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Professor Mike Shuo-Wei Chen
University of Southern California
Analog mixed-signal circuit design has traditionally been viewed as an art work and requires mostly manual design process. In recent years, there are resurgent interests in making analog circuit design easier and faster. For example, there has been circuit architecture development that makes synthesizable analog circuit block become more feasible than ever. On the other hand, AI/ML has transformed our society in many ways, providing unprecedented convenience to our daily life. Many successful examples have been shown for image and language processing. Can AI/ML similarly benefit analog IC design? In this talk, I will overview past and ongoing efforts in facilitating analog IC design from design exploration, simulation, to tapeout. I will also discuss various design examples and silicon prototypes to examine their effectiveness and limitations.
Bio
Mike Shuo-Wei Chen is a professor in Electrical Engineering Department at University of Southern California (USC). He receives PhD degree from EECS, UC Berkeley. As a graduate student, he proposed and demonstrated the asynchronous SAR ADC architecture, which has been adopted in industry today for low-power high-speed analog-to-digital conversion products. He currently leads an analog mixed-signal circuit group, focusing on data converters, frequency synthesizers, wireless/wireline transceiver designs, AI-assisted analog circuit design automation, analog/neuromorphic computing, non-uniformly sampled circuits and systems.
Dr. Chen was the recipient of Qualcomm Faculty Award in 2019, NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) both in 2014. His research group received ISSCC Jack Kilby Award in 2022 and best student paper awards from RFIC and CICC. Dr. Chen has been serving as an associate or guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuit (JSSC), IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), as well as a TPC member in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society conferences, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSCIRC). He served as Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He is an IEEE Fellow.