Jul.2025
- M2 Tagawa-Kun’s International Conference paper is accepted to IEEE International NEWCAS Conference!
Hironori Tagawa, Hiroaki Kitaike, Kento Okamura, Kei Awano, You Wu, Kohei Sakamoto, Teruaki Ono, Shufan Xu, Ruilin Zhang, Hirofumi Shinohara, Kunyang Liu, and Kiichi Niitsu, “A Dynamically-Reconfiguarable Dual-Mode Self-Oscillating Voltage Doubler Using Scalable Dynamic Leakage-Suppression Logic in 22nm CMOS for Energy-Efficient Cold Start”
- M1 Okamura-Kun’s International Conference paper is accepted to IEEE International NEWCAS Conference!
Kento Okamura, Takeshi Fujiyabu, Hisataka Maruyama, Kei Awano,You Wu, Hiroaki Kitaike, Hironori Tagawa, Teruaki Ono,Kohei Sakamoto, Jin Nakamura, Masaya Kaneko, Yuta Kimura, Hiroaki Nakamura, Shufan Xu, Ruilin Zhang, Kunyang Liu, Hirofumi Shinohara, Daisuke Anzai, Natsuko Inagaki, Taichi Ito, and Kiichi Niitsu, “A 22nm CMOS 0.26nW-Standby-Power 37GHz Ingestible OOK Transmitter for Digital Pills”
- M2 Kitaike-Kun was awarded NEWCAS Young Professional Paper Award 2nd place at 23RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL NEWCAS CONFERENCE 2025!
Hiroaki Kitaike, “A 0.14-0.55V 1.9-24.2pW 22nm 3-bit Binary Search Supply-to-Digital Converter Using One-Hot Topology and Supply-Dependent-Activation Buffers for Bio-medical IoT Sensing”
Co-author : Hironori Tagawa, Kento Okamura, Wu You, Kei Awano, Jin Nakamura, Masaya Kaneko, Yuta Kimura, Hiroaki Nakamura, Shufan Xu, Ruilin Zhang, Kunyang Liu, Hirofumi Shinohara, and Kiichi Niitsu
- Research Student WU-Kun’s International Conference paper is accepted to IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)!
You Wu, Hiroaki Kitaike, and Kiichi Niitsu, “A Sub-10Hz Sub-nW 65nm CMOS Timer with Voltage-Stacking of an Oscillator and Frequency Dividers for Small-Formfactor Scaling-Friendly IoTs”
May.2025
- M1 Awano-Kun’s International Conference paper is accepted to IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)!
Kei Awano, You Wu, Kento Okamura, Teruaki Ono, Kohei Sakamoto, Hiroaki Kitaike, Hironori Tagawa, Jin Nakamura, Masaya Kaneko, Yuta Kimura, Hiroaki Nakamura, Shufan Xu, Ruilin Zhang, Kunyang Liu, Hirofumi Shinohara, and Kiichi Niitsu, “A 110-mV 12-pW 0.00006-mm2 7-nm FinFET Self-Oscillating Voltage Doubler Using Vertically Implemented Back-End Metal-Oxide-Metal Capacitors For Small-Formfactor Up-Conversion”
April.2025
- M2 Kitaike-Kun’s International Conference paper is accepted to IEEE International NEWCAS Conference!
Hiroaki Kitaike, Ruilin Zhang, Hironori Tagawa, Kento Okamura, Kei Awano, You Wu, Teruaki Ono, Kohei Sakamoto, Jin Nakamura, Masaya Kaneko, Yuta Kimura, Hiroaki Nakamura, Kunyang Liu, Shufan Xu, Hirofumi Shinohara and Kiichi Niitsu, “A 22nm CMOS 0.000005mm2 0.25V 2.3pW ISFET Front-End Using Low-Gate-Leakage Thick-Gate- Oxide Transistors for Energy-Efficient Small- Formfactor Ph Monitoring”
Mar.2025
- Prof. Niitsu received IEICE Electronics Society Activity Testimonial !
- M1 Kitaike-Kun was awarded 2024 Kyoto University President’s Award !
Feb.2025
- Prof. Niitsu received the Outcome Deployment Promotion Award from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications under the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme(SCOPE)!
- M1 Kitaike-Kun was awarded IEEE EDS Japan Chapter Student Award (VLSI)!
Hiroaki Kitaike, “A 0.9-2.6pW 0.1-0.25V 22nm 2-bit Supply-to-Digital Converter Using Always- Activated Supply-Controlled Oscillator and Supply-Dependent-Activation Buffers for Bio-Fuel-Cell-Powered-and-Sensed Time-Stamped Bio-Recording”, IEEE EDS Japan Chapter Student Award (VLSI), Feb.2025.
Jan.2025
- M1 Kitaike-Kun was awarded the Best Design ACM/IEEE Award at Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2025!
Hiroaki Kitaike, Hironori Tagawa, Shufan Xu, Ruilin Zhang, Kunyang Liu and Kiichi Niitsu, “Design of 0.9-2.6p W 0.1-0.25V 22m 2-bit Supply-to-Digital Converter Using Always-Activated Supply-Controlled Oscillator and Supply-Dependent-Activation Buffers for Bio-Fuel-Cell-Powered-and-Sensed Time-Stamped Bio-Recording”
- Prof. Niitsu has been appointed to IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2025 Forum Co-Chair.