Ultra-Low-Voltage Frequency Synthesizer and Successive-Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter for Biomedical Applications

Chung-Chih Hung received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 2003, he worked for several IC design companies in San Jose, CA and San Diego, CA, where he held analog circuit design manager and director positions and successfully designed many chips in mass production. Since 2003, he has been with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the Deputy Director of the Biomedical Electronics Translational Research Center (BETRC) in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Dr. Hung has served on the Steering Committees of the IEEE MWSCAS and technical program committees of some IEEE conferences. He and his students have won several Best Paper Awards at international conferences. He has been the Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing since 2013 and currently serve as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Dr. Hung has authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and held several US patents. His research interests include the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical, power management, and communication applications.     Shih-Hsing Wang received the M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1993 and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2020.  From 1993 to now, he has been working in several IC design companies in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. He is currently the head of Memory Design and Analysis Division in Etron Technology, Inc. He has published 17 US patents in the DRAM/ADC/PLL related fields. His research interests include high-speed DRAM circuit, mixed-signal ADC/DAC circuit, and PLL/DLL circuit design.

1. Introduction to biomedical signals and their applications.- 2. Low-power and low-voltage VLSI Circuit design Techniques for Biomedical Applications.- 3. Introduction of Frequency Synthesizer.- 4. A 0.35-V 240-miW Fast-Lock and Low-Phase-Noise frequency synthesizer for implantable biomedical applications.- 5. Introduction of ADC.- 6. A 0.3V 10b 3MS/s SAR ADC with comparator calibration and kickback noise reduction for biomedical applications.- 7. Summary.