Expertise

     Radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) designs
     Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designs
     Digital, analog and mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) designs

Specialties

     Direct-digital frequency synthesis (DDFS)
     Phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesis
     Analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
     Time-to-digital converter (TDC)

   For details visit Auburn RFIC Design and Testing Laboratory and other centers:
      Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center (AMSTC)
      Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC)
      Center for Advanced Vehicle Electronics (CAVE)

Research Funding

  Multi-million-dollar research contracts on integrated circuit designs sponsored by various government and industrial funding agents.

Industrial Experiences

      Hughes Network Systems
     Analog and digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for wireless and
     satellite communication system, leading role in frequency synthesizer IC designs
     for broadband communications.

    YAFO Networks Inc.
     Leading role in high-speed IC designs for OC-192 10Gb/s and OC-768 40Gb/s  
     fiber communications.

     Cognio Inc. (Acquired by Cisco Systems)
     RFIC design for wireless local area networks (WLAN), leading role in frequency
     synthesizer IC designs for integrated WLAN transceivers.

Books and Book Chapters

	Integrated Circuit Design for High-Speed Frequency Synthesis ARTECH HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC. February 2006 ISBN: 1-58053-982-3
	Low-Noise Low-Power Design for Phase-Locked Loops - Multi-Phase High-Performance Oscillators Springer International Publishing AG, November. 2014 ISBN 978-3-319-12199-4
	Chapter 15 Frequency Synthesis for Multi-band Wireless Networks Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems and Devices CRC Press, October 2007 ISBN:978-0849379963
	Chapter 15 Analog and Mixed-Signal Test Architectures System-on-Chip Test Architectures: Nanometer Design for Testability Morgan Kaufmann, November, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-12-373973-5
	Chapter 50 Active Filters Chapter 52 Digital-to-Analog Converters Extreme Environment Electronics CRC Press, November, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4398-7430-1
	Chapter 5 Low Noise, High Performance RF Frequency Synthesizers IC Design Insights – From Selected Presentations at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2017, Tutorial in Solid State Circuits River Publishers, March 2019 ISBN 978-87-7022-049-1
	Chapter 2 Time-to-digital converters Phase-Locked Frequency Generation and Clocking: Architectures and circuits for modern wireless and wireline systems (Materials, Circuits and Devices) IET SciTech Publishing, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1785618857