Mission
Our research explores the intersection of Analog, Security, and AI. Specifically, we seek to improve energy efficiency, performance, security, and cost on a "tiny" chip through circuit-level and cross-layer innovations.
Analog: Power management for 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI), radiation-hardened by design (RHBD)
Hardware Security: Power/EM side-channel protection for embedded cryptography, analog-to-digital converters (ADC), and neural network accelerators
AI: Analog computing for AI workloads, deep learning-based side-channel analysis
We are also eager to collaborate with industry, government, and K-14 partners on semiconductor workforce development in response to the Chips and Science Act (2022).
[Prospective Students] We are always looking for highly motivated students! See here for more details...
[Current students] Subscribe to our YouTube Channel (@analogvlsi) to learn ECEN 3314 (Fundamentals of Microelectronics.)
News
09/2023: [Outreach] Science Cafe: Promoting Semiconductor Research and Education with Oklahoma STEM Teachers. (YouTube)
08/2023: [Funding] NSF: An Individual Investigator Development Plan to Improve Undergraduate Debugging Skills and Mindset. (PI)
08/2023: [Honor] John Hu was selected as a Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering. (2023-2025)
06/2023: [Poster] One paper on radiation hardened by design (RHBD) comparator accepted by IEEE MWSCAS. (link)
04/2023: [Demo] Hardware demo by undergraduate students at IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
10/2022: [Funding] Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR office: Radiation Hardened Analog VLSI for Space Scientific Instruments. (PI)
10/2022: [Funding] NASA: Rapid Assured Fully Transparent IC Physical Design Capability. (Co-PI)
07/2022: [Funding] NSF RET Site: Chip Design Experiences for Teachers to Stimulate Semiconductor Education in Oklahoma. (PI)
04/2021: [Paper] One paper at IEEE MWSCAS (link)
01/2021: [Paper] Two papers at IEEE ISCAS. (link1), (link 2)
Research Experience for Teachers (RET) on Chip Design
Program Website: https://ceat.okstate.edu/stem/ret/
Date: June 12-June 30, 2023, and July 10-July 28, 2023
The 2023 camp is complete. Ten teachers from all around Oklahoma (Stillwater, Cushing, Kingfisher, and Oklahoma City) participated in our program. Four of the teachers presented their research in the 2023 NSF RET Virtual Poster Session of ASEE.
D. Hossain. "Transistor Technology: Past, Present, and Future." DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/52XNJ [PDF]
K. Kaya. "Introducing a Workforce Development Curriculum for Oklahoma in Semiconductor Manufacturing and IC Design." DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F6HKW [PDF]
C. Miller. "How to apply semiconductor technology to Northern Oklahoma College." DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7248M [PDF]
J. Sherwood. "Employment in the Semiconductor Industry." DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/GHWN4 [PDF]
More training materials are on our project page at Open Science Framework. The camp is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Award (#2206941): RET Site: Chip Design Experiences for Teachers to Stimulate Semiconductor Education in Oklahoma. Dr. John Hu is the Principle Investigator (PI). Co-PIs are Dr. James Stine, Dr. Wooyeol Choi, and Dr. Erin Dyke.
Batteryless Energy Harvesting (RAISE)
Team 1: Field Test: Extracting energy using TEG. BLE Radio. Sensors
Team Member (alphabetical order): Anfal Hussain, Aaron J. Sosa, Ryan Vaughan.
A thermoelectric generator (TEG) can harvest energy from the temperature differences between the soil surface and shallow ground. When tested in April in Oklahoma, the TEG generates 10~40 mV of stable DC voltage. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol can be used to send data. The relationship between the duty cycle and system power consumption was explored. Moisture & humidity sensors were also implemented.
Sponsor: Renewable and Innovative Sustainable Energy (RAISE): Martin Family Foundation (MFF) Fund.
Batteryless Energy Harvesting (RAISE)
Team 2: DC-DC Boost Converter Design & Test. MCU. Electronics Test
Team Member (alphabetical order): Agustin Garcia, Chester Stubbs, Jame Ming Tan
A flyback ("Boost") converter was designed and tested using a commercial off-the-shelf IC (MCRY12) and 1:50 transformer. It can boost up to 1V of DC voltage when the TEG input voltage is around 20 mV. The Boost converter PCB measures about 0.5 square inches (or 2 cm²), compact enough to be integrated with the TEG and the copper rod.
Sponsor: Renewable and Innovative Sustainable Energy (RAISE): Martin Family Foundation (MFF) Fund.
2021 Kicker Design Competition
ECEN 5363 (Mixed-Signal IC Design) and ECEN 3714 (Network Analysis) held a joint student design contest in Fall 2021. The winners are:
Best Design: "A Dynamic Bias Comparator Design and Layout with Performance Simulations" by Fahim Hossain, Sam Fellwock.
People's Choice: "Side-Channel Attack with ChipWhisperer" by Christian Moser.
The contest was sponsored and judged by Kicker, a high-performance audio company headquartered in Stillwater, OK. [More Details]
Nipun received IEEE CASS Travel Grant
Nipun Kaushik has been selected to receive the 2021 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Student Travel Grant.
"The CAS society is especially proud and happy to honor your outstanding accomplishments and we look forward to maintaining future close contact with you in the future." said in the announcement email (4/26) by Amara Amara, IEEE CASS President.
CASS offers Studen Travel Grant awards to enable the winners to present their research work at CASS flagship conferences. Nipun will present his work [IEEE Xplore] in 2021 ISCAS. Congratulations to Nipun!
Our Research at ISCAS 2021
Two of our papers will appear in the SPECIAL SESSION: Design and Detection of Hardware Trojans in Cyber-Physical Systems at the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), to be held in Daegu, Korea.
"Power Side-Channel Attack Detection Through Battery Impedance Monitoring", by Rowshon Munny and John Hu. [IEEE Xplore]
"A Switched-Capacitor Power Side-Channel Attack Detection Circuit in 65-nm CMOS", by Nipun Kaushik and John Hu. [IEEE Xplore]
Congratulations to Rowshon and Nipun!
Here is a graduate student presentation during ECEN 5363: Mixed-Signal IC Design.
Introduction to Convolutional Neural Network
We have created our YouTube Channel to facilitate stay-at-home learning.
Here is a clip from our ECEN 4010: Mixed-Signal Electronics: student presentation
Software Defined Radio: Live Demo in Stillwater, OK