Mixed signals and power management ICs

Journals

1. D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, M. Alhawari, H. Saleh, and M. Ismail, "Analysis and characterization of leakage reduction methodologies for stacking, body biasing and DLS in 65 nm CMOS technology," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Aug. 2019. [Online]. Available: Link
2. D. Kilani, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh, M. Sanduleanu, and M. Ismail, "Cascaded power management unit characterization for TEG-based IoT devices in 65 nm CMOS," Microelectronics Journal, vol. 90, pp. 285-296, Aug. 2019.
3. Y. Kifle, M. Alhawari, S. Bou-Sleiman, H. Saleh, B. Mohammad, M. Ismail, "A 230uW Built-in On-Chip Auto-Calibrating RF Amplitude Detector in 65nm CMOS," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Aug. 2019 (Accepted)
4. D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, M. Alhawari, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "A Dual-Output Switched Capacitor DC-DC Buck Converter Using Adaptive Time Multiplexing Technique in 65-nm CMOS," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. (Early Access)
5. M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An Efficient Polarity Detection Technique for Thermoelectric Harvester in L-based Converters," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 705-716, March 2017.
6. M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An Efficient Zero Current Switching Control for L-Based DC–DC Converters in TEG Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 294-298, March 2017.
7. D. Kilani, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An Efficient Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Buck Converter for Self-Powered Wearable Electronics," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 1557-1566, Oct. 2016.
8. M. Wahbah, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, “An AC–DC converter for human body-based vibration energy harvesting” Microelectronic journals, vol. 55, 2016.
9. L. Mahmoud, YA. Samad, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, K. Liao, M. Ismail, “Combination of PVA with Graphene to Improve the Seebeck Coefficient for Thermoelectric Generator Applications” Journal of Electronic Materials, 2015.
10. M. Wahbah, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "Characterization of Human Body-Based Thermal and Vibration Energy Harvesting for Wearable Devices," in IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 354-363, Sept. 2014.
11. Alhawari, M.; Albelooshi, N.A.; Perrott, M.H., "A 0.5 V µW CMOS Light-to-Digital Converter Based on a Nonuniform Quantizer for a Photoplethysmographic Heart-Rate Sensor,"IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.49, no.1, pp.271,288, Jan. 2014.
12. B.Mohammad, H.Saleh and M.Ismail “ Design Methodologies for Yield Enhancement and Power Efficiency in SRAM-Based SoCs” IEEE Trans VLSI Systems, October 2014

Conference Papers

1. M. D. Edwards, H. Al Maharmeh, N. J. Sarhan, M. Ismail and M. Alhawari, "A Low-Power, Digitally-Controlled, Multi-Stable, CMOS Analog Memory Circuit," 2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Springfield, MA, USA, 2020, pp. 872-875, doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS48704.2020.9184459.
2. L. Sharara et al., "Analysis and Effects of Aging and Electromigration on Mixed-Signal ICs in 22nm FDSOI Technology," 2022 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICECS202256217.2022.9970984.
3. D. Kilani, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An Efficient and Small Area Multioutput Switched Capacitor Buck Converter for IoTs," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-4.
4. A. Mahmoud, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "A Charge Pump Based Power Management Unit With 66%-Efficiency in 65 nm CMOS," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-4.
5. H. Aboueidah et al., "Characterization of RF energy harvesting at 2.4 GHz," 2017 24th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Batumi, 2017, pp. 446-449.
6. D. Kilani, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An 83% efficiency, 0.6V to 1V output switched-capacitor DC-DC converter for micro-watt power applications," 2016 IEEE 59th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Abu Dhabi, 2016, pp. 1-4.
7. M. Alhawari, T. Tekeste, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "Power management unit for multi-source energy harvesting in wearable electronics," 2016 IEEE 59th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Abu Dhabi, 2016, pp. 1-4.
8. A. Mahmoud, M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "A multi-input, multi-output power management unit using dickson charge pump for energy harvesting applications," 2016 IEEE 59th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Abu Dhabi, 2016, pp. 1-4.
9. Y. Kifle, M. Alhawari, S. Bou-Sleiman and M. Ismail, "A 0.23 mW, On-Chip, self-calibrating RF amplitude detector in 65 nm CMOS," 2016 IEEE 59th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Abu Dhabi, 2016, pp. 1-4.
10. M. Alhawari, D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An efficient thermal energy harvesting and power management for μWatt wearable BioChips," 2016 IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, QC, 2016, pp. 2258-2261.
11. M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An all-digital, CMOS zero current switching circuit for thermal energy harvesting," 2015 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Trondheim, 2015, pp. 1-4.
12. M. Alhawari, D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "An efficient power management unit for μWatt thermoelectric generators," 2015 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTRC), Abu Dhabi, 2015, pp. 148-151.
13. M. Alhawari and M. H. Perrott, "A clockless, multi-stable, CMOS analog circuit," 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Melbourne VIC, 2014, pp. 1764-1767.
14. M. Alhawari, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh and M. Ismail, "A survey of thermal energy harvesting techniques and interface circuitry," 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Abu Dhabi, 2013, pp. 381-384.
15. M. Alhawari et al., "Energy efficient system-on-chip architecture for non-invasive mobile monitoring of diabetics," 2013 8th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), Abu Dhabi, 2013, pp. 180-181.
16. M. Alhawari, N. Albelooshi and M. H. Perrott, "A 0.5V µW CMOS photoplethysmographic heart-rate sensor IC based on a non-uniform quantizer," 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, San Francisco, CA, 2013, pp. 384-385.
17. G. Reehal and M. Ismail, “Octagon Architecture for Low Power and High performance NoC Design,” 2012 National Aerospace Electronics Conference, July 2012.
18. S.Bou Sleiman and M.Ismail,”A Nanoscale Charge Pump with Near Perfect Current Matching” Proc of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, PP.1100-1103, Columbus, OH, August 2013.
19. M.Alhawari, B.Mohammad, H.Saleh and M.Ismail, “Energy Harvesting Techniques and interface circuits: a Survey” Presented at the IEEE ICECS, Abu Dhabi, December 2013.
20. D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh, and M. Ismail, “Digital Pulse Frequency Modulation for Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter on 65nm Process,” in ICECS, 2014, vol. 2, pp. 3–5.
21. D. Kilani, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh, and M. Ismail, “Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter for Ultra-Low Power Applications,” in ICECS, 2014, vol. 2.
22. Kilani, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh, and M. Ismail, “LDO Regulator versus Switched Inductor DC-DC Converter,” in ICECS, 2014, no. 3, pp. 3–6.
23. M. Wahbah, B. Mohammad, H. Saleh, and M. Ismail, “Boost converter zero current detection technique,” in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2014.
24. S. M. Navidi and M. Ehsanian, "A 9-bit Low-Power Fully Differential SAR ADC Using Adaptive Supply and Reference Voltages," Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Iranian Conference on, Mashhad, Iran, 2018, pp. 205-210.
25. S. M. Navidi and M. Ehsanian, "A 20 ppm/°C voltage reference cell using a low-power CTAT voltage generator," 2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI), Tehran, 2017, pp. 0883-0886.