Two papers at ISSCC 2014
Congratulations to Loai Salem, who will be presenting a paper entitled “An 85%-Efficiency Fully Integrated 15-Ratio Recursive Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with 0.1-to-2.2V Output Voltage Range”...
View ArticleProf. Mercier wins Graduate Teaching Award
Congratulations to Professor Mercier who has won the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Teaching Award for the 2012/2013 academic year. This award is based on high student...
View ArticleProf. Mercier wins Hellman Fellowship Award
The Hellman fellowship is awarded to “young faculty in the core disciplines who show capacity for great distinction in their research and creative activities.” Prof. Mercier plans to use this award to...
View ArticleUC San Diego Researchers Develop Next Generation Of Wearable Medical Devices
It wasn’t that long ago that you had to go to your doctor’s office to measure most of your vital signs. But now, you can buy wearable devices that measure your blood pressure, or even record the...
View ArticleThree papers at VLSI Symposium 2015
Congratulations to Loai Salem, Sohmyung Ha, and Chul Kim, who will be presenting papers on a high-efficiency, large voltage range switched-capacitor power management integrated circuit (PMIC), an...
View ArticleTwo CICC and two EMBC papers
Congratulations to Hui Wang and Loai Salem, who will each be presenting papers at the 2015 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in San Jose, California in September 2015. Hui will be...
View ArticlePostdoc position available
We are currently looking for a post doctoral fellow to work in the EEMS lab on projects pertaining to ultra-low-power analog circuit design, mixed-signal circuits, biosensors, wearables, and/or...
View ArticleBook published: Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios (Springer)
Patrick Mercier and Anantha Chandrakasan have published a new book exploring the design of ultra-low-power radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that operate over distances ranging from a few...
View ArticleMagnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body. Read more about this...
View ArticleMouth guard monitors health markers, transmits information wirelessly to...
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a mouth guard that can monitor health markers, such as lactate, cortisol and uric acid, in saliva and transmit the information...
View ArticleProf. Mercier wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
Patrick Mercier is the first professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego to receive a Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Award from the...
View ArticleA multi-standard wireless power transmitter
Engineers develop a new technology for concurrently powering multiple devices that support different wireless standards San Diego, Calif., October 13, 2015 — A wireless charger that’s compatible with...
View ArticleISSCC Paper
Congrats to Loai Salem and John Louie, who have a paper entitled “A Flying-Domain DC-DC Converter Powering a Cortex-M0 Processor with 90.8% Efficiency” accepted for publication at the 2016 edition of...
View ArticleProf. Mercier wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
Photo by: Sun L. Vega The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) hosted the Young Faculty Award Pogram (YFA) at DARPA in Arlington, Virginia. The objective of the DARPA FYA Program, is to identify and...
View ArticleVLSI paper and 3 ISCAS papers
Congrats to Jiwoong Park, Hui Wang, and collaborative students from Prof. Cauwenberghs Lab, who will presenting the latest results in fully-on-chip regulating rectification at the VLSI Symposium in...
View ArticleA Mouthguard that Monitors your Health – Inside Science TV
The next time you visit the doctor for a checkup, they may not need a vial of your blood. A sample of your spit might be all your doctor needs. Check out the following video from Inside Science TV...
View ArticleProf. Mercier wins UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. The prestigious award is bestowed upon faculty and graduate students to honor teaching...
View ArticlePostdoctoral position available
We are currently looking for a postdoc fellow to work in the EEMS lab on projects pertaining to wearable sensors, electrochemical biosensors, implantable devices, and/or integrated circuit design. We...
View ArticleNature Comms Paper: A Hybrid Chemical-Electrophyiological Wearable Sensor
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first flexible wearable device capable of monitoring both biochemical and electric signals in the human body. The Chem-Phys patch...
View ArticleNew book available: Power Management Integrated Circuits
Power Management Integrated Circuits and Technologies delivers a modern treatise on mixed-signal integrated circuit design for power management. Comprised of chapters authored by leading researchers...
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