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Tutorial
Sydney Hall (2F)
Tutorial 1
Oct. 12th | 13:00-14:00
Designing compact SoC PWM switched-inductor power supplies

Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora
Motorola Solutions Foundation Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Biography

Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora is Motorola Solutions Foundation Professor, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was with Texas Instruments in 1994–2004 and has been with the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1999. He’s received the IEEE Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, IEEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Outstanding Educator Award, Charles E. Perry Visionary Award, Three-Year Patent Award, National Hispanic in Technology Award, Orgullo Hispano Award, Hispanic Heritage Award, State of California Commendation Certificate, and IEEE Service Award. His body of work includes 4 textbooks, 5 slide books, 3 literary books, 8 handbooks, 4 book chapters, 44 patents, over 200 articles, over 26 commercial power-chip products released to production, 25 educational videos, and over 170 keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, and research seminars.

Abstract

Switched-inductor power supplies are pervasive in electronics. This is because they deliver a large fraction of the power they draw from the input source with an output current or voltage that is largely independent of the load. Keeping the output current or voltage steady this way is ultimately the responsibility of the feedback controller. This
talk uses insight and intuition to show how SoC pulse-width-modulated (PWM) loops switch the inductor and offset the current or voltage they control. The presentation reviews the feedback response of switched inductors and discusses how PWM loops operate, control, and offset the current or voltage they regulate. The material covers current and voltage loops, current-mode voltage loops, load-dump response and compensation, and compact SoC contractions.

Tutorial 2
Oct. 12th | 14:00-15:00
Overcoming the Transimpedance Limit: On the Design of Low-Noise TIA

Dan Li

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Biography

TBD

Abstract

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Tutorial 3
Oct. 12th | 15:00-16:00
Short-Length ECC Decoders: Design Challenges for Future URLLC Systems

Youngjoo Lee

KAIST, Korea
Biography

TBD

Abstract

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Capri Hall (2F)
Tutorial 4
Oct. 12th | 13:00-15:00
Advanced Techniques for High Efficiency Oversampling Data Converters from Discrete-Time to Continuous-Time: Fundamentals, Recent Trends, and Perspectives

Sai-Weng Sin, Terry
Professor
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau, Macao, China
Biography

Sai-Weng Sin is currently a Professor with the Dept. of ECE, Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Deputy Director (Academic) of the Institute of Microelectronics, as well as the Deputy Director of State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau.
Dr. Sin is currently serving as the Associate Editor-in-Chief (Digital Communications) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Express Briefs, and the chair of the data converter subcommittee in the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). He is/has been members of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Symposium of VLSI Circuits (VLSI), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Int. Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA), and Associate Editors of Journal of Semiconductor and IEEE Access, and Guest Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS). He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society from 2024 to 2025. He was the co-recipient of the 2011 ISSCC Silk Road Award and the 2011 State Science and Technology Progress Award (second-class), China.

Abstract

High efficiency oversampling data converters have become increasingly popular and significant in the various emerging applications, ranging from the data acquisition in IoT sensor nodes that demands an ultra-high resolution with very low power consumption to wideband wireless communications in medium/high resolution.
Part-I: Incremental ADCs (IADCs) play a vital role in modern applications, from high-end audio to IoT sensors. Significant advances in recent years have enhanced high-resolution IADC design, particularly in managing critical issues like thermal noise and DAC mismatches. This part provides a thorough examination of various design strategies within IADCs. It explores how weighting affects noise and mismatch performance, explains its role in algorithms, and presents cutting-edge architectures derived from academic research. Concrete design examples demonstrate these concepts in practice.
Part-II: Due to the resistive inputs and implicit anti-aliasing filtering, continuous-time (CT) delta-sigma ADCs (DS-ADCs) are favorable for wireless applications. The maximum clock frequency of CT DS-ADCs has increased significantly over the past decade. This trend results from advances in CMOS technologies and innovative ways to use this technology. This part covers the background and recent architectural and circuit innovations regarding CT DS-ADCs. Moreover, state-of-the-art examples will be presented as well as the future perspectives.

Liang Qi
Associate Professor
School of Integrated Circuits
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Biography

Liang Qi (Senior Member, IEEE) received B.Sc. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2012 and Ph.D. degree from University of Macau, Macao, China, in 2019.
He currently works as an Associate Professor with the School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Before he joined SJTU, he worked with Shanghai Hisilicon, where he conducted the project of multi-band (2G-5G) RX ADC. He was a Visiting Scholar at Ulm University, Germany, during the Ph.D. studies. His research interests include high-performance data converters and analog mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Dr. Qi has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Express Briefs and the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) journal. He also is/has been a TPC Member for IEEE APCCAS, ICSICT, ICTA, and ASICON. He received Macao Scientific and Technology Research and Development for Postgraduate Award in 2016 and Outstanding Young Scholar Paper Award in IEEE ASICON 2021, respectively.

Tutorial 5
Oct. 12th | 15:00-16:00
SPAD-Based Solid-State LiDAR in CMOS: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art Integration

Seong-Jin Kim
Associate Professor
Department of System Semiconductor Engineering
Sogang University, Korea
Biography

Seong-Jin Kim received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea, in 2001, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2003 and 2008, respectively.
From 2008 to 2012, he was a Research Staff Member at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Yongin, South Korea, where he was involved in the development of CMOS imagers for real-time acquisition of 3-D images. From 2012 to 2015, he was with the Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore, where he was involved in the design of analog-mixed signal circuits for various sensing systems. From 2015 to 2024, he was an Associate Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. In 2024, he joined Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, as an Associate Professor. He is a co-founder of SolidVue, a LiDAR startup company in South Korea. His current research interests include high-performance imaging devices, LiDAR systems, and biomedical interface circuits and systems.
Dr. Kim has served on the Technical Program Committee at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2019 to 2024 and was the Country Representative of South Korea for the ISSCC Far-East Region in 2021. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE ISSCC Silkroad Awards in 2020 and 2021.

Abstract

This tutorial will present a comprehensive overview of the enabling technologies behind single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD)-based solid-state CMOS LiDAR sensors that have emerged as a key component in autonomous vehicles and immersive mobile applications such as augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR). It will begin with an introduction to the fundamental principles of both direct and indirect time-of-flight (ToF) techniques. Subsequently, the tutorial will delve into the three core building blocks of a SPAD-based LiDAR system: (1) SPAD devices and analog front-end circuit to enable photon-level sensitivity; (2) time-to-digital converters (TDC) to translate photon arrival times into precise temporal measurements; and (3) histogram-based signal processing units to reconstruct depth information from stochastic photon detections. The session will finally explore recent advances in fully integrated on-chip histogramming TDC architectures, highlighting selected state-of-the-art implementations.