Research
Interests
- CMOS data conversion circuit design
- Analog, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuit design
for communications, image acquisition and (bio)-medical applications
Education
- 2002, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Stanford
University, California
- 2001, M.S. in Management Science and Engineering - Stanford
University, California
- 1997, M.S. in Electrical Engineering - Catholic
University Leuven,
Belgium (Summa Cum
Laude)
Publications
- "A fully integrated RF Front-end with independent Rx/Tx matching and +20dBm output power for WLAN applications;
R. Chang et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2007 (co-author).
- "An 802.11a/b/g SoC for embedded WLAN applications;
L. Nathawad et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2006 (co-author).
- "Wideband data transmission over WLAN,"
K. Vleugels, Analog Circuit Design, Springer 2005.
- "Wideband data transmission over WLAN,"
K. Vleugels, Proceedings 14th Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD), Apr. 2005.
- "An 800mW 10Gb Ethernet Transceiver in 0.13um CMOS,"
S. Sidiropoulos et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2004 (co-author).
- "Broadband Oversampling Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Digital Communications,"
K. Vleugels, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Feb. 2002.
- "A 2.5-V Sigma-Delta Modulator for
Broadband Communications Applications," K. Vleugels et al., IEEE J.
Solid-State Circuits, Dec. 2001.
- "A 2.5-V Broadband Multi-Bit Sigma-Delta
Modulator with 95 dB Dynamic Range,"
K. Vleugels et al., ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 50-51, Feb. 2001.
- "Total Dose behavior of submicron and deep
submicron CMOS technologies," G. Anelli et al., Proceedings of the third workshop on electronics for LHC experiments,
London, September 1997. (co-author)
- "Layout techniques to enhance the radiation
tolerance of standard CMOS technologies demonstrated on a pixel readout
chip," W. Snoeys et al., Nuclear
Instruments and Methods. (co-author)
- "Design of a 0.5 mm CMOS front end for a pixel detector," K. Vleugels,
Master Thesis, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, 1997.
Classes
- EE315,
VLSI Data Conversion Circuits (co-taught with Professor Wooley)
Other Information
- Employment history:
- Dec. 2004-present, Chief Architect and Co-founder, H-Stream Wireless, Inc.
- 2003-2004, Member of Technical Staff, Atheros Communications, Inc.
- 2001 2003, Member of Technical Staff, Aeluros, Inc.
- Summer 1998, Summer Intern, Texas Instruments
Inc.
- Summer 1996, Summer Intern, CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory)
- Honors & Awards: Belgian American Educational
Foundation Fellow (1997), Franqui Foundation Fellow (1997)
- Consulting assistant professor since 2002; advisor to
graduate students in the mixed-signal IC group of Prof. Wooley, co-teacher
for EE315 (Spring 2001-Spring 2004)
- Member of IEEE since 1997
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