Center for Circuit System Solutions

In the next ten years, the majority of manufactured silicon will be used in portable devices, with each one of us wirelessly interacting with thousands of other devices among the trillions of radios on the planet. We plan to invent the low power circuits and modules that will extend the pervasiveness of wearable and mobile systems. Our research is focused on two key areas:

Power

• System Design for Focused Electromagnetic Energy within Biological Tissue (Poon, Meng—Stanford University)
• Locomotive Micro Implant (Meng, Poon—Stanford University)

Data

• An Extremely Low Energy Sub-10 pJ/bit UWB 60 GHz Transceiver (Niknejad—UC Berkeley)
• Next Generation Cognitive Radios (Nikolic, Tse—UC Berkeley)
• RF-CMOS Circuits for Next Generation Cognitive Radio (Abidi—UCLA)
• Low-power, Ultra-wideband Transceivers for Ranging and Localization (Paramesh—Carnegie Mellon University)
• Flexible DSP Architectures for Next Generation Cognitive Radio (Markovic—UCLA)
• Energy Efficient Circuit Architectures for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios (Harjani—University of Minnesota)
• Cooperative Wireless Communications (Tse, Nikolic—UC Berkeley)