PhD and MS Thesis

Supervised

Ph.D.

• Rongtai Wang (currently at Rosemount Inc., MN)
  Thesis: Suppression of Acoustic Feedback in Hearing Aids: System and Circuit Design, June 1995
• Feng Wang (currently at RFMD, NC)
  Thesis: Optimal Design of Modulators for Oversampled Converters, March 1997
• Jonghae Kim, (currently at IBM, NY)
  Thesis: “CMOS Transceiver Design for Short Range Wireless Telemetry”, April 2001
• Wooyoung Choi, (currently at Rosemount Inc., MN)
  Thesis: “Optimal Test-Set Generation for Analog Sampled-Data Systems”, December 2001
• Liang Dai, (currently at Qualcomm, CA)
  Thesis: “Design of High Performance VCO for Communication Systems”, April 2002
• Yongwang Ding, (currently at Silicon Labs, TX)
  Thesis, "Linear RF CMOS Circuit Design", June 2004
• Kavita Nair (currently at IBM, NY)
  Thesis: "High-Speed High-SFDR Data Converters for Wireless Basestations", August 2004
• Byunghoo Jung (currently at Purdue University, IN)
  Thesis: "High-Speed Analog RF Front-End Circuit Design", December 2004
• Frank Dropps (currently at Qlogic, MN)
  Thesis: High Speed, High Resolution and High SFDR Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture and Design, May 2006"

M.S.

• Brian Blow (currently at Medtronic, MN)
  Thesis: Micromachined Silicon Architecture Using Capacitive and Piezoelectric Sensing Techniques, April 1992
• Nga Nguyen, ()
  Thesis: Design and Analysis of a CMOS Voltage Regulator, June 1993
• Sarika Agarwal  
  Thesis: Performance Modeling of Algorithmic and Successive Approximation A/D Converters, March 1994
• Jianfeng Shao (currently at Intel, CA)
  Thesis: Macromodeling of Analog Circuits for Hierarchical Circuit Design, June 1994
• Tom Lee (currently at DSP Group, MN)
  Thesis: Feedforward Residue Compensation for Reducing Tones in Sigma-Delta Modulators, May 1995
• Andrew Cable (currently at Intel, AZ)
  Thesis: A 6-Bit 40MHz CMOS Current-Mode Subranging A/D Converter, June 1995
• Nicholas Stessman (currently at Boston Scientific, MN)
  Thesis: System Level Design for Test in Analog Circuits, July 1995
• Ronald Vincent Jaworski (currently at Maxim in Oregon)
  Thesis: Analog Implementation of the FDTS Detection Algorithm for Magnetic Recording, October 1995
• Xin Wang (currently at AMD)
  Thesis: Analog Control Unit for a New KBAFC Hearing Aid, March 1996
• Oyvind Birkenes (currently at Chipcon, Norway)
  Thesis: CMOS Circuits for Short Range Wireless Communications, July 1997
• Mike Butenhoff (currently at Agere, MN)
  Thesis: A 200MHz Fixed-Delay Tree Search Tau=1 Detector for Disk-Drive Applications, July 1997
• Marius Dina, ()
  Thesis: High Speed Timing Recovery Circuit for Disk-Drive Applications, July 1997
• Ray Barnett (currently at Texas Instruments, MN)
  Thesis: Analog Implementation of High Speed Signal Equalization for Disk-Drive Data Detection, July 1997
• YuQing Yang (currently at Texas Instruments, TX)
  Thesis: Low Power, Oversampled, Sensor Interface Electronics, 1998
• Wooyoung Choi, (currently at Emerson Performance Technologies, MN)
  Thesis: Analyzing On-chip Test Techniques for Switched Capacitor Circuits using pFEAT, April 1998
• Kavita Nair, (currently at IBM, NY)
  Thesis: Compact, Ultra Low Power Continuous Time GM-C Filter Design, June 1998
• Liang Dai, (currently at Qualcomm, CA)
  "Switch Opamp based CMOS Sample-and-Hold Circuit Design", November, 1998
• Youngwang Ding, (currently at Silicon Labs, TX)
  Thesis: An Imbedded Strain Gage Interface Circuit, June 1999
• Jeremy Kuehlwein, (currently at Texas Instruments, MN)
  Thesis: CMOS Reader for Disk Drive MR Preamplifier, 1999
• Ron Alan Balczewski (currently at Boston Scientific, MN)
  Capacitive Power Converters: Framework, Design & Analysis, April 2000
• Douglas Warren Dean (currently at Texas Instruments, MN)
  Thesis:  A 1 GHz Differential to Single-Ended Instrumentation Amplifier, May 2000
• Zixiang Yang (currently at Motorola, Florida)
  Thesis: A Passive Wireless in vivo Transponder Design
• Erik H. Lange (currently at NVE, MN)
  Thesis: A 15-Bit CMOS Feedforward Residue Compensated A/D Converter, August 2000
• Randolf B. Hieneke, (currently at IBM, MN)
  Thesis: A Low-Voltage Integrated Class AB CMOS Amplifier, July 2002
• James Keoppe (currently at RFMD, CA)
  Thesis: Enhanced Analytic Noise Model for RF CMOS Design, December 2004
• Shubba Bommalingaiahnapallya, (currently pursuing Ph.D.)
  Thesis: N-Tone Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters, December 2004
• Yi-Hung Tseng, (currently at LSI Logic, MN)
  Thesis: Ultra Low Power UWB Impulse Radio Design, April 2005
• Jayant Parathasarathy, ()
  Thesis: Novel Integratable Passive Notch Filter Implementation for RF Image Rejection, November 2005
• Dustin Steffenson, (currently at LSI Logic, CO)
  Thesis: 20 Gbps Clock-Recovery Circuit Implementation in a 90nm Silicon CMOS Process Technology, February 2006
• Shen Dong, (currently at Sigrity, Inc)
  Thesis: Impact of Discontinuity on High-Speed Interconnect Design, August 2006
• Joshua John Wibben, (currently with Polar Semiconductor Inc.)
  Thesis: A High Efficiency On-Chip Power Supply