Prof. Ping Gui

Ping Gui, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750338, Dallas, TX
75275-0338 (Mail)
6251 Airline Rd. #308, Dallas, TX
75205 (Courier)

Email: pgui@lyle.smu.edu
Voice: (214) 768-1733
Fax:(214) 768-3573
Office: Jerry Junkins #319
 
 
 
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analog, mixed-signal, RF/mmwave, and digital Integrated Circuits (IC) design for a variety of applications including high-speed wireless and wireline communications using mmwave, low-power biomedical circuits, mmwave automotive RADARs, high-speed ADC/DACs, circuits and systems for extreme and harsh environments, and hardware security.

 
 
 
 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. P. Gui, (Invited) "Analog-to-digital converters and time-to-digital converters for high-energy physics experiments," Journal of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2023.

  2. X. Wen, T. Fu and P. Gui, "1.1GS/s Single-Channel Pipelined-SAR ADC with Adaptive Inter-stage Redundancy," Proceedings of IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) ,2023.

  3. X. Wang and P. Gui, "A Hybrid Transmitter with Voltage-Mode SST Pre-Emphasis and Current-Mode Transmitter Equalization Capable of Operating at 77 K in DUNE," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science , doi: 10.1109/TNS.2023.3239055.

  4. L. Fang and P. Gui, "A Low-Noise Low-Power Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier with Robust Technique for Mitigating Chopping Ripples"", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1800-1811, June 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3151106.

  5. L. Fang, X. Wen, T. Fu, G. Wang, S. Miryala, T. Liu and P. Gui, "A 2.56 GS/s 12-bit 8x-Interleaved ADC with 156.6 dB FoMs in 65 nm CMOS", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Feb. 2022

  6. L. Fang, T. Fu, X. Wen, and P. Gui, "A 12b 1GS/s 61dB SNDR pipelined-SAR ADC with Inverter-based Residual Amplifier and Tunable Harmonic-injecting Cross-coupled-pair for Distortion Cancellation Achieving 6.3fJ/conv-step", IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1800-1811, June 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3151106.

  7. L. Fang, X. Wen, T. Fu, and P. Gui, "A 12-Bit 1 GS/s RF Sampling Pipeline-SAR ADC with Harmonic Injecting Cross-Coupled Pair Achieving 7.5 fj/conv-step", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers (TCAS-I), vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 3225-3236, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2022.3169508.

  8. W. Chen, C. Yang, L. Chen and P. Gui, "A 2MHz 4–48V VIN Flying-Capacitor Based Floating-Ground GaN DC-DC Converter with Real-Time Inductor Peak-Current Detection and 6μs Load Transient Response", Proceedings of IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), 2022, selected as Best Student Paper finalist

  9. X. Wen, T. Fu, J. Liu, R. Hua, M.A. Thornton and P. Gui, "Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus Transceiver with Authentication Support", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposiums of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2022.

  10. C. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Fan, and P. Gui, "Design and Characterization of a 10MHz GaN Gate Driver Using On-Chip Feed-Forward Gaussian Switching Regulation for EMI Reduction", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 56, no. 11 (2021): 3521-3532. 2021.

  11. L. Fang, X. Wen, T. Fu, G. Wang, S. Miryala, T. Liu and P. Gui, "A 2.56 GS/s 12-bit 8x-Interleaved ADC with 156.6 dB FoMs in 65 nm CMOS", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2021.

  12. C. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Fan, and P. Gui, "A General-Regression-Neural-Network Based 5V-to-48V Three-Level Buck/Boost Power Converters with 40dB PSRR 90%-Efficiency for SSD Power Loss Protection", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021.

  13. L. Fang, T. Fu, X. Wen, and P. Gui, "A 1GS/s 82dB Peak-SFDR 12b Single-Channel Pipe-SAR ADC with Harmonic-Injecting Cross-Coupled-Pair and Fast N-replica Bootstrap Switch Achieving 7.5fj/conv-step" IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021.

  14. D. Pan, Z. Duan, B. Wen, Y. Wang, D.Huang, L.Sun, P. Gui, and L. Cheng, "A 76-81 GHz Four-Channel Digitally Controlled CMOS Receiver for Automotive Radars", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers (TCAS-I), 2021.

  15. C. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Fan, W. Da, and P. Gui, “A 10MHz 40V VIN Slope-Reconfigurable Gaussian Gate Driven GaN DC-DC Converter with 49.1dB Conducted EMI Noise Reduction at 100MHz", IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), 2020.

  16. L. Fang and P. Gui, "A 13nV/Hz 4.5uW Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier with Robust Ripple Reduction and Input Impedance Boosting Techniques", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) , Boston, MA, 2020.

  17. X. Wang, and P. Gui, "A Hybrid Line Driver with Voltage-Mode SST Pre-Emphasis and Current-Mode Equalization", Invited, IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020.

  18. X. Wang, and P. Gui, "A Hybrid Transmitter with Voltage-Mode SST Pre-Emphasis and Current-Mode Transmitter Equalization Capable of Operating at 77 K in DUNE", under review, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers (TCAS-I).

  19. C. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Fan, and P. Gui, "Design and Characterization of a 10MHz GaN Gate Driver Using On-Chip Gaussian Switching Regulation for EMI Reduction", under review IEEE Journal of Solid-State-Circuits (JSSC).

  20. X. Wang, T. Liu, S. Guo, M. Thornton and P. Gui, "A 2.56 Gbps Serial Wireline Transceiver that Supports an Auxiliary Channel in 65 nm CMOS," IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI) , Vol. 28, Iss. 1, 2019.

  21. D. Pan, Z. Duan, L. Sun, S. Guo, L. Cheng, and P. Gui, "A 76-81 GHz CMOS Pa with 16-dBm PSAT and 30-dB Amplitude Control for MIMO Automotive Radars," proceedings of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) , Krakow, Poland, Sept. 23-26, 2019.

  22. D. Pan, Z. Duan, S. Chakraborty, L. Sun, and P. Gui, "A 60-90 GHz CMOS Double-Neutralized LNA Technology with 6.3 dB NF and -10 dBm P-1dB," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters(MWCL) , Vol. 29, Iss. 7, 2019.

  23. G. Wang, G. K. Sun, Q. Zhang, S. Elahmadi, and P. Gui, "A 43.6-dB SNDR 1-GS/s 3.2-mW SAR ADC with Background Calibrated Fine and Coarse Comparators in 28 nm CMOS", IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI), Vol. 27, Iss. 9, 2019, 10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2912887.

  24. K. Sun, G. Wang, Q. Zhang, S. Elahmadi, and P. Gui, "A 56 GS/s 8 bit time-interleaved ADC with ENOB and BW enhancement techniques in 28 nm CMOS”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 54, No. 3, 2019.

  25. Pan, D., Daun, Z., Sun, L., Gui, P, "Compact and high-linearity 77 GHz CMOS receiver front-end for automotive radar”, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, Vol. 13, Iss. 8, 2019.

  26. C. Yang and P. Gui, "85-110 GHz CMOS Magnetic-free Nonreciprocal Components for Full-duplex Transceivers”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 54, Iss. 2, 2019.

  27. L. Fang and P. Gui, "A 14nV/Hz 14uW Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier with Dynamic Offset Zeroing (DOZ) Technique for Ripple Reduction”, proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin,TX, 2019.

  28. S. Guo, P. Gui, T. Liu, T. Zhang, T. Xi, G. Wu, Y. Fan, and M. Morgan, "A Low-Voltage Low-Phase-Noise 25-GHz Two-Tank Transformer-Feedback VCO”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Regular Papers, Vol. 65, Iss. 10, 2018.

  29. X. Wang, T. Liu, S. Gui, M. Thornton, and P. Gui, "A 2.56 Gbps Asynchronous Serial Transceiver with Embedded 80 Mbps Secondary Data Transmission Capability in 65nm CMOS”, Proceedings of IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), Philadelphia 2018.

  30. K. Sun, G. Wang, Q. Zhang, S. Elahmadi, and P. Gui, "A 31.5-GHz BW 6.4-b ENOB 56-GS/s ADC in 28nm CMOS for 224-Gb/s DP-16QAM Coherent Receivers”, Proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, 2018.

  31. C. Yang and P. Gui, "On-chip 100GHz full-duplex circulator/duplexer design based on nonreciprocal transmission line", presented in Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS) 2018.

  32. Q. KHASAWNEH, J. DWORAK, P.GUI, B. WILLIAMS, A.ELLIOTT, and A. MUTHAIAH, "Simple Real-Time Monitoring of Test Fallout Data to Quickly Identify Tester and Yield Issues in a Multi-Site Environment”, Proceedings of IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, San Francisco, 2018.

  33. G. Wang, K. Sun, Q. Zhang, S. Elahmadi, and P. Gui, "A 43.6-dB SNDR 1-GS/s Single-Channel SAR ADC using Coarse and Fine Comparators with Background Comparator Offset Calibration”, Proceedings of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Leuven, Belgium, 2017.

  34. T. Liu, X. Wang, R. Wang, G. Wu, T. Zhang and P. Gui, "A Temperature Compensated Triple-Path PLL with KVCO Non-Linearity Desensitization Capable of Operating at 77 K," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), Vol. 64, Iss. 11, 2017.

  35. C. Yang and P. Gui, "85-110 GHz CMOS Nonreciprocal Transmission Line with 45 dB Isolation for Wideband Tunable Transceivers,” Proceedings of IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), Hawaii, 2017 (selected as Best Student Paper finalist).