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Graduate Course ECE1364S

Electronics Group

Elec. & Comp. Eng.

Univ. of Toronto


Graduate students





Lucy Wu, MASc (now at Ciena, Toronto): Monolithic mm-Wave Spin Manipulation Quantum Processor Test Vehicle

Alireza Zandieh PhD (now at Alphawave, Toronto): Front-End Circuits for Coherent Optical Systems

Greg Cooke MASc (now at Alphawave in Toronto): 100GHz Bandwidth 200GS/s ADC Front End

Tony Liu MASc (now at Qualcomm in San Diego): Active Radar Tag Arrays in 22nm FDSOI CMOS

Apurv Bharadwaj MASc (now at GlobalFoundries in Burlington, Vt, USA): Ab Initio DFT Approaches to CMOS Quantum Dot Simulation

Suyash Pati Tripathi MASc: Cryogenic Characterization and Modelling of FinFET Technology

Utku Alakusu MASc (now at Nokia in Toronto): Broadband mm-Wave Spin Readout Circuits for Si Electron-and Hole-Spin Qubit

Mecca Gong MASc (now at Semtech in Ottawa): Readout TIA Monolithically

Integrated with Quantum Dot Structures in Production 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Technology

Jashva Rafique MASc (now at AMD in Toronto) : Large-Swing DACs for

56+ GBaud Optical Modulator Applications

Shai Bonen MASc: Monolithically Integrated FDSOI CMOS Electron- and

Hole-Spin Quantum Dot Qubits and Readout Electronics for Large-Scale

Quantum Computing Processors

Naftali Weiss MASc (now at Ciena, Ottawa) DC-70GHz Quadrature Signal

Generator with 25% Duty Cycle

Peter Hermansen MASc (Now at Blue Cheetah, California): Low-power 80GS/s

6-bit SAR ADC

Robert Baker (now Lawyer in Toronto) Linear Large Swing Optical Modulator

Drivers and DACs for 100+GBaud Applications

Tianxiang Chen (now in China?) 100+ GS/s 6-bit SAR ADC Lane

Stefan Shopov (now at Marvell, California) Digital mm-wave Transmitters

Hassan Farooq (now at Intel Toronto) Metallic channel transistor

James Bateman (now at MedChart, Toronto): Metallic channel transistor

Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos (now at Analog Devices, Toronto) 100+ GS/s

ADCs Front End

James Hoffman (now at Marvell, California) 100+ Gb/s Large Swing Silicon

Photonics Transmitters

Andreea Balteanu (now at Qualcomm, California) mm-wave Power DACs

Ying Ying Fu (now CompSci at U of T): 80+ Gb/s repeater with e

qualization

Guy Alter (now at Intel, Toronto): 60-GHz low-power distance sensor

Ivan Krotnev: Metallic channel transistor (now in Silicon Valley, CA)

Ioannis Sarkas (now at Apple, California) System and Circuit Design for

mm-Wave Radio and Radar

Ricardo Aroca (now at Cisco, New Jersey) Large Swing Drivers with

Waveshape Control

Eric Dacquay (now at Apple, California) THz Detectors.

Valerio Adinolfi (now in California) 500 GHz SiGe HBT

Hicum L0 Model Extraction.

Lee Tarnow (now at Intel Toronto) Phase Frequency Detector Noise

Modelling

Alex Tomkins (now at Peraso Technologies Inc, Toronto,) W-Band Passive

and Active Circuits in 65-nm Bulk CMOS for Passive Imaging Applications

Ken Yau (now at Broadcom, California)

On the metrology of nanoscale silicon transistors above 100 GHz

Ekaterina Laskin now at Intel Toronto, Circuits for mm-wave radio and

radar transceiver front-ends

Shahriar Shahramanian (now at Nokia Bell Labs) 40-Gbs Flash ADC

Mehdi Khanpour (now at Broadcom, California) W-Band 65nm CMOS

Transceivers and Building Blocks

Adam Hart (now Professor at McGill, Faculty of Medicine) mm-Wave

Delta_Sigma ADCs

Sean Nicolson (now at Broadcom, California) 80-140GHz transceivers

for automotive radar and imaging applications

Keith Ka Wai Tang (now at Broadcom, California): Algorithmic Porting

of RF IC Building Blocks between CMOS Nodes

Tod Dickson: (now at IBM T.J. Watson Center, New York) 80-Gb/s

Transceiver Building Blocks

Theo Chalvatzis: (now at Broadcom, Athens, Greece) Tunable RF Bandpass DS Digital Receivers with mm-Wave Sampling Clocks

Terry Yao (now at Hittite, Boston Massachusetts) 60-GHz Radio

Transmitter ICs

Altan Hazneci (now in Turkey): 40Gb/s Feed Forward Equalizer

Alain Mangan: (now at Synopsis, Ottawa) mm-Wave Device

Characterization for Nano-CMOS IC Design:

Chihou Lee (now at AMD, Toronto, ON): Millimetre-Wave VCOs

Adesh Garg (now at Broadcom, California): 40-Gb/s Direct Feedback

Equalizer

Michael Gordon (now at Apple, California): 60-GHz radio receiver IC

Paul Westergaard (now medical doctor in Ottawa): 20/30Gb/s Backplane

Driver with Waveshape control







Undergraduate students



Ekaterina Laskin: 50-to-100 Gb/s PRBS generator



Shoreh Ghetmiri, Imran Hossain, Florian Lemhenyi, Felicia Hsu: mm-wave

and high-speed digital SiGe BiCMOS p-cells



Christopher Mar, Janakan Satkunasingham: 5-GHz push-push VCO



George Ng, Pearl Liu, Benjamin Lai: Programmable bandpass filters for IF

of 60-GHz Radio



Lamia Tchoketch-Kebir, Olga Yuryevich: 60-GHz Doppler Radar Transceiver



Daniel Weitzner, Saeed Jafarpour: GH-bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADC



Brian Cousins, David Alldred: 60-GHz downconverter in 90-nm CMOS

(Aloha Award)



Mehdi Khanpour, Nima Seyedfathi: 60-GHz upconverter in 90-nm CMOS



Nelson Tieu, Stephen Leung: 60-GHz tunable VCO in 90-nm CMOS



Michael Lin, Nisreen Atout: 40-GHz VCO and 1:16 divider in 90-nm CMOS



Mohamed Al Guindy, Can Yilmaz: 40 Gb/s Output Driver with Wave Shape

Control in 90-nm CMOS



Jonathan Wolfman and Michael Selvanayagam: 60-GHz single-chip

transceiver in 90-nm CMOS



Andrew Webb and Nadine Bhagwansingh: 40-Gb/s 1:8 DMUX in 90-nm CMOS



Marcus Yip: 40-GS/s Bandpass Decimator in SiGe BiCMOS



Danny Li and Kelvin Yu: 60-GHz LNA and VCO in 65-nm CMOS



Ivan Chan and Christopher Yung: 80-GHz Upconverter and VCO in 65-nm

CMOS



Ravi Shivnaraine and Lee Tarnow: 80GHz and 20 GHz CMOS DCOs



Xue Yu A 120GHz 6-bit DAC in 65nm CMOS



Rophina Li Sub 22nm CMOS device simulation and design



J. Switnicki, C. Ko, N. Hamidjaja : 150-GHz imaging array



V. Kozlov, P.Park: 1.8V logic for 110-Gb/s PRBS generator design in a

SiGe BiCMOS process



Hasan Al-Rubaye and Adam Moustafa: W-Band passive imaging pixel



Bo Qu, Jiaming Zi, Sicong Zhang 50-Gb/s PRBS Generator in standard

SOI CMOS Logic



Kai Yang: Simulation of the HF perfomance scaling on nanoscale FiNFETs



J. Qian and J. Yu: 110-120 GHz Colpitts-Clapp VCO



Eric Yang and Saswat Pradhan: DC-65 GHz IQ Generator



Tom Moiannou and Arvid Ramdeane: 50Gb/s PRBS Generator



Xuxi Liu: p-Channel Tunnel FET Simulation and Scaling to 10nm



Alice Ye: n-Channel Tunnel FET Simulation and Scaling to 10nm



Emil Karimov, Richard Lin, and Jashva Rafique: 1.8V 55nm SiGe BiCMOS



Shai Bonen: 100Gb/s 240GHz QPSK Radio Transmitter



Utku Alakusu: 50GBaud 240GHz IQ Radio Receiver



Netan Yakop, Rafeeq Durowoju, Armin Karami: Quasi-CML Digital Library 
in 22nm FDSOI CMOS Technology



Howard (Yu) Duan: Simulation of FDSOI Qubit Scaling Using Cassical and

Atomistics TCAD





Bryan Huang: Sentaurus Simulation of III-Nitride Qubits





Jianan Zhao: 100GHz Bandwidth Analog Multiplexers





Ayse Ozdincer: Sentaurus Simulation of III-Nitride Double Quantum Dots





Danielle Swanson and Charlotte Moryta: Sentaurus Simulation of the I-V, C-V and S-parameter Characteristics of 7nm and 5nm FinFETs