Stanford University

EE315B Design Contest

 

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Analog Devices

 

Autumn 2013 Winners:

Daniel Bankman & Edward Lee, "Computational Design of an Energy-Delay Optimal SAR ADC in 90-nm CMOS"

Kevin Zheng & Nikolaus Hammler, "Beating a Whac-A-Mole: Designing a 152 MHz, 10-bit SAR ADC in 90-nm CMOS"

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Autumn 2012 Winners:

Jayesh Patil & Scott Lewis, "A 6.4-GS/s, 835-mW, 5-bit Calibration-Free 8-Way Time-Interleaved Flash A/D Converter"

Abin Thomas Philip & Ashray Gogte, "A 5-b 3.68-GS/s CMOS Time-Interleaved ADC with 0.1 LSB DNL, 28.3dB SNDR at Nyquist Input and 32.4mW per Unit Power Consumption"

Daniel Villamizar & Claudio Talarico, "A 300-MS/s 26.1-mW 5-bit Flash ADC in 180-nm CMOS"

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Autumn 2010 Winners:

 "Best Design" - Jae Min Park & Hwang Ho Choi, "A 5-bit 680-MS/s 14-mW Flash ADC with Offset Averaging"

"Most Intriguing Design" - Yifeng Huang & Wen-Li Ming, "A 38-mW 600-MS/s 5-bit Flash ADC in 0.18-um CMOS"

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Autumn 2009 Winners:

"Best Design" - Sabrina Liao & Andrew Tronson, "A 1.4mW, 250MSPS Open-Loop Track and Hold Circuit in 0.18um CMOS"

"Most Intriguing Design" - Alex Guo & Charles Chen, "A 4.46mW, 250MHz 72-dB SNR BiCMOS Track and Hold Circuit"

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Spring 2008 Winners:

"Best Design" - Kanupriya Bhardwaj & Anshuman Bhuyan, "Low-power Track-and-Hold Circuts at 125 MHz and 1 GHz in 0.18-um CMOS"

"Most Intriguing Design" - Saihua Lin, "Design of a 1 GS/s 6-bit Track-and-Hold Circuit in 0.18-um CMOS"

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Spring 2007 Winners:

"Best Design" - Drew Hall & Noam Dolev, "Design and Analysis of a 10-bit, 1.1-GS/s Track-and-Hold Circuit"

"Most Intriguing Design" - Young Yang Liauw & Po-Kai Chen, "An Eight Transistor Power-Efficient 12-b, 820-MS/s Track-and-Hold in 0.18um CMOS"

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Spring 2006 Winners:

"Best Design" - William Liou & Wei Xiong, "A 56-uW, 2-Ms/s, 12-b Track-and-Hold Circuit in 0.18um CMOS"

"Most Intriguing Design" - Jim Salvia & Clay Daigle, "A 25uW Differential Track-and-Hold Circuit"

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