DL Prof. Pui-In Mak Gives a Technical Talk Hosted by imec in Leuven, Belgium [Chapters

Abstract

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Benelux Chapter organized a technical talk on 23 May 2017 given by Pui-In (Elvis) Mak, associate director of research and associate professor, State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau, China. Mak is an SSCS Distinguished Lecturer (DL); the program is aimed at disseminating high-quality technical content to members at a local level. In his talk, "Ultra-Low-Power Radios Using Current-Reuse/Function- Reuse/Ultra-Low-Voltage Techniques," Mak discussed the work his research group is doing in Macau, where over 80 researchers focus on analog and mixed-signal ICs for wireless communications, data converters, biomedical and power electronics, and analytical chemistry. He then positioned his work compared to the state of the art on low-power radio transceivers, where his group targets 10x lower power than existing solutions, for comparable battery life times. In this light, he explored several techniques that led to numerous publications in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference as well as IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.