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Sah: Curriculum Vitae
SUMAN PRASAD SAH
[email protected]
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~ssah
509-432-9537 (Cell)
1. EDUCATION
Aug 2009-May 2014 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Major: Microelectronics, Minor: Computer
Engineering, at Washington State University (WSU). GPA: 4.00/4.00,
Advisor: Dr. Deukhyoun Heo.
Thesis: Wideband energy efficient silicon beamforming receivers for satellite
and mm-wave applications.
Aug 2004-Aug 2009 M.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Major: Microelectronics and VLSI Design, at
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.
Advisor: Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti
Thesis: Design of a small area wireless network for biomedical signal
acquisition.
Aug 2004-Aug 2009 B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Kharagpur, India. (Honors)
July 2004
Class XII. CBSE. (Distinction)
2. RESEARCH INTERESTS
● mm-wave Low-Power Circuit Design
● Self-Test Aware RF Circuit Design
● Beamformer Design
● High Quality Passives and Packages for mm-wave and Beyond
3. S ELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
04/2014-Present
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Design of RF front-end for cable applications.
02/2012-06/2012
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BROADCOM, Irvine, CA
RFDVT Intern, Mobile and Wireless Group, Intern
On-wafer testing and verification of high frequency analog circuits (upto 70 GHz).
Design of tests for complex radio systems.
08/2009-05/2014
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MAXLINEAR, Carlsbad, CA
STAFF RF Design Engineer
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, Pullman, WA
Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal Application Group (ARMAG),
Research Assistant
Ultra low power low noise sub-harmonic injection locked V-band beamforming receiver for high
data rate WiGig applications (involved design of VCO, mixer, LNA and 4-to-1 combiner).
Design and study of VCO and QVCO architectures with load independent frequency of oscillation
with special emphasis on low power consumption.
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Design of mm-wave (55 GHz) injection locked low power VCO for on-chip wireless
network on chip (WiNOC).
Design of a 10 mW 0.7-1 GHz high spectral purity (<-84 dBc/Hz) fast locking PLL in 0.18-um
CMOS process.
Low Noise Wideband (12-40 GHz) MMIC for Multi-band beamformer receiver applications.
Design of high accuracy (<10 degree error) passive quadrature generator for beamformer
applications for 12-40 GHz band.
Authored or co-authored 25+ professional papers in journals and conferences.
Served as a reviewer for MTT IMS, ISCAS, MWSCAS, Transactions on Circuits And
Systems-I: Regular Papers, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Transactions on
Terahertz Science and Technology, and several other IEEE journals and conferences.
4. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journals
[J1]
S. P. Sah, P. Agarwal, and D. Heo, "On the Effects of Mismatch on Quadrature Accuracy in
Tapped Capacitor Load Independent Quadrature Oscillators", IEEE Trans. Circuits and
Systems (TCAS-I), vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1409-1415, Aug. 2013.
[J2]
S. P. Sah, X. Yu and D. Heo, "Design and Analysis of an Ultra-Wideband 15-35 GHz
Quadrature Phase-Shifter with Inductive Loading", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory & Tech.,
vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 3024-3033, Aug. 2013. (Most downloaded article in TMTT for the
month of Aug. 2013)
[J3]
X. Yu, S. P. Sah, H. Rashtian, S. Mirabassi, D. Heo and P. P. Pande, “A 1.2-pJ/bit 16-Gb/s
60-GHz OOK Transmitter in 65-nm CMOS for Wireless Network-on-Chip,” IEEE Trans.
Microwave Theory and Tech. (TMTT). Early Access, Sept. 2014.
[J4]
P. Liu, S. P. Sah, X. Yu, J. Jung, P. Upadhyaya, T. N. Nguyen, and D. Heo, "Design
Techniques for Load Independent Direct Bulk-Coupled Low Power QVCO", IEEE Trans.
Microwave Theory & Tech., vol. 68, no. 10, Oct. 2013.
[J5]
K. Chang, S. Deb, A. Ganguly, X. Yu, S. P. Sah, P. Pande, B. Belzer, D. Heo, “Performance
Evaluation and Design Trade-Offs for Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures”, ACM
Journal of Emerging Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, Aug. 2012.
[J6]
S. Deb, K. Chang, A. Ganguly, X. Yu, S. P. Sah, P. Pande, B. Belzer, D. Heo, “Network-onchip Architectures with Millimeter-wave Wireless Interconnects”, IEEE Trans. on
Computers, no. 99, Sept, 2012.
Conference Publications
[C1] S. P. Sah, and D. Heo, “A Low Power K- and Ka-band Receiver for Beamforming
Applications,” in Proc. European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2014.
[C2] S. P. Sah, Y. You, P. Agarwal, and D. Heo, “A 8-40 GHz, 8 mW LNA with 27 dB Peak Gain
and 5.2 dB NF for Multiband Applications,” in Proc. European Microwave Integrated
Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2014.
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[C3] S. P. Sah, P. Agarwal, and D. Heo, “A Low Power 8th Sub-Harmonic Injection Locked
Receiver for mm-Wave Beamforming Applications,” in Proc. of RFIC 2014.
[C4] S. P. Sah and D. Heo, “An 8th Sub-Harmonic Injection Locked V-band VCO for Low Power
LO Routing in mm-Wave Beamformers,” in Proc. of RFIC 2014.
[C5] S. P. Sah, S. Mirabbasi and D. Heo, "An Inductively Gm Enhanced 34 GHz VCO with Gain
Linearization and Switched Transformer Tuning", IEEE MTT Intl. Microwave Symposium
2014.
[C6] S. P. Sah and D. Heo, " A 12 GHz IF Bandwidth Low Power 5−17 GHz V-band Positive
Transformer-Feedback Down-Conversion Mixer,” IEEE MTT Intl. Microwave Symposium
2014.
[C7] P. Agarwal, J. Baylon, S. P. Sah, D. Majumdar, D. Heo and C. Schlegel, " A 330 µW, Gmboosted VCO with -205 dB FoMT and 35 % Tuning Range Using Class-B Biasing,” IEEE
MTT Intl. Microwave Symposium 2014.
[C8] P. Agarwal, S. P. Sah, and D. Heo, " A 4.8 mW, 4.4 dB NF, Wideband LNA Using Positively
Coupled Transformer for V-band Applications,” IEEE MTT Intl. Microwave Symposium 2014.
[C9] S. P. Sah and D. Heo, Presentation at the 2014 International Solid-State Circuits Conference
(ISSCC) Student Research Preview session (Student work in progress), Feb. 2014
[C10] S. P. Sah and D. Heo, "A Low Power K− and Ka−band Receiver for Beamforming
Applications", In Proc. of Semiconductor Research Corporation TECHCON 2013, Sept. 2013.
[C11] S. P. Sah, X. Yu, P. Agarwal, H. Rashtian, P. P. Pande, D. Heo and S. Mirabbasi, "A V-band
Wide Locking Range Injection Locked CMOS VCO for Wireless Network-on-Chip Receiver
", in Proceedings of IEEE MTT Intl. Microwave Symposium 2013, June 2013
[C12] S. P. Sah, S. Zhu, T. N. Nguyen, X. Yu and D. Heo, "A 12-40 GHz Low Phase Variation
Highly Linear BiCMOS Variable Gain Amplifier ", in Proceedings of the IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2013, pp. 1119-1122, 19-23, May 2013.
[C13] S. P. Sah and D. Heo, "An Ultra-Wideband 15-35 GHz Phase-Shifter for Beamforming
Applications ", in Proceedings of The European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference
(EuMIC), 2013.
[C14] Y. You, S. Zhu, K. F. Warnick, S. P. Sah, and D. Heo, "A Low Phase Error X-band EightChannel SiGe PIN Diode Phased Array Receiver," in Proceedings of The European
Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2013.
[C15] S. Zhu, Y. You, K. F. Warnick, S. P. Sah and D. Heo, "An 8-channel Ku Band Transmitter
Beamformer with Low Gain/Phase Imbalance between Channels", in Proceedings of
European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2013.
[C16] P. Agarwal, S. P. Sah, Deukhyoun Heo, "A Novel Pull-Down Network for 0.75-1 GHz
ZigBee PLL with 6.7dB Improvement in Reference Spur", in Proceedings of Asia Pacific
Microwave Conference (APMC) 2013.
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[C17] P. Liu, S. P. Sah, J. Jung, P. Upadhyaya, D. Heo, "Load Independent Bulk-Coupled Low
Power Quadrature LC VCO", in Proceedings of IEEE MTT International Microwave
Symposium 2012, Montreal, June 2012
[C18] A. O. Mikul, S. Zhu, P. Sun, Y. You, S. P. Sah, D. Heo, "Low Phase Imbalance Broadband
Attenuator based on SiGe PIN Diode", in Proceedings of IEEE MTT International Microwave
Symposium 2012, Montreal, June 2012
[C19] X. Yu, S. P. Sah, S. Deb, P. P. Pande, B. Belzer, D. Heo, “A Wideband Body-Enabled
Millimeter-Wave Transceiver for Wireless Network-on-Chip” in Proceedings of IEEE Intl.
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems(MWSCAS) 2011, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2011.
[C20] X. Yu, S. P. Sah, D. Heo, “A 750 MHz – 1 GHz Low-Power Transceiver for Wireless Sensor
Applications”, in Proceedings of CSSCIT 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
[C21] X. Yu, S. P. Sah, B. Belzer, D. Heo, “Performance evaluation and receiver front-end design
for on-chip millimeter-wave wireless interconnect.” in Proceedings of Green Computing
Conference 2010: 555-560.
[C22] J. Asmussen, S. P. Sah, X. Yu, D. Heo, “A wideband body biased low-noise amplifier,” 2010
International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems (ICGCS), pp.687-690, 21-23 June
2010
[C23] M. Abid, F. Berry, F. Dias, A. Bartoli, S. P. Sah, “Implementation of Image Registration
Algorithm on a Heterogeneous Platform”, ICDSC 2007
Submitted Publications
[J7]
S. P. Sah, P. Agarwal and D. Heo, “An 8th Sub-Harmonic Injection Locked VCO and PhaseShifter for Low-Power LO Distribution in mm-Wave Beamformers,” IEEE Trans. Microwave
Theory & Tech. (TMTT). Submitted: Sept 2014.
5. COMPUTER SKILLS
LANGUAGES:
Python, C, Verilog A & D, Matlab
SOFTWARE:
Cadence, Synopsys, ASITIC, SPICE, ADS, Momentum, MATLAB, TI’s CCS,
CppSim, Xilinx, Spectre RF, MMSIM
6. HARDWARE EXPERIENCE
Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer,
Oscilloscope, FPGA, Microcontroller
Phase
Noise
Analyzer,
Digital Sampling
7. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
● Best paper in session, SRC Techcon, Sept, 2014.
● Best Student Poster award, NSF Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC)
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winter meeting, Feb, 2014.
● Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA-WSU) travel grant to present at European
Microwave Week, Germany, 2013.
● Best Student Poster award, NSF Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC)
winter meeting, Feb, 2013.
● Best Student Poster award, NSF Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC)
winter meeting, Feb, 2012.
● Selected to compete at the Student Paper Competition at Intl. Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2012.
● Won French Govt. Scholarship for short-term study in France (2007)
● 0.1% merit certificate in Chemistry for being among the top 0.1% students in the test conducted
by Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
● Top 0.3% among 200,000 students in IIT-JEE, 2004.
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