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Mohammed Ismail Elnaggar

Analog VLSI Lab.
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
U.S.A.

Tel. : (614) 292-0351
Fax : (614) 292-2977
E-mail: ismail@ece.osu.edu
WWW: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~ismail/
 

EDUCATION:

August 1983

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, The University of Manitoba (U. of M.), Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada

June 1978

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

June 1974

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST:

Mixed analog/digital VLSI design in CMOS and BiCMOS

Low-voltage/low-power VLSI design

Statistical design and optimization of robust high-yield VLSI circuits

Analog/digital signal processing

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

September 1992 - present

Professor of Electrical Engineering

 

The Ohio State University

 

Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

July 1988 -September 1992

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (OSU)

May 1986 - June 1988

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)

 

Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

August 1983 - May 1986

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (UNL)

 

STUDENT ADVISING:

Advised the work of 31 Ph.D., 65 M.S. and 25 visiting scholars.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

Registered Engineer in the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba (APEM)

IEEE Fellow since January 1997

Member Sigma Xi

 

PUBLICATIONS - LAST TWO YEARS:

Patents:

Constant Transconductance Design Methodology and Implementations thereof Inventors: A. Motamed, C.Hwang, and M. Ismail, Filed: August 14, 1995, Issued: Feb. 3, 1998, U.S., Patent No. 5,714,906

Books:

B. Sheu and M. Ismail, "Multimedia Technology For Applications", IEEE Press, N. Y., N.Y., 1998.

Chunlei Shi and Mohammed Ismail, "Data Converters for Wireless Standards", Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2002.

Mona M. Hella and Mohammed Ismail, "RF CMOS Power Amplifiers : Theory, Design and Implementation", Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2002.

Xiaopeng Li and Mohammed Ismail, "Multi-Standard CMOS Wireless Receivers: Analysis and Design", Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2002.

Adem aktas and M. Ismail, "CMOS PLLs and VCOs for 4G Wireless",Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. .

Aymen Fayed* and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Adaptive Techniques for Mixed Signal System on Chip¡± Springer Publishing, 2006.

Mohammed Ismail and Delia  González+, "Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies", Springer, December 2006.

Book Chapters:

R. F. Wassennar, M. Ismail and C.-H. Lin, " Operational Transconductance Amplifiers," Chapter 22, VLSI Handbook, Editor W. K. Chen, CRC press, 2000.

T.B.Tarim, C.H.Lin, and M.Ismail, "Robust Low Voltage Low Power Analog MOS VLSI Design", Chapter 6 in"Design of System on a Chip:Devices and Components", Richardo Reis and Jochen Jess, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

 

Journal Papers

Xiaopeng Li and M. Ismail, " Fast Simulation of Sigma-Delta Modulators using SPICE," IEEE Circuits and Devices, vol. 15, pp. 7-9, January, 1999.

C, Hwang, A. Hyogo, H.-S. Kim, M. Ismail and K. Sekine, " Low Voltage High Speed CMOS Square-Law Composite Transistor Cell" Special section on Analog Circuits Techniques and Related Topics, IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E82-A, no. 2, pp. 378-379, Feb, 1999.

T. Tarim and M. Ismail, "Enhanced Analog Yield Cost-Effective Systems-On-Chip", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 12-22, March 1999.

C.-C.Hung,  M.Ismail, K.Halonen, and V.Porra, "A Low-Voltage Rail-to-Rail CMOS V-I Converter," IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II, vol.46, pp.816-820, June 1999.

H. Elwan, C. Hwang, A. Hyogo and M. Ismail "Robust Low Power CMOS Single-ended-input to Fully-balanced Converter Circuits" vol.19, no.2, pp.169-179, J. of Analog ICs & Signal Processing, May 1999.

T.Tarim, H.Kuntman and M.Ismail, "Robust Design of Basic Low Voltage CMOS Transconductors", J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Procssing, vol.20, Issue 3, pp. 175-191, September 1999.

T.B.Tarim, H.H.Kutman, and M.Ismail,"Robust Design of Basic Low Voltage CMOS Transconductors", J. of VLSI Signal Processing-Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, vol. 22. Issue 2, pp.87-102, September. 1999.

H.Elwan, A.Adawi, M.Ismail, H.Olsson, and A.Soliman, "Digitally controlled dB-Linear CMOS variable gain amplifier", Electronics Letter, vol.35, no. 20, pp.1725-1727, Sept. 1999.

H.Elwan and M.Ismail, "CMOS Low Noise Class AB Buffer", Electronics Letters, vol.35, no.21, pp.1834-1836, October 1999.

C.-H.Lin, T.Pimanta, and M.Ismail, "Robust Design of Low Voltage Low Distortion CMOS Rail-to-Rail Input Stages", Special Issue of IEEJ 1st Analog VLSI workshop, J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, pp.153-162, Nov. 1999.

H.A.Alzaher and M.Ismail, "CMOS Current-Mode Universal Filter using Unity Gain Cells", Electronics Letters, vol.35, no.25, pp.2198-2200, Dec. 1999.

H.A.Alzaher and M.Ismail, "A Robust-Low Distortion Wideband CMOS Current Follower", Electronics Ltters, vol.35, no.25, pp.2203-2204, Dec. 1999.

S.Li, B.O'koon, M.Hella, M.Ismail, M.Rubeiz, "The Implementation of a VHDL-AMS to Spice Converter", J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Porcessing, vol.22, pp.113-121, 1999.

H.Alzaher, H.Elwan, and M.Ismail, "A CMOS Digitally Programmable Filter for Multi-Standard Wireless Receivers", Electronics Letters, vol.36, pp.133-135, Jan. 2000.

S.Lindfors, K.Halonen, and M.Ismail, "A 2.7V Elliptical MOSFET only gm-C OTA Filter", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol.47, no.2, pp. 89-95, Feb. 2000.

H.Elwan, and M.Ismail, "Digitally Programmable dB-Linear CMOS VGA for Low Power Mixsed Signal Applications", CAS-II, vol.47, no.5, pp.388-398, May, 2000.

H.Alzaher and M.Ismail, "CMOS Fully Differential Second-Generation Current Conveyor", Electronics Letters, vol.36, pp.1095-1096, June 2000.

T.B.Tarim, H.H.Kutman, and M.Ismail, "Statistical Design of Low Power Squre-Law CMOS Cells for High Yield," International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Porcessing, vol.23, Issue 1, pp.37-47, June 2000.

H.Alzaher and M.Ismail, "Digitally Tuned Analog Integrated Filters using R-2R Ladder", Electronic Letters, vol.36, pp.1278-1280, July 2000.

Y.Tang and M.Ismail, "A Methodology for Fast SPICE Simulation of Frequency Synthesizers", IEEE Circuits and Devices, vol.16, no.4, pp.10-15, July 2000.

C.-C. Hung, C-H.Lin, and M.Ismail, "Low Voltage Micropower Weak Inversion CMOS Gm-C Filters", Accepted by J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

A.Mohamed, H.Elsimary, and M.Ismail, "1 GHz CMOS VCO Design for Wireless Application using MEMS Technology", Accepted for publication in J. of Analog Integrated and Signal Processing.

H.Alzaher and M.Ismail, "A Novel CMOS Baseband Filter for WCDMA Integrated Wireless Receivers", Electronics Letters, vol.36, pp.1515-1516, Aug. 2000.

H.Elwan, W.Gao, R.Sadkowski, and M.Ismail, "CMOS low-voltage class-AB operational transconductance amplifier", Electronics Letters, vol.36, No.17, pp.1439-1440, Aug.2000.

F.Larsen, P.Kascak, and M.Ismail, "A BiCMOS Wideband Amplifier for the Extraction of Base Spreading Resistance with Noise Measurement Techniques", International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 187-194, September 2000

H.Elwan and M.Ismail, "A CMOS digitally programmable class AB OTA circuit", IEEE Transactions on  Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol.47 Issue 12, pp.1551 -1556, December 2000.

H.Elwan, H.Alzaher, and M.Ismail, "A new generation of global wireless compatibility",  IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol.17, Issue 1, pp.7 -19, January 2001.

C. Shi, Y. Wu, C.-H. Lin and M. Ismail, "Design and Power Optimization of High-Speed Pipeline ADC for Wideband CDMA Applications",  International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Porcessing, vol.26, No. 3, pp.229-238, March 2001.

Hassan Elwan, Ahmed M. Soliman, and Mohammed Ismail, "A CMOS Norton Amplifier-Based Digitally Controlled VGA for Low-Power Wireless Applications", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 245-254, March 2001

T. B. Tarim, M. Ismail, and H.H. Kuntman, "Robust Design and Yield Enhancement of Low Voltage CMOS Analog  Integrated Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 475-486, April 2001.

Y. Wu, M. Ismail and H. Olsson, "CMOS VHF/RF CCO Based on Active Inductors", Electronics Letters, Vol.37, No.8, pp. 472-473, April 2001.

H. Alzaher and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Fully Balanced Differential Difference Amplifier and Its Applications",IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol.48, No.6, pp.614-620, June 2001.

T. B. Tarim and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design of the Four-MOSFET Structure", International Journal of Analog Integrated 
Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 115-122, July 2001.

J. Typpo and M. Ismail, "A Circuit Modeling Technique for Fast Exploration of Design Parameter Space", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 9-13, July 2001.

T. B. Tarim and M. Ismail, "Robust Design of Low Power CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits", IEE Proceedings, Circuits, 
Devices and Systems, Vol.148, No.4, pp. 197-204, August 2001

Yue We, X. Ding, Mohammed Ismail, and Hakan Olsson, "Inductorless CMOS RF Bandpass Filter", Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue. 16, pp. 1027-1029, August, 2001.

Eva Vidal, Alberto Poveda, and Mohammed Ismail, "Describing Functions and Oscillators", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol.17, No. 6, pp. 7-11, November 2001

A. Ravindran, K. Ramarao, E. Vidal, and Mohammed Ismail, "Compact Low Voltage Four Quadrant CMOS Current Multiplier", Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, No. 24, pp. 1428 - 1429, November 2001

T. B. Tarim and Mohammed Ismail, "Statistical Design of a 10 bit Current Division Network", International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 221-229, December 2001

Hussain A. Alzaher, Hassan O. Elwan, and Mohammed Ismail, "A CMOS Highly Linear Channel-Select Filter for 3G Multistandard Integrated Wireless Receivers", Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 27-37, January, 2002

Adiseno, M. Ismail, and H. Olsson, "Multiband High-Linearity Front-End Receivers for Wireless Applications", Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol.30, pp. 59-67, January 2002.

Yue Wu, Mohammed Ismail, and Hakan Olsson, "A SiGe HBT Translinear Harmonic Mixer", Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 31, pp. 65-67, February 2002.

Shenggao Li and Mohammed Ismail, "A 7GHz 1.5V Dual-Modulous Prescaler in 0.18um Copper-CMOS Technology", Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 32, pp. 89-95, April 2002.

Hussain A. Alzaher and Mohammed Ismail, "A CMOS Fully Balanced Four-Terminal Floating Nullor", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I : Fundamental Theory and Applications, Vol. 49, Issue 4, pp. 413-424, April 2002.

Hassan Elwan, Iqbal M. Younus, Hussain Alzaher and Mohammed Ismail, "A Buffer-Based Baseband Analog Front-End for CMOS Bluetooth Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 49, Issue:8, pp. 545-554, August, 2002.

Adiseno, Mohammed Ismail, and H. Olsson, "A Wide-Band RF Front-end for Multiband Multistandard High-Linearity Low-IF Wireless Receivers", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 37, Issue 9, pp. 1162-1168, Sept. 2002.

H. Elwan, A. Ravindran, and M. Ismail, "CMOS Low Power Baseband Chain for a GSM/DECT Multistandard Receiver", IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices, and Systems, Vol. 149, Issue 5, pp. 337-347, Oct. 2002.

M. M. Hella and Mohammed Ismail, "2 GHz controllable power amplifier in standard CMOS process for short-range wireless applications", IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 149, Issue 56, pp. 363-368, Oct.-Dec. 2002.

Yue Wu, Chunlei Shi, Xiaohui Ding, Mohammed Ismail and Hakan Olsson, "Design of CMOS VHF/RF Biquadratic Filters", Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 33, pp. 239-248, December 2002.

Y. Tang, Mohammed Ismail, and S. Bibyk,"Adaptive Miller capacitor multiplier for compact on-chip PLL filter", Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 43 - 45, January 2003.

Mohammed Ismail and N. Tan,"Modeling Techniques for Energy-efficient System-on-a-chip Signaling", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 19, Issue. 1, pp. 8-17, January 2003.

I. B. Dhaou, Mohammed Ismail, and H. Tehunen, "Current Mode, Low-Power, On-Chip Signaling in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I : Fundamental Theory and Applications, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 397-406, March 2003.

H. Alzaher, H. Elwan, and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Fully Balanced Second-Generation Current Conveyor", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 278-287, June 2003.

Shenggao Li, Issy Kipnis, and M. Ismail, "A 10-GHz CMOS Quadrature LC-VCO for Multirate Optic al Applications", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1626-1634, October 2003.

Jennifer Leonard and M. Ismail, "Link-Budget Analysis for Multistandard Receiver Architectures", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 5-8, November 2003.

Y. Wu, X. Ding, M. Ismail, and H. Olsson, "RF Bandpass Filter Design Based on CMOS Active Inductors", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 12, pp. 942-949, December 2003.

Ayman A. Fayed, and M. Ismail "A High Speed, Low Voltage CMOS Offset Comparator," Int. J. of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 267-272, Sept. 2003

A. Aktas ,and M. Ismail, "CMOS PLL Calibration Techniques", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 6-11, September/October 2004.

S. J. Yoo ,and M. Ismail, "A Highly Linear CMOS Baseband Chain for Widebnad Wireless Applications", ETRI Journal, Vol.26, No.5, pp. 486-492, October 2004.

R. Ahola, A. Aktas, J. Wilson, K. Rama Rao, F. Johnsson, I. Hyyrylainen, A. Brolin, T.Hakala, A. Friman, T. Makiniemi, J. Hanze, M. Saden, D. Wallner,Yuxin Guo, T. Lagerstam, L. Noguer, T. Knuuttila, P. Olofsson ,and M. Ismail, "A Single-chip CMOS Transceiver for 802.11a/b/g wireless LANs", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol.39, No.12, pp. 2250-2258, Dec 2004.

K. R. Rao, J. Wilson, and M. Ismail, "A CMOS RF Front-End for a Multi-Standard WLAN Receiver", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol 15, No. 5, pp. 321-323, May 2005.

A. A. Fayed, and M. Ismail, "A Low-Voltage, Highly-Linear Voltage- Controlled Transconductor", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II : Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp. 831-835, Dec. 2005 .

Ling Zhang, Hyung Joon Kim, Vinay Nadig and Mohammed Ismail, "A 1.8 V tri-mode ¥Ò¥Ä modulator for GSM/WCDMA/WLAN wireless receiver," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Volume 49, issue 3, p. 323-341, December 2006.

Seok-Bae Park and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°DC Offsets in Direct Conversion Multistandard Wireless Receivers: Modeling and Cancellation ,¡± Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Volume 49, issue 2, p. 123 - 130, October 2006.

Ana Rusu, Boxian Dong and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Wideband Bandpass Sigma-Delta ADC for Software Radios¡±, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 22, issue 6, Nov-Dec 2006.

Delia Rodríguez de Llera González, Ana Rusu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°4G Radio Design Challenges - Design and Optimization of 4G Radio Receivers with TACT¡±, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 22, issue 6, Nov-Dec 2006.

Ana Rusu, Alexei Borodenkov, Mohammed Ismail and Hannu Tenhunen, ¡°A Triple-Mode Sigma-Delta Modulator for Multi-Standard Wireless Radio Receivers¡±, Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 2, , pp. 113-124, May 2006.

Ana Rusu, Delia Rodríguez de Llera González, Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Reconfigurable ADCs enable smart radios for 4G wireless connectivity¡±, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Vol. 22, issue 3, June 2006.

Ahmed Helmy, Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Design Guide for Reducing Substrate Noise Coupling in RF Applications¡±, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, September 2006

Seok-Bae Park, James Wilson, and Mohammed Ismail, "Peak Detectors for Multi-standard Wireless Receivers", IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, December 2006.

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