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Payam Heydari's Publications

[ Book(s) | Journal Publications | Conference Publications ]

 

Book(s)

  1. Aminghasem Safarian and Payam Heydari, Silicon-Based RF Front-Ends for UWB Radios, Springer Verlag Publishing, Jan. 2008.

 

Journal Papers

  1. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Ground Bounce in Digital VLSI Circuits," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, no. 2, vol. 11, pp. 180-193, April 2003.

  2. Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, "Interconnect Energy Dissipation in High-Speed ULSI Circuits," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, no. 8, vol. 51, pp. 1501-1514, Aug. 2004.

  3. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohanavelu, "Design of Ultra High-Speed Low-Voltage CMOS CML buffers and Latches," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, no. 10, vol. 12, pp. 1081-1093, Oct. 2004. 

  4. Payam Heydari, "Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, no. 12, vol. 51, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004. (Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award)  

  5. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram "Capacitive Coupling Noise in High-Speed VLSI Circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design, no. 3, vol. 24, pp. 478-488, March 2005.

  6. Amin Q. Safarian, Ahmad Yazdi, Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of an Ultra Wide-band Distributed CMOS Mixer," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, no. 5, vol. 13, pp. 618-629, May 2005.

  7. Payam Heydari, "Characterizing the Effects of the PLL Jitter Due to Substrate Noise in Discrete-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, no. 6, vol. 52, pp. 1073-1085, June 2005.

  8. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Model-Order Reduction Using Variational Balanced Truncation with Spectral Shaping," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 879-891, April 2006. (Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award) 

  9. Payam Heydari, "A Study of High-Frequency Noise in RF Active CMOS Mixers," Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 199-209, Sept. 2006.

  10. Aminghasem Safarian, Farzad Sahandi, Payam Heydari, Mojtaba Atarodi, "A Low-Power, Second-Order S/D Modulator Using A Single Class-AB Op-Amp for Voice-Band Applications," Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 199-211, Nov. 2006.

  11. Lei Zhou, Aminghasem Safarian, Payam Heydari, "CMOS Wideband Analog Delay Stage," IEE Electronics letters, vol. 42, no. 21, pp. 1213, 1214, Oct. 2006.

  12. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohanavelu, "A 40-GHz Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1358-1362, Dec. 2006.

  13. Aminghasem Safarian, Seema Anand, Payam Heydari, "On the Dynamics of Regenerative Frequency Dividers," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1413-1417, Dec. 2006.

  14. Fred Tzeng, Deyi Pi, Aminghasem Safarian, Payam Heydari, "Theoretical Analysis of Novel Multi-Order LC Oscillators," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 287-291, March 2007.

  15. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "CMOS Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1481-1491, July 2007. 

  16. Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of a Performance-Optimized CMOS UWB Distributed LNA," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1892-1905, Sept. 2007.   

  17. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Multi-Band Inductor Re-Use Low Noise Amplifier,”  IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Part II, Special Issue on Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generation of Wireless Communications, 2008 .   

 

 

Conference Publications

  1. Vipul Jain, Babak Javid, Payam Heydari, "A Dual-Band Millimeter-Wave BiCMOS Frequency Synthesizer," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2008.  

  2. Ramin Miri, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "Timing Synchronization in Impulse-Radio UWB: Trends and Challenges," IEEE NEWCAS-TAISA, June 2008.  

  3. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Deyi Pi, Payam Heydari, "A CMOS Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Front-End for Spatial Multiplexing, Spatial Diversity and Beamforming," IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2008. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award) 

  4. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, "A Universal Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Architecture," IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2008. 

  5. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, "A 2.5-3.2GHz GHz Continuously-Tuned Varactor-Less LC-VCO with Differential Control," IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2007.

  6. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, and Payam Heydari, "A Current-Equalized Distributed Receiver Front-End for UWB Direct Conversion Receivers," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007.

  7. Vipul Jain, Sriramkumar Sundararaman, and Payam Heydari, "A CMOS 22-29GHz Receiver Front-End for UWB Automotive Pulse-Radars," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007.

  8. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, "A Synthesis-based Bandwidth Enhancing Technique for CML Buffers/Amplifiers," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  9. Jeffrey Johnson, Vipul Jain, Payam Heydari, "A Nonlinear Model for Phase Noise and Jitter in LC Oscillators," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3095-3098, May 2007.

  10. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for UWB-MIMO Transceivers," IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 138-141, Sept. 2006.

  11. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari, "A Novel Ultra-Low Power (ULP) Low Noise Amplifier using Differential Inductor Feedback," IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 352-355, Sept. 2006.

  12. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "A Distributed RF Front-End for UWB Receivers," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 805-808, Sept. 2006.

  13. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari "A Novel Power Optimization Technique for Ultra-Low Power RFICs," to appear in IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 274-279, Oct. 2006.
    14. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  14. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari, "Ultra-Low Power RFIC Design Using Moderately Inverted MOSFETs: An Analytical/Experimental Study," IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 521-524, June 2006.

  15. Fred Tzeng and Payam Heydari, "A Novel Millimeter-Wave Multi-Order LC Oscillator," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 4667-4670, May 2006.

  16. Payam Heydari and Denis Lin, "A Performance Optimized CMOS Distributed LNA for UWB Receivers," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 337-340, Sept. 2005.

  17. Ravindran Mohanavelu and Payam Heydari, "A Novel 40-GHz Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider in 0.18mm CMOS," IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 185-188, Sept. 2005.

  18. Asad Abidi and Payam Heydari, “Special Session: Low-Power UWB Transceiver Design,” IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 301, Aug. 2005.

  19. Payam Heydari, Denis Lin, Amin Shameli, Ahmad Yazdi, "Design of CMOS Distributed Circuits for Multiband UWB Wireless Receivers," IEEE RF IC Symposium, pp. 695-698, June 2005.

  20. Amin Q. Safarian and Payam Heydari, "A Study of High-Frequency Regenerative Frequency Dividers," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 3, pp. 2695-2698, May 2005.

  21. Payam Heydari, "Design Considerations for Low-Power Ultra Wideband Radio Receivers," IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 668-673, March 2005.

  22. Payam Heydari, "A Comprehensive Study of Low-Power Ultra Wideband Radio Transceiver Architectures," IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), vol. 2, pp. 758-763, March 2005.

  23. Ahmad Yazdi, Denis Lin, Payam Heydari, "A 1.8V Three-Stage 25GHz 3dB-BW Differential Non-Uniform Downsized Distributed Amplifier," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), paper 8.4, pp. 156, Feb. 2005.

  24. Ying Zhang and Payam Heydari, "A Novel Linearization Technique for Linear/Pseudo-Linear RF CMOS Power Amplifiers,"  IEEE RF IC Symposium, pp. 563-566, June 2004.

  25. Ahmad Yazdi and Payam Heydari, "A Novel Non-Uniform Distributed Amplifier," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 613-616, May 2004.

  26. Amir Safarian and Payam Heydari, " Design and and Analysis of a Distributed Regenerative Frequency Divider Using a Distributed Mixer," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 992-995, May 2004.

  27. Ravindran Mohanavelu and Payam Heydari, "A Novel Ultra High-Speed Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. 169-172, May 2004.

  28. Ahmad Yazdi and Payam Heydari, "The Design and Analysis of Non-Uniform Down-Sized Differential Distributed Amplifiers," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 528-533, March 2004.

  29. Payam Heydari, "High-Frequency Noise in RF CMOS Mixers,"  Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), pp. 57-61, Jan. 2004.

  30. Payam Heydari and Ying Zhang , "A Novel High-Frequency, High-Efficiency, Differential Class-E Power Amplifier in 0.18mm CMOS," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 455-458, Aug. 2003.

  31. Payam Heydari, "Characterizing the Effects of Clock Jitter Due to Substrate Noise in Discrete-Time D/S Modulators," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 532-537, June 2003.

  32. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohavavelu, "Design of Ultra High-Speed CMOS CML buffers and Latches," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 208-211, May 2003.

  33. Payam Heydari, "Design Issues in Low-Voltage High-Speed Current-Mode Logic Buffers," IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), pp. 21-26, April 2003.

  34. Soroush Abbaspour, Payam Heydari, Massoud Pedram, "Optimizing the Energy-Delay-Ringing Product in On-Chip CMOS Line Drivers," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 261-266, March 2003. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  35. Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of Low-Voltage Current-Mode Logic Buffers,"  IEEE Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 293-298, March 2003.

  36. Payam Heydari, "Analysis of DLL Jitter Due to Substrate Noise," 45th IEEE Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 348-351, Aug. 2002.

  37. Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, "A Comprehensive Study of Energy Dissipation in Lossy Transmission Lines Driven by CMOS Inverters," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 517-520, May 2002.

  38. Payam Heydari, "Energy Dissipation Modeling of Lossy Transmission Lines Driven by CMOS Inverters," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. 309-312, May 2002.

  39. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Interconnect Energy  Dissipation in High-Speed ULSI Circuits," IEEE VLSI  Design / ASP-DAC Conference, pp. 132-137, Jan. 2002.

  40. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Model Reduction of  Variable-Geometry Interconnects Using Variational Spectrally-Weighted Balanced  Truncation," IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 586-591, Nov. 2001.

  41. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram,  "Jitter-Induced Power/Ground Noise in CMOS PLLs: A Design Perspective," IEEE  International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 209-213, Sept. 2001.

  42. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Analysis and Reduction of  Capacitive Coupling Noise in High-Speed VLSI Circuits," IEEE  Int'l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 104-109, Sept. 2001.

  43. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Balanced Truncation with  Spectral Shaping for RLC Interconnects," IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), pp. 203-208, Feb. 2001.

  44. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Analysis and  Optimization of Ground Bounce in Digital CMOS Circuits,"   IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD),  pp. 121-126, Sept. 2000. (Recipient of the 2000 Best Paper Award)

  45. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Analysis of  Jitter due to Power-Supply Noise in Phase-Locked Loops," SRC TECHCON Conference, Paper 10.6, Sept. 2000.

  46. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Analysis of  Jitter due to Power-Supply Noise in Phase-Locked Loops,"   IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 443-446, May 2000. (Honorable Award from USC)

  47. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Calculation of  Ramp Response of Lossy Transmission Lines Using Two-Port Network  Functions," ACM Int'l Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), April 1998, pages 152-157.

  48. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Analysis of Off-chip and On-chip Simultaneous Switching Noise in VLSI Circuits," SRC TECHCON  Conference, Paper 14.8, Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 1998.