RFIC Industry Paper Awards

 

Author(s), Affiliation

Paper Title

2024

1st

Justin J. Kim, Michael D. Hodge, Mark R. Soler, Florian Herrault, Daniel S. Green, James F. Buckwalter
PseudolithIC, USA

Heterogeneously-Integrated Gallium Nitride and Indium Phosphide Devices for Ka-band Amplifiers

2nd

Caglar Ozdag, Arun Paidimarri, Masayuki Yoshiyama, Yuichiro Yamaguchi, Yujiro Tojo, Bodhisatwa Sadhu
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA and Japan

A 21–27-GHz Frequency Quadrupler in 0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS with 0-dBm POUT and 40-dBc HRR for Wideband 5G Applications

2023

1st

Wanghua Wu, Jeiyoung Lee, Pak-Kim Lau, Taeyoung Kang, Kim Kiu Lau, Si-Wook Yoo, Xingliang Zhao, Ashutosh Verma, Ivan Siu-Chuang Lu, Chih-Wei Yao, Hou-Shin Chen, Gennady Feygin, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Sangwon Son
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

A 14-nm Low-Cost IF Transceiver IC with Low-Jitter LO and Flexible Calibration Architecture for 5G FR2 Mobile Applications

2nd

Sai-Wang Tam, Alireza Razzaghi, Alden Wong, Sridhar Narravula, Weiwei Xu, Timothy Loo, Akash Kambale, Andrew Liu, Ovidiu Carnu, Yui Lin, Randy Tsang
NXP Semiconductors

A 28nm CMOS Dual Band Concurrent WLAN and Narrow Band Transmitter with On-chip Feedforward TX-to-TX Interference Cancellation Path for Low Antenna-to-Antenna Isolation in IoT Devices

3rd

Tsung-Ming Chen, Ming-Chung Liu, Pi-An Wu, Wei-Kai Hong, Ting-Wei Liang, Wei-Pang Chao, Po-Yu Chang, Yu-Ting Chou, Chien-Wei Chen, Sen-You Liu, Chang-Cheng Huang, Hsiu-Hsien Ting, Min-Shun Hsu, Yao-Chi Wang, Chao-Ching Hung, Yu-Li Hsueh, Eric Lu, Yuan-Hung Chung, Jing-Hong Conan Zhan
MediaTek Inc.

A Wi-Fi Tri-Band Switchable Transceiver with 57.9fs-RMS-Jitter Frequency Synthesizer, Achieving -42.6dB EVM floor for EHT320 4096-QAM MCS13 signal

2022

1st

Renzhi Liu, Asma Beevi K. T., Richard Dorrance, Timothy Cox, Rinkle Jain, Tolga Acikalin, Zhen Zhou, Tae Young Yang, Johanny Escobar Pelaez, Shuhei Yamada, Kenneth Foust, Brent Carlton
Intel Corporation

A 2Gb-s 9.9pJ-b Sub-10GHz Wireless Transceiver for Reconfigurable Full-duplex Wireless Networks and Short-Range Multicast Applications

2nd

Siraj Akhtar, Gerd Schuppener, Tolga Dinc, Baher Haroun, Swaminathan Sankaran
Texas Instruments

DC to 12+GHz, +30dBm OIP3, 7.2dB Noise Figure Active Balun in 130nm BiCMOS for RF Sampling Multi-Gbps Data Converters

3rd

Shahriar Shahramian, Michael Holyoak, Mike Zierdt, Joe Weiner, Amit Singh, Yves Baeyens
Nokia Bell Labs

An All-Silicon E-Band Backhaul-on-Glass Frequency Division Duplex Module with >24dBm PSAT & 8dB NF

2021

1st

Guillaume Tochou, Robin Benarrouch, David Gaidioz, Andreia Cathelin, Antoine Frappé, Andreas Kaiser, Jan Rabaey
ST Microelectronics

A Fully-Digital 0.1-to-27Mb/s ULV 450MHz Transmitter with Sub-100μW Power Consumption for Body-Coupled Communication in 28nm FD-SOI CMOS

2nd

Tolga Dinc, Siraj Akhtar, Sachin Kalia, Baher Haroun, Swaminathan Sankaran
Texas Instruments

Doubly-Tuned Transformer-Based Class-E Power Amplifiers in 130nm BiCMOS for mmWave Radar Sensors

3rd

Saeid Daneshgar, Hao Li, Taehwan Kim, Ganesh Balamurugan
Intel Corporation

A 128Gb/s PAM4 Linear TIA with 12.6pA/√Hz Noise Density in 22nm FinFET CMOS

2020

1st

Amit Singh, Mustafa Sayginer, Michael J. Holyoak, Joseph Weiner, John Kimionis, Mohamed Elkhouly, Yves Baeyens, Shahriar Shahramian
Nokia Bell Labs

A D-Band Radio-on-Glass Module for Spectrally-Efficient and Low-Cost Wireless Backhaul

2nd

Ayssar Serhan, Damien Parat, Pascal Reynier, Manuel Pezzin, Renaud Mourot, Fabrice Chaix, Rana Berro, Paramartha Indirayanti, Carl De Ranter, Kefeng Han, Marc Borremans, Eric Mercier, Alexandre Giry
CEA-LETI

A Reconfigurable SOI CMOS Doherty Power Amplifier Module for Broadband LTE High-Power User Equipment Applications 

3rd

Sang Gyun Kim, In Chang Ko, Seung Hwan Jung
GRIT Custom-IC

High Resolution CMOS IR-UWB Radar for Non-Contact Human Vital Signs Detection

2019

1st

Renzhi Liu, Asma Beevi K. T., Richard Dorrance, Deepak Dasalukunte, Mario A Santana Lopez, Vinod Kristem, Shahrnaz Azizi, Minyoung Park, and Brent Carlton
Intel Corporation

An 802.11ba-Based, -92.6dBm-Sensitivity, Blocker Tolerant 495µW Wake-up Radio Fully Integrated with Wi-Fi Transceiver

2nd

Wooram Lee, Tolga Dinc, and Alberto Valdes-Garcia
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Reconfigurable mmWave Radar Transmitter SoC with Broadband Frequency Tripler in 45nm SOI CMOS 

3rd

Steven Turner, Mark Stuenkel, Gary Madison, Justin Cartwright, Richard Harwood, Joseph Cali, Steve Chadwick, Michael Oh, John Matta, James Meredith, Justin Byrd, and Lawrence Kushner
BAE Systems

Direct Digital Synthesizer with 14 GS/s Sampling Rate Heterogeneously Integrated in InP HBT and GaN HEMT on CMOS

2018

1st

Erik Öjefors, Mikael Andreasson, Torgil Kjellberg, Håkan Berg, Lars Aspemyr, Richard Nilsson, Klas Brink, Robin Dahlbäck, Dapeng Wu, Kristoffer Sjögren, and Mats Carlsson
Silvers IMA AB

A 57-71 GHz Beamforming SiGe Transceiver for 802.11ad-Based Fixed Wireless Access

2nd

Timothy LaRocca, Khanh Thai, Rob Snyder, Richard Jai, Owen Fordham, Yeat Yang, Monte Watanabe, and Bryan Wu  
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Q-Band CMOS Transmitter System-on-Chip for Protected Satellite Communication

3rd

Chia-Hsin Wu, Chris W. Hunter, Jongdae Bae, Huijung Kim, Jisoo Chang, Jacob Sharpe, Inhyo Ryu, Seongwon Joo, Byeongwan Ha, Won Ko, Jounghyun Yim, Sangwook Han, Taewan Kim, Daeyoung Yoon, Inyoung Choi, Sangyun Lee, Qing Liu, Myounggyun Kim, Jiyoung Lee, Shinwoong Kim, Michael J. Cowell, and Thomas Byunghak Cho
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

A 28nm CMOS Wireless Connectivity Combo IC with a Reconfigurable 2x2 MIMO WiFi supporting 80+80MHz 256-QAM, and BT 5.0

2017

1st

Hong-Teuk Kim, Byoung-Sun Park, Seung-Min Oh, Seong-Sik Song, Jong-Moon Kim, So-Hyeong Kim, Tak-Su Moon, Seung-Yeon Kim, Ji-Young Jang, Sung-Woong Kim, Woo-Seong Kang, Seung-Yoon Jung, Geum-Young Tak, and Yo-Chuol Ho
LG Electronics, Inc.

A 28GHz CMOS Direct Conversion Transceiver with Packaged Antenna Arrays for 5G Cellular Systems

2016

1st

Jan van Sinderen and Bernard Burdiek
NXP Semiconductors

A Wideband Single-PLL RF Receiver for Simultaneous Multi-band and Multi-channel Digital Car Radio Reception

2015

1st

S. Shahramian, M.J. Holyoak, Y. Baeyens
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent 

A 16-Element W-Band Phased Array Transceiver Chipset with Flip-Chip PCB Integrated Antennas for Multi-Gigabit Data Links