My research program strives to extend the rate, reach, and reliability of our communication links – whether they are between a satellite and an earthbound receiver, or between two integrated circuits just a few millimetres apart. Specifically, we develop integrated electronic systems that process information at high speeds. Projects combine signal processing concepts with integrated circuit design. Visit our IC Design Gallery for some recent examples.
Research News
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MASc student Tony Kao received the best paper award (Gold Leaf) at the 2009 Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference held in Ottawa on October 13-14. |
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Our research on optical receivers for multi-Gbps systems has been highlighted by CMC Microsystems for its impact. |
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Our article entitled "CMOS Oscillators for Clock Distribution and Injection-Locked Deskew" appeared in the August 2009 issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and immediately became one of the Journal's Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles (#7 in August) and one of the Top 100 Downloaded Articles in the entire IEEE (#24 in August). |
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Another article from our lab entitled "A 35-GS/s, 4-Bit Flash ADC With Active Data and Clock Distribution Trees" that appeared in the June 2009 issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits was one of the Journal's Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles (#5) and one of the Top 100 Downloaded Articles in the entire IEEE (#21) in June. |
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Masum Hossain, winner of the Best Student Paper at the 2008 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference for the paper entitled “20 GHz Low Power QVCO and De-skew Techniques in 0.13-um Digital CMOS” |
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Research Areas
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Students
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Further info... |
Current students |
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Shahriar Shahramian, Ph.D.. candidate |
2003 - present | Ultra-high-speed A/D conversion | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~sshahram |
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Masum Hossain, Ph.D. candidate |
2005 - present | Low-power Multi-Gbps Wireline Communication | masum@eecg.utoronto.ca |
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Mike Bichan, Ph.D. candidate |
2006 - present | Parallel chip-to-chip I/O | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~mbichan |
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Kentaro Yamamoto, Ph.D.. candidate |
2006 - present | Baseband Analog Circuit Blocks for Radio Receivers in CMOS | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~kentaro |
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Dustin Dunwell, Ph.D. Candidate |
2006 - present | Circuits and systems for high-speed wireline communication | dunwelld@eecg.utoronto.ca |
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Amer Samarah, Ph.D. Candidate |
2007 - present | Digital PLLs | http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~samaraha |
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Kevin Banovic, Ph.D. candidate |
2009 - present | Spectrum Sensing | http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~banovic |
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Hemesh Yasotharan, M.A.Sc. candidate |
2008 - present | High-performance CMOS photo-receivers | http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~yasothar |
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Alain Rousson, M.A.Sc. candidate |
2009 - present | TBD | |
Past students |
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Tony Kao, M.A.Sc. |
2006 - 2009 | A 5-Gbps Optical Receiver with Monolithically Integrated Photodetector in 0.18-um CMOS | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~tonykao |
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Peter Park, M.A.Sc. |
2005 - 2008 | A 4PAM/2PAM coaxial cable receiver analog front-end targeting 40Gb/s in 90-nm CMOS | parkp@eecg.utoronto.ca |
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George Ng, M.A.Sc. |
2005 - 2008 | Distributed Circuit Techniques for Equalization of Short Multimode Fiber Links | ngg@eecg.utoronto.ca |
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Horace Cheng, M.A.Sc. |
2005 - 2008 | A 4PAM/2PAM Coaxial Cable Driver Targeting 40Gb/s in 0.13μm CMOS | horace@eecg.utoronto.ca |
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Ahmad Darabiha, Ph.D. |
2003 - 2008 | High-throughput low-density parity check decoders | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~ahmadd |
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Faisal Musa,
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2002 - 2007 |
High-speed baud-rate clock recovery |
Download thesis [7 MB] |
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Jennifer Pham, M.A.Sc. |
2004 - 2007 | Time-interleaved DS-DAC for Broadband Wireless Applications | Download thesis [12 MB] |
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Kentaro Yamamoto, M.A.Sc. |
2004 - 2006 | A programmable delta-sigma ADC | www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~kentaro |
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Mike Bichan, M.A.Sc. |
2003 - 2006 | Crosstalk-Aware Transmitter Pulse-Shaping for Parallel Chip-to-Chip Links | Download thesis [3 MB] |
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Adesh Garg, M.A.Sc. |
2003 - 2005 | A 1-tap 40-Gbps look-ahead decision feedback equalizer in SiGe BiCMOS | Download thesis [5 MB] |
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Jonathan
Sewter, |
2002 - 2004 |
Electronic equalization of polarization-mode dispersion in 40-Gb/s optical systems |
Download thesis [3 MB] |
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Sabrina Liao,
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2007 - 2008 |
Broadband CMOS Digitally-controlled Oscillators |
Coming soon |
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Michael Georgas, B.A.Sc. |
2006 - 2007 | A Genetic Algorithm for the Design of Passive Filters and a Distributed Amplifier | Download thesis [12 MB] |
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Denis Daly,
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2002 - 2003 |
Direct GMSK generation using delta-sigma modulation |
Download thesis [1.3 MB] |
[Group photo, summer 2007, Webster's Falls, Greensville, Ontario.]
Past projects:
| A Genetic Algorithm for Transfer Function Design |
| Analog Filter Design |