Center for Circuit System Solutions

We are exploring circuit and module designs for the diverse range of future applications that could benefit from end-of-roadmap CMOS and the integration of nontraditional technologies. We believe that these diverse applications will fuel the semiconductor industry as information technology has done for the past 40 years. Our initial targets are two critical areas for high-value commercial and defense applications:

Sub-mm Wave Circuits: Higher Frequency Offered by Scaled CMOS Enables Higher Spatial Resolution

• Millimeter-Wave Active Imaging Array (Sodini, Wornell, Lee—MIT)
• Compact Millimeter-Wave 3D Active Imaging System in CMOS (Poon—Stanford University)
• Development of THz Sources Using Advanced SiGe and CMOS Technologies (Rebeiz—UCSD)
• Diode Circuits in CMOS for Sub-Millimeter Wave Applications (O—University of Texas, Dallas)
• CMOS Traveling-Wave THz Power Sources (Afshari—Cornell University)

Biomedical Electronics: Diversified Si For Acquiring, Processing and Transmitting Information and Energy

• Digitally Assisted Data Converters for Medical Imaging (Murmann—Stanford University)
• Acoustic Wave Transmission, Data Acquisition, and Signal Processing Platform for Portable/Wearable Ultrasound Applications (Sodini, Chandrakasan, Lee—MIT)
• Micro-power Communication Architecture and Circuits for Wearable Medical Devices (Chandrakasan—MIT)