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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, 2010
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
Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2004
Aristotle Award, Semiconductor Research Corp., 2005
Univ. Research Award, Semiconductor Industries Association, 2008
Darlington Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2010
Mac Van Valkenburg Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2011
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
C.T. Peach, U. Moon, and D.J. Allstot, "An 11.1mW 42MS/s 10b ADC with two-step settling in 0.18µm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, pp. 391-400, Feb. 2010.
K.-W. Cheng, K. Natarajan, and D.J. Allstot, "A current reuse quadrature GPS receiver in 0.13µm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, pp. 510-523, March 2010.
S. Aniruddhan, S. Shekhar, and D.J. Allstot, "A CMOS 1.6 GHz dual-loop PLL with fourth-harmonic mixing," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, pp. 860-867, May 2011.
S. Shekhar, D. Gangopadhyay, E.C. Woo, and D.J. Allstot, "A 2.4 GHz enhanced-range Type-I ∑Δ fractional-N synthesizer with 1.8 MHz loop bandwidth and -110 dBc/Hz phase noise," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 58, pp. 472-476, Aug. 2011.
S. Yoo, J.S. Walling, E.C. Woo, B. Jann, and D.J. Allstot, "A switched-capacitor RF power amplifier," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, pp. 2977-2987, Dec. 2011.
S. Gupta, D. Gangopadhyay, H. Lakdawala, J.C. Rudell, and D.J. Allstot, "A QPLL-timed direct-RF sampling band-pass ∑Δ ADC," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, May 2012.
A.M.R. Dixon, E.G. Allstot, D. Gangopadhyay, and D.J. Allstot, "Compressed sensing system considerations for ECG and EMG wireless bio-sensors," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 6, May 2012. (Invited)
S. Gupta, Y. Tang, J. Paramesh, and D.J. Allstot, "Multi-rate polyphase DSP and LMS calibration schemes for oversampled ADCs," J. of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 51, June 2012. (Invited)
Recent Conference Papers
S. Yoo, J. Walling, E.-C. Woo, and D. Allstot, "A switched-capacitor PA for EER/polar transmitters," IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Feb. 2011, pp. 428-429.
A. Salman, E.G. Allstot, A.Y. Chen, A.M.R. Dixon, D. Gangopadhyay, and D.J. Allstot, "Compressive sampling of EMG bio-signals," IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, May 2011, pp. 2095-2098.
S. Gupta, Y. Tang, K.-W. Cheng, J. Paramesh, and D.J. Allstot, "Multi-rate polyphase DSP and LMS calibration schemes for oversampled data conversion systems," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2011, pp. 1585-1588.
S. Yoo, J.S. Walling, E.-C. Woo, and D.J. Allstot, "A power-combined switched-capacitor power amplifier in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2011, pp. 149-152.
K. Natarajan, J.S. Walling, and D.J. Allstot, "A class-C power amplifier/antenna interface for wireless sensor applications," IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symp., June 2011, pp. 549-552.
E.G. Allstot, A.Y. Chen, A.M.R. Dixon, D. Gangopadhyay, H. Mitsuda, and D.J. Allstot, "Compressed sensing of ECG bio-signals using one-bit measurement matrices," IEEE Intl. NEWCAS Conf., June 2011, pp. 213-216.
D. Gangopadhyay, E.G. Allstot, A.M.R. Dixon, and D.J. Allstot, "System considerations for the compressive sensing of EEG/ECoG bio-signals," IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., Nov. 2011, pp. 129-132.
K. Natarajan, S. Yoo, D.J. Allstot, and J.S. Walling, "Transmitters for body sensor networks: A comparative study," IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., Nov. 2011, pp. 185-188.
C. Mandic, D. Gangophadhyay, and D.J. Allstot, "A 1.1µW 2.1µVrms input noise chopper stabilized amplifier for bio-medical applications," IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, May 2012.
S. Yoo, B. Jann, O. Degani, J.C. Rudell, R. Sadhwani, J.S. Walling, and D.J. Allstot, "A class-G dual-supply switched-capacitor power amplifier in 65nm CMOS," IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp., June 2012.
Recent Books/Book Chapters
D.J. Allstot, S. Shekhar, and J.S. Walling, "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
J.S. Walling and D.J. Allstot, "Shining the Light on Integration: Advances in CMOS PAs," Guest Editors, IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 12, pp. 6, 16, 38-60, Feb. 2011.
D.J. Allstot, R. Rovatti and G. Setti, Guest Editors, Special Issue on Circuits, Systems and Algorithms for Compressive Sensing, IEEE J. on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, Oct. 2012.
Recent Patents
K. Choi and D.J. Allstot, "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 and D.J. Allstot, "Receiver with Colpitts Differential Oscillator, Colpitts Quadrature Oscillator, and Common-gate Low Noise Amplifier," U.S. Patent #7,414,481 B2, Aug. 19, 2008.
X. Li and D.J. Allstot, "Receiver with Colpitts Differential Oscillator, Colpitts Quadrature Oscillator, and Common-gate Low Noise Amplifier," U.S. Patent #7,755,442, July 13, 2010. (Division of U.S. Patent #7,414,481)
P. Seddighrad, D.J. Allstot, and J.C. Rudell, "Harmonic-Rejection Power Amplifier," U.S. Patent Application No. 13/086,361, April 13, 2011.
D. Gangopadhyay and D.J. Allstot, "Method and Apparatus for Compressed Sensing Analog-to-Digital Conversion," PCT Patent Application No. PCT/US11/43817, July 13, 2011.
Active Grants
Thermal Scavenging Circuits and Reconfigurable Antenna Interface for Low-power Wireless Sensor Nodes, Semiconductor Research Corporation
CMOS Switched-Capacitor Power Amplifier Techniques, Semiconductor Research Corporation
Recent Ph.D. Graduates
Xiaoyong Li, 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Hossein Zarei, 2004, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Adam Chu, 2005, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Dicle Ozis, 2006, Broadcom, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Sankaran Aniruddanh, 2006. Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Gaurab Banerjee, 2006. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Jeyanandh K. Paramesh, 2006. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Cameron Charles, 2006, Synapse Product Development, Seattle, WA
Yi Tang, 2007, Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Nathan Neihart, 2008, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Charles T. Peach, 2008, Impinj, Inc., Seattle, WA
Jeffrey S. Walling, 2008, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Sudip Shekhar, 2008, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Kuang-Wei Cheng, 2009, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Subhanshu Gupta, 2010, MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
Sang-Min Yoo, 2011, Qualcomm, Inc., San Jose, CA
Daibashish Gangopadhyay, 2011, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Recent M.S.E.E. Graduates
Sudip Shekhar, 2005, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Allan Ecker, 2005, Univ. of Washington (Ph.D. Candidate), Seattle, WA
Dan Nicholson, 2005, Now with Loral Space Systems, Palo Alto, CA
Jeffrey S. Walling, 2005, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Naureen Banani, 2006, (co-advised with Prof. B. Otis) Intel Corp., Chandler, AZ
Subhansu Gupta, 2006, MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
Arezou Khatibi, 2006, Qualcomm, Inc., San Jose, CA
Heng-Chia (Gordon) Hsu, 2008, Now with Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Karthik Natrajan, 2008, Univ. of Washington (Ph.D. Candidate), Seattle, WA
Eum Chan Woo, 2009, Broadcom, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Yongdong (Andrew) Chen, 2011, Broadcom, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Christopher J. Mandic, 2012, Univ. of Washington (Ph.D. Candidate), Seattle, WA
