Speaker: Prof. Pui-In (Elvis) Mak (State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau, Macao, China)

 

Time: Nov. 29, 2019 9：30 AM 

 

Venue: No. 733 meeting room of building 1, IOS, CAS  

 

Abstract: This talk overviews the motivation, challenges and solutions of realizing energy-harvesting Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) receiver and transmitter in 28-nm CMOS; both are the cornerstones of energy-autonomous IoT radios. A fully-integrated micropower manager is proposed to customize the internal supplies and bias voltages to balance the active performance and sleep power. Novel circuit techniques enabling sub-0.3V operation are introduced for the low-noise amplifier (LNA), mixers, voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), phased-locked loop (PLL) and power amplifier (PA).

 

Biography:Pui-In (Elvis) Mak received the Ph.D. degree from University of Macau (UM), Macao, China, in 2006. He is currently Full Professor at UM Faculty of Science and Technology – ECE, and Associate Director (Research) at the UM State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI. His research interests are on analog and radio-frequency (RF) circuits and systems for wireless and multidisciplinary innovations. 

He is currently the Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2018-) and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (2017-). He is/was the TPC Member of A-SSCC (2013-2016, 2019), ESSCIRC (2016-2017) and ISSCC (2017-2019). He is/was Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2014-2015) and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2017-2018). He was inducted as an Overseas Expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2018. He is a Fellow of the IET and IEEE. He co-authored 22 papers in the recent ISSCC (2011-2020).