Publications

  • Behdad Jamadi & Armin Tajalli (2024). Trade-Offs in Design of Wide-Band Inverter-Based Amplifiers. IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II. Published, 07/01/2024.
  • Rajath Bindiganavile, Asif Wahid & Armin Tajalli (2024). Hadamard Multi-Tone Signaling in Multi-Wire Pulse Amplitude Modulation for Next Generation Wireline Communication. IEEE ISCAS. Published, 05/19/2024.
  • Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli & Wood Chaing (2024). A Digital Background Calibration Circuit for Coarse-Fine Timing Mismatch in VCO-Based ADCs. IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II. Published, 05/01/2024.
  • Rajath Bindiganavile, Asif Wahid & Armin Tajalli (2024). A 29 GHz Sub-Sampling PLL with 25.6-fs-rms RJ based on a Discrete-Time Integrating PD in 45nm RF SOI. IEEE CICC. Published, 04/22/2024.
  • Armin Tajalli (2024). Speed-Noise-Power Trade-Offs in Design of Scaled FET Circuits Using C/ID Methodology. IEEE LASCAS. Published, 03/01/2024.
  • Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli & Wood Chiang (2023). A 0.12-V 200-Hz-BW 10-bit ADC using quad-channel VCO and interpolation linearization. IEEE A-SSCC. Published, 12/01/2023.
  • Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli & Wood Chiang (2023). A VCO linearization technique using dual-VCO and interpolation for time-based ADCs. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/08/2023.
  • Sakthidasan Kalidasan & Armin Tajalli (2023). Extending C/ID Methodology for Optimal Implementation of Single-Stage Discrete-Time Amplifiers. IEEE SMACD. Published, 07/04/2023.
  • Behdad Jamadi, Farzad Ordubadi & Armin Tajalli (2023). Design Flow to Develop Wideband Inverter-Based Circuits Using C/ID Methodology. IEEE SMACD. Published, 07/04/2023.
  • Asif Wahid, Jacob Atkinson, Rajath Bindiganavile, Farzan Jazaeri & Armin Tajalli (2023). Noise-Aware FET Circuit Design Based on C/ID-Invariant. IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems II. Published, 06/01/2023.
  • Alec Adair & Armin Tajalli (2023). Computational Efficiency of Circuit Design and Optimization Algorithms: a Comparative Study. IEEE ISCAS. Published, 05/16/2023.
  • Sherman Chen, Zhifei Xu, Armin Tajalli & Brian Holden (2022). Frequency-Dependent Per-Port Renormalization. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND POWER INTEGRITY. Published, 11/01/2022.
  • Armin Tajalli & Amin Shokrollahi (2022). Balanced Circuit Topologies and Their Applications in Data Movement. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/18/2022.
  • Jacob Atkinson, Anthony Bailey & Armin Tajalli (2022). Systematic design of loop circuit topologies using C/IDS methodology. IEEE TVLSI. Published, 08/01/2022.
  • Rajath Bindiganavile, Asif Wahid, Jacob Atkinson & Armin Tajalli (2022). A 59-fs-rms 35-GHz PLL with FoM of -241-dB in 0.18-μm BiCMOS/SiGe Technology. IEEE RFIC. Published, 07/01/2022.
  • Jacob Atkinson, Anthony Baily & Armin Tajalli (2022). Systematic Design of Loop Circuit Topologies Using C/IDS Methodology. IEEE TVLSI. Published, 06/01/2022.
  • Armin Tajalli (2021). Network-in-Package for Low-Power and High-Performance Computing. CRC Press. Published, 11/11/2021.
  • Rajath Bindiganavile & Armin Tajalli (2021). A Controlled KVCO Ring VCO Topology. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/06/2021.
  • Amin Aghighi, Behrouz Farhang & Armin Tajalli (2021). Mixed-Mode Signal Processing for Implementing MCMC MIMO Detector. Springer. Published, 07/09/2021.
  • Shermann Chen, Zhifeng Xu, Brian Holden & Armin Tajalli (2021). The Sensitivity of ENRZ to Crosstalk-In Comparison to NRZ, PAM3, and PAM4. IEEE International Joint EMC/SI/PI and EMC Europe Symposium. Published, 07/07/2021.
  • ASIF WAHID, Rajath Bindiganavile & Armin Tajalli (2021). Optimal PAM Order for Wireline Communications,. IEEE ISCAS. Published, 05/28/2021.
  • Firat Celik, Ayca Akkaya, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2021). A 32-Gb/s PAM-4 SST Transmitter With Four-Tap FFE Using High-Impedance Driver in 28-nm FDSOI. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. Published, 03/01/2021.
  • Armin Tajalli (2021). Power-Speed Trade-Offs in Design of Scaled FET Circuits Using C/IDS Methodology. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I. Published, 02/01/2021.
  • Shermann Chen & Armin Tajalli (2020). Link Performance Comparison based on Insertion Loss: NRZ, PAM3, PAM4, and ENRZ. IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems (EDAPS). Published, 12/01/2020.
  • Amin Aghighi & Armin Tajalli (2020). Common-Gate CTLE Topology Based on Optimized Active Inductors. IEEE VLSI-SoC. Published, 10/05/2020.
  • Amin Aghighi, Behrouz Farhang & Armin Tajalli (2020). Energy and Area Efficient Mixed-Mode MCMC MIMO Detector. IEEE VLSI-SoC. Published, 10/05/2020.
  • Amin Aghighi, Massood Tabib-Azar & Armin Tajalli (2020). An ULP Self-Supplied Brain Interface Circuit. IEEE VLSI-SoC. Published, 10/05/2020.
  • Asif Wahid & Armin Tajalli (2020). Digitally-Assisted Peak Detector for Periodic Signal. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/10/2020.
  • Asif Wahid, Sayed Abdullah Sadat, Mostafa Ardakani & Armin Tajalli (2020). Power System Emulator Based on PLL Architecture. IEEE ISCAS. 4. Published, 05/25/2020.
  • Armin Tajalli (2020). Short-Reach and Pin-Efficient Interfaces Using Correlated NRZ. IEEE CICC. Published, 03/24/2020.
  • Armin Tajalli (2020). A 1.02-pJ/b 20.83-Gb/s/Wire USR Transceiver Using CNRZ-5 in 16-nm FinFET. IEEE JSSC. 16. Published, 03/01/2020.
  • Farzan Jazaeri, A. Beckers, Armin Tajalli & Jean-Michel Sallese (2019). A Review on Quantum Computing: Qubits, Cryogenic Electronics and Cryogenic MOSFET Physics. arXiv. Published, 09/01/2019.
  • Rajath Bindiganavile (2019). Spectrum-Efficient Communication Over Copper Using Hybrid Amplitude and Spatial Signaling. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/05/2019.
  • Jacob Atkinson, Amin Aghighi, Stuart Anderson, Anthony Bailey, Mitchel Crane & Armin Tajalli (2019). Multi-Stage Current-Steering Amplifier Design Based on Extended gm/ID Methodology. IEEE MWSCAS. Published, 08/05/2019.
  • Firat Celik, Ayca Akkaya, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2019). ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links. IEEE NEWCAS. Published, 06/24/2019.
  • Amin Aghighi, Jacob Atkinson, Nickolas Bybee, Stuart Anderson, Reuben Morell, Mitchell Crane, Ahmed Hassanin & Armin Tajalli (2019). CMOS Amplifier Design Based on Extended gm/ID Methodology. IEEE NEWCAS. Published, 06/24/2019.
  • Firat Celik, Ayca Akkaya, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2019). JESD204B Compliant 12.5 Gb/s LVDS and SST Transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS. PRIME. Published, 06/17/2019.
  • Armin Tajalli (2019). A 1.02pJ/b 417Gb/s/mm USR Link in 16nm FinFET. VLSI Symposia. Published, 06/09/2019.
  • Armin Tajalli, Ali Hormati & Amin Shokrollahi (2019). Chordal Signaling for High-Speed Data Movement. IEEE Solid-State Circuit Magazine. Published, 05/01/2019.
  • Armin Tajalli (2019). Wideband Jitter Tracking for Low Power Clock Forwarded I/O Links. Desingcon. Published, 01/30/2019.
  • Ayce Akkaya, Firat Celik, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2018). A 10b SAR ADC with Widely Scalable Sampling Rate and AGC Amplifier Front-End. 2018 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP and International Symposium of System-on-Chip (SoC). Published, 11/01/2018.
  • Gain Kim, Chen Cao, Kiarash Gharibdoust, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2017). A Time-Division Multiplexing Signaling Scheme for Inter-Symbol/Channel Interference Reduction in Low-Power Multi-Drop Memory Links. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. Published, 12/01/2017.
  • Armin Tajalli (2017). Matrix phase detector for high bandwidth and low jitter frequency synthesis. IEE Electronics Letters. Published, 06/27/2017.
  • Gain Kim, Kiarash Gharibdoust & Armin Tajalli (2016). A digital spectrum shaping signaling serial-data transceiver with crosstalk and ISI reduction property in multidrop interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. Published, 12/01/2016.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust (2016). A wideband MDLL with jitter reduction scheme for forwarded clock serial links in 40 nm CMOS. New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2016 14th IEEE International. Published, 06/01/2016.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust, Gain Kim, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2016). A fully-digital spectrum shaping signaling for serial-data transceiver with crosstalk and isi reduction property in multi-drop memory interfaces. Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2016 IEEE International Symposium on. Published, 05/08/2016.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust (2016). A 4x9Gb/s 1pJ/b Hybrid NRZ/Multi-Tone I/O With Crosstalk and ISI Reduction for Dense Interconnects. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Published, 05/01/2016.
  • Amin Shokrollahi & Armin Tajalli (2016). A pin-efficient 20.83 Gb/s/wire 0.94 pJ/bit forwarded clock CNRZ-5-coded SerDes up to 12mm for MCM packages in 28nm CMOS. Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016 IEEE International. Published, 02/15/2016.
  • Ali Hormati, Kiarash Gharibdoust, Christoph Walter, Armin Tajalli & Amin Shokrollahi (2016). A Versatile Spectrum Shaping Scheme for Communicating Beyond Notches in Multi-Drop Interfaces”. Proceedings of DesignCon 2016. Published, 01/29/2016.
  • Nikola Katic, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). A subthreshold current‐sensing ΣΔ modulator for low‐voltage and low‐power sensor interfaces. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. Published, 11/01/2015.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). A 40-nm Mixed NRZ/Multi-Tone Serial Data Transceiver for Multi-Drop Memory Interfaces. 2015 International Microwave Symposium (IMS/RFIC/ARFTG) Workshop. Published, 10/10/2015.
  • Mahsa Shoaran, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). Jitter analysis and measurement in subthreshold source-coupled differential ring oscillators. Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on. Published, 05/24/2015.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). Hybrid NRZ/multi-tone serial data transceiver for multi-drop memory interfaces. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Published, 04/01/2015.
  • Kiarash Gharibdoust, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). A 7.5 mW 7.5 Gb/s mixed NRZ/multi-tone serial-data transceiver for multi-drop memory interfaces in 40nm CMOS. Solid-State Circuits Conference-(ISSCC), 2015 IEEE International. Published, 02/17/2015.
  • Mahsa Shoaran, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2015). Analysis and Characterization of Variability in Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic Circuits. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems. Published, 01/05/2015.
  • Nikola Katic, Ibrahim Kazi, Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2014). A 5.43-μW 0.8-V subthreshold current-sensing ΣΔ modulator for low-noise sensor interfaces. Proceedings of the 32nd NORCHIP Conference. Published, 10/27/2014.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2012). Wide-range dynamic power management in low-voltage low-power subthreshold SCL. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. Published, 12/12/2012.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2012). Power and area efficient MOSFET-C filter for very low frequency applications. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Published, 01/01/2012.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2011). Design trade-offs in ultra-low-power digital nanoscale CMOS. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. Published, 09/01/2011.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2011). Design trade-offs in ultra-low-power CMOS and STSCL digital systems. Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), 2011 20th European Conference on. Published, 08/29/2011.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2011). Low-power and widely tunable linearized biquadratic low-pass transconductor-C filter. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. Published, 03/01/2011.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2010). Extreme Low-Power Mixed Signal IC Design: Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuits. Springer. Published, 10/01/2010.
  • Armin Tajalli & Yusuf Leblebici (2010). Subthreshold current-mode oscillator-based quantizer with 3-decade scalable sampling rate and pico-ampere range resolution. ESSCIRC, 2010 Proceedings of the. Published, 09/14/2010.

Research Keywords

  • Wireline Communications
  • Wireless Communication Systems
  • Wideband communications
  • Ultra Low Power
  • Serial data communication
  • Sensor Interface Circuits
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Hardware Security
  • Frequency synthesizer
  • Data converters
  • Bio-Interface Circuits

Presentations

  • Balanced Circuit Topologies for Massive Data Movement. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 08/08/2022.
  • IEEE CAS/EDS Toronto Chapter: Algorithmic Analog Circuit Design based on C/ID Methodology. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/03/2022.
    https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/314527
  • DGIST University: C/ID Design Methodology for Optimal Analog Circuit Implementation. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/23/2022.
  • IEEE/IICM Keynote: Wireline MIMO Communications . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/22/2021.
  • ON Semi Seminar: Algorithmic Analog Circuit Design based on C/ID Methodology. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/20/2021.
  • Analog Bits: Systematic Analog Design Using C/ID Methodology. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/01/2021.
  • Multi-wire encoded signaling. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 01/06/2021.
    http://www.ieeewmedboise.org
  • Synopsys Presentation: Energy Efficient Circuit Design for Communications . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/17/2020.
  • A Short-Course on Serial Communications . Other, Presented, 06/24/2020.
  • BYU Graduate Seminar: Communication for High-Performance Computing. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/10/2019.
  • IEEE Swiss SSCS Talk : Circuits and Signaling Co-Design for Ultra-Wideband Communications. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 07/18/2019.
    https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/199845
  • Multi-Wire Signaling for In-Package Data Transfer. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/30/2019.
    http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~mnikdast/files/pape...
  • Circuits and Signaling Co-Design for Ultra-Wideband Communications (Northeaster University). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/30/2019.
  • IEEE Fall Solid-State Circuit Society Seminar - Brigham Young University: Network-in-Package for Energy-Efficient High-Performance Computing. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/30/2018.
  • Non-Differential Techniques: Multi-Wire Multi-Level I/O. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 11/15/2018.
    https://submissions.mirasmart.com/ISSCC2019/PDF/IS...
  • High Bandwidth Wireline Link Design (Boston University). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/15/2018.
  • Network-on-Package for Low-Power High-Performance Computing. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/17/2018.
    http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/2018/01/30/40/
  • Pin-Efficient Processor-Memory Link Design (Micron, Boise). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/18/2018.

Research Groups

  • Venkatraj Reddy Sunkari, Graduate Student. 10/01/2020 - 09/30/2021.
  • Saeid Mehrmanesh, Graduate Student. 08/24/2020 - 04/29/2022.
  • Dallas Johnson, Graduate Student. 08/01/2020 - present.
  • Eun Geol Kim, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Christian Giauque, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Christian Richard, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Ran Wei, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Israel Najar, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Sophie Wang, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Michael Dorman, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Tina Hayward, Undergraduate Student. 08/01/2020 - 04/30/2021.
  • Skyler Swearngin, Graduate Student. 11/01/2019 - 12/31/2021.
  • Bhawna Lakshmipathy, Graduate Student. 08/19/2019 - 06/30/2020.
  • Christopher Fischer, Undergraduate Student. 08/19/2019 - 04/30/2020.
  • Moriah Rose Price, Undergraduate Student. 08/19/2019 - 04/30/2020.
  • Ethan Fredric Price, Undergraduate Student. 08/19/2019 - 04/30/2020.
  • Colton J. Anderson, Undergraduate Student. 08/19/2019 - 04/30/2020.
  • James Skowronek, Graduate Student. 05/01/2019 - 11/29/2019.
  • Jacob Atkinson, Graduate Student. 05/01/2019 - present.
  • Tarun Banala, Graduate Student. 04/15/2019 - 09/01/2019.
  • Farhan Nasrullah, Graduate Student. 04/01/2019 - 08/30/2019.
  • Rajah Bingadanavile , Graduate Student. 01/01/2019 - present.
  • Hari Kambalasubramanyam, Graduate Student. 01/01/2019 - 08/31/2019.
  • Anton Arriaga Gandasegui, Undergraduate Student. 01/01/2019 - 04/30/2019.
  • Vijay Koundinya Nimmagadda, Graduate Student. 06/01/2018 - 08/22/2019.
  • Tarun Sangoju, Graduate Student. 06/01/2018 - 01/20/2019.
  • Jacob Atkinson, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2019.
  • Reuben Morrell, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2019.
  • Nickolas Bybee, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2019.
  • Mitchel Crane, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2019.
  • Stuart Anderson, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2020.
  • Anthony Baily, Undergraduate Student. 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2019.
  • Amin Aghighi, Graduate Student. 08/21/2017 - 09/01/2019.

Software Titles

  • PSI. PSI is develop to model and simulate sensitivity of different hardware topologies to side channel attacks. Release Date: 04/01/2019.