In Memoriam

Prof. Anas Hamoui passed away on November 9th, 2011. He will be dearly missed by his colleagues, students and friends. This webpage will not be updated anymore, but will remain as testimony to his scholarly activities.

 
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Books
  1. A. A. Hamoui and K. Martin, Delta-Sigma Data Converters in Low-Voltage CMOS for Broadband Digital Communications, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, to be published in 2011.
Theses (refereed)
  1. A. A. Hamoui, "Delta-sigma data converters for broadband digital communications," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, June 2004.

  2. A. A. Hamoui, "Current, delay, and power analysis of submicron CMOS circuits," M.Eng. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, July 1998.
Book Contributions
  1. A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 5th ed. New York, NY: Oxford. Contributed to this well-known and widely-adopted textbook by writing the SPICE sections (including device models, circuit macromodels, and design examples) at the end of each chapter.
Patent Applications
  1. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. Hamoui, "A current-scalable process-insensitive technique for the low-voltage design of operational amplifiers with enhanced dc gain and settling behavior, and devices thereof," US patent application 61 501 817.

  2. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, and A. Hamoui, "Integrated Micromirror and Thermal Actuator," Mexican patent application Mx/a/2008/014210.

  3. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, and A. Hamoui, "Enhanced Horizontal and Vertical Thermal Actuator," Mexican patent application Mx/a/2008/014209.
Journal Articles (refereed)
  1. M. K. Alghamdi and A. A. Hamoui, "A spurious-free switching buck converter achieving enhanced light-load efficiency by using a ΔΣ modulator controller with a scalable sampling frequency," accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012. Invited paper with review.

  2. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "A 1-V process-insensitive current-scalable two-stage opamp with enhanced DC gain and settling behavior in 65-nm digital CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 660-668, Mar. 2011.

  3. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Area and power optimization of high-order gain calibration in digitally-enhanced pipelined ADCs," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 652-657, Apr. 2010.

  4. P. M. Chopp and A. A. Hamoui, "Design constraints for image-reject frequency-translating ΔΣ modulators," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 896-900, Dec. 2009.

  5. P. M. Chopp and A. A. Hamoui, "Analysis of clock-jitter effects in continuous-time ΔΣ modulators using discrete-time models," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1134-1145, Jun. 2009.

  6. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, J. Ecobedo-Alatorre, A. A. Hamoui, and J. Sanchez-Mondragon, "Polysilicon thermal micro-actuators for heat scavenging and power conversion," SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3), vol. 8, no. 2, Jun. 2009.

  7. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres and A. A. Hamoui, "Design of MEMS vertical-horizontal chevron thermal actuators," Elsevier Journal of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 127-130, May 2009. Selected by ScienceDirect as one of the top 25 hottest articles published in 2009/2010 by this journal.

  8. A. A. Hamoui and F. Maloberti, "Power-efficient delta-sigma A/D converters for high-speed wireless communications," accepted for publication in Springer International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2008. Invited paper with review.

  9. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Digital background calibration of capacitor-mismatch errors in pipelined ADCs," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 966-970, Sep. 2006.

  10. A. A. Hamoui and K. Martin, "High-order multibit modulators and pseudo data-weighted-averaging in low-oversampling ΔΣ ADCs for broad-band applications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 72-85, Jan. 2004. This is a special issue devoted to the "Advances on Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters".

  11. A. A. Hamoui and N. C. Rumin, "An analytical model for current, delay, and power analysis of submicron CMOS logic circuits," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, vol. 47, pp. 999-1007, Oct. 2000.

Conference Papers (refereed)
  • Papers in the Conferences of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society:
  1. P. M. Chopp and A. A. Hamoui, "A 1V 13mW frequency-translating ΔΣ ADC with 55dB SNDR for a 4MHz band at 225MHz," in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2011.

  2. M. K. Alghamdi and A. A. Hamoui, "A spurious-free switching buck converter using a delta-sigma modulation controller with a scalable sampling frequency," in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Jun. 2011, pp. 18-19.

  3. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "A reconfigurable 10-12b 0.4-44MS/s pipelined ADC with 0.35-0.5pJ/step in 1.2V 90nm digital CMOS," in IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2010, pp. 382-385.

  4. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Digital background calibration of a 0.4pJ/step 10-bit pipelined ADC without a PN generator in digital 90-nm CMOS," in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2008, pp. 53-56.

  5. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres and A. A. Hamoui, "Polysilicon vertical actuator powered with waste heat," in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2008, pp. 519-522.

  6. A. A. Hamoui et al., "Behavioral modeling of opamp gain and dynamic effects for power optimization of delta-sigma modulators and pipelined ADCs," in IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Oct. 2006, pp. 330-333.

  7. A. A. Hamoui and K. Martin, "A 1.8-V 3-MS/s 13-bit ΔΣ A/D converter with pseudo data-weighted-averaging in 0.18-μm digital CMOS," in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sep. 2003, pp. 119-122.

  8. J. Varona, A. A. Hamoui, and K. Martin, "A low-voltage fully-monolithic ΔΣ-based class-D audio amplifier," in IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep. 2003, pp. 545-548.

  • Papers in the Conferences of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society:
  1. M. A. Haroun and A. A. Hamoui, "A current-mirror opamp with switchable transconductances for low-power switched-capacitor integrators," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), May 2011, pp. 25-28.

  2. M. T. Salam, M. Sawan, D. K. Nguyen and A. A. Hamoui, "Epileptic low-voltage fast-activity seizure-onset detector," in IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Nov. 2009, pp. 169-172.

  3. J. Varona, E. Saenz, S. Fiscal-Woodhouse and A. A. Hamoui, "Design and fabrication of a novel microgripper based on electrostatic actuation," in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2009, pp. 827-832.

  4. M. T. Salam, M. Sawan, A. Hamoui and D. K. Nguyen, "Low-power CMOS-based epileptic seizure onset detector," in IEEE North-East Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS), Jun. 2009, pp. 1-4.

  5. A. A. Hamoui, M. Sukhon and F. Maloberti, "Digitally-enhanced high-order ΔΣ modulators," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Aug. 2008, pp. 1115-1118.

  6. P. Peev, B. De Vuyst, P. Rombouts and A. A. Hamoui, "An anti-aliasing filter inspired by continuous-time ΔΣ modulation," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Aug. 2008, pp. 854-857.

  7. A. A. Hamoui, M. Sukhon and F. Maloberti, "Digitally-enhanced 2nd-order ΔΣ modulator with unity-gain signal transfer function," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008, pp. 1664-1667.

  8. F. Ali and A. A. Hamoui, "Continuous-time ΔΣ modulators with noise-transfer-function enhancement," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008, pp. 1428-1431.

  9. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Power optimization of pipelined ADCs with high-order digital gain calibration," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Dec. 2007, pp. 661-664.

  10. P. M. Chopp and A. A. Hamoui, "Discrete-time modeling of clock jitter in continuous-time ΔΣ modulators," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2007, pp. 497-500.

  11. A. A. Hamoui and F. Maloberti, "Delta-sigma modulators for power-efficient A/D conversion in high-speed wireless communications," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Dec. 2006, pp. 123-127. Invited Paper.

  12. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Digital background calibration of interstage-gain and capacitor-mismatch errors in pipelined ADCs," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2006, pp. 1035-1038.

  13. M. Taherzadeh-Sani and A. A. Hamoui, "Analysis of dynamic element matching (DEM) in pipelined ADCs," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2006, pp. 5263-5266.

  14. A. A. Hamoui and K. Martin, "Delta-sigma modulator topologies for high-speed high-resolution A/D converters," in IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2002, pp. I 356-359.

  15. A. A. Hamoui and K. Martin, "Linearity enhancement of multibit ΔΣ modulators using pseudo data-weighted averaging," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2002, pp. III 285-288.

  16. A. A. Hamoui and N. C. Rumin, "An analytical current, delay, and power model for the submicron CMOS inverter," in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Sep. 1999, pp. 1547-1551.

  • Papers in MEMS and Packaging Conferences:
  1. M. D. Diop, M. Radji, W. Andre, Y. Blaquiere, A. A. Hamoui and R. Izquierdo, "Electrical characterization of annular through silicon vias for a reconfigurable wafer-sized circuit board," in IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), Oct. 2010, pp. 245-248.

  2. M. Radji, A. Lakhssassi, M. Bougataya, A. Hamoui and R. Izquierdo, "Wafer post-processing for a reconfigurable wafer-scale circuit board," in IEEE European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference (EMPC), Jun. 2009, pp. 1-8.

  3. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, A. A. Hamoui and J. Sánchez-Mondragón, "A two-layer MEMS micromirror for optical scanning and spatial light modulation," in Proc. of Optical Society of America (OSA) 92nd Annual Meeting - Frontiers in Optics (FiO), Oct. 2008.

  4. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, J. Ecobedo-Alatorre and A. A. Hamoui, "Design and fabrication of a MEMS thermal actuator for 3D optical switching applications," in Proc. of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Summer Topicals Meeting, Jul. 2008, pp. 31-32.

  5. M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, J. Ecobedo-Alatorre and A. A. Hamoui, "A MEM actuator based on a membrane, controlled by an external heat source," in Proc. of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Summer Topicals Meeting, Jul. 2008, pp. 29-30.

  6. J. Varona, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres and A. A. Hamoui, "Modeling of MEMS thermal actuation with external heat source," in IEEE Electronics, Robotics, and Automotive Mechanics Conference (CERMA), Sep. 2007, pp. 591-596.
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