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1 ECE-TUT, Finland Founded: Team: CAD: Measurements: Teaching: 1995 in Dpt. Communications BSc, MSc & PhD 50 Cadence Licenses Up to 27GHz On-Wafer 9 courses: Com. RF-IC + Vcc L1 L C1 L C3 L Out L D1 L 2.5 V = Vv1 1.5p 14p L2 L R1 L C2 L 6k C4 L Vvar1 Funding: Patents: Publications: Bell-Labs, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Nokia, STMicro, TI. 9.4 Mln.USD 46 (W-4, USA-12, UK-8 ) 98 (25 in IEEE) 0.7p 5.4n 0.5p Q1 L R2 L Partners: 3n 1p GHz-range-IC: VCO, DCO, T&H, LNA, DCDC 1k D2 L 1p Q2 L Vbias: 1.8 GHz C5 L R3 L Vv2 14p C6 L 6k Vvar2 0.7p R4 L L3 L 1k Vbias: 800 MHz 2n Ic = 6mA Q3 Some Key Publications: Tchamov N.T., S.Broussev, I.Uzunov, K.Rantala, Dual-Band LC VCO Architecture With a Fourth-Order Resonator, IEEE Tr. on Circuits and Systems-II, Mar Steyaert M.,B.Razavi, J.Fenk,W.Decock, N.T.Tchamov, K.Lee, M.Banu, R.Schreier, H.Tanimoto, GigaHerts-Radio Front Ends, Workshop GiRaFE IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, (0) Apr Page 1 / 9

2 TUT-ECE RFIC Project Funding EU Industry(Ger) Industry(Fin) Academy Industry(USA) Academy Tekes Published Main R & D Achievements Two-Phase Self-Assisted Zero-Voltage Switching DCDC Converter, IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no.3, Mar Q-factor analysis for C-C LC oscillators using TVRL, IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no.1, Jan Design consideration in tapped-inductor 4th-order Dual-Band VCO, IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no.1, Jan A Darlington-Enhanced CMOS Oscillator Architecture IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no. 1, Jan Evaluation & Comparison GHz-range LC Oscillators using TVRL, Intl. Journal Circuit Theory & Applications UMTS and GSM Low Phase Noise Inductively Tuned LC VCO, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, no. 3, Mar Time-Varying Root Locus of Large-Signal LC Oscillators, IEEE Tr. CAD IC and Sys, no. 5, May Flicker Noise Up-Conversion Suppression in Differential LC Oscillators, IEEE Tr. on CAS-2, no.11, Nov Wideband Low Phase-Noise LC-VCO With Programmable K vco, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, no.4, Apr Dual-Band LC VCO Architecture With a Fourth-Order Resonator, IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no. 3, Mar Novel VCO Using Series Above-IC FBAR and Parallel LC Resonance, IEEE Journal Solid-State Circuits, no.10. Differential Pre-Compensated GHz-range Low-voltage Track-and-Hold, IEE EL, no.2, Jan Monolithic RF Bandpass Track-and-Hold, IEE EL, no.2,jan GHz Double Cross-Coupled Multivibrator VCO 1.6 GHz Tuning, IEEE Tr. CAS-2, no.8, Aug High-Performance Differential VCO Based on Armstrong Oscillator, IEEE Journal Solid-State Circuits, no.1, Jan GHz VCO with 2-GHz Tuning Range and Low Phase Noise, IEEE Journal Solid-State Circuits, no. 1, Jan R & D Collaborations Microelectronics Page 2 / 9

3 RFCC-Lab Core Expertise Areas Creating New Architectures of Monolithic Circuits + Vcc VCO, DCO, LNA, T&H, DCDC in the Frequency Range 10MHz 65GHz using CADENCE L1 L C1 L C3 L Out L 1.5p 3n 1p 14p L2 L R1 L C2 L Evaluation & Scaling Vv1 D1 L Funding Proportions 2.5 V = 6k Vvar1 C4 L 5.4n 0.5p 0.7p Q1 L D2 L 1p RF Measurements On-Wafer versus Simulations with Extracted Parasitics 81% I N D U ST R Y Vbias: 1.8 GHz C5 L R3 L Vv2 14p C6 L 6k Vvar2 0.7p R4 L L3 L of the Critical Devices on Novel 32nm, 45nm, 65nm, 90nm, 130nm RF-CMOS, SiGe/BiCMOS, Si/Sapphire Time-Variant Analysis of Multiple Transistors Non-Linear Circuits 1k R2 L Q2 L Semi-Symbolic 8% 11% ACADEMY T EKES 1k Vbias: 800 MHz 2n Ic = 6mA Q3 46 Patents in Germany USA, UK Complete IC Specs Evaluation 98 Journal Publications (24 in IEEE) +358-(0) Apr Page 3 / 9

4 RFIC-Lab Background, Works & Targets Devices Modeling in CMOS, SiGe/BiCMOS Nonlinear Electronic Circuits Theory & CAD Novel GHz Circuits Architectures On-Wafer RF Measurements VCO & DCO for Mobile Terminals since 1995 GHz Sampling Circuits since 1997 LNA and Filters for DVB-IC since 2003 DC-DC for PA Modulation since 2006 Battery & SuperCap Management ICs since 2007 Low-Voltage and High-Power DC-DC since 2009 Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems since 2011 Wireless & PLC in High EMI since Page 4 / 9

5 Mobile / Stationary Big Volume Applications BMS On/Off IC Charger Controller µusb Monitor 24 Sensor Balancer K E R S Battery Break DCDC Motor Controller 300A Gas 3-Phase Rectifier M 15 kw G Page 5 / 9

6 The Energy Storages and the IoE T +358-(0) Apr Page 6 / 9

7 The Slow and Fast Energy Loops Standard Concept Battery 20% Energy Recovery DC-to-AC AC-to-DC M/G ADVANCED: 80% Energy Recovery by 1,000 Battery Cycles VERSUS 1,000,000 SuperCap Cycles Battery DC-to-DC DC-to-DC SuperCap DC-to-AC AC-to-DC M/G Page 7 / 9

8 The Super-Battery Project Main Applications: City-eBusses; Fork-Lifts, Tools, UPS 3,000 Standard Battery I/O for 2,000 Cycles Charge η = 70% 35 A 8 hours Battery 200Ah To Load η = 65% 400 A 20 min Return η = 30% 200 A 320 min 5,500 Super Battery I/O for 800,000 Cycles Charge η = 80% 3000 A for only 6 sec RF-DCDC Converters 3000A Super-Capacitor Battery V 50Ah Ah Cell Balancers To Load η = 80% 400 A 45 sec Return η = 80% 3000 A for only 6 sec Page 8 / 9

9 56kW Demonstrator: The SuperKart of ECE-TUT 280 km/h Max Speed 528 Nm Torque 3.1 sec to 100km/h Battery & SuperCap 47.3 Kg Weight 6.2 kwh Capacity 40C Max Discharge 4C Max Charge(15min) Cell-Dynamic BMS-CPU KERS 230 Kg Weight km/h 90 70km/h Motor & Transmission 60 V Development 60 kw Cont. Power 90 kw Max. Power 31.4 Kg Weight 2 : 1 Power-to-Weight R. Page 9 / 9

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