Curriculum Vitae
Jae-Yoon Sim, Ph.D.
Contact Information:
Dept. Electrical Engineering, LG Bldg. Room 201
Pohang Univertity of Science and Technology (POSTECH),
San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, Kyungbuk, 790-784, Korea
Tel : +82-54-279-2378Fax : +82-54-279-2903
E-mail :
Experience:
A. Education
Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, 1999
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, 1995
B. S. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, 1993
B. Employment History
2016.3–present : Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea
2011.3–2016.2 : Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea
2011.8–2012.7 : Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2005.7–2011.2 : Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea
2003.7-2005.5: Post-Doc., University of Southern California, USA
1999.2-2005.7: Senior Engineer, Memory Division, Samsung Electronics, Korea
C. Honors and Awards:
Director of Joint Research Lab nominated by Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2017 -
Silver Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2017
Prime Minister Award, Semiconductor Circuit Design Competition, 2015
ISSCC 60th Anniversary Special Author-Recognition Award as a contributing author with 10 or more papers for the last decade (2003 to 2013), ISSCC, 2013
Silver Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2013
Bronze Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2012
Professor International Research Nominee, SBS Foundation, 2011
Gold Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2011
Best Design Award, Chip design contest, Dongbu Hitek, 2011
Bronze Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2010
Best Design Award, Grand Prize, Int. SoC Conf., 2010
Achievement Award, Chip design contest, KEC, 2010
Silver Prize, Samsung Humantech Thesis Competition, 2009
Grand Prize, Chip design contest, Dongbu Hitek, 2009
Takuo Sugano Award, ISSCC, 2002
Best Paper Award, Samsung Semiconductor Conference, 2002
Patentee of the year, Semiconductor, Samsung, 2000
Achievement Award, Memory Division, Samsung, 2000
Research Interests
High-speed links
Frequency generation
Sensor interface circuits
Ultra-low-power circuits
Data converters
Microwave plasma generator for biomedical applications
Publications:
A. International Journals:
Seungnam Choi, Hwan-Seok Ku, Hyunwoo Son, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim: An 84.6-dB-SNDR and 98.2-dB-SFDR Residue-Integrated SAR ADC for Low-Power Sensor Applications, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, No. 4, Feb. 2018
Il-Min Yi, Min-Kyun Chae, Seok-Hun Hyun, Seung-Jun Bae, Jung-Hwan Choi, Seong-Jin Jang, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Time-Based Receiver With 2-Tap Decision Feedback Equalizer for Single-Ended Mobile DRAM Interface, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, No. 1, pp.144-154, Jan. 2018
Jaeyoung Seo, Minsoo Choi, Sanquan Song, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : An Approximate Transfer Function Model of Two Serially Connected Heterogeneous Transmission Lines, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—-II: Express Briefs, Vol.64, No9, pp.1067-1071, Sep. 2017
Yelim Youn, Kwangmin Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : Investigation on the Worst Read Scenario of a ReRAM Crossbar Array, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 25, No.9, pp.2402-2410, Sep. 2017
Seungnam Choi, Yunjae Suh, Joohyun Lee, Jinkyu Kim, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A Self-Biased Current-Mode Amplifier With an Application to 10-bit Pipeline ADC, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, Vol.64, No.7, pp. 1706-1717, Jul. 2017
Yoon-Jee Kim, Sung-Eun Cho, Ji-Yong Um, Min-Kyun Chae, Jihoon Bang, Jongkeun Song, Taeho Jeon, Byungsub Kim,Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Single-Chip 64-Channel UltrasoundRX - Beamformer Including Analog Front-Endand an LUT for Non-UniformADC-Sample-Clock Generation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol.11, No.1 Feb.2017
Young-Ho Choi, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Phase-Interpolator-Based Fractional Counter forAll-Digital Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—-II: Express Briefs, Vol.64, No.3 Mar.2017
Seunghwan Hong, Shinwoong Kim, Seungnam Choi, Hwasuk Cho, Jaehyeong Hong, Young-Hun Seo, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A 250-μW 2.4-GHz Fast-Lock Fractional-N Frequency Generation for Ultra-low-Power Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—-II: Express Briefs, Vol.64, No2, pp.106-110, Feb.2017
Hyunwoo Son, Hwasuk Cho, Jahyun Koo, Youngwoo Ji, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A Low-Power Wide Dynamic-Range Current Readout Circuit for Ion-Sensitive FET Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol.11 No.3, pp.523-533, Jun.2017
Soon Ku Kwon, Seung-Jin Park, Im Hee Won, Cheolmin Ahn, Jae-Yoon Sim : Microwave Plasma Generation With Resonance Frequency Tracking and Power Regulation, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol45, No6, pp.925-931, Jun.2017
Seungho Han, Sooeun Lee, Minsoo Choi, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : A Coefficient-Error-Robust Feed Forward Equalizing Transmitter for Eye-variation and Power Improvement, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 51, no. 8, Aug. 2016
Young-Ho Choi, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Phase-Interpolator based Fractional-Counter for All Digital Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, Vol. No.99, pp.1-3, Apr. 2016
Kihwan Seong, Won-Cheol Lee, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, and Hong-June Park : All-Synthesizable 5-Phase Phase-Locked Loop for USB2.0, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol.16, No.3, pp.352-358 , Jun. 2016
Kihwan Seong, Won-Cheol Lee, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, and Hong-June Park : All-Synthesizable Current-Mode Transmitter Driver for USB2.0 interface, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. PP, No.99, pp.1-5, Aug. 2016
Soo-Min Lee, Ji-Hoon Lim, Il-Min Yi, Young-Jae Jang, Hae-Kang Jung, Kyunghoon Kim, Daehan Kwon, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Par : A Single-Ended Parallel Transceiver With Four-Bit Four-Wire Four-Level Balanced Coding for the Point-to-Point DRAM Interface, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp.1890-1901, Aug. 2016
Yunjae Suh, Seungnam Choi, and Jae-Yoon Sim : A Low-Power Class-AB Gm-Based Amplifier With Application to an 11-bit Pipelined ADC, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol.24, No.7, pp2562-2569, Jul.2016
Kyongsu Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim : A 0.8-to-6.5 Gb/s Continuous-Rate Reference-Less Digital CDR With Half-Rate Common-Mode Clock-Embedded Signaling, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, Vol.63, No.4, pp. 482-493, Apr.2016
Yoon-Jee Kim, Sung-Eun Cho, Ji-Yong Um, Min-Kyun Chae, Jihoon Bang, Jongkeun Song, Taeho Jeon, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Single-Chip 64-Channel Ultrasound RX-Beamformer Including Analog Front-End and an LUT for Non-Uniform ADC-Sample-Clock Generation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Aug.2016
Dong-Hee Yeo, Seon-Ho Kim, Hyeon-Kyu Noh, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A SNR-Enhanced Mutual-Capacitive Touch-Sensor ROIC Using an Averaging With Three Specific TX Frequencies, a Noise Memory, and a Compact Delay Compensation Circuit, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.16, No.18, pp6931-6938, Sep.2016
Dong Woo Jee, Yunjae Suh, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A Digitally Controlled Op-Amp with Level-Crossing-Based Approximation and its Application to a 10-bit Pipeline ADC, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 25, No.12, pp, Dec.2016
Seungnam Choi, Hyunwoo Son, Jongshin Shin, Sang-Hyun Lee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A 0.65-to-10.5 Gb/s Reference-Less CDR With Asynchronous Baud-Rate Sampling for Frequency Acquisition and Adaptive Equalization,IEEE Transactions on Circuits and SYSTEMS—I: Regular Papers, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp276-287, Feb.2016
Shinwoong Kim, Seunghwan Hong, Kapseok Chang, Hyungsik Ju, Jaewook Shin, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A 2 GHz Synthesized Fractional-N ADPLL With Dual-Referenced Interpolating TDC , IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol.51, No.2, pp391-400, Feb.2016
Il-Min Yi, Soo-Min Lee, Seung-Jun Bae, Young-Soo Sohn, Jung-Hwan Choi, Seong-Jin Jang, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A 40 mV-Differential-Channel-Swing Transceiver Using a RX Current-Integrating TIA and a TX Pre-Emphasis Equalizer With a CML Driver at 9 Gb/s, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Vol.63, No.1, pp.122-133, Jan. 2016
Ji Hoon Lim, Jun Hyun Bae, Jaemin Jang, Hae Kang Jung, Hynbae Lee, Youngju Kim, Byungsub, Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Delay Locked Loop with a Feedback Edge Combiner of Duty Cycle Corrector with a 20%-80% Input-Duty-Cycle for SDRAMs, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, Vol.63, No.2, pp141-145, Feb.2016
Minsoo Choi, Kwangmin Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : Analytical Formulas for Tradeoff Among Channel Loss, Length, and Frequency of RC- and LC-Dominant Single-Ended Interconnects for Fast Equalized Link Tradeoff Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp.1497-1506, Oct. 2015
Young-Jae Jang, Il-Min Yi, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : EMI Issues in Pseudo-Differential Signaling for SDRAM Interface, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vol.15, No.5, pp.455-462 Oct. 2015
H.Y.Kim, S.K.Kang, S.M.Park, H.Y.Jung, B.H.Choi, J.Y.Sim, J.K.Lee : Characterization and Effects of Ar/Air Microwave Plasma on Wound Healing, Plasma Processes and Polymers, Vol. 12, Issue 12, pp.1423–1434, Dec. 2015
Inhee Lee, Wanyeong Jung, Hyunsoo Ha, Seokhyeon Jeong, Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, Zhiyoong Foo, Jae-Yoon Sim, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw : An Ultra-Low-Power Biomedical Chip for Injectable Pressure Monitor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Oct.2015
Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : An OTA with Positive Feedback Bias Control for Power Adaptation Proportional to Analog Workloads, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, VOL.15, NO.3, JUNE, 2015, p326-333
Minsoo Choi, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : An Approximate Closed-Form Transfer Function Model for Diverse Differential Interconnects, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, , VOL. 62, NO. 5, MAY 2015, p1355-1344
Hye-Jung Kwon, Ji-Hoon Lim, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : An Adaptive-Bandwidth Referenceless CDR with Small-area Coarse and Fine Frequency Detectors, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vol.15, No.3, pp404-416, Jun., 2015
Jong Mi Lee, Dong-Woo Jee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : An In-Band Noise Filtering 32-tap FIR-Embedded ΔΣ Digital Fractional-N PLL, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vol.15, No.3, p342-348,Jun., 2015
Jong-Hoon Kim, Ji-Hoon Lim, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : An Adaptive Equalizer for High-Speed Receiver using a CDR-Assisted All-Digital Jitter Measurement, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, VOL.15, NO.2, APRIL, 2015
Jae-Seung Lee, Dong-Hee Yeo, Hye-Jung Kwon, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : An LCD-VCOM-Noise Resilient Mutual-Capacitive Touch-Sensor IC Chip With a Low-Voltage Driving Signal, IEEE Sensors Journal, VOL. 15, NO. 8, AUGUST 2015 p 4595-4602
Ji-Yong Um, Yoon-Jee Kim, Seong-Eun Cho, Min-Kyun Chae, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A Single-Chip 32-Channel Analog Beamformer With 4-ns Delay Resolution and 768-ns Maximum Delay Range for Ultrasound Medical Imaging With a Linear Array Transducer, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 9, No.1, pp.138-151, Feb. 2015
Jee Dong-Woo, Sylvester Dennis, Blaauw David, Sim Jae-Yoon : Digitally controlled leakage-based oscillator and fast relocking MDLL for ultra low power sensor platform, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp.1263-1274, May 2015,
Sooeun Lee, Seungho Han, Ikho Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : Cost-Efficient and Automatic Large Volume Data Acquisition Method for On-Chip Random Process Variation Measurement, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vol.15, No.2, Apr., 2015
Im Hee Won, Myoung Soo Kim, Ho Young Kim, Hyun Kook Shin, Hyoung Cheol Kwon, Jae Yoon Sim, and Jae Koo Lee : Comparative study between atmospheric microwave and low-frequency plasmas : Production efficiency of reactive species and their effectiveness,Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 53, 05FR02, 2014
Seokhyeon Jeong, Zhiyoong Foo, Yoonmyung Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester : A Fully-Integrated 71 nW CMOS Temperature Sensor for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol. 49, No. 8, Aug. 2014
Im Hee Won, Sung Kil Kang, Jae-Yoon Sim, and Jae Koo Lee : Ozone-Free Portable Microwave Atmospheric Air Plasma Jet, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 42, No. 10, Oct. 2014
Soo-Min Lee, Il-Min Yi, Hae-Kang Jung, Hyunbae Lee, Yong-Ju Kim, Yun-Saing Kim, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : An 80 mV-Swing Single-Ended Duobinary Transceiver With a TIA RX Termination for the Point-to-Point DRAM Interface, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol. 49, No. 11, Nov.2014
Il-Min Yi, Soo-Min Lee, Seung-Jun Bae, Young-Soo Sohn, Jung-Hwan Choi, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : A 40-mV-Swing Single-Ended Transceiver for TSV with a Switched-Diode RX Termination, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs, Vol. 61, No. 12, Dec. 2014
Seung-Hun Lee, Seon-Kyoo Lee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, and Jae-Yoon Sim : Current-Mode Transceiver for Silicon Interposer Channel, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol. 49, No. 9, Sep. 2014
Minsoo Choi, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim : An Approximate Closed-Form Channel Model for Diverse Interconnect Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers, Vol. 61, No.10, pp3034-3043, Oct. 2014
Kyongsu Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim : Half-Rate Clock-Embedded Source Synchronous Transceivers in 130-nm CMOS, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol.23, No.10, Oct. 2014
Hye-Jung Kwon, Jae-seung Lee, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park : Analysis of an Open-Loop Time Amplifier With a Time Gain Determined by the Ratio of Bias Current, Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on, VOL.61, NO.7, July.2014
Ki-Hwan Seong, Ji-Hoon Lim, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, and Hong-June Park : Verilog Modeling of Transmission Line for USB 2.0 High-Speed PHY Interface, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, VOL.14, NO.4, Aug. 2014
Seong-Eun Cho, Ji-Yong Um, Byungsub Kim, Jae-Yoon Sim, and Hong-June Park : A Single-Stage 37 dB-Linear Digitaly-Controled Variable Gain Amplifier for Ultrasound Medical Imaging, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, VOL.14, NO.5, Oct. 2014
Hyunsoo Ha, Seon-Kyoo Lee, Byungsub Kim,Hong-June Park,Jae-Yoon Sim : A 0.5-V, 1.47-μW 40-kS/s 13-bit SAR ADC With Capacitor Error Compensation,IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, VOL.61, NO.11, NOV. 2014 . pp840-844
H. Wk. Lee, S. K. Kang, I. H. Won, H. Y. Kim, H. C. Kwon, J. Y. Sim, J. K. Lee : Distinctive plume formation in atmospheric Ar and He plasmas in microwave frequency band and suitability for biomedical applications, Physics of Plasmas, Vol.20, No.12, Dec. 2013
Dong-Woo Jee, Yunjae Suh, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim: A FIR-embedded phase interpolator based noise filtering for wide-bandwidth fractional-N PLL, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol.48, No.11, pp.2795-2804, Nov. 2013
Ji-Yong Um, Yoon-Jee Kim, Eun-Woo Song, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park: A Digital-Domain Calibration of Split-Capacitor DAC for a Differential SAR ADC Without Additional Analog Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,Vol.60, No.11, pp.2845-2856, Nov. 2013
Minsoo Choi, Jae-Yoon Sim, Hong-June Park, Byungsub Kim: A Channel Model of Scaled RC-dominant Wires for High-Speed Wireline Transceiver Design, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vol.13, No.5, pp.482-491 Oct. 2013
Seon-Kyoo Lee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim: A 5Gb/s single-ended parallel receiver with adaptive crosstalk-induced jitter cancellation, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol.48, No.9, Sep. 2013
Yunjae Suh, Jongmi Lee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim: A 10-bit 25-MS/s 1.25-mW Pipelined ADC With a Semidigital Gm-Based Amplifier, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II, Vol.60, No.3, pp.142-145, Mar. 2013
Seon-Kyoo Lee, Byungsub Kim, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim: A QDR-Based 6-GB/s Parallel Transceiver With Current-Regulated Voltage-Mode Output Driver and Byte CDR for Memory Interface, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II, Vol.60, No.2, pp.91-95, Feb. 2013
Jun-Seok Kim, Young-Hun Seo, Yunjae Suh, Hong-June Park, Jae-Yoon Sim : A 300-MS/s, 1.76-ps-Resolution, 10-b Asynchronous Pipelined Time-to-Digital Converter With on-Chip Digital Background Calibration in 0.13-μm CMOS, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, Vol.48, No.2, pp.516-526, Feb. 2013