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Short biography

 

 


Eduard Alarcón (member IEEE) received both the M. S. (with national award) and Ph.D. degree (with honors) in
electrical engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, in 1995 and 2000.
During the period 1997-2000 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the
Telecommunication Engineering School of Barcelona, where he became full-time tenure Associate Professor in 2000.
During the period August 03-January 04 he was holding a visiting scholarship at the COPEC center, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, conducting research in integrated circuits for energy management and control targeting
portable terminals for wireless applications. He has participated in seven Spanish national research projects. His
current research interests include the areas of Analog and Mixed-Signal Microelectronics with particular interest in
Current-Mode Design, Theoretical aspects of Neuro-fuzzy Control, Integrated Switching DC-DC converters, Nonlinear
Controller VLSI Implementations and modelling of RF power amplifiers. He has co-authored more than 80 scientific
papers in journals and conference proceedings, 2 book chapters and holds 1 patent.
Dr. Alarcón was recipient in 1998 of the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award at the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits
and Systems for a research work on a mixed-signal reconfigurable neuro-fuzzy processor. He was the invited coeditor
of a special issue of the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing journal devoted to current-mode
circuit techniques, co-organizer of a special session on “New trends in switching power converters towards circuit
integration” at IEEE ISCAS'03 and a special session on “Towards monolithic integration of switching power regulators: trends in

On-chip power management techniques”. He is the 2005 chair-elect of the Power Electronics and Power Systems track for the
IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems. He has given invited talks in several universities and companies in Europe, Asia and USA.

 

Position


          Profesor Titular de Universidad

Full-time associate professor

Professional memberships

  • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), July 2001.
    (IEEE Circuits and Systems society, IEEE Solid-State Circuits society and IEEE Education society)
  • Colegiado y Asociado al Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación / Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación
    (membership to spanish professional telecom engineer association)

 

Education 

    • Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación  (Jan 2000)
      Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
      (PhD in Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications)
      Resumen de tesis doctoral (PDF)
      Abstract of PhD Thesis (PDF)
      Résumé de la Thèse (PDF)
       
    • Ingeniero de Telecomunicación  (Sept 1995)
      Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
      (MSc degree in Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications)
      Premio Extraordinario Nacional de Terminación de Estudios de Ingeniería Superior de  Telecomunicación 1996
      National Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications MSc Studies Award

Research Interests

        • Power processing and control integrated circuits
        • Analog and Mixed-Signal ASIC Design and Characterization
        • Current-Mode Analog design
        • Switching DC-DC Power Converters Modelling and Control
        • Neural Networks and Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems Modelling and Control

Lectures in graduate courses / Docencia en cursos de doctorado 

31025 DISSENY MICROELECTRÒNIC ANALÒGIC CMOS I BICMOS I: FONAMENTS
CMOS and BiCMOS Analog Microelectronic Design : Foundations

31014 DISSENY MICROELECTRÒNIC ANALÒGIC CMOS I BICMOS II: APLICACIÓ
CMOS and BiCMOS Analog Microelectronic Design : Applications


Lectures in international masters / Docencia en máster

Energy Management for Information and Communication Systems
within th Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies - ETSETB - UPC

Books / Book chapters 


 

  • 'Mixed-signal Neuro-Fuzzy Processor Implementations. Sequential Architectures and Circuit-Level Description', Jordi Madrenas and Eduard Alarcón, book chapter in 'Neural Networks and Systolic Array Design', Ed. World Scientific Publisher publication date Dec 2001.

  • José Luis González and Eduardo Alarcón, "Current-Steering High-Speed D/A Converters for Communications", book chapter in "CMOS Data Converters for Telecom", Kluwer Academic Press, 2002


Guest editor in journals

 

  • 'Current-mode circuit techniques: More than a decade after their renaissence ', Eva Vidal,  Eduard Alarcón and Barrie Gilbert, Guest Editors,  Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, Feb 2004.


Organizer of  conference special sessions

  • Co-organizer (with prof. L. Fortuna, Università di Catania, Italy) of an invited special session on "New trends in switching power converters towards circuit integration",  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2003 (ISCAS'03), May, Bangkok, Thailand.

  • Co-organizer (with prof. Dariusz Czarkowski, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA and Amit Patra, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India) of an invited special session on "Towards monolithic integration of switching power regulators: trends in On-chip power management techniques ",  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2006 (ISCAS'06), May, Kos island, Greece.
     

Visiting positions

  • During the period August 2003 - January 2004, visiting professor under invitation of prof. Dragan Maksimovic at Colorado Power Electronics Center (COPEC), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA. Granted by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain under project 'Energy processing and control integrated circuits for portable applications'  

 

Professional courses

·         Seminar “System-Level and IC Implementation Techniques for Power Management in Battery- Powered Portable Electronics,” Dragan Maksimovic and Eduard Alarcón, Mead course in Power Management, March 2005 (UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, USA, by D. Maksimovic) and August 2005. (Ecole Politecnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL, by E. Alarcon)

·         Seminar “System-Level and IC Implementation Techniques for Power Management in Battery- Powered Portable Electronics,” Dragan Maksimovic and Eduard Alarcón, Mead course in Power Management, March 2006 (UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, USA, by D. Maksimovic) and September 2006. (Ecole Politecnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL, by E. Alarcon)

Patents

  • “High capacity and low ESR structure in standard CMOS integrated technology”, G. Villar, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan and Alberto Poveda, country of application: Spain.

Invited talks

·         “Powering ICs: Trends in on-chip switching power regulators”, invited tutorial, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Dec. 23, 2005 (co-authored with Dragan Maksimovic)

·         “On-chip integrated adaptive power management circuits for high-efficiency multistandard RF PA”, invited seminar, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Seoul, South Korea, December 2005.

·         “On-chip power processing and control”, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,  USA, 20 Dec 2003

·          “On-chip power processing and control”, Analog VLSI lab, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 25 November 2003.

·         “On-chip power processing and control”, Polytechnical University of Brooklyn, New York, USA, 20 November 2003.

·         “Energy-processing integrated circuits for wireless applications and systems-on-chip”, Universita degli studi di Ancona, Italy, June 2003.

·         "Current-mode analog signal processing : Evolution and future prospection", Universitat Rovira Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 13 Dec 2000

 

Consulting

·         Southwing  (http://www.south-wing.com/)

·         Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea, “Multimode CMOS RF front ends” group (http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr)

 

Journal papers 


 

  • 1 'Application of sliding-mode control to the design of a buck-based sinusoidal generator', Domingo Biel, Enric Fossas, Francesc Guinjoan,  Eduard Alarcón and Alberto Poveda, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 48, No3, June 2001.
     
  • 2 'Digitally programmable MOS resistive circuit', Eduard Alarcón, Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal and Alberto Poveda, IEE Electronics Letters, 3rd January 2002, Vol. 38, No.1, pp 11-13.
     
  • 3 'Current-mode analogue integrated circuit for sliding-mode control of switching power converterts', Eduard Alarcón, Alfonso Romero, Alberto Poveda, Sonia Porta and Luis Martínez-Salamero, IEE Electronics Letters, 3rd February 2002, Vol. 38, No.3.
       
  • 4 'CCII-based analog integrated circuit for sliding-mode control of switching power converters', E. Alarcón, A. Romero, A. Poveda, S. Porta and L. Martínez-Salamero,  Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Press, Feb 2004.
     
  • 5 'Up-to-Date Bibliography of Current-Mode Design', E. Vidal, E. Alarcón and B. Gilbert,  Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Press, Feb 2004.
     
  • 6 'Extended mismatch and dynamic modelling of current sources in current-steering DACs : an improved design procedure', M. Albiol, J. L. González and E. Alarcón , IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, special issue on Data Converters, January 2004, pp 159-169.
     
  • 7 'Synchronization of nonlinear electronic oscillators for neural computation', J. Cosp, J. Madrenas, E. Alarcón, E. Vidal an G. Villar,  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, special issue on Temporal Coding for Neural Information Processing, Sep 2004, pp. 1315- 1327
     

·         8 'CMOS Integrated circuit controllers for switching power converters', E. Alarcón, G. Villar and A. Poveda, Jubilee special issue on power electronics,  Journal of Circuit, Systems and Computers, Volume 13, Number 4 August 2004, pp. 789-811.

·         9 'Sliding Mode Control of Switching Converters: General Theory in an Integrated Solution', A. Romero, L. Martínez-Salamero, J. Calvente, E. Alarcón, A. Poveda, S. Porta, HAIT journal of science and engineering, Special issue on power electronics

·         10 “Towards an on-chip boost switching power converter: a design space exploration”, G. Villar, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan, A. Poveda, HAIT journal of science and engineering, Special issue on power electronics, vol. 2, iss-3-4, pp. 386-397.

·         11 'Synchronizable compact CMOS oscillator', G. Villar, E. Alarcón, E. Vidal, J. Cosp and J. Madrenas, mixed-signal letters, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Press, vol 42, 2005, pp-179

·         12 'Modelling of quantization effects in digitally controlled DC-DC converters', Hao Peng, Aleksandar Prodic, Eduard Alarcón and Dragan Maksimovic, IEEE Transactions on PowerElectronics, 2006.

·         13 'Three-level buck converter for envelope tracking applications', Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón and Dragan Maksimovic, IEEE Power Electronics Letters, March 2006.

 

Communications (inverse cronological order)  

 

o        76 Lazaro Marco, Eduard Alarcon, Dragan Maksimovic, “Effects of switching power converter nonidealities in Envelope Elimination and Restoration Technique", accepted IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 21-24, 2006

o        75 Lazaro Marco, Alberto Poveda, Eduard Alarcon, Dragan Maksimovic, “Bandwidth limits in PWM switching amplifiers ", accepted IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 21-24, 2006

o        74 Toni Lopez, Eduard Alarcon, “Performance of pn-Junction Diode Lumped Models for Circuit Simulators", accepted IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 21-24, 2006

o        73 Eduard Alarcon, Abdelali El Aroudi, Joaquin Martinez-Arteaga, Gerard Villar, Francesc Guinjoan and Alberto Poveda, “Avoiding bifurcations in switching power converters: a ripple-based unified perspective", accepted IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 21-24, 2006

o        72 Herminio Martinez-Garcia, Eva Vidal, Eduard Alarcon, Alberto Poveda , “Improving the Stability of On-Chip Automatic Tuning Loops for Continuous-time filters", accepted IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 21-24, 2006

o        71 Toni Lopez, Reinhold Elferich, Eduard Alarcon and Ramon Bragos “Measurement Technique for the DC-Output Characterisation of High Density Power MOSFETs", accepted 2006 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - IMTC 2006 (Sorrento, Napoli, Italy, 24-27 April, 2006)

o        70 Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, “Powering ICs: trends in on-chip power regulators”, invited paper, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR, India, December 23, 2005, (invited paper)

o        69 Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, “A comparison between three-level, two-level and two-phase converters”, Colorado Power Electronics Center Annual meeting, 2005, Boulder, CO, USA, November 2005

o        68 Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, “Band separation and efficiency optimization in linear-assisted switching power amplifiers”, Colorado Power Electronics Center Annual meeting, 2005, Boulder, CO, USA, November 2005

o        67 Jordi Madrenas, Jordi Cosp, Daniel Fernández, Eduard Alarcón, Eva Vidal and Gerard Villar, “Focal-Plane Bioinspired Mixed-Signal Image Segmentation Testchip Focal-Plane Bioinspired Mixed-Signal Image Segmentation Testchip”, DCIS'05  XX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems November 23-25, 2005 Lisboa - Portugal

o        66 E. Alarcón, G. Villar, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, “Quasi-optimum Efficiency in Output Voltage Hysteretic Control for a Buck Switching Converter with Wide Load Range”, PESC'05- IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2005 , Recife - Brazil, June 2005

o        65 Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, “Three-Level Buck Converter for  Envelope Tracking in RF Power Amplifiers”, APEC'05- IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference 2005 , Austin, Texas, March 2005

o        64 E. Alarcón, G. Villar, E. Vidal, H. Martinez, S. Porta, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, “MULTI-MODE CONTROLLER CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005

o        63 Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, “EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION IN LINEAR-ASSISTED SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS FOR ENVELOPE TRACKING IN RF POWER AMPLIFIERS", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 20055 

o        62 E. Alarcón, G. Villar, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, “ENERGY OPTIMIZATION OF TAPERED BUFFERS FOR CMOS ON-CHIP SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005 

o        61 E. Alarcón, G. Villar, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, “EFFICIENCY-ORIENTED SWITCHING FREQUENCY TUNING FOR A BUCK SWITCHING POWER CONVERTER”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005

o        60 Daniel Fernández, Gerard Villar, Eva Vidal, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp and Jordi Madrenas , “Selective Similarity Function for VLSI Analog Signal Processing “, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005

o        59 Daniel Fernández, Gerard Villar, Eva Vidal, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp and Jordi Madrenas , “MISMATCH-TOLERANT CMOS OSCILLATOR AND EXCITATORY SYNAPSE FOR BIOINSPIRED IMAGE SEGMENTATION “, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005

o        58 Hao Peng, Aleksandar Prodić, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, 'Modelling of quantization effects in digitally controller DC-DC converters', PESC'04- IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2004 , Aachen - Germany, June 2004

o        57 Asif Syed, Ershad Ahmed, Eduard Alarcón, Dragan Maksimović, 'Digital pulse width modulator architectures', PESC'04- IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2004 , Aachen - Germany, June 2004 

o        56 E. Alarcón, G. Villar, S. Ferrández, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, 'Ripple-reduction tuned filtering switching power converter topology', PESC'04- IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2004 , Aachen - Germany, June 2004 

o        55 G. Villar, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, 'On-chip CMOS histeretic controller for switching power converters', 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'04, Vancouver - Canada, May 2004 

    • 54 H. Martínez, E. Vidal, E. Alarcón, and A. Poveda, 'Dynamic modeling of Analog Integrated Filtres for the Stability Study of On-Chip Automatic Tuning Loops ', 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'04, Vancouver - Canada, May 2004 

o        53 S. Gomáriz, E. Alarcón, E. Vidal, F. Guinjoan and L. Martínez Salamero, 'Fuzzy control of a boost switching regulator by means of first-order Takagi-Sugeno model', 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'04, Vancouver - Canada, May 2004

o        52 J. Cosp, J. Madrenas, O. Lucas, E. Alarcón, E. Vidal, G. Villar, ‘Design and Basic Blocks of a Neuromorphic VLSI Analogue Vision System’, Second International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2004), University of Stirling, U.K., 20004

o         51 J. Madrenas, J. Cosp, O. Lucas, E. Alarcón, E. Vidal, G. Villar, ‘BIOSEG: A Bioinspired VLSI Analogue System for Image Segmentation’, 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks – ESANN 2004, Bruges, 2004

    • 50 G. Villar, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, 'A design space exploration for integrated switching power converters', 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'03, Bangkok - Thailand, May 2003
    • 49 G. Villar, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, "Optimized design of MOS capacitors in standard CMOS technology  and evaluation of their Equivalent Series Resistance for power applications", 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'03, Bangkok - Thailand, May 2003
    • 48 M. Albiol, J. L. González and E. Alarcón , "Improved current-source sizing for  high-speed high-accuracy current steering D/A converters", 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'03, Bangkok - Thailand, May 2003  
    • 47 M. Albiol, J. L. González and E. Alarcón , "Improved Design Methodology for High-Speed High-Accuracy Current Steering D/A Converters", DATE'03 Conference.  
    • 46 'Averaging circuit for switching power converters control : A CMOS current-mode integrated implementation"', Gerard Villar, Eduardo Alarcón, Eva Vidal, Herminio Martínez and Alberto Poveda, 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS02), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 2002.  
    • 45  'High-frequency Microelectronic Controller for One-Cycle Control of Switching Power Converters', Eduardo Alarcón, Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal, Jordi Madrenas and Alberto Poveda, 6th European Space Power Conference 2001 (European Space Agency), Porto, Portugal, May 2001.  
    • 44 'D-MRC: Digitally Programmable MOS Resistive Circuit', Eduardo Alarcón, Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal, Jordi Madrenas and Alberto Poveda, proceedings of the 44th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS01), Dayton, Ohio, USA, August 2001.  
    • 43 'General-purpose one-cycle feedforward controller for switching power converters: A high-speed current-mode CMOS VLSI implementation', Eduardo Alarcón, Gerard Villar, Eva Vidal, Herminio Martínez and Alberto Poveda, proceedings of the 44th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS01), Dayton, Ohio, USA, August 2001.  
    • 42 'Design and implementatio of a MRC-C TQE continuous-time filter with on-chip automatic tuning', Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal, Eduardo Alarcón and Alberto Poveda, accepted for the 44th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS01), Dayton, Ohio, USA, August 2001.  
    • 41 'Analytical Considerations in the Design of a Nonlinear State-Dependent Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Controller for a Boost Switching Power Regulator', S. Gomáriz, E. Alarcón, F. Guinjoan and A. Poveda, proceedings of the 9th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation - MCCA'01,  Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2001.  
    • 40 'Study of dI-Noise effects on the Spectral Performance of Current-Steering Segmented Digital-to-Analog Converters', José Luis González and Eduard Alarcón, proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects - SPI'01, Venice, Italy, 2001.  
    • 39 'Diseño e implementación de un filtro MRC-C con sintonía automática on-chip', Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal, Eduard Alarcón y Alberto Poveda, proceedings of the SAAEI'01, Matanzas, CUBA, Sept. 2001.  
    • 38 'Desfasador sintonizable para aplicaciones de sintonía automática', Herminio Martínez, Eva Vidal, Eduard Alarcón y Alberto Poveda, proceedings of the SAAEI'01, Matanzas, CUBA, Sept. 2001.  
    • 37 'Control zonal de un convertidor conmutado elevador mediante un controlador borroso TSK de 1er orden', Spartqacus Gomáriza, Eduard Alarcón, Francesc Guinjoan y Alberto Poveda, proceedings of  the SAAEI'01, Matanzas, CUBA, Sept. 2001.  
    • 36 'Analog current-mode implementation of a one-cycle integrated controller for switching power converters', Eduard Alarcón, Alberto Poveda, Eva Vidal and Herminio Martínez, proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'01, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.  
    • 35 'Sliding-mode control analog integrated circuit for switching DC-DC power converters', Eduard Alarcón, Alfonso Romero, Alberto Poveda, Sonia Porta and Luis Martínez-Salamero, proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'01,  Sydney, Australia, May 2001.  
    • 34 'Clock-jitter induced distortion in high-speed CMOS switched-current segmented digital-to-analog converters', José Luis González and Eduard Alarcón, proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'01, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.  
    • 33 'PWM-sliding global control of a boost switching regulator by means of first-order Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy control', Spartacus Gomáriz, Eduard Alarcón, Francesc Guinjoan, Enric Vidal-Iriarte and Luis Martínez-Salamero, proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'01, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.  
    • 32 'Two-rules-based boundary layer fuzzy controller for DC to DC switching regulators', Spartacus Gomáriz, Eduard Alarcón, Francesc Guinjoan, Enric Vidal-Iriarte and Luis Martínez-Salamero, proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'01, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.  
    • 31 'Mixed-Signal VLSI for Neural and Fuzzy Sequential Processors', Jordi Madrenas, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp, J.Manuel Moreno, Alberto Poveda and Joan Cabestany, proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'00, Gèneve, Switzerland, June 2000. (PDF, 296K)  
    • 30 'Complete Nonlinear Model of the MRC (MOS Resistive Circuit)', Eva Vidal, Sonia Porta, Herminio Martínez, Eduard Alarcón and Alberto Poveda, proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS'00, Gèneve, Switzerland, June 2000.  
    • 29 'Design Space tradeoff in VLSI implementations of Mixed-Signal Neuro-Fuzzy Processors', Jordi Madrenas, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp, J.Manuel Moreno, Alberto Poveda and Joan Cabestany, proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics - AROB'00, Oita, JAPAN, January 26-28, 2000. (PDF, 412K)   
    • 28 'VLSI Design Constraints for Neural and Fuzzy Mixed-Signal Sequential Processors', Jordi Madrenas, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp, J.Manuel Moreno, Alberto Poveda and  Joan Cabestany, proceedings of the XIIII Conference Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 1999 (DCIS99), P. Mallorca, November 1999  

PhD Students 

    • Gerard Villar (PhD research grant, DEE, UPC)
    • Research areas : Power management integrated circuits / Integrated switching power converters
       
    • Tony López (currently in Philips, Aachen, Germany)
    • Research areas : VRM power modules
       
    • Lázaro Marco (co-advised with prof. Dragan Maksimovic, ECE, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
    • Research areas : CMOS implementation of  polar RF PA

 

Reviews 

    • Journals
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – part I
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – part II
    • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing – Kluwer Academic Publishers
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
    • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
    • IEEE Power Electronics Letters
    • Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing  – Kluwer Academic Publishers
    • HAIT journal of science and engineering
       
    • Conferences
    • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS  (Review committee member)
    • IEEE Power Specialists Power Conference - PESC
    • IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference – APEC
    • IEEE EPE-PEMC
    • International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications – NOLTA
    • IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics - ISIE
    • Diseño de circuitos integrados y sistemas - DCIS Conference
    • 'Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial'- SAAEI

Participation in relevant research projects 

Project:   “Energy processing and control integrated circuits for portable systems: towards on-chip supply"
Funding:  C.I.C.Y.T.
Period:   2005-2008                            Reference:            


Project:   “Pre-design of a system-on-chip for a  battery-operated wireless application"
Funding:  Southwing, S. L.
Period:   2003-2004                            Reference:            

Project:   “Power Management for High-Frequency RF Power Amplifiers"
Funding:  DARPA (Principal Investigators: D. Maksimovic and Z. Popovic, ECE, Univesity of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Period:   8/2002-8/2005.                          

 

Project:   “Digitally controlled switchers for low-power, battery operated systems"
Funding:  National Semiconductors (Principal Investigators: D. Maksimovic,  ECE, Univesity of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Period:   2002-2005.                          

 

Project:   ““Digital Current-Mode Control and Quantization Effects"
Funding:  Texas Instruments (Principal Investigators: D. Maksimovic,  ECE, Univesity of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Period:   2002-2005.                          

 

Project:   “Current-mode Microelectronic Design and Implementation of Control Circuits"
Funding:  C.I.C.Y.T.
Period:   2001-2004                            Reference:            TIC2001-2157-C02-01.

Project:   “Bioinspired Analog VLSI system for Image Segmentation”
Funding:  C.I.C.Y.T.
Period:   2001-2004                            Reference:   TIC2001-2183

Project:   "Low-power Mixed-signal VLSI Architectures for Neuro-Fuzzy Applications"
Funding:  C.I.C.Y.T.
Period:   1996-1999                            Reference:   TIC96-1195

Project:   "Tunable VLSI Architectures for Audio and Control Applications"
Funding:  C.I.C.Y.T.
Period:   1997-2000                            Reference:   TIC97-0418-C02-02

Project:   “Modelling, Analysis and Design of Circuits based on Tranconductance Amplifiers and Current-feedback Amplifiers"
Funding:  UPC (Ayudas a grupos Pre-Competitivos)
Period:   1995-1997                            Reference:   PR-9512