DCAS 2015 Detailed program

DCAS 2015 - Detailed Conference Program (Conference Tracks)
Track-1:  Analog and Mixed Signal
10:30-2:40pm, Monday, Oct. 12, Vester Hughes Auditorium                                      Session Chairs - Sidharth Balasubramanian, Gonggui Xu
1.1 10:30 A 1uA Linear Regulator with Programmable NMOS Pass Device
    Hector Roman* (Texas Instruments Inc.), Guillermo Serrano (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez)
1.2 10:45 Determination of Transconductance-to-Drain-Current Dependent Flicker Noise Parameters
    Jack Ou* (California State University)
1.3 11:00 Exponential Pulse Generator for a Time Domain Reflectometer
    Mikel Ash* (University of Texas at Austin), Robert Flake (University of Texas at Austin), T. R. Viswanathan (University of Texas at Austin)
1.4 11:15 A Low-Power Switched-Capacitor Passive Sigma-Delta Modulator
    Angsuman Roy* (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
1.5 11:30 A 25ppm/°C, 9-bit Linear 11-53 MHz Tunable, 5 uA/MHz DCO in 90nm for Low Power Microcontrollers.
    Venkataramanan Ramamurthy* (Texas instruments), Rajavelu Thinakaran, Mahadevan Venkiteswaran (Texas Instruments), Sreekiran Samala (Texas Instruments)
1.6 11:45 Asynchronous SAR logic design using majority vote comparison for configurable SAR ADCs
    Muhammad Ahmadi* (Synaptics Inc. ), Won Namgoong (UT Dallas)
     
Track-2:  Sensors and actuators, Process Technology
3:00-4:15pm, Monday, Oct. 12,Vester Hughes Auditorium                                      Session Chairs - Terry Blake, Andrew Marshall
2.1 3:00 A 1pJ/bit 10Gbps Optical Carrier-Injection Ring Modulator and All-Digital Driver Circuit in 45nm SOI
    Kanchan Gupta* (Boston University)
2.2 3:15 ME-MTJ as process adder for non-volatile memory applications
    Nishtha Sharma* (University of Texas, Dallas), Andrew Marshall (University of Texas at Dallas), Jonathan Bird (University at Buffalo, Buffalo), Peter Dowben (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
2.3 3:30 A Multiple-Valued Logic Synthesis Tool for Optical Computing Elements
    Kaitlin Smith* (Darwin Deason Institute ), Mitchell Thornton ()
2.4 3:45 A Highly Efficient and Reliable Electrowetting on Dielectric Device for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
    Yiyan Li* (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Russel Baker (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Dominic Raad (Kisco Conformal Coating, LLC)
2.5 4:00 Precise EWOD Top Plate Positioning Using Inverse Preisach Model Based Hysteresis Compensation
    Yiyan Li* (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Russel Baker (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
4.7 4:15 Acoustic Detection of Excessive Lung Water using Sub-band Features
    Kah Jun Hong* (NTU, Singapore), Wee Ser (), Zhiping Lin (), David Chee-Guan Foo (Tan Tock Seng Hospital)
     
Track-3:  Analog and Mixed Signal, RF Techniques
10:30-12:15pm, Tuesday, Oct. 13, Vester Hughes Auditorium                                      Session Chairs - Oren Eliezer, Sujan Manohar
3.1 10:30 A Simulation Method for Design and Optimization of RF Power Amplifiers with Digital Predistortion
    Hari Chauhan (Northeastern University), Martin McCormick (Analog Devices), Vlad Kvartenko (Analog Devices), Robin Coxe (Analog Devices), Marvin Onabajo* (Northeastern University)
3.2 10:45 A High Frequency Memristor Emulator Circuit
    Manu Chilukuri* (University of Texas Arlington), Sungyong Jung (University of Texas Arlington)
3.3 11:00 Techniques for Energy Efficient Wideband RF front-ends
    Sudipto Chakraborty* (Texas Instruments Incorporated)
3.4 11:15 Channelized Front Ends for Broadband Signal Processing with Relaxed Anti-Aliasing Filtering
    Vineet Singh* (The Univ. of Texas at Austin), Wei-Gi Ho (The Univ. of Texas at Austin), R Gharpurey (University of Texas at Austin)
3.5 11:30 On-chip Transformers: A Circuit Designer’s Perspective on the Loss and Bandwidth
    Sidharth Balasubramanian* (Texas Instruments)
3.6 11:45 Novel Dithering-based Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction System
    Eran Pisek* (Samsung Research America), Shadi Abu-Surra (Samsung Research America), Rakesh Taori (Samsung Research America)
3.7 12:00 Analysis of Phase Noise in CMOS Ring Oscillator Due to Substrate Noise
    Xiaoying Deng (Shenzhen University), Xin Lin (Shenzhenn University)
     
Track-4:  Energy efficient digital, Communications and Signal Processing
1:30-3:15pm, Tuesday, Oct. 13,Vester Hughes Auditorium                                      Session Chairs - Arjun Rajagopal, Rama Venkatasubramanian
4.1 1:30 Accelerating Massive MIMO Uplink Detection on GPU for SDR systems
    Kaipeng Li* (Rice University), Bei Yin (), Michael Wu (), Joseph Cavallaro (), Christoph Studer ()
4.2 1:45 Exploring Feedback Active Noise Control with Ambisonics
    Anshuman Ganguly* (UT Dallas), Issa Panahi (UT Dallas), Frank Dufour (UT Dallas)
4.3 2:00 Nonlinear Filtering of Narrowband Interference in a Wireless Synchronizer
    Tom Jung (EverSet Technologies), Oren Eliezer* (EverSet® Technologies and TallannQuest), Yingsi Liang (Southern Methodist University), Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University)
4.4 2:15 A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to Pipelined Memory-Aware Scheduling on an MPSoC
    Hassan Salamy* (University of Saint Thomas), Semih Aslan (Texas State University)
4.5 2:30 Improving Linear Feedback Shift Registers Using Similarity Transformations
    Naman Saraf* (University of Minnesota), Kia Bazargan (University of Minnesota)
4.6 2:45 GPU Based Implementation of a  64-Channel Polyphase Channalizer
    Amean Al-safi* (Western Michigan University), Bradley Bazuin (Western Michigan University)