP, and are being used in Apple’s latest gadgets, for example’. Students appreciate Makinwa's enthusiasm and involvement. Thanks to Makinwa's contacts with the industry, they can often convert their designs into real prototypes. Makinwa was previously a member of the Young Academy of the KNAW and invented a cheap weather station for developing countries.
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Kofi nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2017!
- Friday, 13 October 2017
Kofi was one of 6 candidates nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2017! See the short film about his project at: https://www.npo3.nl/genomineerd-voor-de-huibregtsenprijs-2017-kofi-makinwa/06-10-2017/WO_NTR_11137372
Ten papers from TU Delft at the 2018 Chip Olympics
- Friday, 13 October 2017
Ten papers from the TU Delft were accepted for publication at the 2018 chip Olympics - the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
ESSCIRC 2016 Best Paper Award
- Thursday, 14 September 2017
On 14th September 2017, Ph.D. student Junfeng Jiang has won the ESSCIRC 2016 Best Paper Award for his paper "A Hybrid Multi-Path CMOS Magnetic Sensor With 76 ppm/°C Sensitivity Drift". Junfeng works in Kofi Makinwa's group at the Electronic Instrumentation Lab on wide bandwidth magnetic sensors for current measurements.
Best student paper award VLSI Symposium for PhD Bahman Yousefzadeh
- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
At the 2017 VLSI Symposium, Bahman Yousefzadeh received the 2016 best student paper award! The award was for the design of a CMOS temperature sensor with record-breaking inaccuracy of less than +/-0.06 °C over a wide temperature range (-70 °C to 125 °C). Saleh Heidary and Kofi Makinwa were co-authors, and the work was done in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors. The resulting journal paper can be found in the here.
EI Lab hosted the 2nd Chip Design Workshop
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017
EI Lab hosted the 2nd Chip Design Workshop organized by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Benelux Chapter on 23 May 2017. The event was attended by 29 SSCS Benelux Chapter members. The purpose of the workshop was twofold: it brought together the Benelux SSCS members around their common passion for IC design, and the winners of the 2016–2017 Student Chip Design Contest were awarded their prizes. The workshop was opened by Prof. Kofi Makinwa’s welcome. Prof. Filip Tavernier of KU Leuven, representing SSCS Benelux Chapter, then gave a short presentation about the purpose of the workshop and gave the awards to the winners: Burak Gönen (TU Delft), Bert Moons (KU Leuven) and Nicholas Butse (KU Leuven). The winners then gave short talks on the topics of their works including a wide range of applications: ADCs, digital processors, and power converters. These talks were followed by two invited speakers from TU Delft. Klaas Bult’s talk “Design mistakes you’d rather not talk about” summarized the common design mistakes he faced as an expert in the industry. Prof. Fabio Sebastiano’s talk “Cryo-CMOS for Quantum Computing” was on the challenges and the IC design research for quantum computing at TU Delft. The workshop was concluded with a reception where all the attendees found a chance to meet in person.
Having fun at AACD 2017 in Eindhoven
- Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Four papers at VLSI 2017!
- Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Members of the EI lab will present four papers at the 2017 VLSI Circuits Symposium in Kyoto, Japan! The papers are about multi-function sensor interfaces, resistor-based temperature sensors, eddy-current displacement sensors and precision amplifiers, respectively.
Kofi is the Analog Subcom Chair of ISSCC!
- Tuesday, 21 March 2017
The ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference) is the premier forum for presenting advances in integrated circuit design
Burak wins 1st prize in the SSCS Benelux Chapter's Student Chip Design Contest!
- Thursday, 23 February 2017
Burak Gonen won 1st prize in the Student Chip Design Competition organized by the Benelux Chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He received the award for the design of "A Dynamic Zoom ADC with 109-dB DR for Audio Applications." The ADC, developed in collaboration with NXP, achieves state-ot-the-art performance in terms of both its area and energy efficiency.
To recognize the excellence and to promote chip design in Benelux region, the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society Benelux Chapter organized a chip design contest for students. The Award includes 750€ as well as a travel grant up to 1000€ for Advances in Analog Circuit Design Workshop (AACD) or European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). The awards will be given in a workshop at TU Delft in spring 2017 together with the award winners' presentations and other technical talks about chip design research in TU Delft.
Kofi's VLSIx webinar on Smart Sensor Design is now on-line!
- Friday, 16 December 2016
Kofi's VLSIx webinar on Smart Sensor Design is now on-line!
http://resourcecenter.sscs.ieee.org/sscs/product/vlsix/SSCSVLSI0031
Kofi's earlier ISSCC tutorials are also available on the SSCS site. Topics covered are:
- Smart Sensor Design in Standard CMOS (2010): http://resourcecenter.sscs.ieee.org/sscs/product/short-courses-tutorials/SSCSTUT0092
- Dynamic offset-cancellation techniques (2007): http://resourcecenter.sscs.ieee.org/sscs/product/short-courses-tutorials/SSCSTUT0503
- CMOS Temperature sensors (2008): http://resourcecenter.sscs.ieee.org/sscs/product/short-courses-tutorials/SSCSTUT2060
Kofi visits the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Monday, 5 December 2016
Kofi, Shanthi (Pavan) and the attendees of his "Smart Sensor Design" class at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Six talks at ISSCC 2017!
- Monday, 24 October 2016
Lab members will be responsible for 6 talks at ISSCC 2017! Hui, Sining, Vikram and Bahman will be presenting regular papers (on bridge readout, resistor-based temperature sensors, eddy-current sensors and BJT-based temperature sensors, respectively), Fabio contributed to a paper about Cryo-CMOS, while Kofi has an invited talk on micropower ADCs.
Kofi and Said visit Cypress Semiconductor (Cork)
- Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Kofi and Said visit Cypress Semiconductor (Cork) From left to right, Dermot, Paul, Said and Kofi at the kick-off meeting of Said's MSc project (on the design of a nanopower capacitive sensor).
4 papers at VLSI
- Wednesday, 1 June 2016
PhD candidates Bahman and Saleh presented a 60mK-accurate temperature sensor and a 36A integrated current sensing system, respectively, while Kristof (now at NXP) presented an energy-efficient SoC in which a microprocessor and its memory are stacked and so share the same supply current. Chao presented a front-end ASIC with receive sub-array beamforming integrated with a 32 × 32 PZT matrix transducer for 3-D transesophageal echocardiography.
A snowy visit to AACD 2016
- Friday, 1 April 2016
A snowy visit to AACD 2016
3 papers at VLSI 2015!
- Tuesday, 1 March 2016
PhD candidates Bahman and Saleh will be presenting a 60mK-accurate temperature sensor and a 36A integrated current sensing system, respectively, while Kristof (now at NXP) will be presenting an energy-efficient SoC in which a microprocessor and its memory are stacked and so share the same supply current.
Burak wins ICT.OPEN2016 and ProRISC best poster award
- Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Burak wins the best poster award of both ICT.OPEN2016 and ProRISC track. The title of the poster is "An Energy Efficient Dynamic Zoom-ADC for Audio Applications".
Bahman wins Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award
- Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Bahman Yousefzadeh has won the 2015 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award. The award consists of a travel grant that partially covers the costs of attending ISSCC.
Saleh wins IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award!
- Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Saleh Shalmany has won the prestigious IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award! Given to promising graduate students, the award mainly consists of a fully sponsored trip to ISSCC.
Caspar gets his PhD
- Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Caspar gets his PhD
Wouter wins a best presentation award from IECON 2015
- Sunday, 1 November 2015
Wouter Brevet presented a paper about a smart wind sensor at IECON2015 in Yokohama, Japan. The paper, entitled "A 25mW Smart CMOS Wind Sensor with Corner Heaters," received a Best Presentation award.
Junfeng awarded an ASSCC travel grant
- Sunday, 1 November 2015
Junfeng Jiang was awarded a Student Travel Grant for ASSCC 2015. At the conference, he presented a paper entitled “A Multi-Path CMOS Hall Sensor with Integrated Ripple Reduction Loops.”
Seven talks at ISSCC 2016!
- Thursday, 1 October 2015
Lab members will be presenting 7 talks at ISSCC 2016! PhD candidates Junfeng, Ugur and Burak have regular papers (on wide-band magnetic sensors, tiny temperature sensors and energy-efficient ADCs), while Fabio, Kofi and Albert have invited talks (on frequency references, calibration techniques, temperature sensors and image sensors).
Fabio Sebastiano is now an Assistant Professor!
- Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Fabio Sebastiano is now an Assistant Professor!
Burak wins ProRISC best poster award
- Sunday, 1 March 2015
Burak wins ProRISC best poster award.
Rui presents the world's smallest smart temperature sensor at ISSCC 2016.
- Sunday, 1 February 2015
Rui presents the world's smallest smart temperature sensor at ISSCC 2016. Watch here Rui's presentation.
Jan wins Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award
- Monday, 1 December 2014
Jan Angevare has won the 2014 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award. The award consists of a travel grant that partially covers the costs of attending ISSCC.
Jiawei Xu wins the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award 2014-2015!
- Monday, 1 December 2014
Jiawei Xu has won the prestigious IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award 2014-2015! Given to promising graduate students, the award essentially consists of a free trip to ISSCC 2015.
Ugur at the STW congress demonstrating his TD sensors
- Wednesday, 1 October 2014
During the STW annual congress, Ugur Sonmez demonstrated the world's smallest TD sensor (8000um2) to attendees. Details about the sensor were presented at ESSCIRC 2015.
Ugur wins Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award
- Sunday, 1 December 2013
Ugur Sonmez has won the 2013 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award. The award consists of a travel grant that partially covers the costs of attending ISSCC.
Qinwen gets her PhD
- Sunday, 1 December 2013
Qinwen gets her PhD
Muhammed gets his PhD
- Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Muhammed gets his PhD
Muhammed wins JSSC Best Paper Award
- Friday, 1 February 2013
Muhammed Bolatkale, Robert Rutten, Lucien Breems and Kofi Makinwa have won the 2011 Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) best paper award for a paper describing a high-speed continuous-time delta-sigma ADC with a record-breaking bandwidth of 125MHz. The JSSC is the world's foremost journal in the area of integrated circuit design.
Kofi recognized as an ISSCC Top Ten Author
- Friday, 1 February 2013
At the 60th anniversary of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Kofi Makinwa was recognized as one of its top ten contributing authors. The ISSCC is the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.
Kamran wins SSCS Predoctoral Award
- Saturday, 1 December 2012
Kamran Souri has won the The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award 2012-2013! Given to promising graduate students, the award essentially consists of a free trip to ISSCC 2013.
TU Delft wins Gold at the Chip Olympics
- Saturday, 1 December 2012
With 12 regular papers and 1 invited talk, the TU Delft is the top contributor to this year's International Solid-State Circuits conference - popularly known as the chip Olympics. The Precision Analog Group contributed four of these papers.
Muhammed wins ISSCC Best European Paper Award
- Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Muhammed Bolatkale, Robert Rutten, Lucien Breems and Kofi Makinwa have won the ISSCC 2011 Jan van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper for their work on a high-speed continuous-time delta-sigma ADC in a 45nm CMOS process. The ADC has a bandwidth of 125MHz and operates at a 4GHz sampling frequency. The ISSCC is the world's leading conference on the design of integrated circuits.
Kofi's group in 2012
- Sunday, 1 January 2012
Youngcheol gets a VENI grant
- Friday, 1 July 2011
Youngcheol Chae has been awarded a VENI grant by NWO. The Veni grant is awarded to excellent post-doctoral researchers to allow them to develop their ideas for a further three years.
Caspar wins Transducers Best Paper Award
- Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Caspar van Vroonhoven and Kofi Makinwa have won a best paper at Transducers 2011 for their work on a temperature sensor based on the well-defined thermal diffusivity of silicon. The sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.6°C over a wide-range (-70°C TO 170°C). Transducers is the world's largest conference on microsensors, microactuators and microsystems.
Caspar demos at ISSCC 2011
- Tuesday, 1 February 2011
At ISSCC 2011, Caspar van Vroonhoven demonstrated a 250°C-capable temperature sensor based on the relative thermal diffusivities of silicon and silicon dioxide.
Kofi becomes an ISSCC Fellow
- Saturday, 1 January 2011
Kofi Makinwa has become a fellow of the IEEE "for the development of precision analog circuits and integrated sensor systems. IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and information technologies and sciences"
Mahdi wins ESSCIRC Young Scientist Award
- Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Mahdi Kashmiri and Kofi Makinwa have won the Young Scientist Award of the 35th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2009) for their work on a digitally-assisted electrothermal frequency-locked loop. This is the first fully integrated implementation of such a loop, which locks the output frequency of an on-chip oscillator to the thermal diffusivity, i.e. the rate of heat diffusion, of bulk silicon. Since bulk silicon is very pure, the spread of the loop's output frequency is less than 1000ppm after a single room-temperature trim.
Kofi gives his inaugural lecture
- Thursday, 1 April 2010
Kofi Makinwa gave his inaugural lecture: Sensing the future. This lecture can be seen here
Seven for ISSCC
- Monday, 1 February 2010
Seven for ISSCC! Research carried out under the supervision of Prof. Kofi Makinwa and in collaboration with NXP and the University of Twente, has led to seven papers at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The papers describe advances in temperature sensors, frequency references, voltage references, precision amplifiers and ultra-low-power radios.
Kofi appointed Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor
- Sunday, 1 March 2009
TU Delft has appointed Dr. Kofi Makinwa to the post of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor. TU Delft's Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs are aimed at promoting young, excellent scientists to professorships at an early age so that they can develop their scientific careers to the full.
Caspar wins ISSCC Best European Paper Award
- Sunday, 1 February 2009
Caspar van Vroonhoven and Kofi Makinwa have won the ISSCC Jan van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper for their work on a new smart sensor which measures the temperature of microchips precisely on the basis of heat diffusion in silicon. The sensor provides a solution for heat management in microprocessors, a function which has become increasingly important thanks to the miniaturisation of the past few years. They previously won an IEEE Sensors 2008 Best Student Paper Award for a similar sensor. The ISSCC is the world's leading conference on the design of integrated circuits.