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.
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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
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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
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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