{"606020":{"#nid":"606020","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chi Receives IEEE CICC Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETaiyun Chi has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award. Chi was presented with the award at the 2018\u0026nbsp;IEEE CICC,\u0026nbsp;held April 8-11 in San Diego, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA December 2017 Ph.D. graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Chi is now the RFIC design director at Speedlink Technology in Cupertino, California. While at Tech, he was a member of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab, which is led by ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of the award-winning paper is\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;A Bidirectional Lens-Free Digital-Bits-In\/-Out 0.57mm2 Terahertz Pico-Radio in CMOS with 49.3mW Peak Power Consumption Supporting 50cm Internet-of-Things Communication.\u0026rdquo; His coauthors on the paper are Wang, who also holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, and Min-Yu Huang, an ECE Ph.D. student in the GEMS Lab, and Fa Foster Dai and Hechen Wang,\u0026nbsp;both of the Department of ECE at Auburn University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInternet-of-Things (IoT) hold the promise for revolutionizing almost every industry sector in our society. These IoT devices will establish massively parallel and distributed wireless networks that connect almost any physical device, which realizes the ultimate integration of the physical world with computer-based cyber systems and enables automation in numerous areas, such as smart home, connected health, media\/entertainment, manufacturing, and agriculture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper, Chi and his colleagues have demonstrated a bidirectional low-power radio platform for field-deployable wireless sensor network and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Compared with existing low-power radios that mostly operate at MHz-GHz frequencies, their\u0026nbsp;proposed pico-radio utilizes THz carrier (320GHz) and nonlinear transmitter\/receiver architecture, which leads to a radical\u0026nbsp;reduction of antenna\/electronics sizes and power consumption\u0026nbsp;and results in\u0026nbsp;sub-millimeter-scale form factor (\u0026quot;pico-size\u0026quot;)\u0026nbsp;and radio ultra-miniaturization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe THz\u0026nbsp;radio\u0026nbsp;also enables power-performance scalable operation, where the radio power consumption can be dynamically\u0026nbsp;optimized to optimally\u0026nbsp;support\u0026nbsp;the actual link distance and required data rate, achieving\u0026nbsp;an average micro-watt-level\u0026nbsp;power consumption by duty cycle operations. The THz pico-sized radio is demonstrated using commercially available low-cost CMOS 45nm SOI process.\u0026nbsp;This work is the first exploratory study and first working\u0026nbsp;hardware\u0026nbsp;demonstration of IoT devices using THz frequency. It\u0026nbsp;realized\u0026nbsp;an\u0026nbsp;up-to 0.5m link distance between two CMOS\u0026nbsp;THz pico-radios with a 4.4Mb\/s data rate, achieving\u0026nbsp;a world-record communication distance among reported THz radios and a very\u0026nbsp;competitive link performance\u0026nbsp;even\u0026nbsp;among all of the\u0026nbsp;reported MHz-GHz IoT radios.\u0026nbsp;Together with energy harvesting\/storage and in-situ feature-extraction computation, this CMOS THz pico-sized radio opens the door for\u0026nbsp;massively field-deployable\u0026nbsp;IoT devices and\u0026nbsp;ultra-miniaturized\u0026nbsp;wireless sensor nodes that are practically \u0026quot;invisible,\u0026rdquo; which will\u0026nbsp;ultimately\u0026nbsp;support future\u0026nbsp;trillion-scaled IoT networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETaiyun Chi, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Taiyun Chi, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award. 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