Selected Publications
Books and Book Chapters
John W.M. Rogers, Calvin Plett,
and Foster F. Dai,
Integrated Circuit Design for High-Speed Frequency Synthesis,
ARTECH HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC., ISBN: 1-58053-982-3, February, 2006.
Feng Zhao,
and Foster F. Dai,
Low-Noise Low-Power Design for Phase-Locked Loops - Multi-Phase
High-Performance Oscillators,
Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN
978-3-319-12199-4, New York, Nov. 2014.
Fa Foster Dai
and Charles Stroud, "Chapter 15 Analog and Mixed-Signal Test Architectures," in
System-on-Chip Test Architectures: Nanometer Design for Testability,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN: 978-0-12-373973-5, November 2007.
John Rogers, Foster Dai,
and Calvin Plett,
"Chapter 15 Frequency Synthesis for Multi-band Wireless Networks," in
Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices ,
CRC Press, ISBN: 978-0849379963, October 2007.
Foster Dai
and and Desheng Ma,
"Chapter 50 Active Filters," in
Extreme Environment Electronics,
CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4398-7430-1, Nov. 2012. Foster Dai
and Yuan Yao and Zhenqi Chen, "Chapter 52 Digital-to-Analog Converters," in
Extreme Environment Electronics,
CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4398-7430-1, Nov. 2012. Foster Dai, “Chapter 5 Low
Noise, High Performance RF Frequency Synthesizers,” in
IC Design Insights – From Selected Presentations at IEEE Custom Integrated
Circuits Conference (CICC) 2017, Tutorial in Solid State Circuits,
River Publishers, ISBN 978-87-7022-049-1, March 2019 Fa Foster Dai and Hechen
Wang, “Chapter 2 Time-to-digital converters,” in
Phase-Locked Frequency Generation and Clocking: Architectures and Circuits for
Modern Wireless and Wireline Systems, IET SciTech Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1785618857, June, 2020 Journal Publications
Haoyi Zhao and
Fa Foster Dai, "A 12-bit 260-MS/s Pipelined-SAR ADC with Ring-TDC-Based Fine Quantizer
for Automatic Cross-Domain Scale Alignment,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 58, No. 10, pages 2883-2896, October 2023
X. Ding, G. Niu, H. Zhang, W. Wang, K. Imura and
Fa Foster Dai, "
Nonconducting RF and DC Hot Carrier Stresses in 14/16-nm FinFETs for RF Power Amplifiers,"
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 70, No. 8, pages 4028-4035, August 2023
Xin Jin, Hui Pan and
Fa Foster Dai, "A dual-residue pipelined SAR ADC using only zero-crossing signals,"
Analog Integrated
Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 108, No. 5, pages 229–239, May 2021
Dongyi Liao and Fa Foster
Dai, "A Fractional-N Reference Sampling PLL with Linear Sampler and CDAC Based Fractional Spur Cancellation,”
IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 3, pp.694-704, March 2021
Dongyi Liao, Yucai Zhang, Fa Foster
Dai, Zhenqi Chen and Yanjie Wang "An mm-Wave Synthesizer with Robust Locking Reference-Sampling PLL and Wide-Range Injection Locked VCO,”
IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 536-546, March 2020
Hechen Wang, Fa Foster
Dai, Fa Foster Dai, Zhan Su and Yanjie Wang "A Sub-Sampling Direct RF-to-Digital Converter with 1024-APSK Modulation for High Throughput Polar Receiver,”
IEEE Journal
of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1064-1076, April 2020
Rong Jiang, Hossein Noori and
Fa Foster Dai, "A Multi-Phase Coupled Oscillator Using Inductive Resonant Coupling and Modified Dual-Tank Techniques,”
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 2354-2464, September 2018
Dongyi Liao and Fa Foster
Dai, Bram Nauta and Eric Klumperink "A 2.4 GHz 16-Phase Sub-Sampling Fractional-N PLL with Robust Soft Loop Switching,”
IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 715-727, March 2018
Hechen Wang, Fa Foster
Dai, and Hua Wang "A Reconfigurable Vernier Time-to-Digital Converter with 2-D Spiral Comparator Array and 2nd-Order ΔΣ Linearization,”
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 738-749, March 2018
Rong Jiang, Hossein Noori, and Fa Foster
Dai, "A 2.33GHz, -133 dBc/Hz, Eight-Phase Oscillator with Dual Tanks and Adaptive Feedback,”
IEEE Transactions on
Microwave Theory and Technology, vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 1399-1410, March 2018
Dongyi Liao, Hechen Wang, Fa Foster
Dai, and Yang Xu, Roc Berenguer and Sara Munoz Hermoso
"
An 802.11 a/b/g/n Digital Fractional-N PLL with Automatic TDC Linearity Calibration for Spur Cancellation,”
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1210-1220, May 2017
Dongyi Liao, and Fa Foster
Dai, "An Interference Tolerant RF Frontend with Capacitive Feedback for Channel Filtering,”
IEEE Microwave and
Wireless Components Letters, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 735-737, September 2016
Jianjun Yu, Feng Zhao,
Joseph Cali, Fa Foster Dai,
Desheng Ma, Xueyang Geng, Yuehai Jin, Yuan Yao, Xin Jin, J.
David Irwin and Richard C. Jaeger "An
X-Band Radar Transceiver MMIC with Bandwidth Reduction in 0.13µm
SiGe Technology,"IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 1905 – 1915, Sept. 2014
Feng Zhao and Fa Foster Dai,
"A 0.6V Quadrature VCO With Optimized
Capacitive Coupling for Phase Noise Reduction," IEEE
Trans on Circuit and Systems – I: Regular Papers, vol. 59, No. 8,
pp. 1694-1705, August, 2012
T. D. England, R.M.
Diestelhorst, E.W. Kenyon, J.D. Cressler, V. Ramachandran, M.
Alles, R. Reed, R. Berger, R. Garbos, B. Blalock, A. Mantooth,
M. Barlow, Fa Foster Dai,
W. Johnson, C. Ellis, J. Holmes, C. Webber, P. McCluskey, M.
Mojarradi, L. Peltz, R. Frampton & C. Eckert,
"A new approach to designing electronic
systems for operation in extreme environments Part II - The SiGe
remote electronics unit," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Volume: 27 , Issue 7, pp. 29
- 41,
July 2012
R.M.
Diestelhorst, T. England, R. Berger, R. Garbos, C. Ulaganathan,
B. Blalock, K. Cornett, A. Mantooth, X. Geng, Fa Foster Dai,
W. Johnson, J. Holmes, M. Alles, R. Reed, P. McCluskey, M.
Mojarradi, L. Peltz, R. Frampton, C. Eckert and J.D. Cressler,
"A new approach to designing electronic
systems for operation in extreme environments Part I - The SiGe
Remote Sensor Interface," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Volume: 27 , Issue
6, pp. 24-34, June, 2012
Yuehai Jin and Fa Foster Dai,
"Impact of Transceiver RFIC Impairments on
MIMO System Performance," IEEE Transactions on
Industrial Electronics, vol. 59, no. 1, pp.538-549, Jan.
2012
Desheng Ma, Fa Foster Dai, Richard C. Jaeger
and J. David Irwin,
"An X- and Ku-Band Wideband Recursive Receiver MMIC with Gain-Reuse,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 562-571, March 2011
Jie Qin, Joseph Cali, Bradley F. Dutton, George J. Starr, Fa Foster Dai,
and Charles E. Stroud,
"Selective Spectrum Analysis for Analog Measurements,"
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 562-571, May 2011
Xueyang Geng and Fa Foster Dai,
"An X-band Transformer-coupled Varactor-less
Quadrature Current-controlled Oscillator in 0.18 µm SiGe BiCMOS Technology,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1669-1677, September 2010
Desheng Ma and Fa Foster Dai,
"A 7.27GHz Q-Enhanced Low Noise Amplifier RFIC with
70dB Image Rejection Ratio,"
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 456-458, August 2010
Xueyang Geng, Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"24-Bit 5.0 GHz Direct Digital Synthesizer RFIC
With Direct Digital Modulations in 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS Technology,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 944-954, May 2010
Zhenqi Chen and Fa Foster Dai,
"Effects of LO Phase and Amplitude Imbalances
and Phase Noise on M-QAM Transceiver Performance,"
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1505-1517, May, 2010
Jianjun Yu, Fa Foster Dai,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 12-Bit Vernier Ring Time-to-Digital
Converter in 0.13μm CMOS Technology,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 830-842, April 2010
Xueyang Geng, Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"An 11Bit 8.6GHz Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC
with 10-bit Segmented Sine-weighted DAC,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 300 - 313, Feb. 2010
Yuan Yao, Yin Shi,
Fa Foster Dai,
"A Fully
Integrated 900MHz Passive RFID Transponder Front-End with Novel
Zero-Threshold RF-DC Rectifier,"
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 2317-2325, July 2009
Dayu Yang,
Fa Foster Dai, Weining Ni, Yin Shi, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"Delta-Sigma
Modulation in Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis,"
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 793-802, June 2009
Xuefeng Yu, Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 12 GHz 1.9 W Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC
Implemented in 0.18 um SiGe BiCMOS Technology,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 1384-1393, June 2008
Xuefeng Yu,
Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 9-Bit Quadrature Direct Digital Synthesizer
Implemented In 0.18 um SiGe BiCMOS Technology,"
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technology, vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 1257-1266, May 2008
Yuan Yao,
Fa Foster Dai, Richard Jaeger, John D. Cressler
"12-Bit
Cryogenic Current Steering DAC for Space Applications,"
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 2810-2819, July 2008
Vasanth Kakani,
Fa Foster Dai,
"Design
and Analysis of a Transversal Filter RFIC in SiGe Technology,"
IEEE Design and Test of Computers, No. 1, pp. 10-16, Jan. 2008
Vasanth Kakani,
Fa Foster Dai, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 5-GHZ Low-Power Series-Coupled BiCMOS
Quadrature VCO With Wide Tuning Range,"
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 457-459, June 2007
Jie Qin, Charles E. Stroud, and
Fa Foster Dai,
"FPGA-Based Analog Functional
Measurements for Adaptive Control in Mixed-Signal Systems,"
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1885-1897, August 2007
Fa Foster Dai,
"Electronic
Equalizations for Optical Fiber Dispersion Compensation,"
Optical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 035006-1 to 035006-12, March 2007
Foster Fa Dai,
Charles Stroud, and Dayu Yang,
"Automatic
Linearity and Frequency Response Tests with Built-in Pattern
Generator and Analyzer,"
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 561
- 572, June 2006
John W. M. Rogers,
Foster F. Dai, Calvin Plett, and Mark S. Cavin,
"Design and Characterization of a 5.2
GHz/2.4 GHz ΣΔ Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Low-Phase
Noise Performance,"
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2006, Article ID 48489, pp. 1-11, Hindawi
Publishing Corporation, May 2006
Foster F. Dai, Weining Ni, Yin Shi,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Direct
Digital Frequency Synthesizer WithFourth-Order Phase Domain DS Noise
Shaperand 12-bit Current-Steering DAC,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 839-850, April 2006
Lakshmi S. Jyothi Chimakurthy, Malinky Ghosh,
Foster F. Dai, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Novel DDS Using Nonlinear ROM Addressing
With Improved Compression Ratio and Quantization Noise,"
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 274
- 283, Feb. 2006
Dave G. Rahn, Mark S. Cavin,
Foster F. Dai, Neric Fong,
Richard Griffith, Jose Macedo, David Moore, John W. M. Rogers, and Mike Toner,
"A Fully Integrated Multi-Band MIMO WLAN Transceiver RFIC,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1629-1641, August, 2005.
Listed on the JSSC website as one of the Most-Read JSSC Articles for 2005
John W. M. Rogers,
Foster F. Dai, Mark S. Cavin, and Dave G. Rahn,
"A
Multi-Band Delta-sigma Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for a MIMO
WLAN Transceiver RFIC,"
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 678-689, March, 2005
International Conference Papers
Haoyi Zhao and Fa Foster Dai,
“A 0.97mW 260MS/s 12b Pipelined SAR ADC
with Ring TDC Based Fine Quantizer for PVT Robust Automatic Cross-Domain Scale
Alignment,”
International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2022 Dongyi Liao, Fa Foster Dai,
“A 7.7~10.3GHz 5.2mW −247.3dB-FoM Fractional-N Reference Sampling PLL with 2nd Order CDAC
Based Fractional Spur Cancellation In 45nm CMOS,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Boston, March 2020. 2020 IEEE CICC Outstanding Student Paper Award. Hechen Wang, Zhan Su, Haoyi Zhao, Yanjie Wang,
Fa Foster Dai,
“A 3.8 mW Sub-Sampling Direct RF-to-Digital Converter for Polar Receiver Achieving 1.94 Gb/s
Data Rate with 1024-APSK Modulation,”
IEEE VLSI Symposium
(VLSI), Kyoto, Japan, June 2019 Dongyi Liao, Yucai Zhang, Zhenqi Chen, Yanjie Wang and
Fa Foster Dai,
“An MM-Wave Synthesizer with Low In-Band Noise and Robust Locking Reference-Sampling PLL,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, April 2019 Zhan Su, Hechen Wang, Haoyi Zhao, Zhenqi Chen, Yanjie Wang and Fa Foster Dai,
“A 280MS/s 12b SAR-Assisted Hybrid ADC with Time Domain Sub-Range Quantizer in 45nm CMOS,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, April 2019 Zhenqi Chen, Dongyi Liao and Fa Foster Dai,
“A Full-Duplex Transceiver Front-End RFIC with Code-Domain Spread Spectrum Modulation For
Tx Self-Interference Cancellation and In-Band Jammer Rejection,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, April 2018 Rong Jiang, Hossein Noori and Fa Foster Dai,
“A Multi-Phase Clock Coulpled VCO Using Dual-Tank Magnetic Coupling Technique,”
IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting
(BCTM), Miami, FL, Oct. 2017 Hechen Wang and Fa Foster Dai,
“A 14-Bit, 1-ps Resolution, Two-Step Ring and 2D Vernier TDC in 130nm CMOS Technology,”
European Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ESSCIRC), September 2017 Dongyi Liao, Ruixin Wang and Fa Foster Dai,
“A Low-Noise Inductor-less Fractional-N Sub-Sampling PLL with Multi-Ring Oscillator,”
IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium
(RFIC), Haiwaii, June 2017 Dongyi Liao, Fa Foster Dai,
Bram Nauta, and Eric Klumperink
“Multi-Phase Sub-Sampling Fractional-N PLL with Soft Loop Switching for Fast Robust Locking,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, TX, April 2017 Ruixin Wang and Fa Foster Dai
“A 0.8~1.3 GHz Multi-phase Injection-locked PLL Using Capacitive Coupled Multi-ring Oscillator
with Reference Spur Suppression,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, TX, April 2017 Hechen Wang, Fa Foster Dai,
and Hua Wang
“A 330μW 1.25ps 400fs-INL Vernier Time-to-Digital Converter with 2D Reconfigurable Spiral
Arbiter Array and 2nd-Order ΔΣ Linearization,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, TX, April 2017 Taiyun Chi, Hechen Wang, Min-Yu Huang, Fa Foster Dai,
and Hua Wang
“A Bidirectional Lens-Free Digital-Bits-In/-Out 0.57mm2 Terahertz Nano-Radio
in CMOS with 49.3mW Peak Power Consumption Supporting 50cm Internet-of-Things Communication,”
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
(CICC), Austin, TX, April 2017. 2017 CICC Best Paper Award. Ruixin Wang and Fa Foster Dai,
“A 1~1.5 GHz Capacitive Coupled Multi-ring Oscillator with Improved Phase Noise,”
European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC),
Geneva, Switzerland, September 2016 Dongyi Liao, Hechen Wang,
Fa Foster Dai,
Yang Xu, and Roc Berenguer,
“An 802.11 a/b/g/n Digital Fractional-N PLL with Automatic TDC
Linearity Calibration for Spur Cancellation,"
IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, San
Francisco, USA, May, 2016. 2016 RFIC Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place). Feng Zhao and Fa Foster Dai,
“A
capacitive-coupling technique with phase noise and phase error
reduction for multi-phase clock generation,” IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 1-4, San Jose,
California, September, 2014Jianjun Yu, Desheng Ma, Xueyang Geng,
Feng Zhao, Joseph Cali, Fa Foster Dai, Yuan Yao,
Yuehai Jin, J. David Irwin, Richard C. Jaeger, and Andre Aklian, “An
X-Band Radar Receiver with Bandwidth Reduction Implemented in
0.13µm SiGe Technology,” IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and
Technology Meeting (BCTM), Bordeaux, France, Oct. 2013 Jianjun Yu, Joseph Cali, Feng
Zhao, Fa Foster Dai, Xin Jin, Michael Pukish,
Yuehai Jin, Zachary Hubbard, J. David Irwin, Richard C. Jaeger, and
Andre Aklian, “A
Direct Digital Synthesis Based Chirp Radar Transmitter in 0.13 µm
SiGe Technology,” IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology
Meeting (BCTM), Bordeaux, France, Oct. 2013 Feng Zhao, Jianjun Yu, Joseph
Cali, Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin, and Andre
Aklian, “A
4.8-6.8GHz Phase-Locked Loop with Power Optimized Design
Methodology for Dividers,” IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and
Technology Meeting (BCTM), Bordeaux, France, Oct. 2013 Joseph Cali, Xueyeng Geng, Feng
Zhao, Michael Pukish, Fa Foster Dai, and Andre
Aklian, “A
650 MHz DDFS for Stretch Processing Radar in 130nm BiCMOS Process,”
European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC),
Nuremberg, Germany, Oct. 2013 Jianjun Yu and Fa
Foster Dai, “Phase
Noise Improvement Using Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric,”
European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Nuremberg, Germany, Oct. 2013 Jianjun Yu, Feng
Zhao, Joseph Cali, Desheng Ma, Xueyang Geng, Fa Foster Dai,
J. David Irwin, and Andre Aklian,
"A Single-Chip X-Band Chirp Radar MMIC with Stretch Processing,"
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 1-4,
San Jose, California, September, 2012 Xin Jin and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
6th Order Zero Capacitor Spread 1MHz - 10MHz Tunable CMOS Active-RC
Low Pass Filter with Fast Tuning Scheme," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp.
1187-1190, Seoul Korea, May, 2012 Hossein Noori and Fa Foster Dai,
"Remedies
for Noise Degradation due to Active Q-Enhancement Circuit, "
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1756-1759, Seoul Korea, May, 2012 Desheng Ma and Fa Foster Dai,
Charles E. Stroud and Richard C. Jaeger
"A
Tunable Wideband LNA for Self-Healing Application," IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp.107-110, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2011
Xueyang Geng, Desheng Ma,
Zhenqi Chen, Fa Foster Dai,
John D. Cressler, Jeremy A. Yaeger, Mohammad M. Mojarradi, Alan
Mantooth, Benjamin J. Blalock, Richard W. Berger,
"High
Speed Channel Resistive Sensor Interface with RHBD in 0.5 μm SiGe
BiCMOS for UWT from -180˚C to 120˚C," IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp.78-81, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2011 Feng Zhao and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
0.6V Quadrature VCO With Optimized Capacitive Coupling for Phase
Noise Reduction," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 1-4, San Jose, California, September, 2011
Zhenqi Chen and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
3mW 8-Bit Radiation-hardened-by-design DAC for Ultra-wide
Temperature Range from -180oC to 120oC," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011
Vasanth Kakani and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
4.2-4.7GHz, 3.7mW Digitally Controlled Oscillator RFIC," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011
Jianjun Yu and Fa Foster Dai,
"On-chip
Jitter Measurement Using Vernier Ring Time-to-digital Converter,"
IEEE 19th Asian Test Symposium, pp. 167-170, Shanghai, China, December, 2010
Yuan Yao, Desheng Ma and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
12-bit Interleaved OpAmp-Sharing Pipeline ADC for Extreme
Environment Applications,"
10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), pp. 394-396, Shanghai, China, November 2010
Jianjun Yu and Fa Foster Dai,
"A
3-Dimensional Vernier Ring Time-to-digital Converter in 0.13μm
CMOS," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Jose, California, September, 2010
Ryan M. Diestelhorst, Steven Finn, Laleh Najafizadeh, Desheng Ma, Pengfei Xi,
Chandradevi Ulaganathan, John D. Cressler, Ben Blalock,
Fa Foster Dai, Alan Mantooth, Linda Del Castillo, Mohammad Mojarradi, and Richard Berger,
"A
monolithic, wide-temperature, charge amplification channel for
extreme environments," IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-10, Big Sky, MT , USA, April, 2010
Xueyang Geng and
Fa Foster Dai,
"An
8.7-13.8 GHz Transformer-coupled Varactor-less Quadrature
Current-controlled Oscillator RFIC," IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp.63-66, Capri, Italy, Oct. 2009
Starr, G.J.; Jie Qin; Dutton, B.F.; Stroud, C.E.;
Fa Foster Dai, and Nelson, V.P.,
"Automated
Generation of Built-In Self-Test and Measurement Circuitry for
Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems," 24th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, pp.11
- 19, Oct., 2009
Jianjun Yu,
Fa Foster Dai and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A
12-Bit Vernier Ring Time-to-Digital Converter in 0.13μm CMOS
Technology," IEEE VLSI Symposium, pp. 232 - 233, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009
Xueyang Geng,
Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 5 GHz
Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC with Direct Modulation and Spur
Randomization," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 419-422, June 7-9, 2009
Desheng Ma,
Fa Foster Dai, Richard C. Jaeger, and J. David Irwin
"An 8-18
GHz 0.18W Wideband Recursive Receiver MMIC with Gain-Reuse," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 463
- 466, June 7-9, 2009
Xueyang Geng,
Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 9-bit
2.9GHz Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC with Direct Digital Frequency
and Phase Modulations," IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), pp. 1125-1128, Boston, June 2009
Desheng Ma,
Fa Foster Dai, Richard C. Jaeger, and J. David Irwin
"An 8–18
GHz Wideband SiGe BiCMOS Low Noise Amplifier," IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), pp. 929 - 932, Boston, June 2009
Zhenqi Chen and
Fa Foster Dai
"Effects
of Lo Phase and Amplitude Imbalances and Phase Noise on M- QAM
Transceiver Performance," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(ISCAS), pp. 197-200, Taipei, May 2009
Desheng Ma, Xueyang Geng,
Fa Foster Dai and John D. Cressler,
"A 6th
Order Butterworth SC Low Pass Filter for Cryogenic Applications from
-180ºC to 120ºC," IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp.1-8, Big Sky, MT, March, 2009
Desheng Ma, Bogdan Wilamowski, and
Fa Foster Dai,
"A
Tunable CMOS Resistor with Wide Tuning Range for Low Pass Filter
Application," IEEE 9th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems,
San Diego, CA, January, 2009
Mark Ray, William Souder, Marcus Ratcliff,
Fa Foster Dai and J. David Irwin,
"A 13GHz
Low Power Multi-Modulus Divider Implemented in 0.12um SiGe
Technology," IEEE 9th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems,
San Diego, CA, January, 2009
Xuefeng Yu,
Fa Foster Dai , David Irwin and Richard Jaeger,
"A 2.2V
200mW 3GHz Ring Oscillator Based Waveform Generator," IEEE 9th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, pp. 1-4, San Diego, CA, January, 2009
Yuan Yao,
Fa Foster Dai, J. David Irwin, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 3-Bit
2.2V 3.08pJ/Conversion-Step 11GS/s Flash ADC in A 0.12mm SiGe BiCMOS
Technology," IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp.256-259, Monterey, California, Oct. 2008
Yuehai Jin and
Fa Foster Dai,
"A 5GHz
Low Power Receiver Front-end RFIC with One Tail Current Implemented
In SiGe BiCMOS Technology," IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp.224-227, Monterey, California, Oct. 2008
Xueyang Geng, Xuefeng Yu, Fa Foster Dai, David J. Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"An 11Bit 8.6GHz Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC,"
34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp.362-265, Edingburgh, U.K., September, 2008
Xuefeng Yu, Fa Foster Dai,
Dayu Yang, J. David Irwin, Richard C. Jaeger,
"An X/Ku-Band Frequency Synthesizer Using A 9-Bit Quadrature DDS,"
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 491-494, San Jose, California, September, 2008
Richard Berger, Raymond Garbos, John Cressler, Mohammad Mojarradi, Leora Peltz,
Ben Blalock, Wayne Johnson, Goufu Niu, Foster Dai, Alan Mantooth, Jim Holmes, Mike Alles, Patrick McClusky,
"A Miniaturized Data Acquisition System for Extreme
Temperature Environments,"
IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-12, Big Sky, MT, March, 2008
Yuan Yao, Xuefeng Yu, Dayu Yang, Foster Dai,
J. David Irwin,and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A3-Bit 20GS/s Interleaved Flash Analog-to-Digital
Converter in SiGe Technology,"
IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), pp420-423,Jeju, Korea, November, 2007
Xuefeng Yu, Foster Dai, Dayu Yang, Vasanth Kakani, J. David Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 9-Bit 6.3GHz 2.5W Quadrature Direct Digital Synthesizer MMIC,
"
IEEE VLSI Symposium, pp. 52-53, Kyoto, Japan, June 2007
Xuefeng Yu,
Foster Dai, Dayu Yang, Vasanth Kakani, J. David Irwin,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 9-Bit
9.6GHz 1.9W Direct Digital Synthesizer RFIC Implemented In 0.18 um
SiGe BiCMOS Technology," IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 241-244, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007
Jie Qin, C. Stroud, and F. Dai,
"Noise
Figure Measurement Using Mixed-Signal BIST," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp.2180-2183, New Orleans, 2007
Dayu Yang, Weining Ni, Foster F. Dai, Yin Shi,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"Delta-Sigma Modulation in Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis,"
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 523-526, San Jose, California, September, 2006
Vasanth Kakani, Foster F. Dai,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 5GHz Series Coupled BiCMOS Quadrature VCO with Wide Tuning Range,"
IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp. 138-141, Maastricht, The Netherlands, October, 2006
Vasanth Kakani, Xuefeng Yu, Foster F. Dai, Richard C. Jaeger,
"A 3.5GHz Low Power Programmable Transversal Filter RFIC
Implemented in 47GHz SiGe Technology,"
IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), pp. 84-87, Maastricht, The Netherlands, October, 2006
Yuan Yao, Xuefeng Yu, Foster Dai, Richard Jaeger,
"A12-Bit Current Steering DAC for Cryogenic Applications,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, pp. 105-108, May 2006
Charles Stroud, Dayu Yang, Foster Dai,
"Analog Frequency Response Measurement in Mixed-Signal Systems,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 5736-5739, Kos, Greece, May 2006
John Rogers, Dave Rahn, Mark Cavin, Foster Dai, Neric Fong,
Richard Griffith, Jose Macedo, David Moore, and Mike Toner,
"A Fully Integrated Multi-Band MIMO WLAN Transceiver RFIC,"
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 290 - 293, Kyoto, Japan, June, 2005
Weining Ni, Foster F. Dai, Yin Shi,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer with Single-Stage
∆Σ Interpolator and Current-Steering DAC,"
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 56-59, Kyoto, Japan, June, 2005
Dayu Yang, Foster Dai,
and Charles Stroud,
"Built-In Self-Test for Automatic Analog
Frequency Response Measurement,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2208-2211, Kobe, Japan, May 2005
Vasanth Kakani, Foster F. Dai, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A
High Speed Integrated Equalizer for Dispersion Compensation in
10Gb/s Fiber Networks," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1178-1181, Kobe, Japan, May 2005
Foster F. Dai, Shengfang Wei, and Richard Jaeger,
"Integrated Blind Electronic Equalization
For Fiber Dispersion Compensation,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 5750-5753, Kobe, Japan, May 2005
Dayu Yang, and Foster F. Dai,
"A 10GHz Nonlinear Cosine-Weighted Digital-to-Analog
Converter For High-Speed Direct Digital Synthesis,"
IEEE 5th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Atlanta, GA, pp. 73-76, September, 2004
Vasanth Kakani, and Foster F. Dai,
"Integrated
Electronic Equalizer for Dispersion Compensation in 10Gb/s Fiber
Networks,"
IEEE 5th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Atlanta, GA, pp. 314-317, September, 2004
Foster F. Dai, Lakshmi S. J. Chimakurthy, Dayu Yang, Jun Huang,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Low Power 5 GHz Direct Digital Synthesizer
Designed In SiGe Technology,"
IEEE 5th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Atlanta, GA, pp. 21-24, September, 2004
Raja K. K. R. Sandireddy,
Foster F. Dai, and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Generic Architecture for Multi-Modulus Dividers in Low-Power
and High-Speed Frequency Synthesis,"
IEEE 5th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Atlanta, GA, pp. 243-246, September, 2004
Foster Dai, Charles Stroud, Dayu Yang,
and Shuying Qi,
"Automatic Linearity (IP3) Test with Built-in
Pattern Generator and Analyzer,"
Proc. IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), pp. 271-280, Charlotte, NC, October, 2004
Lakshmi S. J. Chimakurthy, Malinky Ghosh, Foster F. Dai,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"A Novel DDS Architecture Using Nonlinear ROM Addressing with
Improved Compression Ratio and Quantization Noise,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 705-708, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004
Vasanth Kakani, Foster F. Dai,
and Richard C. Jaeger,
"DELAY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMAL BIASING FOR HIGH SPEED LOW
POWER CURRENT MODE LOGIC CIRCUITS,"
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 869-872, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004
John Rogers, Mark Cavin, Foster F. Dai,
and Dave Rahn,
"A
Delta-Sigma Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer with Multi-Band PMOS
VCOs for 2.4 and 5GHz WLAN Applications," European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 651-654, Estoril, Portugal, September, 2003
Patents
Fa Dai
and Hechen Wang, “Radio Frequency
(RF) to Digital Polar Data Converter and Time-to-Digital Converter Based Time
Domain Signal Processing Receiver,” US Patent No. 10,785075 B2, Assignee Auburn University, Sept. 22, 2020. Fa Dai
and Ruixin Wang, “Multi-ring
Coupled Ring Oscillator with Improved Phase Noise,” US patent No. 10,396,807 B1, Assignee Auburn University, Aug. 27, 2019
Yang Xu, Fa Foster Dai
and Dongyi Liao, “Wideband direct
modulation with two-point injection in digital phase locked loops,”
US patent No. 9,391,625, Assignee INNOPHASE INC., July 12, 2016
Fa Foster Dai
and G. Goldman, “RF
system with integrated phase shifters using dual multi-phase
phase-locked loops,” US Patent App. 13/767,892, Assignee US Army
Research Lab, Aug. 21, 2014 Fa Foster Dai and Jianjun Yu,
"Vernier Ring Time-To-Digital Converters with Comparator Matrix,"
US patent No. 8,138,958 B2, Assignee Auburn University, filed
on Jan. 29, 2010, issued on March 20, 2012
Fa Dai,
"High-Order Delta-Sigma Noise Shaping in Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis," US patent No. 7,577,695 B2,
Assignee Auburn University, filed on July 22, 2005, issued on August 18, 2009
Fa Dai
and Charles E. Stroud,
"Automatic Analog Test and Compensation with Built-In Pattern Generator and Analyzer,"
US patent No. 7,428,683 B2, Assignee Auburn University, filed on July 22, 2005, issued on September 23, 2008
Fa Dai
and M. Pacek,
"Adaptive distortion compensation in optical fiber communication networks,"
US patent No. 7224911 B2, Assignee JDS Uniphase Corporation, filed on June 05, 2002,
issued on May 29, 2007
T. Jackson, G. Eapen,
and Fa Dai,
"Linearized Offset QPSK
Modulation Utilizing a Sigma-Delta Based Frequency Modulator," US patent No. 6,975,687, Assignee
Hughes Electronics, filed on June 18, 2001, issued on December 13, 2005
T. Jackson, G. Eapen,
and Foster Dai,
"Feed Forward Sigma Delta
Interpolator For Use in a Fractional-N Synthesizer," US patent No. 6,941,330, Assignee Hughes Electronics,
filed on Sept. 26, 2001, issued on September 6, 2005