WORKSHOP — Advances in Analog & Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
We are pleased to announce the 1st Workshop between UNINOVA Institute and the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (SKL-AMSV), University of Macau, dedicated to Advances in Analog & Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits.
Organized by NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of Macau, this first workshop aims to foster technical exchange, knowledge sharing and networking between researchers, academics and professionals, strengthening collaboration in the field of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The workshop is powered by POEMS – Portuguese Competence Center in Semiconductors and co-sponsored by IEEE Portugal, the IEEE CAS-CTSoC-BTS and SSCS Portuguese Chapters, the Centre for Technology and Systems (CTS), and NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT).
A first step towards stronger collaboration, knowledge exchange and new opportunities in semiconductor research and innovation.
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- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
- Caparica, Lisboa
- Portugal 2829-516
- Building: UNINOVA
- Room Number: Auditorium
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- Co-sponsored by Portuguese Competence Centre in Semiconductors (POEMS), NOVA School of Science and Technology
- Starts 14 September 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- Ends 17 September 2026 08:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Sai-Weng Sin of Institute of Microelectronics at the University of Macau
The Design of High-Linearity High-Resolution Oversampling Incremental ADCs for Sensor Applications
Biography:
Sai-Weng Sin is currently a Professor and the Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, and Deputy Director (Academic) of the Institute of Microelectronics at the University of Macau. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Data Converters Subcommittee at IEEE CICC, a TPC member of the VLSI Conference, A-SSCC, and TPC Co-Chair of ICTA Conference. He also serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief (Digital Communications) of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II). He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) for 2024-2025.
Nuno Paulino of School of Science and Technology at NOVA (NOVA FCT)
A 3rd-order MASH Switched-Capacitor SDM using Ultra-Incomplete Settling employing an Area Reduction Technique
Biography:
Nuno Paulino was born in Beja, Portugal, in 1969. He graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, in 1992, and received the M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree from the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA) in 2008. He has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE), School of Science and Technology at NOVA (NOVA FCT), since 1999. Since 1999, he has also been a Senior Researcher with the Centre of Technology and Systems, UNINOVA. In 2003, he co-founded ACACIA Semiconductor, a Portuguese engineering company specialized in highperformance data converter and analog front-end products, acquired by S3 in 2007. From 1996 to 1999, he was an Analog Design Engineer with Rockwell Semiconductor, USA.
Mingqiang Guo of Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau
Advancements in Dynamic Time-varying Amplifier and Time-Domain Quantization: Voltage/Time Domain Combined ADC Research
Biography:
Mingqiang Guo is currently an Assistant Professor and PhD Supervisor at the Institute of Microelectronics / State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau. In recent years, as the principal investigator, he has led 4 national and provincial-ministerial research projects, 3 industry-sponsored collaborative projects, and 4 university-level research projects. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed IEEE international papers, including 15 journal papers in JSSC and TCAS-I, as well as 18 conference papers at ISSCC, VLSI, CICC, ESSCIRC and ASSCC.
Hugo Serra of School of Science and Technology at NOVA (NOVA FCT)
Beyond the ADC: Integrated Auxiliary Circuits for a Fully Integrated Mixed-Signal SoC
Biography:
Hugo Serra obtained the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in 2012 and 2017, respectively, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCT), Portugal. Between 2013 and 2018, he was a researcher at the Centre for Technology and Systems (CTS) UNINOVA of FCT NOVA. Between January 2019 and October 2021, he was an auxiliary researcher of the Radio Systems group at the Institute of Telecommunications. From November 2021 to November 2024, he was working as a RF design engineer at Koala Tech. Since September 2022 he has been an assistant professor at NOVA FCT. His research interests include switched-capacitor filter, analog-to-digital converters and evolutionary algorithms.
Minglei Zhang of Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau
My Research Journey on Time-Domain ADCs (remote presentation)
Biography:
Minglei Zhang received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2017. From 2014 to 2017, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau, Macau, China. His research interests include high-speed and energy-efficient data converters, smart sensors, and edge computing. Dr. Zhang currently serves as a TPC Member for IEEE CICC and ICTA Conferences.
Mariana Barrosinho of PhD student at NOVA FCT
Design of High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters combining Time-and-Frequency Interleaving
Biography:
Mariana Barrosinho is a PhD student at NOVA FCT, where she is pursuing her research on “Design of High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters combining Time-and-Frequency Interleaving”. She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Micro and Nanotechnologies Engineering from NOVA FCT, where her master’s thesis, “Design and Implementation of a Programmable LDO Circuit using Oxide TFT Technology” was awarded the 3rd Prize by the Ordem dos Engenheiros. Her research interests encompass the design, simulation, and implementation of high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits. She has also contributed to European and national research efforts in power management circuit during her previous work on flexible circuits.
Hugo Viana of PhD student at NOVA FCT
A C-2C Charge-Sharing SAR Quantization for Zoom ADCs
Biography:
Hugo Viana is a Micro and Nanotechnology Engineer, graduated from NOVA School of Science and Technology in January 2022. His master's thesis focused on active inductors implemented using thin-film transistor technology and their integration into oscillator circuits. In 2022, he joined UNINOVA-CTS as a Research Fellow, working in collaboration with CENIMAT on national and European projects. Since 2024, he has been enrolled in the PhD program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NOVA University of Lisbon. His doctoral research focuses on the design and experimental evaluation of an Incremental-Zoom Analog-toDigital Converter for Internet-of-Things applications, developed using deep-nanoscale Bulk CMOS (28-nm) and oxide thin-film transistor technologies
Man-Kay Law of Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau
High efficiency burst power delivery in Miniaturized IoT Systems
Biography:
Man-Kay Law (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor with the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, as well as the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau, Macau, China. His research interests are in the development of ultra-low-power CMOS sensing/readout circuits and energy harvesting solutions, as well as hardware security techniques for smart Internet of Things (IoT) applications. He serves as a Technical Committee Member for IEEE CAS Committee on Sensory Systems as well as Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CASS and IEEE SSCS. He was a TPC Member of IEEE ISSCC and also the ISSCC Far-East Chair.
Tiago Costa of Delft University of Technology
Circuit Techniques for Power-Efficient Brain Interfaces
Biography:
Tiago L. Costa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Microelectronics at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he leads the Therapeutic Ultrasound Microsystems Lab. Dr. Costa received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2015, after which he joined Columbia University, NY, as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on ultrasound phased arrays for noninvasive neural stimulation and wireless power transfer for implantable medical devices. Since moving to TU Delft in 2019, his group has been advancing programmable ultrasound microsystems that incorporate integrated circuits and microfabricated materials to develop innovative ultrasound Technologies for therapeutic applications.
Jun Yin of State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI, University of Macau
Low-Jitter mm-Wave Frequency Generation
Biography:
Jun Yin received the B.Sc. (2004) and the M.Sc. (2007) degrees in Microelectronics from Peking University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. (2013) degree in ECE from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China. He is currently an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Analog and MixedSignal VLSI, University of Macau, Macau, China. His research areas are circuits for high-speed communications and low-power IoTs. He authored or co-authored 1 book, 3 book chapters, and more than 110 peer-reviewed international conference and journal publications. He serves or has served on the TPCs for ISSCC, ESSERC, and A-SSCC. He was an Associate Editor of the TCAS-I.
Luís B. Oliveira of School of Science and Technology at NOVA (NOVA FCT)
Hardware Security: Entropy Generation and Encryption
Biography:
Luis B. Oliveira graduated with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, and the Ph.D. degree, in 2002 and 2007 respectively, from IST-UL. He obtained the ‘Habilitation' degree, in Electronics, in 2016 from the NOVA FCT. Since 2007, Luis Oliveira has been with the DEEC at FCT NOVA, where he is an Associate Professor. He has more than 130 publications in International Journals and Conferences and is co-author of three books. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II, TCAS-II, 2018-2023. His current research interests are on RF CMOS circuits and Hardware Security primitives (TRNGs and PUFs).
Wen-Liang Zeng of Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau
A general dynamic modeling method for Chiplet power delivery system based on LEGO architecture
Biography:
Wen-Liang Zeng received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Macau in 2020. From September 2023 to August 2025, he was a Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Princeton University, USA. He joined the Institute of Microelectronics and the State Key Laboratory of Analog and MixedSignal VLSI at the University of Macau as an Assistant Professor in Oct. 2025. His research interests include power management integrated circuit for IoT applications, 12/48V-to-1V integrated Point-of-Load (PoL) Voltage Regulation Module (VRM), and power architecture modeling.
Diogo Dias of PhD student at NOVA FCT
CMOS Ultrasound Imaging Architectures for Wearable Diagnostic Devices (remote presentation)
Biography:
Diogo Dias (Student Member, IEEE) was born in 1998, Barreiro, Portugal. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, at the Micro-Nano-electronics Group, in a mixed scholarship-based collaboration with the Bioelectronics Group at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research is centered on optimization of Analog-Mixed Signal CMOS sensor interfaces for diagnostic ultrasound-on-chip systems, focusing on near-sensor diagnostic data compression.
Edgar Albuquerque of PETsys electronics
A Full Current-Mode AFE with Dark Noise Suppression using Differential Leading-Edge Discrimination
Biography:
Edgar Albuquerque was born in Goa, India, in 1969. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1994 and obtained the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in 1998 and 2001, respectively all from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. He was a post-doctoral fellow at INESC-ID till 2012, where he was engaged in the development of analog front-end ASICs for PET tomography scanners based on APDs (Avalanche Photo-Diodes). In 2017 he joined PETsys electronics and has been involved in the development of the TOFHiR SiPM read-out ASIC for the new MIP timing detector of the CMS experiment for the 2025 HL-LHC upgrade. His main research interests are in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits mainly for radiation detectors. He is also interested in renewable wind energy systems.
Agenda
Workshop Program
Morning: Data-Converters
09h00 The Design of High-Linearity High-Resolution Oversampling Incremental ADCs for Sensor Applications
09h30 A 3rd-order MASH Switched-Capacitor SDM using Ultra-Incomplete Settling employing an Area Reduction Technique
10h00 Advancements in Dynamic Time-varying Amplifier and Time-Domain Quantization: Voltage/Time Domain Combined ADC Research (remote presentation)
10h30 Beyond the ADC: Integrated Auxiliary Circuits for a Fully Integrated Mixed-Signal SoC
11h00 My Research Journey on Time-Domain ADCs (remote presentation)
11h30 Design of High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters combining Time-and-Frequency Interleaving
11h45 A C-2C Charge-Sharing SAR Quantization for Zoom ADCs
Afternoon: Analog and Mixed-Signal ICs and Circuit Techniques
13:30 High efficiency burst power delivery in Miniaturized IoT Systems
14:00 Circuit Techniques for Power-Efficient Brain Interfaces
14h30 Low-Jitter mm-Wave Frequency Generation
15:00 Hardware Security: Entropy Generation and Encryption
15:30 A general dynamic modeling method for Chiplet power delivery system based on LEGO architecture
16:00 CMOS Ultrasound Imaging Architectures for Wearable Diagnostic Devices (remote presentation)
16:30 A Full Current-Mode AFE with Dark Noise Suppression using Differential Leading-Edge Discrimination for the CMS/LHC Timing Detector at CERN
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