AI2025 Lecture01 Inperson
AI2025 Lecture01 Inperson
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Cross section
https://www.techinsights.com/blog/apple-m1-ultra-advanced-packaging
Sensors
Cameras
Audio systems
ADC: Analog-to-Digital Converter
DSP: Digital Signal Processor
Taewook Kang, I. Lee, T. Jang, Y. Kim, H. Ahn, G. Kim, S. Shin, S. Jeong, D. Sylvester,
and D. Blaauw, “A 1.7×4.1×2 mm3 Fully Integrated pH Sensor for Implantable Applications
using Differential Sensing and Drift-Compensation,” in IEEE Symp. VLSI Circuits, 2019.
CDAC
Control
REFET Stirrer
ISFET
board
1380μm
OSC Silicon
1mm
REFET's M6
Porous
https://cores.research.umich.edu/core/lurie-nanofabrication-facility-lnf/
Platinum
Photoresist pattern Photoresist pattern
Passivation layer (Si3N4) Passivation layer (Si3N4) Passivation layer (Si3N4) Pt Passivation layer (Si3N4)
Al Al Al Al Al Al Al Al
Parylene edge
Silicon Silicon Silicon
Coat the sample with 100nm Apply photoresist (PR) Fabrication is done
parylene using PDS 2035 patterning as a sacrificial
equipment layer, and etch parylene
with O2 plasma
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Complete Sensor System
Solution
1mm
Solar Cell
Clear epoxy Spacer ISFET/REFET
Harvester
Proposed pH Sensor
Black epoxy
Radio
Decap
Processor
Power Management IC
Encapsulated pH sensor
30 20
Add acid
Differential ADC Code
25
(ΔpH=2) ▪ The system is mounted on
Differential ADC Code
20 15
15
PGA and verified through the
10
10 measurement
5
5 Slope = 7.86 LSB / pH
0
6
0
5.5 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.5 9.0 0 2 4 6 8 10
pH
Time [min]
*From stand-alone test **From complete system test
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Acoustic Beamformer for Speech
Recognition Front-End
0.5mm
0.45mm
0.18mm
ADC 1
0.9mm
ADC 2
ADC 3
DSP
ADC 4
Outstanding Research
Award Winner
▪ S. Lee, Taewook Kang, J. Bell, M. R. Haghighat, A. J. Martinez, and M. P. Flynn, “An 8-Element Frequency-Selective Acoustic Beamformer and Bitstream Feature Extractor with 60 Mel-Frequency
Energy Features Enabling 95% Speech Recognition Accuracy,” in IEEE Symp. VLSI Circuits, 2020.
▪ S. Lee, Taewook Kang, J. Bell, M. R. Haghighat, A. J. Martinez, and M. P. Flynn, “An 8-Element Frequency-Selective Acoustic Beamformer and Bitstream Feature Extractor,” IEEE JSSC, Aug.
2021.
▪ Taewook Kang, S. Lee, M. R. Haghighat, D. Abramson, and M. P. Flynn, “A 650µW 4-channel 83dBA-SNDR Speech Recognition Front-End with Adaptive Beamforming and Feature Extraction,” in
IEEE CICC, Apr. 2021.
▪ Taewook Kang, S. Lee, M. R. Haghighat, D. Abramson, and M. P. Flynn, “A 650µW 4-channel 83dBA-SNDR Speech Recognition Front-End with Adaptive Beamforming and Feature Extraction,”
IEEE SSCL, Sep. 2021.
▪ Taewook Kang*, S. Lee*, S. Song, M. R. Haghighat, and M. P. Flynn, “A Multi-mode 157μW 4-channel 80dBA-SNDR Speech Recognition Frontend with Self-DOA Correction Adaptive Beamformer,”
in IEEE ISSCC, Feb. 2022.
▪ Taewook Kang, S. Lee, S. Song, M. R. Haghighat, and M. P. Flynn, “A Multimode 157 μ W 4-Channel 80 dBA-SNDR Speech Recognition Frontend With Direction-of-Arrival Correction Adaptive
Beamformer,” IEEE JSSC, 2024.
ADC 1
0.9mm
ADC 2
ADC 3
DSP
ADC 4
Smart Speaker
ADC
Feature
Acoustic
Extractor
Beamformer
DSP Classifier
Noise ADC
Freq.
MIC
Time
LDO
Single
Input
AVDD (1V)
DVDD (0.7V) Single-Differential 4ch Single-Differential
40 40 40
20 20 20
10 10 10
BF: Beamforming
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High-performance ADC
▪ Seungheun Song, Taewook Kang, Seungjong Lee, and Michael P. Flynn, "A 150-
MS/s Fully Dynamic SAR-Assisted Pipeline ADC Using a Floating Ring Amplifier
and Gain-Enhancing Miller Negative-C," IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits
(VLSI-Symp), Jun. 2023.
▪ Seungjong Lee, Taewook Kang, Seungheun Song, Kyumin Kwon, and Michael P.
Flynn, "An 81.6 dB SNDR 15.625 MHz BW 3rd Order CT SDM with a True Time-
Interleaving Noise-Shaping Quantizer," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
(JSSC), Dec. 2022.
▪ Seungjong Lee, Taewook Kang, Seungheun Song, Kyumin Kwon, and Michael
Flynn, “An 81.6dB SNDR 15.625MHz BW 3rd Order CT SDM with a True TI NS
Quantizer,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Symp), Jun. 2022.
• BW = 15.6MHz
• SNDR = 81.6dB
• Power = 6.4mW
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Kang Research Lab – Members since 2025.
▪ Ph.D. Students
▪ Chanhong Jeon
▪ M.S. Students
▪ Jeongmin Lee
▪ Dongwhan So
▪ Huijeong Woo
▪ Undergrad. Interns
▪ Seojin Kim / Seoyoon Chae / Sunwoo Lim / Jaehyun Kim / Yejin Hwang
▪ Collaborator
▪ Michael P. Flynn: Professor, University of Michigan, MI
▪ Seungjong Lee: ADC designer, AMD, San Jose, CA.
▪ Seungheun Song: ADC designer, Apple, Cupertino, CA.
How much?
Necessary Skills
▪ Analog Circuit
▪ Digital Circuit
▪ Python Coding
▪ FPGA
▪ Machine-Learning
+Fabrication (MEMS microphone)
Acknowledgments
Prof. Woowhan Jung, DSLAB, Hanyang Univ.
Others
PyTorch
Tensorflow
▪ Access to terminal
▪ Windows
▪ 작업표시줄 검색 (start→search) → Anaconda Powershell Prompt
▪ Mac
▪ Use terminal
https://www.anaconda.com/download
conda --version
conda --version
conda update conda
conda envlist
▪ https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
▪ conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia