Imaging Sensors, Power Management, PLLs and Frequency Synthesizers

Kofi Makinwa holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria (B.Sc. (1st class hons.), M.Sc.), and from the Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E. (cum laude)) and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.), both in the Netherlands. From 1989 to 1999, he was a Research Scientist with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven. Since 1999, he has been at Delft University of Technology, where he is an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor and the Head of the Microelectronics Department. His research interests include the design of mixed-signal circuits, sensor interfaces and smart sensors. This has led to 20+ books, 350+ technical papers, and 30+ patents.

Dr. Makinwa was the Analog Subcom chair (2018-2021) of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), and has served on the technical program committees of several other IEEE conferences including IEEE Sensors, Transducers and the VLSI Symposium. He was a member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He has been a two-term distinguished lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society and a two-term elected member of its Adcom. He is currently a member of the executive committee of the VLSI symposium and a co-chair of several editions of the Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) workshop and the IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting (SIM). Dr. Makinwa is the co-recipient of 18 best paper awards, from the JSSC, ISSCC and the VLSI symposium among others. In 2023, at the 70th anniversary of ISSCC, he was recognized as being its all-time top contributor. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Andrea Baschirotto graduated in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Pavia in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the same university in 1994, and then became a Researcher (Assistant Professor). In 1998, he joined the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Italy, as an Associate Professor. He then joined the Department of Physics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, in 2007 as an Associate Professor, where he is currently a Full Professor (2021) and the director of the Microelectronics Group. His main research interests are in the design of mixed-signal circuits for low-power and/or high-speed signal processing. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers in international journals and conferences, and he holds nearly 60 US patents. In addition, he has co-authored more than 120 papers originating from research collaborations on high-energy physics.

Dr. Baschirotto has served as an Associate Editor of both the Trans. Circuits and Systems I and II, and he has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Solid-state Circuits (JSSC) since 2014. In 2002, he chaired the Technical Program Committee of the European Solid-State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC). He was the JSSC Guest Editor for ESSCIRC 2003 and ESSCIRC 2007. He has been the general chair of IEEE-PRIME (2006, 2013) and of AACD (2008, 2013, 2016, 2019). He served for several years on the ESSCIRC TPC as the Data Converter Subcommittee Chairman and he was the General Chairman of ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2022. He was the secretary of the European Committee of ISSCC. He has served on the technical program committees of several other international conferences including DATE and ASSCC. He is the founder and the Chairman of the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Italian Chapter, which received the 2020 Best SSCS Chapter Award. He is an IEEE Fellow (2013).

Bram Nauta received the M.Sc (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands in 1987 and 1991, respectively. In 1991 he joined Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven the Netherlands. He returned to the University of Twente in 1998, where he is currently a distinguished professor and head of the IC

Part 1 Imaging Sensors.- Chapter 1 Pitch-Matched Integrated Circuits for Ultrasound Transducer Arrays.- Chapter 2 Pixelated Capacitive Sensors (PCS) for Embedded Multi-Sensing.- Chapter 3 Single-Photon Imagers with In-Pixel, Area Efficient Time-to-Digital Converters.- Chapter 4 Photon Counting CT Detectors for Medical Imaging.- Chapter 5 A 120-Ghz FMCW Radar Demonstrator for Imaging Applications.- Chapter 6 High-Sensitive Broadband Terahertz Detectors for Hyperspectral Imaging.- Part 2 Power Management.- Chapter 7 Integrated Isolated Power Conversion: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 8 Design Solutions for Power Converters from System in Package to Monolithic GAN Technology.- Chapter 9 Comparison of standard Switching inductor Converter with Hybrid Topologies.- Chapter 10 Overcoming the Challenges of Fully Integrated DC-DC Converters with High Input Voltages in CMOS.- Chapter 11 Design, Control, and Implementation of Fully-Monolithic Hybrid Power Converters.- Chapter 12 A Simo Buck Converter for IOT Applications with sub-1 µA Quiescent Current.- Part 3 PLLs and Frequency Synthesizers.- Chapter 13 Advanced Frequency Synthesis Techniques Using All-Digital Phase-Locked Loops.- Chapter 14 Low Jitter Fractional-N PLL with Phase Detection and Quantization Noise Cancellation in the Voltage Domain.- Chapter 15 BiCMOS (Voltage-Controlled) Oscillators with Ultra-Low Phase Noise.- Chapter 16 Architectures of State-of-the-Art Analog and Digital PLLS for Wi-Fi: A Unifying Perspective.- Chapter 17 Digitally-Intensive PLLs for mm-Wave FMCW Radars.- Chapter 18 Design and Implementation Challenges for PLLS in UWB Radios.