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1.
Aminghasem Safarian and Payam Heydari, Silicon-Based
RF Front-Ends for UWB Radios, Springer Verlag
Publishing, Jan. 2008.
2.
Vipul Jain and Payam Heydari, Automotive
Radar Sensors in Silicon Technologies, Springer Verlag
Publishing, 2013
1. Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, and Payam Heydari, "A BiCMOS W-Band 2Χ2 Focal-Plane Array with On-chip Antenna," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 47, no. 10, Oct. 2012.
2. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, "W-Band Silicon-Based Frequency Synthesizers Using Injection-Locked and Harmonic Triplers," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques - Special Issue on RFIC Symp. 2011, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1307-1320, May 2012.
3. Amin Jahanian and Payam Heydari, A CMOS Distributed Amplifier with Distributed Active Input Balun Using GBW and Linearity Enhancing Techniques, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques - Special Issue on RFIC Symp. 2011, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1331-1341, May 2012.
4. Amin Jahanian and Payam Heydari, "Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Delay Circuits," to appear in Springer Journal of Analog Signal Processing, 2012.
5. Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of a W-Band SiGe Direct-Detection-Based Passive Imager Using a Balanced LNA with an Embedded Dicke Switch," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 2240-2252, Oct. 2011.
6. Lei Zhou, Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Fred Tzeng, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, "A 2Gbps RF-Correlation-Based Impulse-Radio UWB Transceiver Front-End in 130nm CMOS," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques - Special Issue on UWB Technologies, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1117-1130, April 2011.
7. Lei Zhou, Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, "A W-band CMOS Receiver Chipset for Millimeter-Wave Radiometer Systems," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 378-391, Feb. 2011.
8. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, "A Synthesis-Based Bandwidth Enhancement Technique for CMOS Amplifiers: Theory and Design," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 392-402, Feb. 2011.
9. Houman Homayoun, M. A. Makhzan, Alex Veidenbaum, Hsin-Cheng Yao, Payam Heydari, "MZZ-HVS: Multiple Sleep Modes Zig-Zag Horizontal and Vertical Sleep Transistor Sharing to Reduce Leakage Power in On-Chip SRAM Peripheral Circuits," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 19, pp. 2303-2316, Dec. 2011.
10. Vipul Jain, Fred Tzeng, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "A Single-Chip Dual-Band 22-29-GHz/77-81-GHz BiCMOS Transceiver for Automotive Radars," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3469-3485, Dec. 2009.
11. Vipul Jain, Sriramkumar Sundararaman, and Payam Heydari, "A 22-29GHz UWB Pulse-Radar Receiver Front-End in 0.18μm CMOS," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1903-1914, Aug. 2009.
12. Vipul Jain, Babak Javid, and Payam Heydari, "A BiCMOS Dual-Band Millimeter-Wave Frequency Synthesizer for Automotive Radars," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 2100-2113, Aug. 2009.
13. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Deyi Pi, Payam Heydari, A CMOS Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Front-End, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1321- 1335, May 2009.
14. Amin Jahanian, Fred Tzeng, Payam Heydari, "Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receivers: Theory and Analysis," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vo. 8, no. 5, pp. 2193-2201, May 2009.
15. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, A Multi-Band Inductor Re-Use CMOS Low Noise Amplifier, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Part II, Special Issue on Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generation of Wireless Communications, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 209-213, March 2008.
16. Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of a Performance-Optimized CMOS UWB Distributed LNA," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1892-1905, Sept. 2007.
17. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "CMOS Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1481-1491, July 2007.
18.
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.
19.
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.
20.
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.
21.
Lei Zhou, Aminghasem Safarian, Payam
Heydari, "CMOS
Wideband Analog Delay Stage," IEE Electronics letters, vol. 42,
no. 21, pp. 1213, 1214, Oct. 2006.
22.
Aminghasem Safarian, et al.,
"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.
23.
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.
24. 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)
25. 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, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1073-1085, June 2005.
26. 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.
27. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram "Capacitive Coupling Noise in High-Speed VLSI Circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 478-488, March 2005.
28.
Payam Heydari, "Analysis
of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise," IEEE Trans.
on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004. (Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Darlington Award)
29. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohanavelu, "Design of Ultra High-Speed Low-Voltage CMOS CML buffers and Latches," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1081-1093, Oct. 2004.
30. 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, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 1501-1514, Aug. 2004.
31. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Ground Bounce in Digital VLSI Circuits," IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 180-193, April 2003.
1.
Zheng Wang,
Pei-Yuan Chiang, Peyman Nazari, Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, "A 210 GHz Fully
Integrated Differential Transceiver with Fundamental Frequency VCO in 32 nm SOI
CMOS," IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
Feb. 2013.
2.
Francis Caster,
II, Leland Gilreath, Shiji Pan, Zheng Wang, Filippo Capolino, and Payam
Heydari, "A 93-113GHz BiCMOS 9-Element Imaging Array
Receiver Utilizing Spatial-Overlapping Pixels with Wideband Phase and Amplitude
Control," IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
Feb. 2013.
3.
Pei-Yuan Chiang,
Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, "A Highly Efficient 0.2 THz Varactor-Less VCO with -7dBm Output Power in 130nm BiCMOS," IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symp. (CSICS), Oct. 2012.
4.
Behrooz Javid and Payam Heydari,
"A 4-bit 12 GS/s Data Acquisition System-on-Chip Including a Flash ADC and
4-Channel DeMUX in 130nm CMOS," IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), Sept. 2012 .
5.
Shiji Pan, Leland
Gilreath, Payam Heydari, Filippo
Capolino, "An On-Chip W-Band Bowtie Slot Antenna
in Silicon," IEEE Antenna and Propagation Symp.
(APS), July 2012.
6.
Caner Guclu,
Shiji Pan, Payman Nazari, Byung-Kwan
Chun, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino, Metamaterial Waveguide with Loss Compensation, URSI
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of International Union of Radio
Science, Istanbul, July 2011.
7. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, Payam Heydari, "A Fully Integrated 96GHz 2Χ2 Focal-Plane Array with On-Chip Antenna," IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2011. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
8.
Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Payam Heydari,
"W-Band Frequency Synthesis Using a Ka-Band PLL
and Two Different Frequency Triplers," IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2011.
9.
Amin
Jahanian, Payam Heydari, "A CMOS 818-GHz GBW
Differential Distributed Amplifier with Distributed Active Input Balun," IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2011. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
10.
Amin
Jahanian, Payam Heydari, "Analysis and
Optimization of Distributed Delay Circuits," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
May 2011.
11.
Chun-Cheng
Wang, Zhiming Chen, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari,
"A 80-92-GHz Receiver Front-End
using Slow-Wave Transmission Lines in 65nm CMOS," IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symp. (CSICS), Oct. 2010.
12.
Shiji Pan, De
Wong, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino,
"Investigation of On-Chip Antenna with CMOS Technology in
Sub-Millimeter-Wave Range," ICNC/USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting,
Toronto Canada, July 11-17, 2010.
13.
Leland
Gilreath, Vipul Jain, Hsin-Cheng
Yao, Le Zheng, and Payam Heydari, "A 94-GHz Passive Imaging
Receiver using a Balanced LNA with Embedded Dicke
Switch," IEEE RFIC Symposium,
May 2010.
14.
Zhiming Chen and Payam Heydari, "An 85-95.2 GHz
Transformer-Based Injection-Locked Frequency Tripler in 65nm CMOS," IEEE
Int'l Microwave Symp. (IMS), May 2010.
15.
Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, "A W-Band LNA in 0.18-mm SiGe
BiCMOS," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
May 2010.
16.
Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, Le Zheng, Hsin-Cheng
Yao, and Payam Heydari, "A Fully Integrated W-Band Passive Imaging Receiver IC in
Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS Technology," Proc. of SPIE
Defense Security + Sensing, April 2010.
17.
Le Zheng, Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, "Design and Analysis of a
W-Band Detector in 0.18-mm SiGe BiCMOS," IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits
in RF Systems, Jan. 2010.
18. Lei Zhou, Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Fred Tzeng, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, "A 2Gbps RF-Correlation-Based Impulse-Radio UWB Transceiver Front-End in 130nm CMOS," IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2009.
19. Vipul Jain, Fred Tzeng, Lei Zhou, and Payam Heydari, A Single-Chip Dual-Band 22-to-29GHz/77-to-81GHz BiCMOS Transceiver for Automotive Radars, IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2009.
20. Le Zheng, Hsin-Cheng Yao, Fred Tzeng, and Payam Heydari, Design and Analysis of a Current-Reuse Transmitter for Ultra-Low Power Applications, IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2009.
21. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, Design and Analysis of a Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Divide-by-3 Injection-Locked Frequency Divider, IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Jan. 2009.
22. Payam Heydari, "A Novel Millimeter-Wave Transceiver for Automotive Radars in Jazz BiCMOS Technologies," Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal Circuits, Applications & Technologies Conference, Oct. 2008.
23. Vipul Jain, Babak Javid, Payam Heydari, "A Dual-Band Millimeter-Wave 24/77GHz BiCMOS Frequency Synthesizer," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 487-490, Sept. 2008.
24. Ramin Miri, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, "Timing Synchronization in Impulse-Radio UWB: Trends and Challenges," IEEE NEWCAS-TAISA, June 2008.
25. 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)
26. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, "A Universal Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Architecture," IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2008.
27. 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.
28.
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.
29.
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.
30.
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)
31.
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.
32.
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.
33.
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.
34.
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.
35.
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.
(Nominated
for the Best Paper Award)
36.
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.
37.
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.
38.
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.
39.
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.
40.
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.
41.
Payam Heydari, Denis Lin, Amin Shameli,
Ahmad Yazdi, "Design of CMOS Distributed Circuits for Multiband UWB
Wireless Receivers," IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 695-698, June 2005.
42.
Amin Q. Safarian and Payam
Heydari, "A Study of High-Frequency Regenerative Frequency Dividers,"
IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 3, pp.
2695-2698, May 2005.
43.
Payam Heydari, "Design Considerations for Low-Power
Ultra Wideband Radio Receivers," IEEE Int'l Symposium on Quality
Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 668-673, March 2005.
44.
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.
45.
Ahmad Yazdi, Denis Lin, Payam Heydari, "A
1.8V Three-Stage 25GHz 3dB-BW Differential Non-Uniform Downsized Distributed
Amplifier," IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
paper 8.4, pp. 156, Feb. 2005.
46.
Ying Zhang and
Payam Heydari, "A Novel Linearization Technique for Linear/Pseudo-Linear
RF CMOS Power Amplifiers," IEEE
RFIC Symposium, pp. 563-566, June 2004.
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. Payam Heydari, "High-Frequency Noise in RF CMOS Mixers," Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), pp. 57-61, Jan. 2004.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. 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.
56. 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)
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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.
61. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Interconnect Energy Dissipation in High-Speed ULSI Circuits," IEEE VLSI Design / ASP-DAC Conference, pp. 132-137, Jan. 2002.
62. 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.
63. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, "Jitter-Induced Power/Ground Noise in CMOS PLLs: A Design Perspective," IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 209-213, Sept. 2001.
64. 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.
65. 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.
66. 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)
67. 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.
68. 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)
69. 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.
70. 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.