Mixed Signal Circuit Design

Conference Papers MSC

2023

Hecht, U.; Ordouei, H.; Ledentsov, N.; Scholz, P.; Kurth, P.; Titkov, I.E.; Ledentsov, N.N.; Gerfers, F.
A 0.4 pJ/bit NRZ Voltage Mode VCSEL Driver for up to 224 Gbit/s SWDM Links
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023
Publisher: Optical Society of America (OSA)
2023
Wittenhagen, E.; Kurth, P.; Hecht, U.; Buballa, F.; Linnhoff, S.; Lotfi, N.; Gerfers, F.
A 12 GS/s RF-Sampler Employing Inductive Peaking with >57 dB |THD| and >49.3 dB SNDR in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS
21th IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS)
Publisher: IEEE
2023
Wittenhagen, E.; Artz, P.; Kurth, P.; Linnhoff, S.; Buballa, F.; Scholz, P.; Gerfers, F.
A Bulk-Controlled 12 GS/s Track and Hold Amplifier with >58 dBc SFDR and >53.5 dB SNDR in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS
18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
Publisher: IEEE
2023
Hecht, U.; Ordouei, H.; Ledentsov Jr., N.; Scholz, P.; Kurth, P.; Ledentsov, N.; Gerfers, F.
True Voltage-Mode NRZ VCSEL Transmitter enabling 60 Gbit/s at 0.37 pJ/bit in 22 nm FDSOI
IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)
Publisher: IEEE
2023
Wittenhagen, E.; Kurth, P.; Lotfi, N.; Hecht, U.; Edler, J.; Scholz, P.; Gerfers, F.
A 12 GS/s RF-Sampler Employing Inductive Peaking in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS
18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
Publisher: IEEE
2023

2022

Wittenhagen, E.; Kurth, P.; Kaiser, T.; Gerfers, F.
A TI 12 GS/s Sampled Beam-Forming Receiver for a 2x2 Antenna-Array with 69 dBc SFDR
29th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
Publisher: IEEE
2022
Edler, J.; Artz, P.J.; Gerfers, F.
Workshop WM02 talk: mm-Wave Advanced-Sampling Transceiver Enabling 6G Data Transmission with 100 Gbit/s per mobile User
IEEE European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2021
2022
Artz, P.J.; Edler, J.; Wittenhagen, E.; Lotfi, N.; Gerfers, F.
Workshop WM02 talk: High-Speed ADC (>20 GS/s) with High Resolution (≥10 bit) for Low-IF Receiver in 22nm FDSOI
IEEE European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2021
2022
Kaiser, T.; Gerfers, F.
Pasithea-1: An Energy-Efficient Self-contained CGRA with RISC-Like ISA
Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Page 33-47
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
2022
Hecht, U.; Wittenhagen, E.; Cirit, H.; Behtash, S.; Venkataram, S.; Gerfers, F.
PAM-4/6/8 Performance and Power Analysis for Next Generation 224Gbit/s Links
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Publisher: IEEE
2022

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Journal Articles MSC

Inac, M.; Peczek, A.; Gerfers, F.; Malignaggi, A.
A 128 Gb/s 7-Tap FIR Filter in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS for High-Speed Channel Equalization
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters , 33 (2) :169-172
2023
Hecht, U.; Ledentsov Jr., N.; Ordouei, H.; Kurth, P.; Scholz, P.; Ledentsov, N.; Gerfers, F.
Digital Non-Linear Transmitter Equalization for PAM-N-Based VCSEL Links Enabling Robust Data Transmission of 100 Gbit/s and Beyond
Photonics, 10 (3) :280
2023
OpenAccess
Wittenhagen, E.; Artz, P.; Scholz, P.; Gerfers, F.
A 3 GS/s RF Track-and-Hold Amplifier Utilizing Body-Biasing with >55 dBFS SNR and >67 dBc SFDR up to 3 GHz in 22 nm CMOS SOI
IEEE Open Journal for Circuits and Systems
2022
OpenAccess

2021

Ghafarian, H.; Shivapakash, S.; Mortazavi, S.; Scholz, P.; Lotfi, N.; Gerfers, F.
A 9-bit, 45mW, 0.05mm2 Source-Series-Terminated DAC Driver with Echo Canceller in 22nm CMOS for In-Vehicle Communication
IEEE Solid State Circuit Letters, 4 :10-13
2021
Shivapakash, S.; Jain, H.; Hellwich, O.; Gerfers, F.
A Power Efficiency Enhancements of a Multi-Bit Accelerator for Memory Prohibitive Deep Neural Networks
IEEE Open Journal for Circuits and Systems, 2 :161-170
2021
Wittenhagen, E.; Runge, M.; Lotfi, N.; Ghafarian, H.; Tian, Y.; Gerfers, F.
Advanced Mixed Signal Concepts Exploiting the Strong Body-Bias Effect in CMOS 22FDX®
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 68 (1) :57-66
2021
Shivapakash, S.; Wiedemann, S.; Becking, D.; Wiedemann, P.; Samek, W.; Gerfers, F.; Wiegand, T.
FantastIC4: A Hardware-Software Co-Design Approach for Efficiently Running 4bit-Compact Multilayer Perceptrons
IEEE Open Journal for Circuits and Systems, 2
2021

2020

Vehring, S.; Ding, Y.; Scholz, P.; Gerfers, F.
A 3.1-dBm E-Band Truly Balanced Frequency Quadrupler in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 30 (12) :1165-1168
2020
Wiedemann, S.; Shivapakash, S.; Wiedemann, P.; Becking, D.; Samek, W.; Gerfers, F.; Wiegand, T.
FantastIC4: A Hardware-Software Co-Design Approach for Efficiently Running 4bit-Compact Multilayer Perceptrons
ArXiV
2020

2018

Schmidt, C.; Kottke, C.; Freund, R.; Gerfers, F.; Jungnickel, V.
Digital-to-analog converters for high-speed optical communications using frequency interleaving: impairments and characteristics
Optics Express, 26 (6) :6758-6770
2018

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Book Chapter MSC

Deutschmann, B.; Giese, M.; Jacob, A.; Lotfi, N.; Gerfers, F.; Vehring, S.; Böck, G.
PolyData/DataRace – Polymer-Integrated CMOS-Based High-Speed Communication Systems at W-Band
In Rolf Kraemer and Stefan Scholz, Editor
Publisher: IHP GmbH
2020
ISBN
978-3-96439-003-5

2014

Klar, H.; Noll, T.
Integrierte Digitale Schaltungen: Vom Transistor zur optimierten Logistikschaltung
Publisher: Springer
2014

Patents MSC

Gerfers, F.; Runge, M.
Sigma-Delta-Analog-Digital-Converter with gmC-VDAC
2021

2015

Keramat, M.; Gerfers, F.
Distributed gain stage for high speed high resolution pipeline analog to digital converters
2015