Stanford University

EE214B Design Contest

Winter 2018 Winners:

Richelle Smith, "Two-Stage CMOS Inverter OTA"

Pietro Caragiulo and Shridevi Muthkhod, "Two-Stage OTA with NMOS Input Stage"

David Fox and Qian Ma, "Two-Stage Fully Differential OTA for Switched Capacitor Circuits"

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Winter 2017 Winners:

Albert Gural, "A 10 ns Settling Time, 0.1% Dynamic and 0.3% Static Error, 70dB SNR, 590 µW OTA for Switched-Capacitor Applications in 0.18 µm CMOS"

Ernest So and Yinuo Xu, "Fully Differential Gain-Boosted Folded Cascode OTA for Switched Capacitor Applications"

Sun-Jin Kim, "A Low Power High Speed OTA"

Winter 2016 Winners:

George Alexopolous and Siavash Kananian, "A CMOS Level-Shifted Regulated Cascode Transimpedance Amplifier"

Junkyo Suh and Arjun Seshadri, "Wideband Transimpedance Amplifier"

Most Intriguing: Andrew Yu, "Just Add More Inverters"

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Winter 2015 Winners:

Xuelian Han and Yaoyu Tao, "RCG TIA with Shunt Feedback Output Stage"

Spyridon Baltsavias and Renato Primé, "RCG TIA with Shunt Feedback Output Stage"

Stephen Weinreich, "A Cascoded Inverter TIA with Common-Source Output"

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Winter 2014 Winners:

Zachary Kaufman and Farzam Sajed, "Push-Pull TIA with CS Output Stage"

Richard Taglieri and Ziran Jiang, "Three-Stage Common-Source TIA with Global Feedback"

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Winter 2013 Winners:

"Best Specs" - Nikolaus Hammler and Nishit Shah, "A power efficient high-speed TIA in 0.18um CMOS based on the KISS principle"

"Most Innovative Design" - Danny Bankman, "Push-Pull Current Mirror CMOS TIA"

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Winter 2012 Winners:

"Best Design" - Hao Nan and Yusi Chen, "The design of a global open-loop 27mW, 2.76GHz wideband amplifier with regulated cascode and negative Miller compensation"

"Most Innovative Design" - Nicholas Saiz and Aman Mohiudin, "A Three Stage 65dBΩ 3.4GHz Transimpedance Amplifier in 0.18um CMOS"

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Winter 2011 Winners:

Si (Bill) Chen and Brian Yu, "A Two Stage BJT TIA with Global Feedback"

Brian Lumpkins and Chinmoy V. Mandayam, "Transimpedance Amplifier Design and Optimization"

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Winter 2010 Winners:

"Best Design" - Sam Emaminejad & Martin Kramer, "CMOS TIA with Gain Boosted CG Input Stage"

"Most Innovative Design" - Diana Mui & Qiushi Ran, "CMOS TIA Using Local Feedback Stages"

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Winter 2009 Winners:

"Best Design" - Siddharth Gupta & Arun Kumar, "Kukielka Amplifier"

"Most Innovative Design" - Svilen Mintchev, "Gilbert Gain Cell"

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