News

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.