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Soumyajit Mandal
Soumyajit Mandal
Graduate Student

Soumyajit Mandal graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in June 2002. He finished his S.M. in 2004 at MIT and is currently working on his PhD. His research interests include low power analog circuit design, RF and microwave circuit and component design, non-linear dynamics and chaos. He is currently working on an RF cochlea and on wireless telemetry for brain-machine interfaces.

Publications

  • Journals

    1. S. Mandal and R. Sarpeshkar, Low Power CMOS Rectifier Design for RFID Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, June 2007
    2. S. Mandal and S. Banerjee, Analysis and CMOS Implementation Of A Chaos-based Communication System, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, September 2004
    3. M. F. Davis, A. Sutono, S.-W. Yoon, S. Mandal, N. Bushyager, C.-H. Lee, K. Lim, S. Pinel, M. Maeng, A. Obatoyinbo, S. Chakraborty, J. Laskar, E. M. Tentzeris, T. Nonaka and R. R. Tummala, Integrated RF Architectures in Fully Organic SOP Technology, IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, May 2002
  • Conferences

    1. S.Mandal, A. Kumar, R. Mukhopadhyay, A. Makharia and S. N. Mishra, CMOS RF Front End for 120-600 MHz receivers, ASPDAC-VLSI, Bangalore, India, January 2002
    2. S. Pinel, S. Chakraborty, S. Mandal, H. Liang, K. Lim, M. Roellig, R. Kunze, R. Tummala, M. Tentzeris and J. Laskar, 3D Integrated LTCC Mudule using uBGA Technology for Compact C-band RF Module, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Symposium, Seattle, June 2002
    3. S. Pinel, S. Chakraborty, S. Venkataraman, S. Mandal, S. Nuttinck, J. Bhattacharjee, D. Mukherjee and J. Laskar, Development of SOI based MMICs for Wireless LAN applications, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Symposium, Seattle, June 2002
    4. M. F. Davis, S.-W. Yoon, S. Mandal, M. Maeng, K. Lim, S. Pinel, A. Sutono, J. Laskar, M. Tentzeris, T. Nonaka, V. Sundaram, F. Liu and R. Tummala, RF-Microwave Multi-band Design Solutions for Multilayer Organic System on Package Integrated Passives, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Symposium, Seattle, June 2002
    5. S. Mandal and S. Banerjee, A Chaos-based Spread Spectrum Communication System, National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Kharagpur, India, December 2003
    6. S. Mandal and S. Banerjee, An Integrated CMOS Chaos Generator, National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Kharagpur, India, December 2003 (Best student paper award)
    7. S. Zhak, S. Mandal and R. Sarpeshkar, A Proposal for an RF Cochlea, Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Delhi, India, December 2004 (Invited paper)
    8. S. Mandal, S. Zhak and R. Sarpeshkar, Circuits for an RF Cochlea, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, May 2006
    9. S. Mandal, S. K. Arfin and R. Sarpeshkar, Fast Start-up CMOS Current References, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, May 2006
    10. B. Kim, S. Mandal and R. Sarpeshkar, Power-Aaptive Operational Amplifier with Positive-Feedback Self Biasing, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, May 2006
    11. R. Sarpeshkar, W. Wattanapanitch, B. I. Rapoport, S. K. Arfin, M. W. Baker, S. Mandal, M. Fee, S. Musallam and R. A. Andersen, Low-Power Circuits for Brain-Machine Interfaces, To be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, May 2007
  • Other

    1. S.Mandal, A. Kumar, R. Mukhopadhyay, A. Makharia and S. N. Mishra, Slides of "CMOS RF Front End for 120-600 MHz receivers" (design contest entry), ASPDAC-VLSI, Bangalore, India, January 2002
  • Theses

    1. B.Tech Thesis: Spread Spectrum Communications using Chaotic Signals, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, May 2002
    2. M.S. Thesis: Far Field RF Power Extraction Circuits and Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, June 2004

    Favorite Chip

    A bidirectional RF cochlea fabricated in 0.13um CMOS technology.


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