Electronics Research Laboratory
Dept. of Microelectronics

dr.ir. A. Visweswaran

Guest
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics

PhD thesis (Apr 2017): The Design of Integrated Frequency Sources and their Application to Wideband FM Demodulation
Promotor: John Long

Expertise: RF IC Design

Themes: RF electronics

Biography

Akshay Visweswaran is a PhD candidate researcher jointly supervised by Profs. Long and Staszewski. He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at TU Delft in 2009. He started his PhD in March 2010 and finished in 2017.

Akshay is a leading author of an ISSCC conference and a JSSC journal papers.

His research interests include RF/Analog circuit design for high-speed wideband transceivers. Now working at IMEC Leuven

Publications

  1. Over-the-Air Characterization Of mm-Wave On-Chip Antennas and Tx Modules, Concept and Calibration
    De Martino, C.; Visweswaran, Akshay; Spirito, M.;
    In 2020 95th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG),
    pp. 1-4, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ARFTG47271.2020.9241375

  2. An integrated 132-147GHz power source with +27dBm EIRP
    Visweswaran, Akshay; Haag, Alexander; de Martino, Carmine; Schneider, Karina; Maiwald, Tim; Vignon, Bastien; Aufinger, Klaus; Spirito, Marco; Zwick, Thomas; Wambacq, Piet;
    In 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 219-222, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/RFIC49505.2020.9218353

  3. An IQ-steering technique for amplitude and phase control of mm-wave signals
    A. Visweswaran; C. de Martino; E. Sirignano; M. Spirito;
    In 2015 86th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference,
    pp. 1-4, Dec 2015.

  4. A Low Phase Noise Oscillator Principled on Transformer-Coupled Hard Limiting
    A. Visweswaran; R. B. Staszewski; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 373-383, Feb 2014.

  5. A 1.2V 110-MHz-UGB differential class-AB amplifier in 65nm CMOS
    A. Visweswaran; J. R. Long; R. B. Staszewski;
    In Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference,
    pp. 1-4, Sept 2014.

  6. Ultra-low phase noise 7.2 #x2013;8.7 Ghz clip-and-restore oscillator with 191 dBc/Hz FoM
    M. Babaie; A. Visweswaran; Z. He; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 43-46, June 2013.

  7. An FM demodulator operating across 2 #x2013;10GHz IF
    A. Visweswaran; J. R. Long; L. Galatro; M. Spirito; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2013 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 213-216, June 2013.

  8. All-Digital RF $I/Q$ Modulator
    Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Visweswaran, Akshay; Long, John R.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 3513-3526, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2211612

  9. Fine frequency tuning using injection-control in a 1.2V 65nm CMOS quadrature oscillator
    A. Visweswaran; R. B. Staszewski; J. R. Long; A. Akhnoukh;
    In 2012 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium,
    pp. 293-296, June 2012.

  10. A clip-and-restore technique for phase desensitization in a 1.2V 65nm CMOS oscillator for cellular mobile and base stations
    A. Visweswaran; R. B. Staszewski; J. R. Long;
    In 2012 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference,
    pp. 350-352, Feb 2012.

  11. A 2-GHz digital I/Q modulator in 65-nm CMOS
    Alavi, Morteza S.; Visweswaran, Akshay; Staszewski, Robert B.; de Vreede, Leo C.N; Long, John R.; Akhnoukh, Atef;
    In IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference 2011,
    pp. 277-280, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2011.6123565

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2018

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