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David Allstot
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David Allstot Professor VLSI and Digital Systems M314 EE/CSE Box 352500 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 |
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University of California, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science,1979, Ph.D.
Oregon State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1974, M.S.E.E.
University of Portland, Engineering Science, 1969, B.S.E.S.
Biosketch
David J. Allstot received the B.S. (1969), M.S. (1974), and Ph.D. (1979) degrees from the Univ. of Portland, Oregon State Univ. and the Univ. of California at Berkeley, respectively. He has held several industrial and academic positions. He joined the Univ. of Washington in 1999 as Prof. of Electrical Engineering and was appointed as the Boeing-Egtvedt Chair Professor of Engineering in 2000. He served as Acting Chair and Chair of Electrical Engineering from 2004 to 2007. He has advised more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. graduates. He served as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, General Co-Chair of the 2002 and 2008 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, and as the 2009 President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Honors and Awards
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, 1980
Fellow of IEEE, 1992
Darlington Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1995
Beatrice Winner Award, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1998
Golden Jubilee Medal, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1999
50-Year Anniversary Honor Roll, IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2003
Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2004
Aristotle Award, Semiconductor Research Corp., 2005
Univ. Research Award, Semiconductor Industries Association, 2008
Research Interests
Analysis and design of RF/mixed-signal integrated systems; Design and computer-aided optimization of RF integrated circuits.
Systems-On-A-Chip Laboratory: http://analog.ee.washington.edu
Selected Publications
J. Paramesh, et al., "A four-antenna receiver in 90nm CMOS for beamforming and spatial diversity," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, pp. 2515-2524, Dec. 2005.
S. Shekhar, et al., "Bandwidth extension techniques for CMOS amplifiers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, pp. 2424-2439, Nov. 2006.
Y. Tang, et al., "Cascaded complex ADCs with adaptive digital calibration for I/Q mismatch," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, pp. 817-827, April 2008.
D. Ozis, et al., "Integrated quadrature couplers and their application in image-reject receivers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, pp. 1464-1476, May 2009.
J.S. Walling, et al., "A class-G supply-modulator and class-E PA in 130 nm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, pp. 2339-2347, Sept. 2009.
K.-W. Cheng, et al., "A 6.4mW quadrature GPS receiver in 0.13um CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, 2010.
C.T. Peach, et al., "An 11.1mW 42MS/s 10b ADC with two-step settling in 0.18μm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, Feb. 2010.
Recent Conference Papers
J. Paramesh, et al., "A 1.4V 5GHz four-antenna Cartesian-combining receiver in 90nm CMOS for beamforming and spatial diversity applications," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2005, pp. 210-211.
X. Li, et al., "Low-power gm-boosted LNA and VCO circuits in 0.18um CMOS," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2005, pp. 534-535.
S. Shekhar, et al., "A CMOS 3.1-10.6GHz UWB LNA employing stagger-compensated series peaking," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2006, pp. 63-66.
D. Ozis, et al., "A CMOS 5GHz image-reject receiver front-end architecture," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2007, pp. 321-324.
J.S. Walling, et al., "A gm-boosted current-reuse LNA in 0.18µm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2007, pp. 613-616.
F. O’Mahoney, et al., "A 27Gb/s forwarded clock I/O receiver using injection-locked LC-DCO in 45nm CMOS," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2008, pp. 452-453.
J. Walling, et al., "A 28.6dBm, 65nm class-E PA with envelope restoration by pulse-width and pulse-position modulation," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2008, pp. 566-567.
K.-W. Cheng, et al., "A 7.2 mW quadrature GPS receiver in 0.13um CMOS," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2009, pp. 422-423.
K.-W. Cheng, et al., "A gate-modulated CMOS LC quadrature VCO," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2009, pp. 267-270. (Best Student-Paper Award)
N.M. Neihart, et al., "A 4-antenna transmitter in 0.18μm CMOS using space-time block codes," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2009, pp. 361-364.
Recent Books/Book Chapters
D.J. Allstot, et al., "Recent Advances and Design Trends in CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits," in Design of High-Speed Communication Circuits, R. Harjani, Editor, World Scientific Publishing Company, 52 pages, 2006. ISBN 981-256-590-6
D.J. Allstot, et al., "Chapter 8: Design of Wideband Amplifiers in CMOS," in Circuits for Nanoscale: Communications, Imaging, and Sensing, K. Iniewski, Editor, CRC Press, pp. 117-133, Aug. 2008. ISBN 142-007-062-2
Recent Patents
D.R. Beck, et al., "Method and Apparatus for Double-Sampling a Signal," U.S. Patent #6,563,348 B1, May 13, 2003.
K. Choi, et al., "Self-Bias and Digitally Tunable Conduction Angle Circuits for a Differential RF Non-Linear Power Amplifier
Employing Low-Voltage Transistors," U.S. Patent #7,221,217 B2, May 22, 2007.
X. Li, et al., "Receiver with Colpitts Differential Oscillator, Colpitts Quadrature Oscillator, and Common-gate Low Noise Amplifier," U.S. Patent #7,414,481 B2, Aug. 19, 2008.
Active Grants
Reconfigurable Antenna Interface for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes, Semiconductor Research Corporation
CMOS PA and Oscillator Circuits using Slow-Wave Transmission Lines for Communications, Radar and Imaging Applications, NSF Center for the Design of Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits
Ultra-low-power, Universal, Multi-rate Bio-signal Transceiver SoC for Medical Diagnosis and Brain-Machine Interface Applications, National Science Foundation
Recent Ph.D. Graduates
Adam Chu, 2005. Now with SiBEAM, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Dicle Ozis, 2006. Now with Telegent Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
Sankaran Aniruddanh, 2006. Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Gaurab Banerjee, 2006. Now with Qualcomm, Austin, TX
Jeyanandh K. Paramesh, 2006. Now with Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA
Cameron Charles, 2006. Now with Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Yi Tang, 2007. Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Nathan Neihart, 2008. Now with Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Charles T. Peach, 2008. Now with Impinj, Seattle, WA
Jeffrey S. Walling, 2008. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Sudip Shekhar, 2008. Now with Intel, Hillsboro, OR
Kuang-Wei Cheng, 2009. Now with Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore
Recent M.S.E.E. Graduates
Sudip Shekhar, 2005. Now with Intel, Hillsboro, OR
Allan Ecker, 2005. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dan Nicholson, 2005. Now with Loral Space Systems, Palo Alto, CA
Jeffrey S. Walling, 2005. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Naureen Banani, 2006. (co-advised with Prof. B. Otis) Now with Intel, Chandler, AZ
Subhansu Gupta, 2006. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Arezou Khatibi, 2006. Now with Qualcomm, Campbell, CA
Heng-Chia (Gordon) Hsu, 2008. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Karthik Natrajan, 2008. Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Eum Chan Woo, 2009. Now with Telegent Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
