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Wood Chiang

Associate Professor
Faculty

Office: 450A EB

Biography

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Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 2007, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Communication Circuits Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013. From 2013 to 2014 he was a Senior Design Engineer in the RFIC design group in Qualcomm, developing low-power circuits for Bluetooth transceivers. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Brigham Young University in 2014. His research interests include low-power RF/analog/mixed-signal circuits for communications and sensing applications.

Publications

For the most up-to-date information about Dr. Chiang and his research, visit his Group page.

Journals:
[29] Taylor Barton, Shea Smith, Yu Hao, Ryan Watson, Kyle Rogers, Parker Allred, Bibhu Datta Sahoo, Nancy Fulda, Jordan Yorgason, Karl Warnick, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A subthreshold time-domain analog spiking neuron with PLL-based leak circuit and capacitive DAC synapse,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), Early Access, 2024. [Link]

[28] Behdad Jamadi, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Armin Tajalli, “Trade-offs in design of wide-band inverter-based amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, Early Access, 2024. [Link]

[27] Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A digital background calibration circuit for coarse-fine timing mismatch in VCO-based ADCs,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), Early Access, 2024. [Link]

[26] Taylor Barton, Shea Smith, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Multi-Stage Charge Pump Design Methodology for Zero-Crossing-Based Amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Early Access, 2024. [Link]

[25] Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Whitney Kinnison, Yong Qu, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.2-V 10-bit 5-kHz SAR ADC with dynamic bulk biasing and ultra-low-supply-voltage comparator,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 2722-2733, Jul. 2023. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Jul. 2023) [Link]

[24] Parker Allred, Eric Christie, Yixin Song, Daniel E. Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Aaron R. Hawkins, “Flow-through charge detection mass spectrometry to categorize micron-sized particles,” AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 94, no. 3, Mar. 2023. [Link]

[23] Tyler Westover, Zach Westhoff, Sharisse Poff, Nick Morrill, David Miller, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Richard Vanfleet, and Robert Davis, “Miniaturized short-wavelength infrared spectrometer for diffuse light applications,” Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023, vol. 2, no. 6, 066003, Oct. 2023. [Link]

[22] Shruti Konwar, Harshit Roy, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Bibhu Datta Sahoo, “Deterministic dithering-based 12-b 8-MS/s SAR ADC in 0.18-μm CMOS,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 5, pp. 243-246, 2022. (No. 9 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Oct. 2022, No. 21 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Jan. 2023, Top 50 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Mar. 2023, Apr. 2023, Mar. 2024) [Link]

[21] Yixin Song, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Aaron R. Hawkins and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “The digital-assisted charge amplifier: a digital-based approach to charge amplification,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 3114-3123, Aug. 2022. (No. 4 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Aug. 2022, No. 8 most-accessed paper in TCAS-I in Sep. 2022) [Link]

[20] Taylor Barton, Hao Yu, Kyle Rogers, Nancy Fulda, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Jordan Yorgason, and Karl F. Warnick, “Towards low-power machine learning architectures inspired by brain neuromodulatory signalling,” Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 12, no. 59, pp. 1-19, Nov. 2022. [Link]

[19] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Yong Qu, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 8, pp 2347-2359, Aug. 2021. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Jul. and Sep. 2021, No. 4 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Aug. 2021) [Link]

[18] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Yong Qu, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021. (Early Access) [Link]

[17] Khalil Gammoh, Cameron Peterson, David Penry, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Linearity theory of stochastic phase-interpolation time-to-digital converter,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2020. [Link]

[16] Yong Qu, Wei Shu, Lei Qiu, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Joseph Chang, “A low-profile high-efficiency fast battery charger with unifiable constant-current and constant-voltage regulation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2020. [Link]

[15] Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Joan Magalhaes, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Whitney Kinnison, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, “A solid-state charge detector with gain calibration using photocurrent,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2020. [Link]

[14] Jace Rozsa, Yixin Song, Devon Webb, Naomi Debaene, Austin Kerr, Elaura Gustafson, Tabitha Caldwell, Halle Murray, Daniel Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and  Aaron Hawkins, “Simulation and measurement of image charge detection with printed-circuit-board detector and differential amplifier”, AIP Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 91, no. 5, May 2020. [Link]

[13] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 83-86, Sep. 2019. (Invited paper. No. 6 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Oct. 2019, Top 50 most-accessed paper in SSCL in Nov. 2019, Jan., Feb., and Mar. 2020) [Link]

[12] Devon Janke, Andrew Monk, Eric Swindlehurst, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 9-Bit 10-MHz 28-µW SAR ADC using tapered bit periods and a partially interdigitated DAC,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 187-191, Feb. 2019. (No. 5 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Jun. 2018, Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Feb. 2019) [Link]

[11] Andres Galan, Gregory Nordin, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design and characterization of a package-less hybrid PDMS-CMOS-FR4 contact-imaging system for microfluidic integration,” SPIE J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 034501-1-034501-8, Jul. 2018. [Link]

[10] Nathan Whitehead, Yixin Song, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Direct measurement of high-gain and complementary charge-steering amplifiers,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 714-718, Jun. 2018. [Link]

[9] Danilo Bustamante, Devon Janke, Eric Swindlehurst, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-precision, mixed-signal mismatch measurement of metal-oxide-metal capacitors,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 1272-1276, Nov. 2017. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in TCAS-II in Nov. 2017) [Link]

[8] Wanyang Zhang, David Comer, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design of low power ultra-high voltage gain differential cascode stages,” International J. of Electronics, vol. 104, no. 6, pp. 982-992, Jun. 2017. [Link]

[7] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Comparator offset calibration using unbalanced clocks for high speed and high power efficiency,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 14, pp. 1206-1207, Jul. 2016. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in EL in Jul. 2016) [Link]

[6] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Charge-dumping switching scheme for successive-approximation-register analogue-to-digital converters,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 348-350, Mar. 2016. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in EL in Mar. 2016) [Link]

[5] Eric Swindlehurst and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Histogram-based calibration of capacitor mismatch in SAR ADCs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 25, pp. 2096-2098, Dec. 2015. [Link]

[4] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Hyuk Sun, and Behzad Razavi, “A 10-bit 800-MHz 19-mW CMOS ADC,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), pp. 935-949, Apr. 2014. (Invited paper. No. 1 most-accessed paper in JSSC in Mar. and Apr. 2014, Top 25 most-accessed paper in JSSC in May and Jun. 2014, Top 100 most-accessed paper in all IEEE journals in Mar., Apr., and May 2014) [Link]

[3] Stuart Kleinfelder, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Wei Huang, “Multi-GHz synchronous waveform acquisition with real-time pattern-matching trigger generation,” IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, pp. 3785-3792, Oct. 2013. [Link]

[2] Patricia Nieva, Jim Kuo, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Abdullah Syed, “A novel MOEMS pressure sensor: modeling and experimental evaluation,” Springer India, J. Sadhana, vol. 34, pp. 615-623, Aug. 2009. [Link]

[1] Stuart Kleinfelder, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Wei Huang, Ashish Shah, and Kris Kwiatkowski, “High-speed, high dynamic-range optical sensor arrays,” IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, vol. 56, pp. 1069-1075, Jun. 2009. [Link]

Conferences:
[26] Shea Smith, Taylor Barton, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Armin Tajalli, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.12-V 200-Hz-BW 10-bit ADC using quad-channel VCO and interpolation linearization,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2023. (No. 2 most-accessed paper in A-SSCC in Dec. 2023) [Link]

[25] Shea Smith, Armin Tajalli, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A VCO linearization technique using dual-VCO and interpolation for time-based ADCs,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2023. [Link]

[24] Taylor Barton, Yen-Cheng Kuan, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A multi-stage zero-crossing-based amplifier using floating-inverter amplifier with background offset calibration and self-timed loop,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2023. [Link]

[23] Cheng-Yu Chiang, Chia-Lin Hu, Mark Po-Hung Lin, Yu-Szu Chung, Shyh-Jye Jou, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Chien-Nan Liu, and Hung-Ming Chen, “On automating finger-cap array synthesis with optimal parasitic matching for custom SAR ADC,” Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan. 2023. [Link]

[22] Sharisse Poff, Daniel Tebbs, Robert C. Davis, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Pulsatile impedance monitoring circuit,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), May 2023. (Best Paper Award) [Link]

[21] Benjamin Fisher, Benjamin Arnesen, Tyler Stowell, Jared Marchant, Christian Carver, Ryan M. Camacho, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Co-design of transimpedance amplifiers and photonic quantum random number generators,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC), May 2023. (2nd-Best Paper Award) [Link]

[20] Abigail Mae Hardy, Nicholas J Hartley, Daniel Hodge, Sean Sheehan, Eric Christie, Taylor Buckway, David Allred, Michael Ware, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Alex Halavanau, Hilary Tarvin, Joseph Wunschel, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, Arianna E Gleason, Ryan Camacho, Gary Walker, and Richard L. Sandberg, “Evidence of parametrically down-converted photon pairs in the X-ray spectrum,” Optica Imaging Congress (3D, COSI, DH, FLatOptics, IS, pcAOP), Aug. 2023. [Link]

[19] Barry M. Lunt, Eric Christie, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Robert C. Davis, and Matthew R. Linford, “Permanent digital data storage: an overview and report,” CERN PV2023, May. 2023. [Link]

[18] Daniel Kwabena Yirenya-Tawiah, Alexander Blackham, Alison Langford, Brian Mazzeo, and Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, “Design and measurement of a 24.5-mW, 33-mWh, 1.8-V-output solar energy harvester for bluetooth sensor nodes,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2022. [Link]

[17] Parker Allred, Juhang Kim, Yixin Song, Shiuh-Hua Wood Chiang, and Aaron R. Hawkins, “Charge detection mass spectrometry of micron-sized particles using a differential amplifier,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC), May 2022. [Link]

[16] Yong Qu, Wei Shu, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Yue Li, Zixian Zheng, and Joseph Chang, “A 12-W 96.1%-efficiency eFuse-based ultrafast battery charger supporting wireless and USB power inputs,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021. (Accepted)

[15] Alexander Petrie, Whitney Kinnison, Yixin Song, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 0.2-V 10-bit 5-kHz SAR ADC with dynamic bulk biasing and ultra-low-supply-voltage comparator,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Mar. 2020. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in CICC in May and Jul. 2020) [Link]

[14] Yixin Song, Whitney Kinnison, Jace Rozsa, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A compact measurement technique for detector capacitance of charge amplifiers,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Oct. 2020. [Link]

[13] Jia-Sheng Huang, Yu-Cheng Huang, Chia-Wei Kao, Che-Wei Hsu, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Chia-Hung Chen, “A two-step multi-stage noise-shaping incremental analog-to-digital converter,” International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2020. (Invited paper) [Link]

[12] Devon Webb, Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Low-noise, low-power pulse shaper for particle detection,” International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2020. (Invited paper, Top 50 most-accessed paper in MWSCAS in Sep. 2020) [Link]

[11] Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Joan Magalhaes, Shea Smith, Benjamin Karlinsey, Whitney Kinnison, Elaura Gustafson, Daniel Austin, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Design of common-mode feedback for high-gain charge amplifier,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC), Oct. 2020. [Link]

[10] Jace Rozsa, Yixin Song, Devon Webb, Naomi Debaene, Austin Kerr, Elaura Gustafson, Tabitha Caldwell, Halle Murray, Daniel Austin, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Aaron Hawkins, “A verified simulation method for image charge detection with non-cylindrical electrodes,” IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC), Oct. 2020. [Link]

[9] Eric Swindlehurst, Hunter Jensen, Alexander Petrie, Yixin Song, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Jieh-Tsorng Wu, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “An 8-bit 10-GHz 21-mW time-interleaved SAR ADC with grouped DAC capacitors and dual-path bootstrapped switch,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2019. (Top 50 most-accessed paper in ESSCIRC in Nov. 2019 and Feb. 2020) [Link]

[8] Elaura Gustafson, Halle Murray, Yixin Song, Jace Rozsa, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Aaron Hawkins, and Daniel Austin, “Charge detection mass spectrometry of microparticles using printed circuit board electrode arrays,” American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Jun. 2019.

[7] Yixin Song, Justin Chu, Joan Magalhaes, Jacob Nowjack, Jace Rozsa, Eric Swindlehurst, Sanjiv Pant, Kent Layton, Xiao Wang, Nathan Porter, Edgar Lee, Steve Lammert, Milton Lee, Aaron Hawkins, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-pressure solid-state ion detector with 10 uV/e- gain and 180-e- noise,” American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Jun. 2019.

[6] Devon Janke, Andrew Monk, Eric Swindlehurst, Kent Layton, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “A 9-Bit 10-MHz 28-µW SAR ADC using tapered bit periods and a partially interdigitated DAC,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2019. [Media]

[5] Nathan Whitehead, Yixin Song, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “Direct measurement of high-gain and complementary charge-steering amplifiers,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2018. [Media]

[4] Danilo Bustamante, Devon Janke, Eric Swindlehurst, and Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, “High-precision, mixed-signal mismatch measurement of metal-oxide-metal capacitors,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2017.

[3] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Hyuk Sun, and Behzad Razavi, “A 10-bit 800-MHz 19-mW CMOS ADC,” IEEE Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), pp. 100-101, Jun. 2013. [Link]

[2] Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang and Stuart Kleinfelder, “Scaling and design of a 16-mega-pixel CMOS image sensor for electron microscopy,” IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), pp. 1249-1256, Nov. 2009. [Link]

[1] Wei Huang, Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, and Stuart Kleinfelder, “Waveform digitization with programmable windowed real-time trigger capability,” IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), pp. 422-427, Nov. 2009. [Link]

Theses:
Danilo Bustamante, “High-precision, mixed-signal mismatch measurement of metal-oxide-metal capacitors and a 13-GHz 5-bit 360-degree phase shifter,” M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2020.

Eric Swindlehurst, “High-speed and low-power techniques for successive-approximation-register analog-to-digital converters,” Ph.D. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2020.

Nathan Whitehead, “Design and measurement of StrongARM comparators,” M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2019.

Alexander Petrie, “Ultra-low-supply-voltage analog-to-digital converters,” M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2019.

Khalil Gammoh, “PVT-tolerant stochastic time-to-digital converters”, M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2018.

Andres Galan, “Design and evaluation of a CMOS contact-imaging system for microfluidics”, M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2017. [Link]

Shiuh-hua Chiang, “High-speed, low-power analog-to-digital converters,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013. [Link]

Shiuh-hua Chiang, “Design and scaling of a 16-mega-pixel CMOS image sensor for electron microscopy,” M.S. Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2009. [Link]

Patents:
Time-interleaved successive approximation register analog to digital converter with grouped digital to analog capacitors, 2020. (pending)

Solid-state charge detector, 2020. (pending)

News:
BYU graduate students and Dr. Chiang break records with lowest supply voltage ADC

BYU Students bring home top prize at i-ETC Conference

能效比提升超两倍,全球最高效ADC芯片问世

全球最高效ADC芯片问世,国内外ADC芯片发展差在哪?

High speed chip claimed as world’s most efficient

BYU-led research team develops world’s most power-efficient ADC microchip

BYU researchers create world’s most power-efficient high-speed ADC microchip

BYU to provide NASA with critical research for future human missions to Mars

BYU Helping NASA Prep for Human Mission to Mars

BYU researchers helping NASA prep for human mission to Mars

BYU helps NASA prep for human mission to Mars through study of martian dust particles

NASA turns to BYU for critical Mars research ahead of human missions

Mars dust hazards; new BYU device will measure Martian dust

BYU helping NASA prep for human mission to Mars

Current teaching and student information can be found at Dr. Chiang's Group page.