The ICS Lab's focus is on the research and development of next generation wired and wireless transceiver chips using advanced Silicon-based technologies and mixed-signal biochips for biomedical and healthcare applications.
IME has been a leader in the area of RF CMOS designs with successes in Bluetooth, RFID Tags and UWB. In order to achieve a first pass RF circuit design, designers need accurate models. We develop techniques for accurate and scalable models for active and passive devices as well as for parasitics such as interconnects. Device noise characterization and extending CMOS RF device modeling to mm-Waves domain are emerging areas of our future R&D.
RF front-end circuit design area is supported by the mixed signal IF design capabilities. Our mixed signal capability encompasses MEMS applications as well. We have demonstrated ASIC designs for MEMS pressure sensors, acceleration sensors, and current sensors for automotive applications.
In collaboration with industry partners, IME has designed two 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag chips for extremely low-cost non-contact applications. Our RFID tag with on-chip antenna supports read and write using RF power, which to our knowledge is the first in the world. We are currently designing a 900 MHz RFID Reader IC to miniaturize the readers and reduce their costs.
ICS has a strong research team developing 3-10 GHz CMOS Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) RF integrated circuits. IME is active in both pulse-based and MB-OFDM based UWB transceiver chip designs. We announced our latest carrier-less DS-UWB Transceiver chip at the foremost International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2006.
We are now encompassing bio-medical chip design activity incorporating RF and mixed-signal designs for various healthcare and prosthetic applications. |
