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Overview

Akira Matsuzawa is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, specializing in engineering with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including biomedical engineering and hardware and architecture.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
  • Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
  • 3D IC and TSV technologies
  • VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing
  • Semiconductor materials and devices

Matsuzawa has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "A Brief History of Nyquist Analog-to-Digital Converters," 2023, IEICE Transactions on Electronics
  • "Sampling circuit issues in A/D converters and challenges for the solution," 2023, IEICE Electronics Express
  • "Mixed Signal Technology for 5G Era: History and Future," 2020, Extended Abstracts of the 2020 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials
  • "Contributors," 2022, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
  • "Life and Times of Akira Matsuzawa: In his own words," 2022, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine

The primary publication venues for Matsuzawa include:

  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
  • IEICE Transactions on Electronics
  • IEICE Electronics Express
  • Extended Abstracts of the 2020 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials
  • Electronics

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors are:

  • Chieh-Hsiung Kuan
  • Guan-Ren Wang
  • A.A. Abidi
  • My Reflections
  • Chorng-Kuang Wang

Best Publications

  • A low-noise self-calibrating dynamic comparator for high-speed ADCs

    M. Miyahara;Y. Asada;Daehwa Paik;A. Matsuzawa

  • A 60-GHz 16QAM/8PSK/QPSK/BPSK Direct-Conversion Transceiver for IEEE802.15.3c

    K. Okada;Ning Li;K. Matsushita;K. Bunsen

  • Low-voltage and low-power circuit design for mixed analog/digital systems in portable equipment

    A. Matsuzawa

  • A 9.35-ENOB, 14.8 fJ/conv.-step Fully-Passive Noise-Shaping SAR ADC

    Zhijie Chen;Masaya Miyahara;Akira Matsuzawa

  • A 10-b 20-MHz 30-mW pipelined interpolating CMOS ADC

    K. Kusumoto;K. Murata;A. Matsuzawa;S. Tada

  • A CMOS image sensor with analog two-dimensional DCT-based compression circuits for one-chip cameras

    S. Kawahito;M. Yoshida;M. Sasaki;K. Umehara

  • Full Four-Channel 6.3-Gb/s 60-GHz CMOS Transceiver With Low-Power Analog and Digital Baseband Circuitry

    K. Okada;K. Kondou;M. Miyahara;M. Shinagawa

  • A Fully Synthesizable All-Digital PLL With Interpolative Phase Coupled Oscillator, Current-Output DAC, and Fine-Resolution Digital Varactor Using Gated Edge Injection Technique

    Wei Deng;Dongsheng Yang;Tomohiro Ueno;Teerachot Siriburanon

  • RF-SoC-expectations and required conditions

    Unknown

  • A Low Phase Noise Quadrature Injection Locked Frequency Synthesizer for MM-Wave Applications

    A. Musa;R. Murakami;T. Sato;W. Chaivipas

  • A 120Gb/s 16QAM CMOS millimeter-wave wireless transceiver

    Korkut K. Tokgoz;Shotaro Maki;Jian Pang;Noriaki Nagashima

  • A Fractional- N Sub-Sampling PLL using a Pipelined Phase-Interpolator With an FoM of -250 dB

    Aravind Tharayil Narayanan;Makihiko Katsuragi;Kento Kimura;Satoshi Kondo

  • 64-QAM 60-GHz CMOS Transceivers for IEEE 802.11ad/ay

    Rui Wu;Ryo Minami;Yuuki Tsukui;Seitaro Kawai

  • 20.3 A 64-QAM 60GHz CMOS transceiver with 4-channel bonding

    Kenichi Okada;Ryo Minami;Yuuki Tsukui;Seitaro Kawai

  • A Compact, Low-Power and Low-Jitter Dual-Loop Injection Locked PLL Using All-Digital PVT Calibration

    Ahmed Musa;Wei Deng;Teerachot Siriburanon;Masaya Miyahara

  • A Fifth-Order Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator With Single-Opamp Resonator

    K. Matsukawa;Y. Mitani;M. Takayama;K. Obata

  • A Low-Power Low-Noise mm-Wave Subsampling PLL Using Dual-Step-Mixing ILFD and Tail-Coupling Quadrature Injection-Locked Oscillator for IEEE 802.11ad

    Teerachot Siriburanon;Satoshi Kondo;Makihiko Katsuragi;Hanli Liu

  • Class-C VCO With Amplitude Feedback Loop for Robust Start-Up and Enhanced Oscillation Swing

    Wei Deng;K. Okada;A. Matsuzawa

  • A 15.5 dB, wide signal swing, dynamic amplifier using a common-mode voltage detection technique

    James Lin;Masaya Miyahara;Akira Matsuzawa

  • A full 4-channel 6.3Gb/s 60GHz direct-conversion transceiver with low-power analog and digital baseband circuitry

    Kenichi Okada;Keitarou Kondou;Masaya Miyahara;Masashi Shinagawa

  • 15.1 A 0.0066mm 2 780μW fully synthesizable PLL with a current-output DAC and an interpolative phase-coupled oscillator using edge-injection technique

    Wei Deng;Dongsheng Yang;Tomohiro Ueno;Teerachot Siriburanon

  • A 60GHz 16QAM/8PSK/QPSK/BPSK direct-conversion transceiver for IEEE 802.15.3c

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenichi Okada
Kenichi Okada Tokyo Institute of Technology
Shoji Kawahito
Shoji Kawahito Shizuoka University
Jiro Hirokawa
Jiro Hirokawa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Asad A. Abidi
Asad A. Abidi University of California, Los Angeles
Takayasu Sakurai
Takayasu Sakurai University of Tokyo
Vladimir Stojanovic
Vladimir Stojanovic University of California, Berkeley
Boris Murmann
Boris Murmann University of Hawaii at Manoa
Makoto Ando
Makoto Ando Keio University

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