AWARD

IEEE Seoul Section Best Student Paper Award / Bronze (Dec. 2024)

"An 8-bit 400-MS/s 1-then-2-bit/cycle SAR ADC With Comparator-Rotation Based Input-Independent Background Offset Calibration"

Changjoo Kim, Sooho Park, Minkyun Shim, Muhammad Zeeshan Hameed, and Chulwoo Kim

IEEE Seoul Section Best Student Paper Award / Bronze (Dec. 2024)

"A 0.85pJ/bit 14Gb/s/pin Single-Ended Duobinary Transceiver for memory Interface"

Youngwook Kwon, Seungwoo Park, Seongcheol Kim, Changmin Sim, Hwaseok Shin, Junseob So, Seon-Been Lee, Taehwan Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

25th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / President Award (₩5,000,000, Oct. 2024)

"A 0.458-pJ/bit 24-Gb/s/pin Capacitively-Driven PAM-4 Transceiver with PAM-Based Crosstalk Cancellation for High Density Die-to-Die Interfaces," 

Seongcheol Kim, Changmin Sim, Junseob So, Seonbeen Lee, and Chulwoo Kim 

2024 IDEC CDC Best Poster Award (₩200,000, Jun. 2024)

"A 24Gb/s Receiver Using Duobinary Sampling for Sub-Baud-Rate CDR," Seungwoo Park, Taehwan Kim, and Chulwoo Kim 

  2024 Korea University Outstanding Reserach (Feb. 2024) 

Youngwook Kwon 

2023 Korea University 

Graduate Student Achievement 

Award (Feb. 2024)

Jincheol Sim

30th Human-Tech Thesis Prize Gold Award 

(₩20,000,000, Feb. 2024)

'A 50 Gb/s PAM-4 transceiver for short-reach links'

Jincheol Sim, Jonghyuk Choi, Seongcheol Kim, Changmin Sim

30th Human-Tech Thesis Prize Bronze Award 

(₩5,000,000, Feb. 2024)

'Single-Ended PAM-4 Transmitters with DBI and ZQ Calibration for High-Speed Memory Interfaces'

Seongcheol Kim, Jincheol Sim, Jonghyuk Choi, Junseob So

A Fully Integrated 9-Ratio Switched-Capacitor Converter with Overlapped-Conversion-Ratio Modulation for IoT Applications"

Hyunjin Kim, Taeyeong Park, and Seokjin Kim

IEEE Seoul Section Best Student Paper Award / Grand (Dec. 2023)

"Equalizer and Amplitude-Detection LSB Decoder for Memory Interfaces"

Hwaseok Shin, Hyoshin Kang, Youngwook Kwon, Junseob So, and Chulwoo Kim

IEEE Seoul Section Best Student Paper Award / Bronze (Dec. 2023)

"A 33 Gb/s/pin Single-Ended PAM-3 Transmitter with Background ZQ Calibration and Infinite-Impedance FFE"

Seon-Been Lee, Jonghyuck Choi, Seungwoo Park, Jinwoo Park, and Chulwoo Kim

24th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2023)

"A 0.83pJ/b 52Gb/s PAM-4 Baud-Rate CDR with Pattern-Based Phase Detector for Short-Reach Applications"

Seungwoo Park, Hyunjin Kim, and Hwaseok Shin

24th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2023)

"A 10 Gb/s Wireline Receiver Using Linear Baud-Rate CDR and Analog Equalizer suitable for FSO-WDM over 100m Distance for 5G Systems"

Jincheol Sim, and Youngwook Kwon 

제18회 한국 반도체산업협회 

반도체 장학생선정-

(주)DB하이텍 일금 일천만원

(₩10,000,000, Oct. 2023)

Taehwan Kim

2023 IEEE CASS Pre-Doctoral

Grant 

($2,500, Sep. 2023)

Youngwook Kwon

2023 Korea University Outstanding Reserach (Mar, 2023) 

Jonghyuck Choi

2022 Korea University Graduate Student Achievement Award (Feb. 2023)

Yoonjae Choi

2022 Korea University Graduate Student Achievement Award (Feb. 2023)

Inho Park

제 14회 전자신문 ICT 논문 공모전 - 대한전자공학회 학회장상 (₩3,500,000, Dec. 2022)

"A Thermoelectric Energy-Harvesting Interface with Dual-Conversion Reconfigurable DC-DC Converter and Instantaneous Linear Extrapolation MPPT Method"

Inho Park

2022 ISOCC Chip Design Contest Special Prize (Oct. 2022)

"A Fully Integrated Dual-Output Continuously Scalable-Conversion-Ratio Switched-Capacitor Converter"

Taehyeong Park

Best Poster Award of the 29th Korean Conference on Semiconductors (Apr. 2022)

"An 88.9 dB Fully-Dynamic Noise-Shaping SAR Capacitance-to-Digital Converter"

Chaegang Lim, and Chulwoo Kim

2022학년도 전기 일반대학원 공과대학 미래인재장학금 장학생 선정 (₩3,000,000, Feb. 2022)

Hyundo Jung

CDC Best Design Award of the 29th Korean Conference on Semiconductors 

(₩500,000, Jan. 2022)

"A 9 Gb/s/um Transceiver with a Hybrid ISI and FEXT Equalization Scheme for Next-Generation HBM Interface"

Kungryun Yoon, and Chulwoo Kim

Best Poster Award of the 29th Korean Conference on Semiconductors 

(₩500,000, Jan. 2022)

"A 90.2% Peak Efficiency Multi-input Single-inductor Multi-output Energy Harvesting Interface"

Hyunjin Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

Predoctoral Achievement Award from IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

Inho Park

22nd Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2021)

"385-fJ/bit 10Gb/s 차세대 HBM 메모리 향 저전력 다이코드 송수신기"

Hyunsu Park, Jincheol Sim, and Youngwook Kwon

22nd Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2021)

"A 25Gb/s Wireline Receiver with Feedforward and Feedback Equalizers at Analog Front-end"

Jincheol Sim, Hyunsu Park, Youngwook Kwon, and Seongcheol Kim

22nd Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2021)

"차세대 고대역폭 메모리(HBM) 인터페이스 통신을 위한, Hybrid ISI & FEXT Equalization (HIFE) 기법과 함께 9Gb/s/um의 throughput을 가지는 송수신기의 설계 및 구현"

Kungryun Yoon, Hyunsu Park, Yoonjae Choi, and Youngwook Kwon

22nd Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Nov. 2021)

"차세대 메모리 향 1-tap DFE를 적용한 Reference-less 15Gbps 유선 수신기 회로 기술 및 개발법"

Seongcheol Kim, Jincheol Sim, Hyunsu Park, and Jonghyuck Choi

2021 IDEC Best Design Award

"Bidirectional High-Voltage Dual-Input Buck Converter for Triboelectric Energy-Harvesting Applications"

Inho Park, and Chulwoo Kim

Best Poster Award of the 28th Korean Conference on Semiconductors (Feb. 2021)

"A 90.2% Peak Efficiency Multi-input Single-inductor Multi-output Energy Harvesting Interface"

Hyunjin Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

2020 ISOCC OPENEDGES Technologies Award

"A 1MS/s 9.15 ENOB Low-Power SAR ADC with Triple-Charge-Sharing Technique"

Soonsung Ahn, Jaegeun Song, Chaegang Lim, Yohan Choi, Sooho Park, Yunsoo Park, Chulwoo Kim

2020 ISOCC Chip Design Contest Best Poster Award

"A Bidirectional High-Voltage Dual-Input Buck Converter for Triboelectric Energy-Harvesting Applications"

Inho Park, Junyoung Maeng, Chulwoo Kim

21st Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Oct. 2020)

"-110 dB THD, 20nV/√Hz input-referred noise, 60mVpp input range를 갖는 센서 리드아웃 IC 용 Capacitively-Coupled Continuous-Time Δ∑ Modulator의 설계 및 구현"

Chaegang Lim, and Yohan Choi

21st Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / President Award (₩5,000,000, Oct. 2020)

"A 10b 1GS/s Pipeline/SAR Hybrid ADC with a High-Linearity Dynamic Amplifier"

Yunsoo Park, Jaegeun Song, and Soonsung Ahn

IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Award (Dec. 2019)

"Window-Extended Braid Signaling with Bit Efficiency of 125% and Fixed Data Transition for 8K UHD Display Interfaces"

Jonghyuck Choi, Yoonjae Choi, Hyunsu Park, Jincheol Sim, Youngwook Kwon, and Chulwoo Kim

20th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Prime Minister Award (Gold Prize) 

(₩3,000,000, Aug. 2019)

"차세대 모바일 디스플레이 인터페이스 향 156.25%의 비트 효율을 가지고 clock을 내장한 Window-Extended Braid (WEB) signaling 방법 및 송수신기 회로 개발"

Jonghyuck Choi, Yeonho Lee, and Seungwoo Park

25th Human-Tech Thesis Prize Encouragement Award

 (₩2,000,000, Feb. 2019)

Inho Park, and Junyoung Maeng

제13회 한국 반도체산업협회 반도체 장학생 선정 - (주)도쿄일렉트론코리아 일금 일천만원 (₩10,000,000, Oct. 2018)

Jonghyuck Choi

19th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Corporate Special Award (₩2,000,000, Oct. 2018)

"A 4.5-to-16μW Integrated Triboelectric Energy-Harvesting System Based on High-Voltage Dual-Input Buck Converter with MPPT and 70V Maximum Input Voltage"

Inho Park, and Chulwoo Kim

2018 ICCE-Asia Best Paper Award Bronze Prize (Jun. 2018)

Jeongsik Yoo, Hyunsu Park, Minseob Shim, Choonghwan Lee, Chulwoo Kim, and Doyoun Kim

2018 ICEIC Best Poster Presentation Award (Jan. 2018)

Jeongsik Yoo

2018 ASP-DAC University LSI Design Contest Special Feature Award (Jan. 2018)

"A 42nJ/conversion On-Demand State-of-Charge Indicator for Miniature IoT Li-ion Batteries"

Junwon Jeong, Seokhyeon Jeong, Chulwoo Kim, Dennis Sylvester, and David Blaauw

제12회 한국 반도체산업협회 반도체 장학생 선정 - (주)도쿄일렉트론코리아 일금 일천만원 (₩10,000,000, Oct. 2017)

Yohan Choi

18th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy Award (Sep. 2017)

"Pin/Energy Efficient Braid Signaling"

Yeonho Lee, Yoonjae Choi, Jonghyuck Choi

18th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Korea Sensors Society Award 

(₩ 500,000, Sep. 2017)

"A 42nJ/conversion On-Demand State-of-Charge Indicator for Miniature IoT Li-ion Batteries"

Junwon Jeong, Seokhyeon Jeong

2017 ISOCC CDC Best Poster Award

(₩ 200,000, Jun. 2017)

"A Digital LDO (Low-Dropout) with -14dB PSR Enhancement Technique"

Eunhee Kim, Yangho Seo, Junyoung Maeng, Minseob Shim, Junwon Jeong, Dongju Lim, and Chulwoo Kim

17th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Prime Minister Award (₩7,000,000, Nov. 2016)

"An Oscillator Collapse-Based Comparator with Application in a 74.1dB SNDR 20KS/s 15b SAR ADC"

Minseob Shim, Wanyeong Jung, and Chulwoo Kim

제11회 한국 반도체산업협회 반도체 장학생 선정 - (주)도쿄일렉트론코리아 일금 일천만원 (₩10,000,000, Oct. 2016)

Yoonjae Choi

2016 대한전자공학회 SoC학술대회 우수발표논문상 (May 2016)

Doyoun Kim, Sewook Hwang, Sang-geun Bae, and Chulwoo Kim

제7회 아이디스-전자신문 ICT논문 & 발명PPT 공모대전 - 최우수상 

(₩5,000,000, Dec. 2015)

Minseob Shim, Junyoung Maeng

Qualcomm Innovation Research Grant 2015 

(₩5,000,000, Jun. 2015)

Minseob Shim

Qualcomm Innovation Research Grant 2015 

(₩5,000,000, Jun. 2015)

Dongyoun Kim

2014 IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Award - Silver 

(₩100,000, Dec. 2014)

"Self-Powered 30μW to 10mW Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System with 9.09ms/V Maximum Power Point Tracking Time"

Minseob Shim, Jungmoon Kim, Junwon Jung, and Chulwoo Kim

2014 IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Award - Bronze (Dec. 2014)

"A 6-bit 2.5-GS/s Time-Interleaved SAR ADC with Resistor-Array Sharing DAC"

Hokyu Lee, Sejin Park, and Chulwoo Kim

15th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Korea Intellectual Property Office Award (₩3,000,000, Oct. 2014)

"Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System with One-Cycle Maximum Power Point Sensing"

Minseob Shim, Junwon Jeong, and Chulwoo Kim

IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design, 14th International Low Power Design Contest Award 

($2,000, Aug. 2014)

"A 0.15-V Input Energy Harvesting Charge Pump with Switching Body Biasing and Adaptive Dead-Time for Efficiency Improvement"

Jungmoon Kim, Chulwoo Kim, and Philip Mok

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Seoul Chapter Best Student Paper Award (May 2014)

"A 247 μW 800 Mb/s/pin DLL-Based Data Self-Aligner for Through Silicon Via (TSV) Interface"

Soo-Bin Lim

2014 ASP-DAC University LSI Design Contest Special Feature Award (Jan. 2014)

"A Single-Inductor 8-Channel Output DC-DC Boost Converter with Timer-Limited Power Distribution Control and Single Shared Hysteresis Comparator"

Jungmoon Kim and Chulwoo Kim

2013 IEEE Seoul Section Student Award (Dec. 2013)

"A DC-DC Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant MPPT Technique and Efficient ZCS Circuit for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications"

Jungmoon Kim

2013 IEEE Seoul Section Student Award (Dec. 2013)

"An Adaptive Bandwidth PLL for Avoiding Noise Interference and DFE-less Fast Pre-Charge Sampling for Over 10Gb/s Graphics DRAM Interface"

Junyoung Song

2013 ISOCC CDC Best Poster Award

 (₩200,000, Nov. 2013)

"A 950-MHz CMOS Rectifier with VTH Canceling Technique for Low Power UHF RFIDs"

Junwon Jung, Jungmoon Kim, Minseob Shim, Heejun Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

IDEC 국제학회 우수 논문상 (₩900,000, Oct. 2013)

"An Adaptive-Bandwidth PLL for Avoiding Noise Interference and DFE-less Fast Precharge Sampling for Over 10Gb/s/pin Graphics DRAM Interface"

Junyoung Song, Hyun-Woo Lee, Soo-Bin Lim, Sewook Hwang, Yunsang Kim, Young-Jung Choi, Byong-Tae Chung, and Chulwoo Kim

14th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy Award (₩5,000,000, Oct. 2013)

"DisplayPort v1.2a를 지원하는 적응형 고속 디스플레이 인터페이스"

Sewook Hwang, Sang-Geun Bae, and Chulwoo Kim

2013 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society PRE-DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP ($25,000, Apr. 2013)

Sewook Hwang

13th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Prime Minister Award (₩8,000,000, Dec. 2012)

"An Adaptive High Speed Memory Interface (10Gb/s/pin Transceiver for GDDR5 Interface)"

Gabin Kim, Sang-Geon Bae, and Yeonho Lee

13th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Korean Intellectual Property Office Award (₩3,000,000, Dec. 2012)

"A 3.5 GHz Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator with a Memoryless Newton-Raphson Modulation Profile"

Sewook Hwang, Junyoung Song, and Yeonho Lee

Korea University Excellent Paper Award 

(₩2,000,000, Aug. 2012)

"A 3.5 GHz Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator with a Memoryless Newton-Raphson Modulation Profile"

Sewook Hwang

1st Chip Design Competition at International Symposium on Integrated Circuits 2011, Singapore / Silver Award 

(S$ 6,000, Dec. 2011)

"A Single-Shared-Comparator-Based Single-Inductor 8-channel Output DC-DC Converter with Time-limited One-shot Current Control"

Jungmoon Kim

34th IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Award (Dec. 2011)

"A High-Stability 8-channel SIMO DC-DC Boost Converter with Comparator Sharing Technique and Time-limited One-shot Current Control"

Jungmoon Kim, Jihwan Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

34th IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Award (Dec. 2011)

"A 7.5Gb/s Referenceless Transceiver for Ultra-high Definition Television"

Junyoung Song, Inhwa Jung, Sewook Hwang, and Chulwoo Kim

12th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / Minister of Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Award 

(₩5,000,000, Dec. 2011)

"A 7.5Gb/s Referenceless Transceiver for Ultra-high Definition Television"

Junyoung Song, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Nam-Wook Cho

12th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest / President of Korea Invention Promotion Association Award 

(₩2,000,000, Dec. 2011)

"A Regulated Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with Fast Start-up in Fluctuated Weather Conditions for Solar Energy Harvesting"

Jihwan Kim, Jungmoon Kim, and Sanghun Lee

2011 International SoC Design Conference Best Design Award (₩500,000, Nov. 2011)

"A 1.2V 800Mbps/pin Self Aligner for Process Skew Compensation in TSV-Based Architecture"

Soo-Bin Lim, Young-Ho Kwak, and Chulwoo Kim

제5회 반도체 장학생 선정 - (주)동부하이텍 장학금 일금 일천만원 (₩10,000,000)

Kyeong-min Kim

33rd IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Award (Dec. 2010)

"A 2.4GHz 2MHz BW All-Digital Frequency Synthesizer with Delay-Cell-Less TDC"

Mingyoung Song, Inwha Jung, S. Pamarti, and Chulwoo Kim

33rd IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Award (Dec. 2010)

"An All-Digital Time Amplifier with an Interpolation Scheme that Reduces Gain Variation"

Debashis Dhar, and Chulwoo Kim

3rd KEC Analog IC Design Contest (₩1,000,000, Dec. 2010)

"Single-Inductor Multiple-Output DC-DC Switching Converter with Dispersive-Current Control"

Jungmoon Kim, and Dong Seok Kim

3rd KEC Analog IC Design Contest Award 

(₩500,000, Dec. 2010)

"소프트 스타트와 동적전압변환 기술을 가지는 PFM/PWM자동 모드변환 직류-직류 변환기"

Dong Seok Kim, and Jungmoon Kim

11th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest Patent Office Director Award 

(₩3,000,000, Dec. 2010)

"Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Switching DC-DC Converter with Dispersive-Current Control"

Jungmoon Kim, Dong Seok Kim, and Jihwan Kim

11th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest Patent Office Director Award

 (₩3,000,000, Dec. 2010)

"The Referenceless CDR for DisplayPort Interface"

Junyoung Song

5th IP/Job Fair IP/SOC Demo Award (Oct. 2010)

"A Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator for 7Gbps Transceiver"

Sewook Hwang

4th IP/Job Fair IP/SOC Demo Award 

(Oct. 2009)

"A Wide-Range All-Digital Multiphase DLL with Supply Noise Tolerance"

Kisoo Kim, and Kyeong-min Kim

32nd IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Bronze Award 

(Nov. 2008)

"A Compact 64-IP Network-on-Chip for Low-cost Multi-core Programmable Platform"

Phi-Hung Pham, Phuong Mau, and Chulwoo Kim

32nd IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Bronze Award 

(Nov. 2008)

"A 0.0066mm² 0.8nW/samples/s Frequency-to-Digital Converter Based CMOS Temperature Sensor Utilizing Multiphase Clock"

Kisoo Kim, Hokyu Lee, Sangdon Jung, and Chulwoo Kim

Samsung Electro-Mechanics 4th '1nside Edge' International Thesis Competition Bronze Award (₩2,000,000, Oct. 2008)

"10-bit 100MS/s CMOS Pipelined A/D Converter with 0.59pJ/Conversion-Step"

Moo-Young Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Tagjong Lee, and Chulwoo Kim

Samsung Paper Award of the 14th Korean Conference on Semiconductors

(Feb. 2008)

"A Low-Jitter Fast-Lock All-Digital DLL"

Hyunsoo Chae, and Chulwoo Kim

1st KEC Analog IC Design Contest 2nd Prize

 (₩5,000,000, Jan. 2008)

"Power Management for High-Efficiency Voltage Conversion"

Hyunho Chu, Gilwon Yoon, and Chulwoo Kim

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Seoul Chapter Best Paper Award (Jan. 2008)

"A 120MHz-1.8GHz CMOS DLL-Based Clock Generator for Dynamic Frequency Scaling"

Jin-Han Kim, Young-Ho Kwak, Moo-Young Kim, Soo-Won Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

2008 ASP-DAC Best Design Award (Jan. 2008)

"A 1.2GHz Delayed Clock Generator for High-speed Microprocessors"

Inhwa Jung, Moo-Young Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

31st IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Bronze Award 

(Dec. 2007)

"A 1.5GHz Spread Spectrum Clock Generator with 5000ppm Piecewise Linear Modulation"

Minyoung Song, Sunghoon Ahn, Inhwa Jung, Yongtae Kim, and Chulwoo Kim

29th IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Award (Nov. 2005)

"An Output-on-Demand Slew-Rate Controlled Output Driver"

Young-Ho Kwak, Wonho Park, and Chulwoo Kim

10th Human-Tech Thesis Prize Bronze Award 

(₩3,000,000, Feb. 2004)

"향상된 잡음 특성을 갖는 Split-Path Domino Logic과 고성능 32bit Han-Carlson Prefix Adder"

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