Design and Analysis Novel Wideband Analog/RF Integrated Circuits

Payam HeydariUniversity of California at Irvine"Design and Analysis Novel Wideband Analog/RF Integrated Circuits"Abstract:
This talk will first give a brief overview of research in Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Lab at UC-Irvine. Then, design of novel high frequency circuit techniques/topologies/architectures including distributed radios for wideband wireless transceivers, 22-29GHz receiver front-end for short-range automotive radars, and ultra-broadband buffers/amplifiers for broadband transceivers will be presented.Biography:
Payam Heydari received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California in 2001. He is now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
During the summer of 1997, he was with Bell-labs, Lucent Technologies where he worked on noise analysis in high-speed CMOS integrated circuits (ICs). He worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center on gradient-based optimization and sensitivity analysis of custom ICs during the summer of 1998.
Dr. Heydari is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award, the 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the 2005 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), and the 2001 Technical Excellence Award in the area of Electrical Engineering from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH). He was recognized as the 2004 Outstanding Faculty in the EECS Department of the University of California, Irvine. His name appeared in the 2006 edition of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Dr. Heydari serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, and the Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He currently serves on the Technical Program Committees of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), and International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). He is the director of the Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Lab.
His research interests include design of ulta-high frequency analog and RF ICs, and high frequency on-chip interconnect design for high-speed ICs. He has published papers in premier conferences on integrated circuit design including ISSCC, CICC, RFIC Symposium, DAC. Results of the research in the NCIC Lab have appeared in more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.Date: Friday, March 28, 2008
Place: GFS 106
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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