The Mixed Signal IC (AMS) Laboratory, located in MEC 206, is directed by Dr. Vishal Saxena. The Lab is equipped with state of the art workstations and instruments for Analog, Mixed-Signal and Photonic Integrated Circuit design and testing. The AMS lab also houses the Linux server cluster supporting the Cadence and Synopsys tools for research and teaching activities.
Current Research
- Photonics-enhanced Hybrid Analog Circuits
- High-speed circuits for silicon photonics interconnects for 100 Gbps Ethernet
- Continuous-time ΔΣ ADCs, reconfigurable ADCs for software-defined radios and next-generation wireless applications
- Spiking ANN based pattern recognition ICs using integrated memristors and other synaptic devices
- Compressive-sensing ADCs and signal reconstruction circuits
Ongoing and Completed Projects
- Energy-efficient CMOS receivers and transmitters for 10 Gbps silicon photonic interconnects
- CT ΔΣ ADCs with >1 GHz sampling rate in 130nm CMOS
- Hybrid CT ΔΣ and Multi-step ADCs for wideband (>40 MHz) conversion
- CT ΔΣ modulator for biomedical applications in DARPA/MITLL 150nm FD-SOI CMOS