Analog and Mixed-Signal Center (AMSC) at Texas A

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Analog and Mixed-Signal Center (AMSC) at Texas
AM University

• Current topics of interest
• Some examples of recent accomplishments
• Faculty members
• Students and publications data
• Links for additional information
• http//amsc.tamu.edu/faculty.htm
• http//amsc.tamu.edu/amscmain.html
• More information contact
• Tel [phone] Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio

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Current topics of interest at AMSC-TAMU

•  Millimeter-wave Dual-band Front Ends
• Distributed Amplifiers
• RF/ Millimeter-wave Power Amplifiers
• RF MEMS tunable Filters
• Multi-gigahertz analog-to-digital conversion.
• Software defined radio and multi-standard
  receivers.
• Background calibration of ADCs and receiver
  front-ends.
• Compressive sensing front-ends for
  analog-to-information converters
• Very low frequency hertz and sub-hertz circuits,
  DC-DC converters
• Transceivers for sensors and medical
  applications
• Frequency Synthesizers Digital, low spurs
• Audio Circuits Class-D amplifiers, ADC
• High performance analog filters
• High Resolution Bandpass Data Converters and
  calibration methodologies
• Fast Data communication circuits (CDR's, Serdes,
  LVDS drivers, Channel equalization, etc.)
• DTV Front Ends

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• Adaptive analog/RF circuits with automatic
  calibration
• Low-power broadband communication systems
• Sensor interfaces for wireless sensor networks
• Power harvesting for RF communication circuits

Examples of recent accomplishments

• - Analog filter design with automatic tuning
• Ultra-wideband communication systems
• Bluetooth, 802.11b, Zigbee, UWB Receivers
• Zigbee Transceiver
• Digital TV tuner building blocks
• - Steady-State Analysis of Phase-Locked Loops
  Using Binary Phase Detector

Journal Publications
13 papers so far in 2007 19 papers in 2006
Graduate Students 38 Ph D and 16 M Sc
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Ph. D. at Portland State University in
2000. Research Interests High-Frequency
Analog Filters, Automatic Tuning and
Mixed-Mode IC Design
Faculty Members 2007
Ph. D. at University of Delaware in
2004 Postdoc at UC Berkeley Research
Interests High-Frequency Signal Processing and
ADCs
Ph. D. at The University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana in 1974. Research Interests
Low power transceivers for sensors,RF-Communicat
ion Circuits and Analog and Mixed-Mode Circuit
Design
Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio,
Ph. D. University of Michigan University in
2005 Research Interests RF MEMS, mm-wave and RF
circuits
Aydin Karsilayan
Ph. D. at Lueven Katholike University in
1992. Research Interests Medical Electronics
and High-Speed Circuits
Kamran Entesari .
José Silva-Martínez, .
Sebastian Hoyos