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Curriculum Vitae of
Mohammed Ismail ELNAGGAR
(M. Ismail)
(Updated May 27th)



Degree | Current Research Interests | Experience & Job History | Dissertation / Theses Supervision | Visting Scholars | Professional Service |
Funded Research | Awards | Listing | Professional Memberships | Lectures, Seminars, and Visting Appointments | Professional Meetings |
Academic/Professional Preparation | Publications | Hobbies |

Office:            Department of Electrical Engineering
                        The Ohio State University
                       
2015 Neil Avenue
                        Columbus, OH 43210

Office Phone:  (614) 292-0351
Email:       ismail@ece.osu.edu
Fax:        (614) 292-7596 or m.ismail@ieee.org

Vital Statistics: Born in El Mahalla, Egypt, US citizen.


DEGREES: [TOP]

August 1983 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering,
The University of Manitoba (U. of M.),
Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
Thesis: "Some new results on the continued fraction method and its application to continuous and discrete system."
Thesis Advisor: Professor H. K. Kim.

 June 1978 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Thesis: "Compensation for the finite gainbandwidth of op-amps." Thesis Advisor: Professor A.M. Soliman.
June 1974 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Project: "Computer-aided design of a general-purpose transistorized IF amplifier."

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: [TOP]

Mixed analog/digital VLSI design in CMOS and BiCMOS, low-voltage/low-power VLSI design, RF ICs in CMOS and BiCMOS for both cellular and short distance wireless applications including WLAN, Bluetooth and home networking applications, statistical design and optimization of robust high-yield VLSI circuits, CAD-compatible analog VLSI, analog/digital signal processing, circuits for Telcommunications, sensors interface, biomedical, instrumentation, multimedia applications, artificial neural network implementati on and general circuit theory.


EXPERIENCE AND JOB HISTORY: [TOP]

September 1992 - present:

Professor of Electrical Engineering
Founder and Director of the Analog VLSI Laboratory
The Ohio State University (OSU)
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

July 1988 -September 1992:

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering(OSU)
Founder and Director of the Analog VLSI Laboratory

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
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

-Teaching:

UNL

EE 360 Electronic Circuits I
EE 361 Electronic Circuits II
EE 380 Circuits Lab
EE 461/861* Modern Active Filter Design
EE 469/869 Analog IC Design
EE 498E/898E* Digital and Analog VLSI Design
EE 922* Switched-Capacitor Circuits

OSU

EE 321 Microelectronic Circuits I
EE 322 Microelectronic Circuits II
EE 521 Microelectronic Circuits I
EE 522 Microelectronic Circuits II
EE 682I/694 Modern Active Filter Design (previously EE720)
EE 880-E* Analog VLSI Theory & Applications
EE 880-I* Trends in Analog VLSI Design
EE 820* Analog VLSI Design
EE 694I* Analog Circuit Design
EE 720* Low Power Mixed-Signal VLSI
EE 722 Introduction to Analog IC Design
(* Newly developed course)

- Research and supervision of undergraduate research projects and graduate students (53 M.S. and 23 Ph.D. degrees granted; 5 M.S. and 11 Ph.D. degrees in progress).

- Development of a new microelectronics laboratory for VLSI design, including CAD workstation, wafer autopsy and microsurgery; integrated circuit testing; fabrication facilities used include MOSIS, CA, TI, Dallas, Delco Electronics, Kokomo, IN, NCR, Cambridge, OH, AMS, Austria and AT&T Bell Labs, Reading.

- Establishment of a strong research program in analog, RF and mixed-signal VLSI design and test with strong industrial ties funded by the National Science Foundation, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, AT&T Technology, Texas Instruments and by other sources in the U.S. and abroad.

March 1980 - August 1983:

Research and Teaching Assistant (T.A.)
Electrical Engineering Department University of Manitoba (U. of M.)
Winnipeg, Canada.

- T.A. for the following:

24.426 Signal Analysis
24.419 Solid-State Electronics
24.420 Electric Filter Design
24.415 Modern Control Systems
24.353 Network Theory
6.222 & 6.221 Calculus
(Applied Math. Dept., U. of M.)

- Lecturing the following:

24.420 Electric Filter Design
24.419 Solid-State Electronics
24.353 Network Theory

- Supervision of B.Sc. Graduation Thesis (2 students during 1982-1983).

March 1978 - March 1980:

Communication Systems Engineer
Arab Organization for Industrialization, Cairo, Egypt.
The job involved design and installation of microwave communication systems, PCM and FDM Multiplexing equipment.

July 1974 - March 1978:

 Research Engineer,
The Electronic Industries Research and Development Center, Cairo, Egypt. The job involved research in the areas of active networks, filter design as well as development of solid-state TV tuners, I.F. and video TV circuits.

DISSERTATION / THESES SUPERVISION: [TOP]

I. Ph.D. Dissertation
 

1.      Nabil I. Khachab, "Nonlinear CMOS Analog Cells and Their Applications in VLSI Signal and Information Processing," Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1990.


 

2.      Christopher Michael, "Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Design of Analog MOS Integrated Circuits," Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1991.


 

3.      Seyed R. Zarabadi, "Design of Analog VLSI Circuits in BiCMOS/CMOS Technology," Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1992.


 

4.      Satoshi Sakurai, "Design of Rail-to-Rail CMOS Operational Amplifiers for a 3-V Supply," Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1994.


 

5.      Shu-Chuan Huang, "Systematic Design Solutions for Analog VLSI Circuits," Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1994.


 

6.      Frode Larsen, "Bipolar Device Characterization and Design in CMOS Technologies for the Design of High Performance Low-Cost BiCMOS Analog Integrated Circuits," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 1994.


 

7.      Hua Su, "Statistical Design and Optimization of Engineering Artifacts," Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1995.


 

8.      Hing-Yan To, "Statistical Analysis and Design Techniques for Analog VLSI Circuits," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 1995.


 

9.      Changku Hwang, "A Universal Approach to The Design of Low Voltage Constant-gm Analog VLSI Circuits" Ph. D. Dissertation, August 1996.


 

10. Ali Motamed, "Low-Voltage, Low-Power Circuit Design Techniques for Analog VLSI Signal Processing Applications" Ph. D. Dissertation, October 1996.


 

11. Chung-Chi Hung, " Low Voltage, Low Power CMOS Analog Circuit Design Techniques for Mobile, Portable VLSI Applications" Ph. D. Dissertation, March, 1997.


 

12. Esa Tiiliharju, " Regulated-High-Swing Cascoding and its Applications" Licensiate Thesis, The Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, January, 1998. Co-advised with Prof. Kari Halonen, HUT.


 

13. Robert R. Brunnen, " Amplifier-Based Signal Processing Techniques for Low Voltage CMOS Communication Circuits" Ph. D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, August 1998.


 

14. Tuna Tarim, " Statistical Design Techniques for Yield Enhancement of Low Voltage CMOS VLSI" Ph. D. Dissertation, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 1999. Co-advised with Prof. Hakan Kuntman, IT


 

15. Shenggao Li, "High Performance GHz RF CMOS IC's for Integrated Phase-Locked Loops", Ph.D Dissertation, November, 2000.


 

16. Hussain Al-zaher, "CMOS Baseband Circuit Techniques for Integrated Multi-Standard Wireless Receivers",


Ph.D Dissertation, March, 2001.
 

17. Chi-hung, Lin, "Design Technique of Fractional-N Delta-Sigma Frequency Synthesizer for Wireless Communication in 0.5um Silicon Germanium," Ph.D Dissertation, June, 2001.


 

18. Xiaopeng Li, "System and Circuit Design Techniques for CMOS Software Radio Receiver Front-End," Ph.D Dissertation, June, 2001.


 

19. Chunlei Shi "Design and Power Optimization Techniques of CMOS Baseband Circuits for Wideband Wireless Applications", Ph. D. Dissertation, August, 2001.


 

20. Hong-Sun Kim, "2.4GHz CMOS Receivers for Short-Range Wireless Applications", Ph.D Dissertation, August, 2001.


 

21. Yue Wu, "Active Filter Design for Wireless Communications", Ph.D Dissertation, August, 2001.


 

22. Mona Hella, "Radio Frequency CMOS Power Amplifiers for Short-Range Wireless Applications", Ph.D Dissertation, August, 2001.


 

23. Hassan Elwan, "CMOS Digitally Programmable Analog Front-Ends for Third Generation Wireless Applications", Ph.D Dissertation, August, 2001.


 

24. Jerasimos Zohios, "Low-Noise RF Integrated Oscillator Design", Ph.D Dissertation, January, 2002.


 

25. Hong-Jo Ahn, "A Frequency Synthesizer for Multi-Standard Wireless Applications", Ph.D Dissertation, June, 2003.


 

26. Arun Ravindran, "Low Voltage Techniques in the Design of CMOS Analog Baseband Chains for Multi-Standard Wireless Applications", Ph.D Dissertation, Aug, 2003.


 

27. Seoung-Jae Yoo, "Design of Analog Baseband Circuits for Wireless Communications Receivers" , Ph.D Dissertation, November, 2003.


 

28. Adem Aktas, "Integrated RF CMOS Frequency Synthesizer and VCO for Wireless Applications" , Ph.D Dissertation, January, 2004.


 

29. Anup Savla, "Digital Calibration Algorithms for Nyquist-Rate Analog to Digital Converters" , Ph.D Dissertation, June 2004. .


 

30. Ayman Fayed, "Adaptive Techniques for Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits " , Ph.D Dissertation, October 2004.


 

31. Ho Kwon Yoon, "Multi-standard Receiver for Bluetooth and WLAN Application " , Ph.D Dissertation, November 2004.


 

32. Hyung Joon Kim, "Multi-Standard Radio Transceiver Architectures and Radio Frequency Front-End Design ", Ph.D Dissertation, Feb 2005.


 

33. Ling Zhang, "System and Circuit Design Techniques for WLAN-Enabled Multi-Standard Receiver " , Ph.D Dissertation, September 2005.


 

34. Chingyung Paul Chiu, "Broadband CMOS Power Amplifier for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN Transmitters " , Ph.D Dissertation, October 2005.


 

35. Bahar Jalali-Farahani, "Adaptive Digital Calibration Techniques for High Speed, High Resolution Sigma Delta ADCs for Broadband Wireless Applications " , Ph.D Dissertation, November 2005.

 

36. Seok-Bae (Michael) Park, ¡°Compact High Performance Analog CMOS Baseband Design Solutions for Multi-standard Wireless Transceivers¡±, June 2006.

 

37. Ahmed Helmy, ¡°Characterization of Substrate Noise Coupling, its Impacts and Remedies in RF and Mixed-Signal ICs¡±, October 2006.

 

38. Huang Wenxiang, ¡°A Broadband RF CMOS Front-end for Multi-Standard Wireless¡±, February 2007.

 

39. Penbei Zhang, ¡°Circuit and System Design For Fully Integrated CMOS Direct-Conversion Multi-band OFDM Ultra-wideband Receivers¡±, March 2007.

 

40. James Wilson, ¡°Design Techniques for First Pass Silicon in SOC Radio Transceivers¡±, May 2007.

 

 

 
 

II. M.S. Thesis

1. Douglas D. Walters, "A Microelectronic Workstation for VLSI Layout Design," M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1984.

2. David C. Ganow, "MOSFET-C Continuous-Time Filter Structures for VLSI," M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1985.

3. Daniel I. Rubin, "Analysis and Compensation of Continuous-Time Fully-Balanced MOSFET-C Active Filters," M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1985.

4. Nabil I. Khachab, "Novel Continuous-Time Nonlinear Circuits for MOS VLSI Design," M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1986.

5. Shirley V. Smith, "Design, Analysis and Compensation of Single-Ended MOSFET-C Integrated Filters," M.S. Thesis, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987.

6. John A. Prigeon, "A Novel Technique for Designing Continuous-Time Filters in MOS Technology," M.S. Thesis, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1988.

7. Ebrahim Noseir, "Exact Synthesis of Stray-Insensitive MOS Switched-Capacitor Filters by Continued Fractions," M.S. Thesis, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988.

8. Wai-Keung Tsang, "A Switched-Capacitor Automatic Tuning Circuit for Continuous-Time MOSFET-C Filters," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1989.

9. Shu-Chuan Huang, "A Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier with Applications to Continuous-Time Filters," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1990.

10. Frode Larsen, "Synthesis of Discrete-Time Reactance Functions Using Z-Domain Cauer Expansions," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1990.

11. Scott T. Dupuie, "High Frequency Continuous-Time Filters in MOS Technology," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1991.

12. William R. Morrison, "A High Frequency CMOS Generalized Impedance Converter and its Application in VHF MOS Filter Design," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1991.

13. Satoshi Sakurai, "Fully Integrated MOSFET-C Bump Equalizer Circuit with On-Chip Automatic Tuning," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1991.

14. Christopher J. Abel, "A Complete Statistical MOS Model for Simulation of Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

15. Ping-C. Wong, "Frequency Compensation Techniques for Wide-Band Integrated Amplifier Circuits," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992,

16. Bijit Patel, "A Fully-Programmable CAD-Compatible, MOSFET-C KHN Filter with Active Compensation, M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

17. Robert Brannen, "Canonical MOSFET-C Filters with On-Chip Automatic Tuning," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

18. Hua Su, "Statistical Yield Optimization of Analog MOS Integrated Circuits," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

19. Hammadi T. Zghal, "Design and Implementation of High DC Gain Folded Cascode Operational Amplifiers," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

20. Mervin T. Hutabarat, "Current-Mode Analog VLSI Neural Circuits Based on Digital-Like CMOS Transistor Pairs," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

21. C. Hwang, "Design-for Testability Schemes for Determining Multiple Faults in CMOS Integrated Circuits," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

22. Liang-Chih Su, "A New MOSFET-C Programmable Wn and Q Tow Thomas Filter with Phase Compensation," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1992.

23. Alf-Egil Bogen, "High Speed Analog to Digital Converters in CMOS," Diploma Thesis, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, December 1992.

24. Yang Jui-Lin, "Low-Voltage Switched-Current Equalizer Based on the SFG Technique," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1993.

25. Joshua C. Park, "Design of a Silicon Cochlea Using MOS Switched-Current Techniques," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1993.

26. Rajesh John, "Adaptive Compensation of MOSFET-C Filters," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1993.

27. Hong-Tan Andy Wang, "Design and Implementation of a Novel Four-Quadrant BiCMOS Analog Multiplier," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1993.

28. Shan-Shan (Sandy) Lee, "1.5V Full-Swing BiCMOS Dynamic Logic Circuits," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1995.

29. Chui-Kiu Teresa Wong, "Design of an Analog MOS VLSI Fuzzifier," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1995.

30. Chao-Chih (George) Chiu, "Programmable Switched-Capacitor Design of Stray-Insensitive Filter and Equalizer Circuits Using Z-Domain Continued Fractions," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, April 1995.

31. Yi-Tsun (Alex) Chang, "Design and Applications of Analog Memory Cells in Standard CMOS Technology," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1995.

32. Vikas Mehrotra, "Low-voltage CMOS Constant Transconductance Opamps and Linear Voltage-to-Current Converters," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, 1995.

33. Ni Sun, "A CMOS Rail-to-Rail Four-Quadrant Multiplier for Low-voltage Analog VLSI Applications," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, June 1995.

34. Rais Huda, "Analysis and Design of a Four-Quadrant Vector Multiplier for Analog VLSI Information Processing," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May 1995.

35. Qi Zheng, "Design of a Constant-gm CMOS Rail-to-Rail Input Stage for Low-Voltage Op-Amps," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, July 1995.

36. Jui-Ming Chang, "Design of a Low-Voltage CMOS Programmable Floating Resistor Circuit," M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May 1996.

37. Sanjay S. Mehta, " Low-Voltage Low-Power BiCMOS Dynamic Digital Circuits", M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, March, 1997.

38. Chi-Hung Lin, " A Robust Low Voltage CMOS Rail-to-Rail OpAmp Architecture", M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, March, 1997.

39. Annie Nguyen, " Super-MOS Transistors and Their Applications: A study and comparison of Three recent circuits", M.S Thesis, The Ohio State University, April, 1997.

40. Habib Kilicaslan, " Design and Implementation of a 1.9GHz CMOS RF Front-End IC", M.S Thesis, The Ohio State University, April, 1997.

41. Hong-Sun Kim, " CMOS Double Balanced RF Mixers for Cordless Telephone Applications" M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, April, 1997.

42. Hongwu Chi, " Statistical Design and Optimization of Low Voltage Rail-to-Rail CMOS OpAmps" M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1997.

43. Michael V. Ivanov, " Low-Voltage Low-Power CMOS OpAmp Stages with Class AB Common-Mode Feedback" M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1997.

44. Shinichi Yamane, " A New Design Methodology for Extending Symmetrical Input Ranges in Four Quadrant Low Voltage CMOS Multipliers", M.S Thesis, The Ohio State University, February, 1998.

45. Nasirul I. Chowdhury, " A Low Power Transistor-Only CMOS Current-Mode A/D Converter Architechure", MS Thesis, The Ohio State University, February, 1998.

46. Robert A. Wrad, "A 1.0GHz Highly Linear CMOS Downconversion mixer/current AMP, " MS. thesis, The Ohio State University, March 1998.

47. Sang W. Song, "New Simultaneous Switching Noise Model for Low Voltage Submicron CMOS VLSI," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1998.

48. Neng-Tze Wong, " CMOS PLL Frequency Synthesizer design and Phase Noise Analysis," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, August, 1998.

49. Chien-Hsiung Feng," Analysis of High Frequency Nonlinearities in RF CMOS Circuits," MS. thesis, The Ohio State University, December, 1998.

50. Peter Kascak, " The Exaction of Base Spreading Resistance with Noise Measurement Technologies," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, March, 1999.

51. Shenggao Li, "A Low-power Submicron CMOS Downconversion Mixer for W-DCMA Receiver Application" MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1999.

52. Tzu-Wen Lai, " High Frequency Nonlinear Analysis of Gain and IP3 in RF CMOS Circuits," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1999.

53. Yi-Chung Lai, " High Accuracy CMOS Linear Battery Charger," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, May, 1999.

54.  Frans Lesmana, "A Low Power Rail to Rail input CMOS Op-AMp with a local Charge Pump," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, June, 2000.

55. Seoung-Jae Yoo, "433 MHz CMOS Power Amplifier For ISM Band Transceiver Chipset," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, June, 2000.

56. Ayman Fayed, "High-Speed CMOS Design Techniques for Personal Computers Bus Transceivers," MS. Thesis, The Ohio State University, August, 2000.

57. James Wilson, MS. Thesis, "Design of a Low-Power, Multi-Resolution Digital to Analog Converter for a W-CDMA Analog Front End", The Ohio State University, June 2001.

58. Weiwei Wang, MS. Thesis, " Low Voltage CMOS Bandgap Reference", The Ohio State University, June 2001.

59. Zubaida Yusoff, MS. Thesis, " 5-GHz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Wireless LAN Applications", The Ohio State University, November 2001.

60. Bashar Ahmad Alkhataybeh, MS Thesis, "Low Jitter Crystal Oscillator Circuit Design for Wireless Applications", The Ohio State University, Aug, 2003.

61. Golsa Ghiaasi-Hafezi, MS Thesis, "Power Efficient Radio Frequency Transmitter for Wireless Digital Mobile Applications", The Ohio State University, Aug, 2003.

62. Sravanthi Kanaparthi, MS Thesis, "CMOS VCOs for 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz Bands and Frequency Synthesizer for IEEE 802.15.4 Standard", The Ohio State University, December, 2003.

63. Omer Can Akgun, MS Thesis, "Design Approaches for Low Power Reconfigurable ADCs", The Ohio State University, December, 2003.

64. Adil Aldokhaiel, MS Thesis, "Sub 1-V CMOS Bandgap Voltage Reference Based on Body Driven Technique", The Ohio State University, January, 2004.

65. Jennifer Leonard, MS Thesis, "Pipelined A/D Converter for Multi-standard Wireless Receiver: Modeling, Simulation, and Design", The Ohio State University, June 2004.

66. Mustafa Al Homsi, ¡°High Speed ADC Design Targeting the UWB System Using TSMC 0.18um Technology Process¡±, May 2006.

67. Simon Ng, ¡°Core Mixed-Signal CMOS Intellectual Properties for Broadband Wireless Receivers¡±, November 2006.

VISITING SCHOLARS:[TOP]

  1. Mr. Akira Yamazaki, Fuji Electronics Corp. Tokyo, Japan, September 2002 ~ present.


 

  1. Professor Roelof Wassenaar, University of Twente, Netherlan, September 2001 ~ present.


 

  1. Prof. Katsutoshi Saeki, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2003 ~ September 2003.


 

  1. Miss Eva Vidal, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, March 2001 - Present


 

  1. Mr. Jukka Typpo, NTNU, - Norwegian University of Science and Technlogy, Norway, Feburary 2001 - July 2001


 

  1. Dr. Nabil I. Khachab, Dept of Electrical Eng. Kuwait University, Kuwait, September 2000 -June 2001


 

  1.  Mr. Juha Salmela, Radio Electornics Lab, Dept of Electronics, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Kista-Stockholm, Sweden, September 2000 -Present.


 

  1. Dr. Seok Woo Choi, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Korea, September 1999 - Present..


 

  1. Mr. Jung Hyun Choi, Institute of Information Sciencies UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15064, 91501-970 portoAlegre- RS, Brazil, January 1999-present


 

  1. Miss Tuna Tarim, ITU Electrical and Electronics, Engg. Faculty,Electronics and Communication Eng., Istanbul Technical University Ayazaga Campus, Maslak, Istanbul 80626, Turkey, June 1997-present 80626, Turkey, June 1997-present.


 

  1. Miss Myriam Massei, Institut Superieur d'Electronique de la Mediterranee(ISEM), Maison des Technologies Place Georges Pompidou 8300 Toulon, France, June99 - October 99.


 

  1. Mr. Esa Tiiliharju, Electronic Circuit Design Lab, Helsinki University of Technology, Otakaari, 5A, 02150 Espoo, Finland, January, 1998-August 1998.


 

  1. Dr. Tales Pimenta, Escola Federal de Engenharia de Itajuba, Av. BPS, 1303, Itajuba MG 37500-000, Brazil, August,1997-Dec. 1998.


 

  1. Prof. Gyu Moon, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Information and Electronics Enginnering, Hallym University, Ockchondong 1, Chunchon, Kangwondo 200-702, Korea , June 1997-February 1999.


 

  1. Prof. Noboru Kitamura, Suzuka College of Technology, Suzuka City, MIC 510-02, Japan, Feb 1997 - Feb. 1998


 

  1. Dr. Akira Hyogo, Department of Elec. Engg., Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-Shi, Chiba, Japan 278, September 1996 - September 1997.


 

  1. Prof. Hirofumi Kuwabara, Suzuka College of Technology, Suzuka City, MIC 510-02, Japan, May 1995 - Feb. 1996.


 

  1. Prof. Oddvar Aaserud, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, N-7034, Norway, August 1994 - July 1995.


 

  1. Dr. Trond Saether, Nordic VLSI A/S, Flatasen, N-7079, Norway, May 1994 - August 1994.


 

  1. Prof. Gun-Soon Shin, Kum-OH National Institute of Technology, Korea, April 1992 - March 1993.


 

  1. Prof. Rio Seto Yudoyono, IUC-Microelectronics, Bandung, Indonesia, Feb. 1992 - June 1992.


 

  1. Prof. Roelof Wassenaar, University of Twente, The Netherlands. June 1998- December 1998, June 97- September 97, July 96-September 96, June 1995-August 1995, July 1994 - September 1994, June 1993 - August 1993, June 1992 - August 1992, June 1991 - August 1991, and April 1990 - August 1990.


 

  1. Dr. Helena Pohjonen, Head IC Design Laboratory, Technical Research Center of Finland. April 1991 - May 1991.


 

  1. Mr. Antti Kankkunen, Circuit Theory Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. January 1991 - April 1991.


 

  1. Prof. Hong K. Shin, Won Kwang University, Iri City, Korea. August 1990 - August 1991.


 

  1. Mr. Mervin Hutabarat, IUC - Microelectronics, Bandung, Indonesia. 1990 - 1992.


 

  1. Prof. Dong Y. Kim, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Korea. Several short visits (1-3 weeks) in 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994 and 1995.


 

  1. Miss Magda El-Shenawi, Peace Fellow, Cairo, Egypt, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:[TOP]

1.      Founder and Editor-in-Chief (N. America) of the International Journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990-present.


 

2.      Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society's Editor of the IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Jan. 1992 - May 1995.


 

3.      Founder and Co-editor of the "Chip" column, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, July 1997-present.


 

4.      Editor of the Kluwer Book Series on Analog Circuits and Signal Processing, 1991-present.


 

5.      Technical Consultant to semiconductor industries in the U.S. and abroad since 1985 (e.g., Snyder Industries, Inc., Lincoln, NE, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Eastman Kodak, Delco Electronics, Kokomo, BFGoodrich Flight Systems, Inc., ETRI, Korea, SONY, Japan, ANACAD, France, NOKIA Mobile Phones, Finland, IUC Microelectronics, Indonesia, Technical Research Center, Finland, Nordic VLSI, Norway, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt).


 

6.      Elected to the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Board of Governors, January 1998-present.


 

7.      Chairman of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee, June 1987 - June 1990.


 

8.      Member of the Int-Advisory Board of the Tampere International Center on Signal Processing (TICSP), Tampere Finland, 1997-present and of the Helsinki University of Technology International Wireless program, 1998-present.


 

9.      Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, March 1995 - 1997.


 

10. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, July 1989 -July 1991.


 

11. Associate Editor, IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, April 1988 - Nov. 1991,and May 1995-present.


 

12. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, January 1992 - 1996.


 

13. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, January 1999-present.


 

14. Co-founder and technical Program Chair of the First International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) held in Cairo, Egypt, December 1994. Since 1996, the conference became the Region 8 IEEE CAS Society Conference.


 

15. Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Int. Analog VLSI workshop sponsored by IEEE of Japan, 1997-present. Hosted the 1st workshop in 1997 at the Analog VLSI Lab, Ohio State University.


 

16. Member of the IEEE-USA Technoligy Policy Committee on Aerospace, 1997-present.


 

17. Member of ISCAS Steering Committee, 1995-1996.


 

18. Publication Chair of the 1996 ISCAS held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 1996.


 

19. Panels Chair of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, December 1996.


 

20. Technical Program Co-Chair, The 2001 IEEE Midwest Symp. CAS.


 

21. Founding Member, Steering Committee and Technical Program Committes of the 2000 and 2001 IEEE Int. Symp. on Quality Electornic Design(ISQED).


 

22. General Chairman of the 29th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Lincoln, NE, August 10-12, 1986.


 

23. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1990 IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, LA.


 

24. Member of the Technical Committee of the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Grenoble, France.


 

25. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1988 IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), Helsinki, Finland.


 

26. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1991 IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Singapore.


 

27. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1989 ISCAS, Portland, OR.


 

28. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1987 IEEE Region 5 Conference, Tulsa, OK, March 9-11, 1987.


 

29. Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee, 1986-present.


 

30. Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Technical Committee on Neural Systems and Applications, 1989 - present.


 

31. Technical Reviewer for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Trans. on Education and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (now Circuits and Devices Magazine) since 1981, and for Proc. IEE - Part G, Electronic Letters, and Proc. IEEE since 1983. Technical Reviewer of IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, 1986-present; IEEE Trans. on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 1992-present; IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 1993-present; and many other international journals.


 

32. Member of National Science Foundation Technical Proposal Review panels.


 

33. Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems since June 1984, and of the IEEE ICECS Region 8 CAS Conference, 1994 - present.


 

34. Member of the Strategic Planning Committee 1989-1990, of the Graduate Studies Committee July 1988-1990, and of the Research Committee 1990-92, the Library Committee, 1991, the Circuits Area Committee, 1992 and 1993, the Advisory Committee, 1993-1996, the curriculum committee 1997, 1998 and chair of the Circuits Committee 1997-present, the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University.


 

35. Chairman of the Graduate Program Publicity Committee and member of the Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1984 and 1985.


 

36. Chairman of the Curriculum Committee and member of the EE Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1986-1988.


 

37. Initiated the organization of the Graduate Student Association in the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 1984, and served as its Faculty Advisor, 1985-1988.


 

38. Member of Tau Beta Pi Advisory Board, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1986-1987.


 

39. Graduate student representative in the Electrical Engineering Department Council meetings, University of Manitoba, 1981-1983.


 

40. Member of the Term Appointment Selection Committee, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Manitoba, 1982-1983.


 

41. Member of the Social Committee of the Graduate Student Association, University of Manitoba, 1982-1983.

FUNDED RESEARCH: [TOP]

1.      National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator base grant of $25,000/year for five years (1985-1990) to support research in analog VLSI design and digital signal processing.


 

2.      NOKIA Foundation Grant of $25,000, Finland, 1996, Low-Voltage CMOS Analog ICs for Mobile Communications. NOKIA Research Center, Finland ,1999, CMOS AGC and Baseband Filtering, $50,000.


 

3.      Intel and Level One Communication grants of $300,000 to conduct research in RF ICs, 1999-2001.


 

4.      Texas Instruments-Ohio State Alliance on Analog and Mixed-Signal, January 1 ,1998-Decenber 31 , 2002, $150,000/year.


 

5.      Nokia Research Center contract to conduct research on mixed signal ICs for basestations, $50,000, 1999.


 

6.      Micrys, Inc. Grant of $70,000, 1996/1997, Low Power VLSI Design for Portable CCD Cameras, and $89,000, 1997/1998, Low Power RF CMOS Front Ends for mobile wireless communication.


 

7.      Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) contract for $75,000/year for three years (1986-1988). The contract is a combination of SRC and NSF funds, $37,500 each, to support a research program in Continuous-Time MOS Analog Circuit Design and CAD tools for VLSI. 1989, 1990 and 1991 funding levels: $55,500 SRC and $37,500 NSF each year. SRC 1992 funding level: $95,000, 1993 funding level: $92,000, 1994 funding level: $80,000.


 

8.      Wright Lab, Dayton, Ohio, HDL-AMS to SPICE conversion for Mechatronics, $45,000, August 1997-Sept. 1998, Mixed-Signal Design Techniques, $65,000, March 1, 1999-February 29, 2000.


 

9.      National Science Foundation Grant: Group Travel to the First International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS/94), Cairo, Egypt, $12,600, 1994.


 

10. UNISCO, Paris, France Grant to fund Travel to the 1st ICECS, $5,000. Also a Grant from Third World Academy of Sciences, Triesta, Italy, ($1,500) for the same purpose.


 

11. National Semiconductor Grant of $5,000 to study Mismatch Drift in Analog CMOS Circuits, 1992.


 

12. AT&T Technology Systems grant of $12,500/year for three years, 1986-1988 to support research in analog and digital VLSI design.


 

13. Departmental Equipment Grant of $50,000 for a VLSI Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1983.


 

14. AT&T Technology Systems Equipment Grant of $5,955 for the AT&T DSP32 System, 1988.


 

15. Departmental Equipment Grant of $100,000 to establish a new laboratory for integrated circuit testing at The Ohio State University, 1988.


 

16. Hewlett-Packard Equipment Grant of $4,000 for a neural network testing station, 1989.


 

17. The Ohio State University Seed Grant of $15,000 to support research in analog VLSI neural networks, 1989.


 

18. Hewlett-Packard Equipment Grant of $200,000 to update laboratory facilities, 1989.


 

19. National Science Foundation Grant: Research Experiences for Undergraduates on VLSI Circuit Design, $3,665, 1989.

AWARDS: [TOP]

1. Recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985 (runs until 1992).

2. Recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Grant to Nokia and the Helsiniki University of Technology, 1995.

3. Recipient of the College of Engineering Lumley Research Award, The Ohio State University, in 1993, 1997, 2002 and 2007.

4. Recipient of the First College of Engineering and Technology Research Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988.

5. Recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation 1992 Inventor Recognition Award.

6. Recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation 1993 Inventor Recognition Award.

7. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Certificate of Appreciation, 1995 for services as the Society's Editor of the IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine.

8. Recipient of Faculty Development Fellowship, College of Engineering and Technology, UNL, 1985 and 1988.

9. Recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Teaching Award, EE Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1983-1984.

10. Nominated by IEEE for the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teaching Award. Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska, 1983-1984.

11. Nominated by the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University to receive the Harris Outstanding Faculty Award, 1989.

12. Winner of the Best T.A. Award for the academic years 1980-1981 and 1981-1982, respectively, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba (selection is made by undergraduate students).

13. Holder of the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, 1981-1983.

14. Government of Egypt Distinction Award, 1969-1974.

LISTING: [TOP]

1.      Listed in Who's Who in Technology Today, August 1986 (6th Ed.)


 

2.      Listed in American Men and Women of Science, 1988 (17th Ed.)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: [TOP]

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


 

2.      Senior Member IEEE, since 1984; Elected IEEE Fellow, January 1997.


 

3.      Member Sigma Xi.


 

4.      Member Tau Beta Pi.


 

5.      Member Eta Kappa Nu (KN).

LECTURES, SEMINARS, and VISITING APPOINTMENTS: [TOP]

2002-present: Entrepreneurial Leave of absence with Spirea AB, Stockholm, Sweden : serves as the company Chief Technology Officer responsible for technology roadmap, product development, business development, product definition and business care, corporate strategy, also set up a US affiliate Spirea Microelectronics LLC in Dublin, Ohio, USA as an IC design Center and also coordinating marketing activities in USA.

2003: Attended ESSCIRC 2003 in Portugal and gave a tutorial on Radios for 3G and 4G Wireless.

July 2003: Gave an invited talk at the Intel 2003 PowerWall Forum on Smart power radio design for 4-th Wireless.

2003: Gave numerous invited talks at the Nordic semiconductor meeting, the ICECS 2003, the IEEE Midwest Symp on Circuits and Systems.

2002: Chaired a session at the Norchip conference, technical program committee member.

2000: Invited speaker at the IEEE Dallas Chapter. Lectured on RF ICs for Multi-Standard wireless applicaitons.

1999: Visiting Professor, Radio Electronics Lab, Dept. of Electronics, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden. Co-Organizer and Co-chair of the First Int. Workshop on RF CMOS for wireless applicaitons held in Kista in September. Lectured on LV/LP CMOS VLSI at Intel.

1998: Lectured on LV/LP mixed signal and RF for wireless applications Fujitsu semiconductors, San Jose, UCCE, Carmel, KTH, Sweden, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland.

1997: Lectured on LV/LP mixed-signal VLSI at Intel, University of Oulu, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Edutech, Finland, KAIST, Korea and Montreal Polytech., Canada.

1995-1996: Was a Fulbright-Hays visiting professor at the Helsinki University of Technology. Gave a series of intensive courses to industry and university in Finland and Sweden on LP/LV VLSI Design, VLSI Statistical Design and other topics. Visited The Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

August 1995: Gave an intensive summer course sponsored by Nokia and the Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland. Course Title: Recent Trends in Analog VLSI Design.

July 1995: Invited to lecture at The Taiwan Summer School on low voltage/low power VLSI design. Lectured on Low-Voltage CMOS Analog ICs. Also invited to Sony, Japan and gave an invited lecture on Low Voltage Analog Design.

January 1995: Invited to EBMICRO 1995, The Brazilian School of Microelectronics, and gave an intensive Short Course on Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing.

Nov-Dec 1994: Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, MESA Research Center, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

September 1994: Visiting Professor, Department of Information, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Council of Norway Fellowship.

September 1994: Gave an invited talk on "Systematic Design of Analog VLSI Systems" at the 6th International Conference on Micro- electronics, Istanbul, Turkey.

August 1994: Invited to the 2nd Arab Scientists and Technologists Abroad (ASTA) meeting, Amman, Jordan and gave an invited talk on Analog VLSI.

July 1994 Visited the El ectronics Research Institute under the U.N. program "TOKEN" for consulting in VLSI research and provide help in building VLSI microelectronics capacity.

April 1994: Gave an invited lecture on Analog BiCMOS IC Design at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

February 1994: Visited Suzuka College, Japan and gave a series of lectures on BiCMOS Analog ICs at Chonbuk National University and Won Kwang University, Korea.

December 1993: Gave an invited talk entitled "Recent Advances in Analog VLSI" at the 5th International Microelectronics Conference held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

November 1993: Gave an invited plenary talk entitled "The True Potential of BiCMOS Technology for Analog Design" at the 11th Norchip Seminar, Trondheim, Norway. Also was a member of a panel on Future Directions in Analog Design at the same meeting.

July 1993: Visited the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway as an NTNF Fellow.

April 1993: Gave an invited lecture at the Microelectronic Center of North Carolina (MCNC), entitled: The Differential Difference Amplifier - A Basic Block in Modern Analog MOS VLSI, as an invited speaker to the 1993 Video Lecture Series sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corporation.

March 1993: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

November 1992: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway.

Gave an invited plenary talk entitled "The CMOS DDA: A Basic Block for Analog VLSI Design" at the 10th Norchip Seminar, Helsinki, Finland.

October 1992: Gave an invited lecture entitled: Mixed-Signal VLSI Design, at the Norwegian CAD Forum, Trondheim, Norway.

June 1992 - On leave as a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Institute of

December 1992 Technology, Trondheim, Norway, with a Fellowship from the Norwegian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (NTNF) to pursue research in VLSI circuit design. Consulted for Nordic VLSI and SINTEF, Norway.

June 1992 Gave a plenary invited talk entitled, "Recent Advances in Analog VLSI," at the 15th Nordic Semiconductor Conference, Espoo, Finland.

December 1991 Invited to the 1991 International Conference on Microelectronics held in Cairo, Egypt and gave an Invited Lecture on Analog VLSI Neural Networks.

November 1991 Invited lecture entitled "Analog VLSI: A Major Technology for Future Information Processing," at SUNY, New Platz as Invited Speaker to the New Horizons in Physics Lecture Series sponsored by IBM.

September 1991 Spent 3 weeks at the Inter University Center (IUC) - Microelectronics of the Institute Teknologi-Bandung (ITB) in Bandung, Indonesia sponsored by the Indonesian Second University Development World Bank XVII Project and contracted by MUCIA (Midwest Universities Consortium for International Assistance). Transferred know-how through seminars, consulting, panel discussions, etc. in the field of analog/digital VLSI design and testing. Gave an invited lecture at the University of Oslo, Norway on Analog VLSI: Applications in Telecommunications and Neural Computing. Also gave two lectures at the European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design held in Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of the presymposium workshop on current-mode analog IC design.

May 1991 Gave a one-day short course on Analog VLSI Design at the 34th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems held at Monterey, CA. The lectures were given with Dr. H. Baher of WPI and J.-Y. Michel of National Semiconductor, Santa Clara.

December 1990 Visited the Technical Research Center of Finland, The IC Design Laboratory, for one week as part of a joint US-Finland NSF program.

August 1990 Gave an invited lecture on Analog VLSI at the Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Also, gave invited lectures at Motorola, Inc., Austin, TX, and at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. Organized a special session on Analog VLSI Neural Networks at the 33rd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Calgary, Canada.

May 1990 Invited to the CAS Workshop on Future Directions: Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, New Orleans. Was a member of the Analog Subcommittee which included the leaders in the analog field worldwide.

February 1990 Invited to Korea and Japan and gave lectures on the current status and future directions of analog VLSI at Seoul National and Chonbuk National Universities, Electronic Telecommuni- cation Research Institute (ETRI), Korea and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

June 1989 Gave an invited lecture on Modern Analog IC Design at Analog Devices, Inc., Boston, Mass.

January 1989 Gave an invited lecture on Continuous-Time Analog ICs at the Technical Research Center of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

December 1988 Gave a lecture at the SemiConductor Research Corporation Workshop on Analog Design Automation, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida.

April 1988 Gave an invited lecture at Calif. State University, Long Beach.

February 1988 Gave an invited lecture at UCLA.

December 1987 - Visited Egypt for four weeks and consulted for several research

January 1988 institutions in the field of analog/digital VLSI design at the invitation of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Government of Egypt, under the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funded project "TOKTEN" "Transfer of Know-how Through Expatriate Nationals."

December 1987 Invited to the Netherlands to give a series of lectures on analog integrated circuits at Twente University, Delft University and Phillips Labs.

November 1987 Gave invited lectures at Georgia Tech and Univ. of Texas-Dallas.

June 1987 Gave a lecture entitled "Continuous-Time Analog Design for MOS VLSI" at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina as part of the Semiconductor Research Corporation Research Program Review.

May 1987 Invited to give a series of lectures on Analog MOS Circuits for VLSI at Seoul National University, Korea, Chonbuk National University, Korea, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, and at Tokyo Denki University (TDU), Tokyo, Japan.

June 1986 Gave a Lecture entitled "Continuous-Time MOSFET-C Filter Topologies for AIDE2" in Semiconductor Research Corpora-tion Workshop held at Georgia Institute of Technology.

August 1985 "Recent Applications of Continued Fractions in Electrical Engineering," NSF Regional Conference on Optimization, Operator Theory and Electrical Engineering, Department of Math and Statistics, UNL.

July 1985 Gave a seminar entitled "Novel MOSFET-Capacitor Filter Topologies," Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

June 1985 Gave a series of lectures on Analog MOS VLSI at the National University of Singapore and Cairo University.

Fall 1984 Seminar entitled "Synthesis of Digital Ladder Filters by Continued Fractions," Electrical Engineering Department, UNL.

Fall 1984 Conducted a live IEEE Seminar via satellite on "VLSI and its Impact on Your Career," Department of Conferences and Institutes, UNL.

1983 Gave seminar presentations at North Carolina State, U. of Nevada-Reno, San Francisco State, Montana State, Michigan Tech. and UNL.

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS: [TOP]

Feburary 2000: Attended ISSCC in San Francisxo.

February 1999: Attended ISSCC in San Francisco.

September 1998:Attended ICECS in Lisbon, Portugal, Lectured at the RF IC presymp workshop and chaired a session on Log-domain Filter design.

August 1998: Attended the CAS Midwest Symposium, U. of Notre Dame, IN.

June 1998: Attended ISCAS 1998 in Monterey, California.

March 1998: Attended the Great Lakes VLSI Symp. W. Lafayette, Louisiana

February 1998: Attended ISSCC in San Francisco, and the Great Lakes VLSI Symp., Lafayette, Louisiana and chaired a session on high performance CMOS design.

December 1997: Attended ICECS in Cairo, gave a tutorial with R. Wassennar on LV/LP VLSI and chaired a session on Analog VLSI.

August 1997: Attended VLSI/97 conference at Gramado, Brazil and gave a half-day course on Robust Analog VLSI Design.

July 1997: Attended the 11th conference of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society, Caxambu, MG, Brazil and gave a Tutorial on LV CMOS for mobile communications.

June 1997: Attended ISCAS at HongKong and chaired a session on LP analog VLSI.

February 1997: Attended ISSCC, San Francisco.

December 1996: Attended the 8th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM96), Cairo, EGYPT. Gave an invited paper on Low Power VLSI and chaired a session on Analog VLSI.

October 1996: Attended the third IEEE ICECS, Rodos, Greece and chaired a session on Low-Voltage, Low-Power VLSI.

May 1996: Attended ISCAS/96 in Atlanta, Ga, organized a half-day tutorial on Analog VLSI: LV/LP Cell Design, and was the conference publication chair, CDROMs for the conference proceedings and tutorials produced for the first time at ISCAS.

December 1995: Attended the 2nd ICECS in Amman, Jordan and gave a half-day tutorial on LV Analog VLSI Design. ICECS became the CAS Region 8 Meeting.

August 1995: Attended the IEEE Midwest Symp. CAS in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and gave a short course on "The True Potential of BiCMOS Technogoly for Analog IC Design".

May 1995: Attended ISCAS 1995, Seattle Washgton. Organized and Chaired, with Terri Fiez, a pre symposium Tutorial on Analog VLSI Technology.

December 1994: Attended the First International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Cairo, Egypt; was the Tech-Program Chairman.

November 1994: Attended the 12th Norchip Seminar, Nov. 8-9, Gothenberg, Sweden.

July 1994: Co-organized and co-chaired (with Tor Lande) two special sessions on Neural System Hardware at the IEEE International Conference on Neural Nets, Orlando, Florida.

May 1994: Attended ISCAS 1994, London, U.K.

September 1993 Attended the 1993 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Seville, Spain.

Attended the 1993 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD) in Davos, Switzerland. Co-organized (with Tor S. Lande) two special sessions on Electronic Neural Circuit Trends. Also, witnessed the creation of the European Circuits Society (ECS) at the meeting.

May 1993 Attended the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Chicago. Chaired a session on Analog Circuits and Filters.

February 1993 Attended the International IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco.

September 1992 Attended the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Copenhagen, Denmark.

May 1992 Co-organized and co-chaired with Terri Fiez a pre-symposium workshop on Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing, as part of the Tech. program of ISCAS, 1992, San Diego, CA.

June 1991 Co-organized a presymposium workshop on Neural Nets: Theory, Design and Implementation (with F. Salam and A.-N. Michel), a special session on nontraditional neural networks (with Y. Horio and F. Salam) and a special session on High-Speed Continuous-Time Filters (with N. Fujii), as part of the Technical Program of the 1991 Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, held in Singapore.

November 1990 Attended the IEEE Conference on CAD (ICCAD), Santa Clara, CA.

October 1990 Attended the 2nd Semiconductor Research Corporation Conferene, TECHCON, 90, San Jose, CA.

September 1990 Attended the European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Grenoble, France.

May 1990 Attended the 1990 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, chaired a regular session on Analog ICs and co-organized and co-chaired a special session on Heterojunction Devices for High-Speed Signal Processing (with P. Roblin). Also, lectured at the pre-symposium workshop on Current-Mode Analog Signal Processing.

February 1990 Attended the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA.

August 1989 Attended the 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Lectured at the Pre-Symposium Workshop on "Neural Nets and Its Engineering Implementation" and chaired a regular session on Circuits and Sensors.

May 1989 Attended the 1989 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Portland, OR. Co-organized a pre-symposium workshop with Carver Mead on Analog VLSI and neural systems. Chaired a regular session on Analog IC design and co-organized and co-chaired a special session with Steven Bibyk on analog signal processing for neural microelectronics.

April 1989 Invited to attend the First NSF-Industry-University Symposium, sponsored by IBM, at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown heights, NY. Gave an invited talk on analog signal processing techniques for MOS VLSI.

February 1989 Attended the IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Circuits, New York.

October 1988 Attended the 1st Semiconductor Research Corporation Conference, TECHON 88, Dallas, TX.

August 1988 The 31st Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, St. Louis, MO. Chaired two regular sessions on VLSI routing. Also attended the 1st VLSI Education Conference and Expo, Santa Clara, CA.

June 1988 The 1988 IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems. Organized and chaired a presymposium workshop on "Expert System Tools for Analog Signal Processing Applications" and organized two special sessions on Analog Interface Systems.

February 1988 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

November 1987 The First IEEE Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Neural and Synthetic, Denver, CO.

August 1987 30th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Syracuse, N.Y. Gave a state-of-the-art review invited talk on Analog CMOS design for VLSI. Also organized and chaired a special session on Integrated Filters.

May 1987 Invited to the First VLSI Circuits Symposium, Karuizawa, Japan. Organized a Rump Session on "Video Signal Processing, What is required for VLSI?" and chaired a technical session on Analog Circuits.
May 1987 IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Philadelphia, PA.

March 1987 IEEE Region V Conference, Tulsa, OK, organized and chaired two sessions entitled: 1. Future Trends in VLSI technology, 2. VLSI Circuits and Systems: Future Directions.

February 1987 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, New York, NY.

October 1986 29th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Lincoln, NE (was the Symposium General Chairman).

May 1986 IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Jose, CA (organized and chaired a special session on Z-Domain Circuit Theory, also organized and chaired a special session on Analog VLSI in a presymposium workshop).

November 1985 Mid America Electronics Conference and Exhibition, Kansas City, MO.

August 1985 28th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Louisville, KY.

June 1985 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kyoto, Japan.

October 1984 Mid America Electronics Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.

June 1984 27th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Morgantown, W. VA.

May 1984 1984 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, Canada.

October 1983 21st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Champaign, IL.

May 1983 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Newport Beach, CA.

March 1983 15th Southeastern Symp. on System Theory, Huntsville, AL.

August 1982 25th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Houghton, MI.

April 1981 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Chicago, IL.

April 1980 IEEE ISCAS, Houston, TX.

July 1979 IEEE ISCAS, Tokyo, Japan.

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION: [TOP]

Academic Courses:

 

Graduate: Active filters, advanced network analysis and synthesis, solid-state devices and circuits, integrated circuits, digital filters, digital signal processing, pulse and digital circuits, computer-aided circuit analysis and design, advanced linear algebra, numerical analysis and computer methods.

Undergraduate: Circuits, Communications, Electromagnetics, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Electronic Measurements, Control and Computers, Acoustics, Energy Conversion, Power Systems and MicroWave Engineering.

Professional Courses and Training:

 

April 1992; Participated in the workshop: Advances in Analog Circuit Design, held in Scheveningen, The Netherlands and organized by Delft University of Technology.

Spring 1982; Participation in the following workshops, organized by Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba:
- Communications  - Course construction  - Lecturing & Explaining  - Evaluation

Fall 1981; Introduction to College Teaching, Faculty of Education, U. of M.

July - Aug 1981; Theory and design of Computer Communication Systems. Organized by the Communication Research Center, Ottawa, and U. of M., Winnipeg Canada.

April - May 1979; Microwave System Engineering, Collins Radio Group, Rockwell International, Dallas, Texas.

March 1979; T324 PCM Multiplexing, ITT Transmission Division, Raleigh, North Carolina.

May 1977; Electrical Calibration, John Fluke Mfg., Inc., Cairo, Egypt.

August 1975; Computer-aided circuit analysis, Scientific Computational Center, Cairo, Egypt.

PUBLICATIONS: [TOP] | [Books] | [Book Chapters] | [Book reviews] | [Patents] | [Journal Papers] | [Conference Papers] | [Technical Reports] |

I. Books [PUBLICATIONS]

1. M. Ismail, "Proceedings of the 29th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Ed.)", Elsevier Science Publishing Co., April 1987.

2. C. Mead and M. Ismail, "Analog VLSI Implementation of Neural Systems", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

3. M. Ismail and J. Franca, "Introduction to Analog VLSI Design Automation", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

4. C. Michael and M. Ismail, "Statistical Modeling for CAD of VLSI Circuits", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

5. M. Ismail and T. Fiez, "Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing", McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1994.

6. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "Low Voltage CMOS Opertional Amplifiers: Theory, Design and Implementation", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

7. B. Sheu, M. Ismail, E. Sanchez-Sinencio and Tony H. Wu, "Microsystems Technology for Multimedia Applications: An Introduction", IEEE Press, New York, 1995.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

II. Book Chapters [PUBLICATIONS]

1. S. Bibyk and M. Ismail, "Issues in Analog VLSI and MOS Techniques for Neural Computing,"" Ch. 5 in Analog VLSI Implementation of Neural Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1989.

2. M. Ismail, "CAD-Compatible Analog System Design -- A New Design Concept," Ch. 7 in Introduction to Analog VLSI Design Automation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1990.

3. S. Bibyk and M. Ismail, "Neural Network Building Blocks for Analog VLSI," Ch. 17, in Analog IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach, Toumazou, Lidgey, and Haigh, Eds., Peter Peregrinus Ltd., London, 1990.

4. S. Dupuie and M. Ismail, "High Frequency CMOS Transconductors," Ch. 5 in Analog IC Design: The Current-Mode Approach, Toumazou, Lidgey, and Haight, Eds., Peter Peregrinus Ltd, London, 1990.

5. M. Ismail and Terri Fiez, "Introduction to Analog VLSI," Ch. 1 in Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994.

6. M. Ismail, S.-C. Huang and S. Sakurai, "Continuous-Time Signal Provcessing," Ch. 3 in Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994.

7. S.R. Zarabadi, M. Ismail and F. Larsen, "Basic BiCMOS Building Blocks," Ch. 5 in Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994.

8. C. Michael, C. Abel and M. Ismail, "Statistical Modeling and Simulation," Ch. 14 in Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994.

9. M. Ismail, S.-C. Huang, C.-C. Hung and T. Saether, "Canonical Cells of MOSFET Technology," Chapter 12.2.4 in The Circuits and Filters Handbook, (W.-K. Chen, EIC.), CRC Press Series of Electrical Engineering, and IEEE Press, 1995.

10. M. Ismail, Shu-Chuan Hwang, Chung-Chih Hung, Seyed R. Zarabadi and F. Larsen, "Basic CMOS and BiCMOS Analog Cell Design," Chapter 7-1 in Microsystems Technology for Multimedia Applications: An Introduction, Sheu, Ismail, E. Sanchez-Cinencio, Wu (Eds.), IEEE Press, NY, 1995.

11. F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "Low Cost, High Performance Analog BiCMOS Circuit Design," Chapter 7-6 in Microsystems Technology for Multimedia Applications: An Introduction, Sheu, Ismail, E. Sanchez-Cinencio, Wu (Eds.), IEEE Press, NY, 1995.

12. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "Rail-to-Rail CMOS Operational Amplifiers for a 3-V Supply," Chapter 7-7 in Microsystems Technology for Multimedia Applications: An Introduction, Sheu, Ismail, E. Sanchez-Cinencio, Wu (Eds.), IEEE Press, NY, 1995.

13. H.-Y. To and M. Ismail, "Modern Analog IC Characterization Techniques," Chapter 7 in Characterization Techniques for Submicron VLSI, H. Haddara (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

14. H.-Y. To, C.-C. Hung, H. Su, and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design and Optimization for High-Yield BiCMOS Analog Circuits," Chapter 17 in Low-Power HF Microelectronics, G. AS. Machado(Ed.), IEE Press, May 1996.

15. C. Hwang, A. Motamed, and M. Ismail, "Theory and Design of Universal Low-Voltage OpAmps," Chapter 1.1.3, in Emerging Technologies: Designing Low Power Digital Systems, R. Cavin and W. Liu (Eds.), ISCAS/96 Tutorials, IEEE Catalog NO. 96TH8189, May 1996.

16. M. Ismail, C.-C. Hung, and C. Hwang, "Electronics," in the McGraw-Hill 1998 YEARBOOK OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, McGraw-Hill, pp. 111-112, 1998.

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

18. 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.

19. Md. I. Younus, A. Savla, A. Ravindran, and M.Ismail, "A Reconfigurable Baseband Chain for 3G Wireless Receivers", Chapter 3 in "Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems", Yichuang Sun (Ed) et al, , IEE Press, August 2003.

20. M. M. Hella, S.-J. Yoo, and M.Ismail, "Design of Integrated CMOS Power Amplifiers for Wireless Transceivers", Chapter 8 in "Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems", Yichuang Sun (Ed.) et al, IEE Press, August 2003.

21. J. Leonard, A. Savla, and M.Ismail, "Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Transceivers", Chapter 9 in "Applied System Simulation: Methodologies and Applications", M.S. Obaidat (Ed.) et al, Kluwer Academic Publishers, September 2003.

22. H.-J. Ahn, A. Aktas, and M.Ismail, "Phase-Locked Loop Techniques in Modern Communications Systems", Chapter 8 in "Handbook of RF and Wireless Design", Newnes Publisher, October 2003.

III. Book Reviews [PUBLICATIONS]

1. Reviewed Analog MOS Integrated Circuits, II, by Paul Gray, Bruce Wooley, and Robert Brodersen, IEEE Press, for the IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol. 8, pp. 42-43, March 1992.

2. Reviewed VLSI Design of Neural Networks, U. Ramacher and U. Ruckert, eds., Kluwer, for the IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 3, pp. 521, May 1992.

3. Reviewed Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Second Edition, by V. Del Toro, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632. the review will be published in the IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine.

IV. Patents [PUBLICATIONS]

1. Analog, Continuous-Time Vector Scalar Multiplier Circuits and Programmable Feedback Neural Network Using Them.
Inventors: M. Ismail and N.I. Khachab
Filed: August 6, 1990.
Kremblas, Foster, Millard Law Offices, Columbus, OH.
Issued: 10/29/91 U.S. Patent No. 5,061,866

2. High Frequency BiCMOS Linear V-I Converter, Voltage Multiplier, Mixer.
Inventors: M. Ismail, S.R. Zarabadi and N.I. Khachab
Filed: November 8, 1990.
Kremblas, Foster, Millard Law Offices, Columbus, OH.
Issued: 9/29/92 U.S. Patent No. 5,151,625

3. Analog Continuous-Time MOS Vector Multiplier Circuit and A Programmable MOS Realization For Feedback Neural Networks
Inventors: Fathi M.A.Salam and Mohammed I.ELNAGGAR
Filed: May 5 1989
Issued: April 19,1994 US patent No.: 5,305,250

4. Linear Voltage to Current Converter Including Feedback Network
Inventors: M. Ismail and S.R. Zarabadi
Filed: December 31, 1992. U.S. Patent File No. 07/999316
Issued: May 31, 1994 U.S. Patent No. 5,317,279.

5. High Density Integrated Circuit with High Output Impedance.
Inventors: M. Ismail and S.R. Zarabadi
Delco Electronics Record of Invention dated January 15, 1992 and May 18, 1993.
Issued: 8/9/94 U.S. Patent No. 5,337,021

6. Constant Transconductance Bias Circuit and Method
Inventors: M. Ismail and S. Sakurai
Filed: October 22, 1993
Issued: January 24, 1995 U.S. Patent No. 5,384,548

7. 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

V. Journal Papers [PUBLICATIONS]

1. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Phase Correction in Two-Integrator Loop Filters Using a Single Compensating Resistor," Electronics Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 375-376, June 1978.

2. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Op-Amp Integrators with Infinite Q-Factor," Frequenz, Vol. 32, pp. 331-334, November 1978.

3. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Active Compensation of Op-Amps," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-26, No. 2, pp. 112-117, Feb. 1979.

4. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "A Novel Active Compensation Method of Op-Amp VCVS Structures," AEU, Band 33, Heft 9, pp. 378-379, 1979.

5. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Novel Passive and Active Compensated Deboo Integrators," Proc. of IEEE, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 324-325, Feb 1979.

6. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "On the Active Compensation of Non-Inverting Integrators," Proc. of IEEE, Vol. 67, No. 6, pp. 961-963, June 1979.

7. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Passive Compensated Op-Amp VCVS and Weighted Summer Structures," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-26, pp. 898-900, October 1979.

8. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "A Novel Passive Compensated Inverting Weighted Summer," Int. J. Circuit Theory & Applications, Vol. 8, 81-85, 1980.

9. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Comments on Synthesis of Actively Compensated Double-Integrator Filter without Matched Operational Amplifiers," Proc. of IEEE, Vol. 70, pp. 771-792, July 1982.

10. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "A Simplified Stability Test for Discrete Systems Using a New Z-Domain Continued Fraction Method," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-30, pp. 505-507, July 1983.

11. Y. K. Co, M. Ismail, G. C. Temes and G. Szentirmai, "Correction to Switched-Capacitor Building Blocks," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-30, pp. 253, April 1983.

12. M. Ismail and A. M. Soliman, "A New Active-Compensated Differential Integrator Without Matched Op-Amps," Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, pp. 406-410, October 1983.

13. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Elements of the First Column of Rout's Array," Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 316, pp. 381-384, Nov. 1983.

14. M. Ismail, "An Alternative Implementation of the Leap-Frog Active-RC Ladder Realization and Its Practical Merits," Frequenz, Vol. 38, pp. 112-115, May 1984.

15. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Synthesis of New Canonical Digital Ladder Filters By Continued Fractions," Proc. IEE, Electronic Circuits and Systems, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 1-6, February 1985.

16. M. Ismail, "A New MOSFET-Capacitor Integrator," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-32, pp 1194-1196, November 1985.

17. M. Ismail, "New Z-Domain Continued Fraction Expansions," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-32, pp. 754-758, August 1985.

18. M. Ismail, "A Simplified Algorithm for Testing Stability of Discrete Systems Via Bilinear Continued Fractions," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-33, pp. 544-547, May 1986.

19. M. Ismail, "Comments on Direct Bilinear Routh Stability Criteria for Discrete Systems," Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 85-86, October 1986.

20. M. Ismail, "Four-Transistor Continuous-Time MOS Transductor," Elec. Letters, Vol 23, No. 20, pp. 1099-1100, September 1987.

21. M. Ismail, S. Smith and R. Beale, "A New MOSFET-C Universal Filter Structure for VLSI," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 23, pp. 183-194, February 1988.

22. M. Ismail, "Synthesis of Canonical 2-D Digital Ladder Filters Using Mixed-Cauer Form," Int. J. of Electronics, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 1143-1151, 1988.

23. M. Ismail and H. Vakilzadian, "The Computer Implementation of S-Z Bilinear Transformation Using New Continued Fraction Algorithms," IEEE Trans. Educ., Vol. 32, pp. 270-279, August 1989.

24. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "MOS Multiplier/Divider Cell for Analog VLSI," Electronics Letters, Vol. 25, No. 23, pp. 1550-1552, November 1989.

25. T. Borgstrom, M. Ismail, and S. Bibyk, "A Programmable Current-Mode Neural Network for Implementation in Analog MOS VLSI," Proc. IEE, Pt. G, No. 2, special issue on Current-Mode Analog IC, pp. 175-184, Electronic Circuits and Systems, April 1990.

26. M. Ismail, "Technology for the 90's: Analog ICs and Signal Processing," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, pp. 17-18, July 1991.

27. M. Ismail and S. Bibyk, "CAD Latches onto New Techniques for Analog IC's," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, pp. 11-17, September 1991.

28. N.I. Khachab and M. Ismail, "A Nonlinear CMOS Analog Cell for VLSI Signal and Information Processing," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 26, pp. 1689-1699, Nov. 1991.

29. N.I. Khachab and M. Ismail, "Linearization Techniques for nth-Order Sensor Models in MOS VLSI Technology," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, vol. 38, pp. 1439-1450, December 1991.

30. H. Vakilzadian and M. Ismail, "A Computer-Aided Design Toolkit for Continuous/Discrete Systems Based on Continued Fractions," The special issue on Fundamental Methods in CAD, the Int. J. Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 19, pp. 593-607, December 1991.

31. C. Michael and M. Ismail, "Statistical Modeling of Device Mismatch for Analog MOS Integrated Circuits," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 27, pp. 154-166, February 1992.

32. C. Michael, C. Abel, and M. Ismail, "SMOS: A CAD-Compatible Statistical Model for Analog MOS Integrated Circuits," The special issue on Fundamental Methods in CAD, the Int. J. Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 20, pp. 327-348, March 1992.

33. M. Ismail and F. Larsen, "Synthesis of Z-Domain Reactance Functions," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 39, pp. 316-324, April 1992.

34. S.R. Zarabadi, F. Larsen, and M. Ismail, "A Reconfigurable CMOS Op-Amp/Differential Difference Amplifier Architecture," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 39, pp. 484-487, June 1992.

35. S. Sakurai, M. Ismail, J.-Y. Michel, E. Sanchez-Sinencio and R. Brannen, "A MOSFET-C Variable Equalizer Circuit with Simple On-Chip Automatic Tuning," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 27, pp. 927-934, June 1992.

36. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Square-Law Programmable Floating Resistor Architecture Independent of the Threshold Voltage," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, vol. 39, pp. 565-574, August 1992.

37. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "A High Frequency Wide Range CMOS Analog Multiplier," Electronics Letters vol. 28, pp. 2228-2229, November 1992.

38. S.R. Zarabadi and M. Ismail, "Very-High-Output-Impedance Cascode Current Sources/ Current Mirrors /Transresistance Stages and Their Applications," Int. J. Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 20, pp. 639-648, December 1992.

39. S.-C. Huang and M. Ismail, "A Linear Tunable COMFET Transconductor," Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 459-461, March 1993.

40. S.-C. Huang, M. Ismail, and S.R. Zarabadi, "A Wide Range CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier: A Basic Block for Analog Signal Processing in MOS Technology," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, vol. 40, pp. 289-301, May 1993.

41. S.-C. Huang and M. Ismail, "Design and Applications of a CMOS Analog Multiplier Cell Using the Differential Difference Amplifier," J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 209-217, 1994.

42. M. Ismail, R. Brannen, S. Takagi, N. Fujii, N. Khachab, R. Khan and O. Aasarud, "Configurable CMOS Multiplier/Divider Circuits for Analog VLSI," J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 5, pp. 219-234, 1994.

43. F. Larsen, S.R. Zarabadi and M. Ismail, "Potential of BiCMOS Technology for Analog IC Design," Arabian J. for Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Microelectronics, Vol.19, No.4B, pp.813-825, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, October 1994.

44. N. I. Khachab, B. Patel, and M. Ismail, "New Programmable Wn and Q KHN Filter," Int. J. Electronics, Vol. 79, No.3, pp.302-322, 1995.

45. C. Hwang, A. Motamed, and M. Ismail, "Universal Constant-gm Input-Stage Architectures for Low-Voltage Op Amps, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 42, pp. 886-895, Nov. 1995.

46. C. Hwang, S. Bibyk, M. Ismail, and B. Lohiser, "A Very Low Frequency, Micropower, Low Voltage CMOS Oscillator for Noncardiac Pacemakers," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 42, pp. 962-966, Nov. 1995.

47. C. Michael, H. Su, M. Ismail, A. Kankkunen, and M. Valtonen, "Statistical Techniques for the Computer-Aided Optimization of Analog Integrated Circuits," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, Vol.33, No.5, pp.410-413, May 1996.

48. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "Robust Design of Rail-to-Rail CMOS Operational Amplifiers for a Low Power Supply Voltage," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol.31, No.2, pp.146-156, Feb. 1996.

49. T. Saether, C.-C. Hung, Z. Qi nd M. Ismail, "High-Speed, High Linearity CMOS Buffer Amplifier," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol.31, No.2, pp.255-258, Feb. 1996.

50. C. Hwang, M. Ismail and J. DeGroat, "On-Chip IDDQ Testability Schemes for Detecting Multiple Faults in CMOS ICs", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol.31, No.5, pp.732-739, May 1996.

51. F. Larsen, M. Ismail, and C. Abel, "A Versatile Structure for On-Chip Extraction of Resistance Matching Properties," IEEE Trans. Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol.9, No.2, pp.281-285, May 1996.

52. H.-Y. To and M. Ismail, "Mismatch Modeling and Characterization of Bipolar Transistors for Statistical Computer-Aided Design," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, Vol.43, No.7, pp.608-610, July 1996.

53. S.-C. Huang, R.F. Wassenaar and M. Ismail, "Analysis and CAD Implementation Techniques of Total Harmonic Distortion in Analog VLSI Circuits," J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Vol.31, No.5, pp.732-739, May 1996.

54. S.S. Lee and M. Ismail, "1.5V Full-Swing BiCMOS Dynamic Logic Circuits," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, Vol.43, pp.760-768, Sept. 1996. 55.

55. N.Khachab,L.-C.Su and M.Ismail,"A New Tow Thomas Filter Structure with Programmable Wn and Q" Int.J. Electronics, Vol.18, No.1, pp.67-93, 1996.

56. C.-C. Hung, C. Hwang, M. Ismail, K. Halonen, and V. Porra "Low-Voltage CMOS Rail-To-Rail V-I Converters," J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 13, pp.261-274, 1997.

57. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, and M, Ismail, "Exponential CMOS Current-Voltage Converter." Electronics Letters, Vol. 33, No 12, pp. 998-1000, 5, June, 1997.

58. C.-C. Hung, K. Halenon, M. Ismail, Veikko Porra, and A. Hyogo, "A Low-Voltage Low-Power CMOS Fifth-Order Elliptic GM-C Filter for Baseband Mobile, Wireless Communication," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on multimedia Technology, systems and applications, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 584-592, August, 1997.

59. E. Tiiliharju, S. Zarabadi, M. Ismail, and K. Halonen, "A Very-High Impedance, High-Swing Cascode Stage for Sub-Micron Analog VLSI," IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, pp. 49 - 50, July, 1997.

60. Christopher Abel, Christopher Michael, M. Ismail, C. S. Teng and R. Lahri, "Reliability Characterization of Mixed-Signal Chips," IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, pp. 8 - 10, July, 1997.

61. J.Choma, Jr., M. Ismail, " Chip Design: Myths, Ideas, and Opportunities," IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, pp. 9 - 13, Nov, 1997.

62. J.Zohios and M.Ismail,"Layout Design of Integrated RF Spiral Inductors" IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine,Vol.14,No.2,March, 1998.

63. S. R. Zarabadi, M. Ismail, and C.-C. Hung, "High-Performance Analog VLSI Computational Circuits," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits , vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 644-649, April, 1998.

64. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, M. Ismail, " A Low Voltage Low Power Wide Range CMOS Variable Gain Amplifier," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 45, pp.800-811, July, 1998.

65. H.O.Elwan, T.B.Tarim, and M.Ismail, "A Digitally Controlled dB Linear CMOS AGC for mixed-signal Application", IEEE Circuits& Devices Magazine, pp.8-11, July, 1998.

66. H. Elwan, C. Hwang and M. Ismail, " A Class AB CMOS Fully Balanced Signal Generator" IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol. 14, pp. 13-15, September 1998.

67. H. Elwan and M. Ismail, " Digitally Controlled CMOS Current Follower for Low Voltage Low Power Applications," vol. 34, pp. 2297-2298, Electronics Letters, November 26th, 1998.

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

69. 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.

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

71. 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.

72. 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.

73. 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.

74. 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.

75. 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.

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

77. 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.

78. 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.

79. 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.

80. 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.

81. 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.

82. 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, Feb.2000.,

83. 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.

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

85. 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.

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

87. 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.

88. 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.

89. 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.

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

91. 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.

92. F. Larson, 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

93. 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.

94. 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.

95. 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.

96. 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

97. 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.

98. 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

99. 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.

100. 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.

101. 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.

102. 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

103. 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.

104. 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

105. 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

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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.

109. 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.

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

111. 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.

112. 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.

113. 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.

114. 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.

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

116. 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.

117. 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.

118. 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.

119. 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.

120. 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.

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

122. 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.

123. 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.

124. A. 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 .

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

126. 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.

127. 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.

128. 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.

129. Anna Rusu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Low-distortion bandpass modulator for wireless radio receivers,¡± IEEE Electronics Letter, Volume 41, Issue 19, pp. 1044-1046, September 2005.

130. 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.

131. 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.

132. 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.

133. 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.

134. 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.

135. 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, May 2006, pp. 113-124.

136. 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.

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

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

VI. Conference Papers [PUBLICATIONS]

1. M. Ismail and A. M. Soliman, "A Novel Active Compensation Method of Op-Amp VCVS and Weighted Summer Building Blocks," Proc. Of the 1979 IEEE ISCAS, pp. 922-925, Tokyo, Japan, July 1979.

2. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "A Universal Variable Phase 3-Port VCVS and its Application in Two-Integrator Loop Filters," Proc. of the 1980 IEEE ISCAS, pp. 83-86, Houston, Texas, April 1980.

3. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Active Compensated Circuits for Notch Type Biquads," Proc. of the IEEE ISCAS, pp. 315-318, Chicago, Ill., April 1981.

4. H. K. Kim and M. Ismail, "A Fast Hurwitz Test," in the Proc. of the 25th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 47-50, Houghton, Michigan, August 1982.

5. A. M. Soliman and M. Ismail, "Design of High Frequency Active Compensated Weighted Summer," in the Proc. of the 25th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 469-471, Houghton, Michigan, August 1982.

6. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "A Novel Approach for the Continued Fraction Expansion and Inversion of Cauer First and Second Forms," Proc. of the 15th Southeastern Symp. on Systems Theory, pp. 89-92, Huntsville, AL, March 1983.

7. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Continued Fraction Inversion of Stieltjes-type Expansion," Proc. of the 15th Southeastern Symp. on System Theory, pp. 93-96, Huntsville, AL, March 1983.

8. M. Ismail, Y. K. Co and G. O. Martens, "On Mixed S to Z Transforms for Discrete-time Biquadratic Filter Design," Proc. IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 305-308, May 1983.

9. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "A Simplified Algorithm for Testing Stability of Discrete Systems," Proc. The 21th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October 1983.

10. M. Ismail and A. M. Soliman, "A New Active-Compensated Differential Integrator without Matched Op-Amps," Proc. of the 25th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 568-570, Houghton, Michigan, August 1983.

11. M. Ismail and K. Ansari, "An Alternative Implementation of the Leap-Frog Active-RC Ladder Realization and Its Practical Merits," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. of Circuits and Systems, pp. 397-400, May 1984.

12. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "New Canonic Ladder Realizations of Digital Filters Using the Continued Fraction Method," Proc. of the IEEE ISCAS, pp. 735-738, may 1984.

13. M. Ismail, "Synthesis of One and Two Dimensional Digital Transfer Functions Using the Mixed Cauer Form," (invited paper) Proc. of the 27th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 323-325, June 1984.

14. M. Ismail, "New Z-Domain Continued Fraction Expansions," Proc. of the 27th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Symp. Proc., pp. 603-606, June 1984.

15. M. Ismail and S. R. Zarabadi and G. Myers, "Application of Composite Op-Amps in Nonlinear Circuits," Proc. of the 27th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 44-47, June 1984.

16. M. Ismail and S. R. Zarabadi, "A Novel Versatile Active-Phase-Compensated Inverting Amplifier," Proc. of the 27th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 52-54, June 1984.

17. M. Ismail, "A New Integrator Circuit for High Frequency Active Networks," Meacon 1984, Session 8/1, St. Louis, MO, October 1984.

18. M. Ismail and H. K. Kim, "Bilinear Transformation of Polynomials via Continued Fractions," Proc. IEEE International Symp. Circuits and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 259-262, June 1985.

19. M. Ismail, "Design and Application of a New Versatile Phase-Lead Integrator," Proc. IEEE International Symp. Circuits and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 101-102, June 1985.

20. M. Ismail, "New Fully-Integrated MOSFET-Capacitor Active Filters," Proc. of 1985 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1535-1438, June 1985.

21. M. Ismail and T. Bacon, "A New Approach for the Exact Synthesis of Switched-Capacitor Filters," Proc. of the 28th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 386-389, Louisville, KY, August 1985.

22. M. Ismail and D. Ganow, "Novel Fully-Balanced MOSFET-Capacitor Filter Topologies," Proc. of the 28th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 600-603, Louisville, Kentucky, August 1985.

23. M. Ismail and D. Rubin, "Effects of the Finite Amplifier Gainbandwidth on the Performance of Fully-Balanced MOSFET-Capacitor Filters," Proc. of the 28th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 47-50, Louisville, Kentucky, August 1985.

24. M. Ismail and D. Ganow, "MOSFET-Capacitor Continuous-Time Filter Structures for VLSI," Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1196-1200, May 1986.

25. M. Ismail and D. Rubin, "Improved Circuits for the Realization of MOSFET Capacitor Filters," Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1186-1189, May 1986.

26. M. Ismail, "Synthesis of Discrete-Time Reactance Functions," Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 460-463, May 1986.

27. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "Novel Continuous-Time All MOS Nonlinear Circuits," Proc. of the 29th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 12-16, edited by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Ed. Ismail, Lincoln, NE, August 1986.

28. M. Ismail, "The MOSFET-C Continuous-Time Approach: A New Design Methodology for Analog MOS VLSI," Proc. of IEEE Region V Conference, Tulsa, OK, pp. 74-79, march 1987.

29. S. Smith, F. Liu and M. Ismail, "Active-RC Building Blocks for MOSFET-C Integrated Filters," Proc. of the 1987 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 342-346, May 1987.

30. M. Ismail and N. Khachab, "Novel Continuous-Time All MOS Four Quadrant Multipliers," Proc. of the 1987 IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 762-765, May 1987.

31. M. Ismail and S. Smith, "A New MOSFET-C Universal Filter Structure for VLSI," Proc. of the 1987 International VLSI Circuits Symposium, pp. 71-72, Karuizawa, Japan, May 1987.

32. M. Ismail and S. Smith, "MOSFET-C Filter Structures Homologous to the Conventional KHN Structure," Proc. of the 30th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 945-951, August 1987.

33. M. Ismail, "Continuous-Time Analog Design for MOS VLSI," State-of-the-Art Review invited paper, Proc. of the 30th Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 707-711, August 1987.

34. M. Ismail and J. Prigeon, "A Novel Technique for Designing Continuous-Time Filters in MOS Technology," Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1665-1668, Helsinki, Finland, June 1988.

35. D. Y. Kim, K. J. Shin, G. S. Shin and M. Ismail, "The Continuous-Time MOSFET-C Wien-Bridge Oscillator Circuits for VLSI," Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2715-2718, Helsinki, Finland, June 1988.

36. M. Ismail, N. Khachab, S. Smith, J. Prigeon, D. Ganow and D. Rubin, "Continuous-Time Analog Signal Processing Techniques for MOS VLSI," Proc. of the First SRC TECHON, Dallas, TX, pp. 358-361, October 1988.

37. S. Smith, M. Ismail, and L. Kesting, "A New Active RC Leap-Frog Structure for High Frequency MOSFET-C Integrated Filters," Proc. of the 31st Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 689-692, August 1988.

38. S. Dupuie, S. Bibyk and M. Ismail, "A Novel All-MOS High-Speed Continuous-Time Filter," Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 675-680, Portland, OR, May 1989.

39. F. Salam, N. Khachab M. Ismail and Y. Wang, "An Analog MOS Implementation of the Synaptic Weights for Feedback Neural Nets," Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1223-1226, Portland, OR, May 1989.

40. M. Ismail, "Analog MOS VLSI: State-of-the-Art Review," Invited Paper, Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Intl. China Conf. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 999, Nanjing, China, July 1989.

41. E. Sanchez-Sinencio, M. Ismail, S. Sakurai, "MOSFET-C Variable Equalizer Filters," Proc. of the 1989 IEEE Intl. China Conf. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1000-1004, Nanjing, China, July 1989.

42. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "A New Continuous-Time MOS Implementation of Feedback Neural Networks," Proc. of the 32nd Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Champaign, Illinois, pp. 221-224, August 1989.

43. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "A Simple All-MOS Continuous-Time Multiplier/Divider Cell and Its Applications in VLSI Signal Processing," Proc. of the 32nd Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1001-1004, Champaign, Illinois, August 1989.

44. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "A New Technique for the Implementation of Programmable-Q MOSFET-C Filters," Proc. of the 32nd Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Champaign, Illinois, pp. 1193-1196, August 1989.

45. S. C. Huang and M. Ismail, "Novel Fully-Integrated Active Filters Using the CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier," Proc. of the 32nd Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 173-176, Champaign, Illinois, August 1989.

46. R. Kaul, S. Bibyk, M. Ismail, and M. Andro, "Adaptive Filtering Using Neural Network Integrated Circuits," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, pp. 2520-2523, May 1990.

47. S. Sakurai, S.R. Zarabadi, and M. Ismail, "Folded-Cascode CMOS Operational Amplifier with Slew Rate Enhancement Circuit," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, pp. 3205-3208, May 1990.

48. S. Bibyk, M. Ismail, T. Borgostrom, N. Khachab, S. Dupuie, K. Atkins, R. Kaul, "Current-Mode Neural Network Building Blocks for Analog MOS VLSI," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 3283-3285, New Orleans, May 1990.

49. C. Michael and M. Ismail, "Simulation of Mismatch-Induced Variance in Short-Channel Analog CMOS Circuits," Proc. TECHCON, 90, pp. 351-354, San Jose, CA, Oct. 1990.

50. N.I. Khachab and M. Ismail, "MOS Nonlinear Cells for VLSI Analog Signal Processing," a poster presentation, TECHCON, 90, San Jose, CA, Oct. 1990.

51. S.R. Zarabadi, S.-C. Huang, and M. Ismail, "A Wide-Dynamic Range CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier and its Applications," a poster presentation, TECHCON, 90, San Jose, CA, 1990.

52. M. Ismail, D.Y. Kim and H.K. Shin, "Finite GB and MOS Parasitic Capacitance Effects in a Class of MOSFET-C Filters," Proc. of the 33rd Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 938-941, Calgary, Canada, August 1990.

53. F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "LDI Z-Domain Images of Lossless LC Ladders," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 144-147, Singapore, June 1991.

54. M. Ismail, R.F. Wassenaar and W.R. Morrison, "A High-Speed Continuous-Time Bandpass VHF Filter in MOS Technology," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 1761-1764, Singapore, June 1991.

55. S. Takagi, M. Ismail, N. Fujii and R. Brannen, "A Novel MOSFET-C Filter Realization Method Using a Canonical Number of Capacitors," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 1339-1342, Singapore, June 1991.

56. S. Sakurai, M. Ismail, E. Sanchez-Sinencio, J.-Y. Michel and R. Brannen, "Fully-Integrated MOSFET-C Variable Equalizer Circuit with On-Chip Automatic Tuning," 1991 Symp. on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 111-112, Oiso, Japan, May 30-June 1, 1991.

57. M. Ismail and N.I. Khachab, "Analog VLSI: Future Technology for Neural Information Processing," Proc. of the 1991 Intl. Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 51-54, Cairo, Egypt, December 1991.

58. S.-C. Huang, S.R.. Zarabadi, and M. Ismail, "A Wide Input Range CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier and Its Application in Analog VLSI Signal Processing," 10th Norchip Seminar, , pp. 9-14, Helsinki, Finland, November 1992.

59. M. Ismail, R. Brannen, R. Khan, S. Takagi, O. Aaserud and N. Fujii, "A Simple Configurable CMOS Multiplier/Divider for Analog VLSI Signal Processing," 10th Norchip Seminar, pp. 106-111, Helsinki, Finland, November 1992.

60. M. Ismail, "Recent Advances in Analog VLSI," 15th Nordic Semiconductor Conference, pp. 305-312, Espoo, Finland, June 1992.

61. N. Khachab and M. Ismail, "An Analog Continuous-Time Programmable Neural Network," RNNS/IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputers, pp. 282-288, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, October 1992.

62. C. Abel, C. Michael, M. Ismail, C.S. Teng, and R. Lahri, "Characterization of Transistor Mismatch for Statistical CAD of Submicron CMOS Analog Circuits," Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Chicago, pp. 1401-1404, May 1993.

63. M. Ismail, R. Brannen, S. Takagi, R. Khan, O. Aaserud, N. Fujii and N. Khachab, "A Configurable CMOS Multiplier/Divider for Analog VLSI," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Chicago, pp. 1085-1088, May 1993.

64. S. Sakurai and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Square-Law Programmable Floating Resistor," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Chicago, pp. 1184-1187, May 1993.

65. H. Su, C. Michael and M. Ismail, "Yield Optimizaiton of Analog MOS Integrated Circuits Including Transistor Mismatch," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Chicago, pp. 1801-1804, May 1993.

66. R. John and M. Ismail, "Adaptive Compensation of MOSFET-C Filters," Proc. 1993 IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp.1402-1405, Detroit, MI, August 1993.

67. S.-C. Huang and M. Ismail, "CMOS Multiplier Design Using the Differential Difference Amplifier," Proc. 1993 IEEE Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems, Detroit, MI, August 1993.

68. J.C. Park, C. Abel and M. Ismail, "Design of a Silicon Cochlea Using MOS Switched-Current Techniques," Proc. 1993 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Davos, Switzerland, pp. 269-274, Elsevier, Dedieu (Ed.), September 1993.

69. S.R. Zarabadi and M. Ismail, "A 100 MHz Wide-Range BiCMOS Four Quadrant Multiplier/Mixer," Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 130-133, Seville, Spain, September 1993.

70. S.R. Zarabade and M. Ismail, "A BiCMOS Transconductance-C Intermediate Frequency (IF) Filter," Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 186-189, Seville, Spain, September 1993.

71. S.R. Zarabadi, F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "The True Potential of BiCMOS Technology for Analog Design," (Invited Plenary talk) Proc. 11th Norchip Seminar, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 8-18, November 1993.

72. M. Ismail, R. Brannen, R. Khan and O. Aaserud, "Finite GB and MOS Parasitic Effects in a Configurable Analog MOS multiplier/Divider," Proc. 11th Norchip Seminar, Torndheim, Norway, pp. 136-147, November 1993.

73. M. Ismail, "Recent Advances in Analog VLSI," (Invited talk) Proc. 5th Int. Conference on Microelectronics, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp. 313-316, December 1993.

74. H. Su, C. Michael and M. Ismail, "Statistical Constrained Optimization of Analog MOS Circuits Using Empirical Performance Models," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 1.133-1.136, London, UK, May 1994.

75. C. Abel, S. Sakurai, F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "Four-Quadrant CMOS/BiCMOS Multipliers Using Linear-Region MOS Transistors," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 5.273-5.276, London, UK, May 1994.

76. R. Brannen, S. Takagi, M. Ismail and N. Fujii, "New Single-Capacitor MOSFET-C Integrators: Analysis, Design and Applications," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 5.747-5.750, London, UK, May 1994.

77. F. Larsen, M. Ismail and A. Iranmanesh, "A Test Structure for Extraction of Resistance Matching Properties," Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, pp. 5.209-5.212, London, UK, May 1994.

78. C. Abel, J. Park, M. Ismail, B. Lohiser, S. Justice, S. Bibyk and T. Fiez, "A Switched-Current Silicon Cochlea," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Neural Networks (ICNN), pp. 1842-1847, Orlando, Florida, June 1994.

79. S.-C. Huang and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier with Rail-to-Rail Fully Differential Outputs," Proc. 1994 IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp.780-781, Lafayette, LA, August 1994.

80. Shu-Chuan Huang, M. Ismail and Chung-Chih Hung, "Primitive Cells for the Systematic Design of Analog VLSI Systems," (invited talk), Proc. 6th International Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 285-291, Istanbul, Turkey, September 1994.

81. N.I. Khachab, M. Ismail and B. Patel, "A New Programmable Q and wn KHN MOSFET-C Filter," Proc. 6th International Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 47-50, Istanbul, Turkey, September 1994.

82. H. Su, R. Spence, J.A. Nelder and M. Ismail, "Multivariate Experiments for Computer-Aided Design," Proc. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), pp. 311-315, Taipai, Taiwan, December 1994.

83. S.-C. Huang and M. Ismail, "Design of a CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier and Its Applications in A/D and D/A Converters," Proc. APCCAS, pp. 478-483, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1994.

84. S.V. Smith, M. Ismail, C.-C. Hung and S.-C. Huang, "Layout Design Considerations in MOS Continuous-Time Integrated Filters," Proc. APCCAS, pp. 300-305, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1994.

85. Gun Soon Shin, O.Y. Kim, Changku Hwang and M. Ismail, "Design of CMOS Continuous-Time OTA-C Elliptic Filter for VLSI Video Applications," Proc. 1st Intl. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 384-389, Cairo, Egypt, December 1994.

86. N.I. Khachab and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Multiplier/Divider Cell and its Applications in Analog Signal Processing," Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 18-23, Cairo, Egypt, December 1994.

87. F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "The Design of High-Performance Low-Cost BiCMOS Op-Amps in a Predominantly CMOS Technology," Proc.ISCAS, pp. 1720-1723, Seattle, Washington, May 1995.

88. T. Wong and M. Ismail, "An Analog VLSI Signal Fuzzifier," Proc. of SPIE Application and Science of Artificial Neural Networks, Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Control (AeroSense), pp.23-32, Orlando, FL, April, 1995.

89. M. Ismail, "Analog VLSI Neural Systems: Current Trends and Challenges," Invited Paper, Proc. of SPIE Application and Science of Artificial Neural Networks, Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Control (AeroSense), pp.634-640, Orlando, FL, April, 1995.

90. Thomas To and M. Ismail, "Worst Case Analysis of Low Voltage Analog MOS Integrated Circuits," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, pp.278-281, August 1995.

91. A. Motamed, C. Hwang and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Low-Voltage Four-Quadrant Multiplier," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.273-276, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, August 1995.

92. C. Hwang, A. Motamed and M. Ismail, "A New Implementation of Constant-gm OpAmp Input Stage for CMOS Low-Voltage Applications," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.1333-1336, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, August 1995.

93. C.-C. Hung, C. Hwang, and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Low-Voltage Rail-To-Rail V-I Converter," Proc. IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.1337-1340, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, August 1995.

94. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, and M. Ismail, "A Low Voltage/Low Power CMOS OpAmp Architecture," Proc. 2nd IEEE ICECS, pp.157-160, Amman, Jordan, December 1995.

95. T.S. Lande, H. Ranjbar, M. Ismail and Y. Berg, "An Analog Floating-Gate Memory in Standard Digital Technology," Proc. Of MicroNeuro'96, Fifth Intl. Conf. On Microelectronics for Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, pp.271-276, Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb. 1996.

96. F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "A Continuous-Time Offset-Compensated High Speed BiCMOS Comparator," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp.I.285-I.288, Atlanta, Ga, May 1996.

97. C. Hwang, A. Motamed, M. Ismail, and H. Kuwabara, "A Simple Universal LV/LP OpAmp Architecture," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp.I.341-I.344, Atlanta, Ga, May 1996.

98. F. Larsen and M. Ismail, "Issues in the Design of Analog BiCMOS Integrated Circuits," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp.I.361-I.364, Atlanta, Ga, May 1996.

99. H.-Y. To, H. Su, and M. Ismail,"A Novel Sensitivity Analysis Technique for VLSI Statistical Design," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp.IV.485-IV.487, Atlanta, Ga, May 1996.

100. C.-C. Hung, K. Halonen, V. Porra, and M. Ismail, "CMOS Analog Cells for Low-Voltage VLSI Signal Processing Applications," Proc. 17th Nordic Semiconductor Meeting, Trondheim, Norway, June 1996.

101. A. Motamed, C. Hwang, and M. Ismail, "A Programmable Low-Voltage Micropower CMOS Input Stage Architecture," Proc. IEEE Symp. On VLSI Circuits, pp.148-149, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1996.

102. C.-C. Hung, K. Halonen, and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Low-Voltage Rail-To-Rail V-I Converter Utilizing Maximum-Current Selecting Circuits," Proc. Intl. Conf. On Circuits and System Sciences (ICCASS), pp.70-73, Shanghai, China, June 1996.

103. C.-C. Hung, C. Hwang, K. Halonen, V. Porra, and M. Ismail, "Design of CMOS Analog Cells for Low-Voltage VLSI," Proc. 39th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Ames, Iowa, August 1996.

104. C.-C. Hung, K. Halonen, V. Porra, and M. Ismail, "Low-Voltage CMOS GM-C Filter with Rail-To-Rail Common-Mode Voltage," Proc. 39th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Ames, Iowa, August 1996.

105. C.-C. Hung, K. Halonen, V. Porra, and M. Ismail, "Low-Voltage, Micropower Weak-Inversion CMOS GM-C Filter," Proc. The 3rd IEEE ICECS, pp.1178-1181, Rodos, Greece, Oct. 1996.

106. C.-C. Hung, C. Hwang, K. Halonen, V. Porra, M. Ismail, and S. Lindfors, "CMOS Design of Analog Cells for Low-Voltage VLSI Circuits," Proc. 14th Norchip Conference, pp.164-171, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 4-5, 1996.

107. S. Takagi, K. Wada, N. Fujii, M. Ismail, and D. Y. Kim, "A Novel Area-Efficient MOSFET-C Filter Design Methodology," Proc. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), pp.53-56, Seoul, Korea, November, 1996.

108. C. Hwang, A. Motamed, and M. Ismail, "LV Complementary Differential Pair with Programmable Rail-To-Rail Constant-gm," Proc. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), pp.113-116, Seoul, Korea, November, 1996.

109. M. Ismail and C.-C. Hung, "An Overview of Low-Voltage Low-Power VLSI Design," (invited talk), Proc. 8th International Conference Microelectronics, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 16-18, 1996.

110. C. Hwang, A. Hyogo and M. Ismail, "A Single-Ended-Input Fully-Balanced-Output CMOS Circuit," Proc. IEEJ 1st Analog VLSI Workshop, ECT-97-32~60, pp. 13- 16, Columbus, OH, May 6-8, 1997.

111 C.-H. Lin, H. Chi, C. Hwang and M. Ismail, "A Robust Low Voltage CMOS Rail to Rail OpAmp Architechure," Proc. IEEJ 1st Analog VLSI Workshop, ECT-97-32~60, pp. 17-22, Columbus, OH, May 6-8, 1997.

112 C. Hwang, A. Hyogo, M. Ismail and H.-S. Kim, "LV CMOS Analog VLSI Composite Cell Design and its Application to High Speed Multiplier," Proc. IEEJ 1st Analog VLSI Workshop, ECT-97-32~60, pp. 95-98, Columbus, OH, May 6-8, 1997.

113 A. Hyogo, C. Hwang, M. Ismail and K. Sekine, "LV/LP CMOS Square-Law Composite Transistors for Analog VLSI ApplicationS," Proc. IEEJ 1st Analog VLSI Workshop, ECT-97-32~60, pp. 139- 144, Columbus, OH, May 6-8, 1997.

114. C.-C. Hung, M. Ismail, K. Halonen, and V. Porra, "Low-Voltage Rail-To-Rail CMOS Differential Difference Amplifier," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 145-148, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

115. C.-C. Hung, K. Halonen, M. Ismail, and V. Porra, "Micropower CMOS GM-C Filters for Speech Signal Processing," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 1972-1975, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

116. C. Hwang, A. Motamed, and M. Ismail, "LV OPAMP with Programmable Rail-To-Rail Constant-GM," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 1988-1991, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

117. C.-K. Wong, H.-Y. To, and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Analog to Fuzzy Signal Converter," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 605-608, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

118. S. Lindfors, M. Ismail, and K. Halonen, "Constant-gm Rail-To-Rail CMOS Input Stages with Improved Robustness," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 145-148, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

119. S. Lindfors, M. Ismail, and K. Halonen, "A 3V All-MOS Elliptical 1MHz Gm-C-OTA Filter," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 1980-1983, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

120. E. Tiiliharju, S. R. Zarabadi, M. Ismail, and K. Halonen, "A Novel Very-High-Output-Impedance High-Swing Cascode Stage and Its Applications," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, pp. 1976-1979, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997.

121. Chi-Hung Lin, Hongwu Chi, Changku Hwang and Mohammed Ismail, "A Robust Design of A Low Voltage CMOS Rail to Rail OpAmp Architecture," invited lecture, XII Conference of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society, Caxambu-MG, Brazil, July, 1997.

122. N. Tchamov, Jerasimos Zohios, and M. Ismail, "A 900MHz CMOS Controlled Oscillator For Wireless Communications," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

123. H. Kilicaslen, H.-S Kim, and M. Ismail, "A 1.9GHz CMOS RF DownConversion Mixer," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed, Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

124. A. Hyogo, C. Hwang, M. Ismail and K. Sekire, "LV/LP CMOS Square-Law Circuits," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

125. C. Hwang, A. Hyogo and M. Ismail, "A CMOS Robust Fully-Balanced-Signal Generator," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

126. C. Hwang, A. Hyogo, M. Ismail and H.-S. Kim, "LV CMOS High Speed Analog Multiplier," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

127. C.-H. Lin, M. Ismail, "A Low-Voltage Low-Power CMOS OpAmp with Rail-to-Rail Input/Output," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

128. V. N. Ivanov, M. V. Ivanov and M. Ismail, "High Slew Rate Micropower CMOS OTA with Class AB Input Stage," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS, to be printed , Sacramento, CA, August 3-6, 1997.

129. E. Tilliharju, S. Zarabadi, M. Ismail and K. Halonen, "A Low- Voltage Low-Power Submicron-Compatible CMOS OTA," Proc. ECCTD '97, Budapest, pp. 1434-1437, Sept. 1997.

130. T. B. Tarim, M, Ismail, "Statistical Design of a Low Voltage Square-Law CMOS Cell," Proc. CERC/VIUF/IEEE Computer Society Workshop, Session II-Composite CAD, Dayton, OH, Dec. 10, 1997.

131. H. Chi, C.-H. Lin, T. B. Tarim and M, Ismail, "Statistical Design of Low Voltage Rail-to-Rail CMOS OpAmps for DC Offset Optimization," Proc. CERC/VIUF/IEEE Computer Society Workshop, Session II-Composite CAD, Dayton, OH, Dec. 10, 1997.

132. H. O. Elwan and M. Ismail, "Low Voltage Low Power CMOS AGC Circuit for Wireless Communication," Proc. of the 8th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. 281-285 , Lafayette, LA, 1998.

133. C.-H Lin and M. Ismail, "A Low-Volatge CMOS Rail-to-Rail Class-AB Input/Output OpAmp with Slew-Rate and Settling Enhancement," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, 1998.

134. Gyu Moon, Hong-sun Kim, Mohammed Ismail, and Changku Hwang , "A New GHz CMOS Celluar Oscillator Network," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, 1998.

135. T.B. Tarim, H.H. Kuntman and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design Techniques for Yield Enhancement of Low Voltage CMOS VLSI", Proc. IEEE ISCAS, 1998.

136. H. Elwan, and M. Ismail, "A Novel Digitally Controlled CMOS Current Follower for Low Voltage Low Power Applications", Proc. IEEE ISCAS, 1998.

137. Robert Brannen, Hassan Elwan, and Mohammed Ismail, "Compensation Techniques for Operational Transresistance Amplifier Based Filters," IEEJ98 ECT-98-30, 2'nd International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 1-6, 1998.

138. H. Elwan, C. Hwang, M. Ismail and A. Hyogo, " Low Voltage Low Power Class AB OTA and V-I Converter", IEEJ98 ECT-98-40, 2'nd International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 57-60, 1998.

139. T. B. Tarim, H. H. Kuntman and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design of a Low Voltage Low Power Square-Law CMOS Cell", IEEJ ECT-98-46, 2'nd International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 81-86, 1998.

140. N. Chowdhury, H. Elwan and M. Ismail, "A Low Power Transistor-Only CMOS Current Mode A/D Converter Architechure", IEEJ ECT-98-56, 2'nd International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 137-144, 1998.

141. E. Tiiliharju, M. Ismail and K. Halonen, "Regulated-High-Swing Cascoding and Its Applications," IEEJ ECT-98-59, 2'nd International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 157-162, 1998.

142. C.-H. Lin, T. Pimenta and M. Ismail," A Low Voltage Low Power CMOS V-I Converter with Rail-to-Rail Differential Input for Filtering Applications", ICECS98, vol. 1, pp. 165-168, 1998.

143. C.-H. Lin and M. Ismail, " A 1.8V Low Power CMOS High-Speed Four Quadrant Multiplier with Rail-to-Rail Differential Input", ICECS98, vol. 1, pp. 37-40, 1998.

144. T. B. Tarim, H. H. Huntman and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design of a D/A Converter Based on Current Division Technique", ICECS98, vol. 2, pp.295-298, 1998.

145. Hassan O. Elwan and Mohammed Ismail, "Low Voltage Digitally Controlled dB-Linear CMOS VGA Circuit for Wireless Communication," ICECS98, vol. 1, pp. 341-344, 1998.

146. Hassan O. Elwan, Tuna B. Tarim and Mohammed Ismail, " A Novel Low Voltage dB-Linear CMOS AGC", MWSCAS98, to appear, 1998.

147. Tuna B. Tarim, H. Hakan Kuntman and Mohammed Ismail, "STATISTICAL DESIGN OF A TRANSCONDUCTOR USING A LOW VOLTAGE SQUARE-LAW CMOS CELL", MWSCAS98, to appear, 1998.

148. Chi-Hung Lin, Mohammed Ismail and Tales Pimenta, " A 1.2V Micropower CMOS Class-AB V-I Converter for VLSI Cells Library", MWSCAS98, to appear, 1998.

149. Chi-Hung Lin, Tales Pimenta and Mohammed Ismail,"Universal Exponential Function Implementation using Highly-Linear CMOS V-I Converters for Linear-dB (AGC) Applications," Proc. IEEE MWSCAS98,1998.

150. Chi-Hung Lin and Mohammed Ismail, "A 1.5V 3rd-Order Fully-Differential Gm-C Filter with Micropower Class-AB V-I Converter," Interntional Conference on Microelectronics, Tunisia,December 14-16, 1998.

151. T.B. Tarim, H.H. Kuntman and M. Ismail, "Statistical Design of the Four-MOSFET Structure", Proceedings of 10'th International Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 228-231, Monastir, Tunisia, December 1998

152. T.B. Tarim and M. Ismail, "Linear Transconductors Using Low Voltage Low Power Square-Law Transconductors", Proceedings of the IEEE Ninth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. 206-209, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1999

153. T.B. Tarim and M. Ismail, "Functional Yield Enhancement and Statistical Design of a Low Power Transconductor", to be published in the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'99)

154. Chi-Hung Lin and Mohammed Ismail, "A 1.8V High Dynamic-Range CMOS High-Speed Four Quadrant Multiplier," 9th Great Lake Symposium on VLSI , Ann Arbor, Michigan, March, 1999.

155. X. Li and M. Ismail,"A Second-Order Sigma-Delta Modulator with Build-in VGA to Improve SNR and Harmonic Distortion," pp. 376-379, , Proc. 9th Great Lake Symposium on VLSI , Ann Arbor, Michigan, March, 1999.

156. T.B. Tarim and M. Ismail, "A Low Voltage CMOS Square-Law Analog Multiplier", Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, pp. 5-8, Tucson, Arizona, April 1999.

157. Chi-Hung Lin and Mohammed Ismail, " Design and Analysis of An Ultra Low-Voltage CMOS Class-AB V-I Converter for Dynamic Range Enhancement," to appear, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, June, 1999.

158. Chi-Hung Lin and Mohammed Ismail, " A 2V 5th-Order Fully-Differential CMOS GM-C Filter for Wideband Communication," to appear, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, June, 1999.

159. Chi-Hung Lin, Chunlei Shi, Mohammed Ismail ans Gyu Moon, " A 5MHz Nyquist Rate Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulator for Wideband Wireless Communication," to apppear, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, June, 1999.

160. H. Elwan, W. Gao, R. Sadkowski and M. Ismail, " A Low Voltage CMOS Class AB Operational Transconductance Amplifier," to apppear, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, June, 1999.

161. Sang Wong Song and Mohammed Ismail, " Accurate Modeling of Simultaneous Switching Noise in Low Voltage Digital VLSI," to apppear, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, June, 1999.

162. Chi-Hung Lin and Mohammed Ismail, " Synthesis and Analysis of High-Order Cascaded Continuous-Time SD Modulators," accepted 1999 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems(ICECS),Paphos, Cyprus, Sept., 1999.

163. J. Zohios, B. Kramer and M. Ismail, "A Fully Integrated 1 GHz BiCMOS VCO", to be presented at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS '99), Paphos, Cyprus, Sept. 1999.

164. X. Li and M. Ismail, " Speed Improvement of Sigma Delta Modulators Simulation at the Device Level," to be presented at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS '99), Paphos, Cyprus, Sept. 1999.

165. Adiseno, M. Ismail and H. Olsson, " Indirect Negative Feedback Bipolar LNA," Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS '99), Vol.1, pp. 509-512, Paphos, Cyprus, Sept. 1999.

166. C.-H. Feng, F. Jonsson, M. Ismail and H. Olsson, " Analysis of Nonlinearities in RF CMOS Amplifiers," 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS '99), Paphos, Cyprus, Sept. 1999.

167. Chi-Hung Lin, Mohammed Ismail, " Analysis and Comparison of High-Order Cascaded Continuous-Time SD Modulators," pp. 7-12. Proc. 1999 IEEJ 3rd International Analog VLSI Wokshop, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 1999.

168. Chi-Hung Lin, Mohammed Ismail and Chunlei Shi, " A 2V 3rd-Order Fully-Differential CMOS Elliptic Gm- C Filter," pp. 109-112, 1999 IEEJ 3rd International Analog VLSI Wokshop, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 1999.

169. Xiaopeng LI Hong-sun Kim Mohammed Ismail," A Novel Design of GHz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier," 1999 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON'99), Dever, Colorado, August 1-4, 1999.

170. C. Shi, Y. Wu, C.-H. Lin, S. Li, M. Ismail, "Design and Power Optimization of High-Speed Pipeline ADC for Wideband CDMA Applications," 17th NORCHIP Conference, pp. 356-363, Oslo, Norway, November, 1999.

171. S.Li, J.Zohios, C.H.Jung, and M.Ismail, "RF CMOS mixer design and optimization for wideband CMOS application", in Proc. of 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design, pp.36-40, Feb. 2000.

172. S.-J. Yoo, H.Ahn, M.Hella, and M.Ismail, "The Deisgn of 433MHz Class AB CMOS Power Amplifier", in Proc. of 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design, pp.36-40, Feb. 2000.

173. J.H.Choi, S.Bampi, and M.Ismail, "OTA Amplifiers using the Principle of Trapezoidal Association of Transistors on a Sea-of-Transistors Digital Array", in Proc. of 2000 Southwest Symposium and Mixed Signal Design, Feb. 2000.

174. A.Mohamed, H.Elsimary, and M.Ismail, "Design of MEMS Tunable Capacitor with all Metal Microstructure for RF Applications",  International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, MSM2000, San Diego, US, pp.174-176.

175. C.Shi, Y.Wu, H.O.Elwan, and M.Ismail, "A Low-Power High Linearity CMOS Baseband Filter for Wideband CDMA Applications", in Proc. of the 2000 IEEE ISCAS, Geneva, Switzerland, May. 2000.

176. A.Mohamed, H.Elsimary, and M.Ismail, "1GHz CMOS VCO Deisgn for Wireless Application using MEMS Technology", Symposium on Deisgn, Test, Integration, and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2000, pp.181-185, Paris, France, May, 2000.

177. T.B.Tarim and M.Ismail, "Application of a Statistical Deisgn Methodology to Low Voltage Analog MOS Integrated Circuits", Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Geneva, Switerland, vol.4, pp.117-120, May 2000.

178. H.Alzaher, and H.Elwan, and M.Ismail, "A Low Power CMOS Digitally Programmable Active Indcutance", Proc. of 2000 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp.162-166. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000.

179. C.Shi, Y.Wu, and M.Ismail, "A Power-Efficient CMOS Baseaband Circuit for Wideband CDMA Applications", Proc. of 2000 IEEJ 4th Analog VLSI Workshop, pp.167-170. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000.

180. C. Shi, Y.Wu, and M.Ismail, "Design of a Low-Power CMOS Baseband Circuit for Wideband CDMA Testbed, in Proc. of 2000 ISLPED, Rapallo, Italy, July 2000.

181. X.Li, H.Olsson, and M.Ismail, "A High Speed Low Power Architecture for GHz CMOSS Dual-Modulus Prescaler", 2000 IEEJ 4th Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 6-9, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000.

182. S.Albrecht, X.Li, B.Li, C.Pala, Y.Gao, M.Ismail, and H.Tenhunen, "A Sigma-Delta A/D Based Architecture for Muti-Standard Front-End Radio Receivers", 2000 IEEJ 4th Analog VLSI Workshop, pp.37-42, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000.

183. H.-S.Kim, S.-J.Yoo, M.Ismail, and H.Olsson, "A Process Compensated Comparator for FSK Demodualtors", to be appeared in Proc. of the 43rd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Lansing, MI, Aug. 2000.

184. Adiseno, M. Ismail, and H. Olsson, "Multiband High-Linearity Front-End Receivers for Wireless Applications", Proc. Norchip 2000, pp. 40-46, November 2000

185. Adiseno, M. Ismail, and H. Olsson, "Dual-Loop Cross-Coupled Feedback Amplifier for Low-IF Integrated Receiver Architecture", IEEE ISCAS, Vol.4, pp. 470-473, May 2001

186. Xiapeng Li and M. Ismail, "A Single-Chip CMOS Front-end Receiver Architecture for Standard Wireless Applications", IEEE ISCAS, Vol.4, pp. 374-377, May 2001

187. Chunlei Shi and M. Ismail, "Design Technique for Improving Intrinsic Accuracy of Resistor String DACs", IEEE ISCAS, Vol.1, pp. 400-403, May 2001

188. M. Hella and M. Ismail, "A Digitally Controlled RF CMOS Power Amplifier", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Dayton, Ohio, pp. 833-835, August 2001

189. Hong-Sun Kim and M. Ismail, "CMOS Limiters with RSSIs for Bluetooth Receivers", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Dayton, Ohio, pp. 812-815, August 2001

190. Yiwu Tang, Adem Aktas ,M. Ismail and S. Bibyk, "A Fully Integrated Dual-Mode Frequency Synthesizer for GSM and Wideband CDMA in 0.5um CMOS", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Dayton, Ohio, pp. 866-869, August 2001

191. M. Hella and M. Ismail, "A 2GHz, 16dBm Controllable CMOS Power Amplifier", 2001 IEEE Topical Workshop on Power Amplifier for Wireless Communications, San Diego, CA, September 2001

192. Adiseno, M. Ismail, and H. Olsson, "A Wideband Active-Feedback Low-Noise Converter for Miltiband High-Linearity Low-IF Wireless Receiver", Proc. IEEE BCTM 2001, pp. 131-134, October 2001

193. F. Johnson, M. Sanden, M. Ismail, and M. Ostling, " A Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Automatic Amplitude Control in SiGe Technology", Proceeding IEEE Norchip Conference, pp. 5-10, November 2001

194. Yiwu Tang, Yingiie Zhou, S. Bibyk, and M. Ismail, "A Low-Noise Fast Settling PLL with Extended Loop Bandwidth Enhancement by New Adaptation Technique", ASIC/SOC Conference, 2001, Proceedings, 14th Annual IEEE International, pp. 93-97, 2001

195. X. Li, A. R. Bugera, and M. Ismail, "A Fast and Accurate Calibration Method for High-Speed High-Resolution Pipeline ADC", Circuits and Systems, 2002, ISCAS 2002, IEEE International Symposium on, Vol. 2, pp. 800-803, 2002

196. H. Elwan, M. I. Younus, and M. Ismail, " A Buffer Based CMOS Baseband Chain for Bluetooth Receiver", Circuits and Systems, 2002, ISCAS 2002, IEEE International Symposium on, Vol. 2, pp. 13-16, 2002

197. Yiwu Tang, M. Ismail and S. Bibyk, "A New Fast-Settling Gearshift Adaptive PLL to extend Loop Bandwidth Enhancement in Frequency Synthesizers", Circuits and Systems, 2002, ISCAS 2002, IEEE International Symposium on, Vol. 4, pp. 787-790, 2002

198. Hong Jo Ahn and Mohammed Ismail, "GHz Programmable Dual-Modulus Prescaler for Multi-Standard Wireless Applications", Circuits and Systems, 2002, ISCAS 2002, IEEE International Symposium on, Vol. 1, pp. 137-140, 2002

199. A. Ravindran, E. Vidal, and M. Ismail, "A Digitally Generated Exponential Function for dB-Linear CMOS Variable Gain Amplifiers", Digital Signal Processing, 2002, DSP 2002, 2002 14th International Conference on, Vol. 1, pp. 349-352, 2002

200. Anup Savla, Arun Ravindran, Jennifer Leonard and MOhammed Ismail, "System analysis of a multi-standard direct conversion wireless receiver", Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS-2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on, Vol. 3, pp. 401-404, Aug. 4-7, 2002

201. Adiseno, M. Ismail and H. Olsson, "A 3-V Area Efficient Wideband Low-Noise Converter for Multi-Band Multi-Standard Low-IF Wireless Receiver", ESSCIRC 2002, pp. 791-794, Sep. 2002

202. Anup Savla, Arun Ravindran and Mohammed Ismail, "A Reconfigurable Low-Power Pipelined ADC for Multi-Standard Wireless Applications", 2002 IEEJ Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 73-78, Sep. 2002

203. Ho-Kwon Yoon, Hyung-Joon Kim, and Mohammed Ismail, "CMOS Radio Receiver Architecture for ISM/UNII Multi-standard Wireless Applications", ICECS 2003, pp. 16-19, December 2003.

204. Anup Savla, Arun Ravindran and Mohammed Ismail, "A Reconfigurable Low-IF/Zero-IF Receiver Architecture for Multi-Standard Wide Area Wireless Networks", ICECS 2003, pp. 934-937, December 2003.

205. Adem Aktas, Kishore R. Rama, James Wilson and Mohammed Ismail, "A Single Chip Radio Transceiver for IEEE 802.11.a/b/g WLAN in 0.18um" ICECS 2003, pp. 938-941, December 2003.

206. Ho-Kwon Yoon and Mohammed Ismail, "A Direct Conversion RF Front-end for IEEE 802.11a Wireless LAN", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, presented in Cairo, Egypt, December 2003.

207. Wenxiang Huang and Mohammed Ismail, "A CMOS Wide-Band LNA for DCS1800, PCS1900 and WCDMA", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, presented in Cairo, Egypt, December 2003.

208. Ling Zhang, Bahar J. Farahani and Mohammed Ismail, "A 5-th Order Sigma-Delta-Modulator for GSM/WCDMA Dual Standard Wireless Receivers", IEEE Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, presented in Cairo, Egypt, December 2003.

209. Ho-Kwon Yoon and Mohammed Ismail, "A CMOS Multi-Standard Receiver Architecture for ISM and UNII Band Applications", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2004 ISCAS 2004.

210. Seoung-Jae Yoon and Mohammed Ismail, "A Low Voltage CMOS Transresistance-Based Variable Gain Amplifier", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2004 ISCAS 2004.

211. R. Ahola, A. Aktas, J. Wilson, K. Rama Rao, F. Jonsson, I. Hyyrylainen, A. Brolin, T. Hakala, A. Friman, T. Makiniemi, J. Hanze, M. Sanden, D. Wallner, Y. Guo, T. Lagerstam, L. Noguer, T. Knuuttila, P. Olofsson, and Mohammed Ismail, "A Single Chip CMOS Transceiver for 802.11 a/b/g WLANs", ISSCC 2004, pp. 92-93, Feb. 2004

212. Ayman A. Fayed, and M. Ismail "A Digital Tuning Algorithm For On-Chip Resistors," Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004.

213. Bahar Jalali-Farahani, and Mohammed Ismail, "A low power multi-standard sigma delta ADC for WCDMA/GSM/Bluetooth applications," NEWCAS 2004, pp.241-243, June 2004.

214. Ling Zhang, Vinay Nadig, and Mohammed Ismail, " A High Order Multi-Bit Sigma Delta Modulator for Multi-Standard Wireless Receiver" pp379-382, IEEE 47th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, July 2004.

215. Bahar Jalali-farahani and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Adaptive Digital Techniques to Suppress the Quantization Noise of  Analog to Digital Converters,¡± Proc. of  GLVLSI conference, April 2005.

216. Xinzhong Duo, Li-Rong Zheng, Mohammed Ismail and Hannu Tenhunen, ¡°A Concurrent Multi-Band LNA for Multi-Standard Radios,¡± Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Circuit and Systems, May 2005.

217. Soek Bae Park, Mohammed Ismail, ¡°DC Offset Cancellation in Direct Conversion Multi-Standard Receivers,¡± Proc. of International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES¡®05), June 2005.

218. Soek Bae Park, Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Reconfigurable CMOS Analog Baseband for Compact TDD Wireless Radio Transceivers,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

219. Bahar Jalali-farahani and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°WiMAX/WLAN Radio Architecture for Convergence in WMAN,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

220. Bahar Jalali-farahani and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Adaptive ADC for WiMAX Fixed Point Wireless Applications,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

221. Chingyung  Chiu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Fully Integrated Multi-Standard Power Amplifier for IEEE a/b/g WLANs,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

222. Chetty Garuda and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Multi-Standard OFDM MIMO for WLAN Applications,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

223. Chetty Garuda, Pengbei Zhang and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A 3-5 GHz Fully Differential CMOS LNA with Dual-Gain mode for Wireless UWB Applications,¡±, Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

224. Golsa Ghiaasi and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Design of a High Speed broadband Divide-by-32/33 Dual Modulus Prescaler,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

225. Yu Yue, Pengbei Zhang, Golsa Ghiaasi and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A 1.8V Fully Integrated Dual-band VCO for Zero-IF WiMAX/WLAN Receiver in 0.18¦Ìm CMOS,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS ¡®05), August 2005.

226. Golsa Ghiaasi and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Design of a High Speed Broadband Divide-by-32/33 Dual Modulus Prescaler,¡± Proc. of SRC TECHCON, Oct 2005.

227. Bahar Jalali-Farahani and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°WiMAX/WLAN Receiver for Convergent Mobile Applications¡±, Proc. of SRC TECHCON, Oct 2005.

228. Ling Zhang, Hyung Joon Kim and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Triple-Standard Transceiver Architecture for GSM, WCDMA and Wi-Fi Applications¡±, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dec.2005.

229. Jad G. Atallah, Wim Michielsen and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Frequency Planning and Generation Scheme for Multi-Standard Wireless Transceivers¡±, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dec.2005.

230. Chetty Garuda and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°System Analysis of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output WLAN Receivers,¡± Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dec.2005.

231. Delia Gonzalez and M.Ismail ¡°TACT: A Multi-standard RF Transceiver Architecture Comparison Tool¡±  Proc.IEEE  Int. Midwest Symp .on Circuits and Systems, Cincinnati ,August 2005

232. A.Rusu and M.Ismail, Linearity Enhancement in a Configurable Sigma-Delta Modulator, Proc.IEEE NorthEastern Workshop on Circuits and Systems, NEWCAS, Montreal, 2005.

233. Ana Rusu,  Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Sigma-Delta Solutions for Future Wireless Handhelds¡±, Invited Paper at IEEE ICECS 2006, Nice, France, pp. 58-61, December 2006.

234. Delia Rodríguez de Llera González, Ana Rusu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Automated Design of a WCDMA/WLAN Multi-standard Receiver¡±, IEEE ICECS 2006, Nice, France, pp. 1320-1323, December 2006.

235. Delia Rodríguez de Llera González, Ana Rusu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°Automated Receiver Design and Optimization for 4G Wireless Communication Systems¡±, in Proc. IEEE International Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference (BMAS), San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 132-137, October 2006.

236. Delia Rodríguez de Llera González, Ana Rusu and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Frequency Plan Evaluation Tool for Multi-standard Wireless Transceivers¡±, in IEEE Proceedings of PRIME 2006, Italy, pp. 473 476, June 2006.

237. S. Rodriguez Duenas,  X. Duo, S. Yamac, M. Ismail, and L.-R. Zheng, "CMOS UWB IR Non-Coherent Receiver for RFID Applications", in Proc. IEEE NEWCAS, June 2006, pp. 213-216.

238. S. Rodriguez, L.-R. Zheng, and M. Ismail, "Analysis of Wideband CMOS Low Noise Amplifiers using current-reuse configuration," in Proc. IEEE ICECS, December 2006, pp. 62-65.

239. Delia Rodríguez de Llera González,  Ana Rusu, and Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Case Study on the Design of a WCDMA/WLAN Multi-Standard Receiver¡±, in IEEE Swedish System-on-Chip Conference (SSoCC), May 2006.

240. S. Rodriguez, L.-R. Zheng, and M. Ismail, "CMOS Wideband LNA for WiMAX/WLAN", in IEEE Swedish System-on-Chip Conference (SSoCC), May 2006.

241. E. Martin I. Gustafsson, Ana Rusu, Mohammed Ismail, ¡°A Survey of Reconfigurable ADCs for Low-Power Wireless Applications¡±, In Proceedings of SSoCC 2006, May 2006.

242. Simon Ng, James Wilson and M.Ismail, ¡°A time-interleaved SAR ADC for broadband wireless Receivers¡± SRC TECHCON ,October 2006.

243. Golsa Ghiassi-Hafezi and M.Ismail, ¡°A PLL Frequency Synthesizer for DVB-H Receivers¡± SRC TECHCON ,October 2006.

VII. Technical Reports [PUBLICATIONS]

Wrote numerous Technical Reports, Technical Memoranda, research proposals, etc. Few examples follow:

1. M. Ismail, "Wave Digital, Digital and Switched Capacitor Filter Synthesis of DTLLN," Internal Technical Report, EE Dept., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, June 1981.

2. M. Ismail, "Design of BP Digital Filters," Internal Technical Report, EE Dept., Univ. Of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, December 1981.

3. M. Ismail, "Continuous-Time Analog Design for MOS VLSI," Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Annual Technical Report, April 1987.

4. M. Ismail, "Continuous-Time Analog Design for VLSI Circuits and Signal Processing, SRC Annual Technical Report, June 1991.

5. M. Ismail and the VLSI Research Group, "Continuous-Time Analog Design in CMOS/BiCMOS for VLSI Signal Processing," SRC Research Program Review presentations, November 1990, San Jose, October 1991, Pittsburg, December 1992, Santa Cruz, and December 1993, College Station, Texas

6. M. Ismail, "Characterization and Circuit Techniques for Process-Insensitive VLSI Design in CMOS/BiCMOS Technologies," proposal submitted to National Semiconductor, Inc., August 1991.

HOBBIES: [TOP]

Music, chess, soccer, racquet ball, travel and camping.