Book Chapters

 

[B1] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Towards High-Level Synthesis of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems from VHDL-AMS Specifications - A Case Study for a Sigma-Delta Analog-Digital Converter, Languages for System Specification, Kluwer Academic Publishers,  pp. 201-216, ISBN:1-4020-7990-7, 2004.


Journal Papers (Supervised students are delineated with an asterisk (*))

 

[J10] Peng Li*, Hua Tang, Design of a Low-Power Coprocessor for Mid-Size Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 961-970, May 2011.

[J9] M. Webb*, H. Tang, A Low-power and Low-complexity Continuous-time Gm-C based Delta-Sigma Modulator for WCDMA/UMTS, International Journal of Electronics, Volume 96, Issue 6, pp. 585-602, Jun 2009. 

[J8] M. Webb*, H. Tang, A Symbolic Approach toward High-level Variation-aware Topology Synthesis of Delta-Sigma Modulators, International Journal of Electronics, Volume 95, Issue 10, pp. 1033-1053, Oct. 2008.

[J7] H. Tang, A Systematic Design Flow for Optimal Capacitance Assignment in Switched-Capacitor Biquads, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 2076-2087, Aug 2008.

[J6] H. Tang, Symbolic Statistical Analysis of SNR Variation for Delta-Sigma Modulators, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 720-724, Aug 2007.

[J5] Y. Wei, H. Tang, A. Doboli, Systematic Methodology for Designing Reconfigurable Delta-Sigma Modulator Topologies for Multimode Communication Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 480-496, Mar 2007.

[J4] H. Zhang, S. Doboli, H. Tang, A. Doboli, Compiled Code Simulation of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems Using Piecewise Linear Modeling of Nonlinear Parameters, Integration the VLSI Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 193-208, Apr 2007.

[J3] M. Webb*, H. Tang, Modeling Continuous-time Delta Sigma Modulators in MATLAB SIMULINK for System-level Simulation and Specification Translation, WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Issue 12, Vol. 5, pp. 1760-1767, Dec 2006 (Invited paper).

[J2] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Refinement based Synthesis of Continuous-Time Analog Filters Through Successive Domain Pruning, Plateau Search and Adaptive SamplingIEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 8, Aug 2006, pp. 1421-1440.

[J1] H. Tang, A. Doboli, High-level Topology Synthesis for Delta-Sigma Modulators Optimized for Complexity, Sensitivity and Power Consumption, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 597-607.


Conference Papers (Supervised students are delineated with an asterisk (*))

 

[C27] H. Dinh*, H. Tang, E. Kwon, Camera Calibration for Roundabout Traffic Scenes, poster presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan 23-27th, 2011, 13 pages.

[C26] H. Tang, An Optimization Based Approach for Topology Exploration of Switched-Capacitor Biquad Filters, Proc. of Intelligent Human Machine Systems and Cybernetics Conference (IHMSC¡¯10), Nanjing, China, Aug 26-28th, 2010, pp. 307-310.

[C25] P. Li*, H. Tang, A Low-power VLSI Implementation for Full-search Variable Block Size Motion Estimation in H.264/AVC, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS¡¯10), Paris, France, May 30-Jun 2nd, 2010, pp. 2972-2975.

[C24] P. Li*, H. Tang, VLSI Architecture Design for Reconfigurable Block Size Motion Estimation, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE¡¯10), Las Vegas, NV, Jan 11-13rd, 2010, pp. 439-440.

[C23] P. Li*, H. Tang, Design of a Co-Processor for Output Probability Calculation in Speech Recognition, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS¡¯09), Taipei, Taiwan, May 24-27th, 2009, pp. 369-372.

[C22] P. Li*, H. Tang, Q. Lian, Low Power Embedded Speech Recognition System Based on a MCU and a Co-processor, Proc. of 34th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP¡¯09), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24th, 2009, pp. 625-628.

[C21] H. Chang*, H. Tang, Efficient System-level Statistical Design of Analog Systems via Variance Minimization, Proc. of IASTED International Conference on Circuits and Systems, Kona, HI, August 18-20th, 2008, pp. 1-6.

[C20] Y. Zheng*, H. Tang, Towards a Hardware-based System for Real-Time Vehicle Tracking, Proc. of IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV¡¯08), June 4-6th, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2008, pp. 285-290.

[C19] H. Chang*, H. Tang, A Simple Technique to Reduce Clock Jitter Effects in Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Modulators, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS¡¯08), Seattle, WA, May 23-26th, 2008, pp. 1870-1873.

[C18] M. Webb*, H. Tang, Analog Design Retargeting by Design Knowledge Reuse and Circuit Synthesis, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS¡¯08), Seattle, WA, May 23-26th, 2008, pp. 892-895.

[C17] H. Tang, Post-Optimization of Delta-Sigma Modulators Considering Circuit Non-idealities, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS¡¯08), Seattle, WA, May 23-26th, 2008, pp. 2546-2549.

[C16] H. Tang, Hierarchical Statistical Analysis of Performance Variation for Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Modulators, Proc. of 15th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC¡¯07), Atlanta, GA, Oct 15-18th, 2007, pp. 37-41.

[C15] H. Tang, T. Kwon, Y. Zheng*, H. Chang*, Designing CMOS Processors for Vehicle Tracking, Proc. of 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS¡¯07), Montreal, Canada, Aug 5-8th, 2007, pp. 1328-1331.

[C14] H. Tang, M. Webb*, Optimal Synthesis of Delta-Sigma Modulator Topologies Considering SNR Variation, Proc. of 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS¡¯07), Montreal, Canada, Aug 5-8th, 2007, pp. 730-733.

[C13] M. Webb*, H. Tang, System-level Simulation for Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator in MATLAB SIMULINK, Proc. of 5th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal Processing (CSECS'06), Dallas, TX, Nov 1-3rd, 2006, pp. 1-4 (Invited paper).

[C12] Y. Wei, H. Tang, A. Doboli, Systematic Methodology for Designing Reconfigurable Delta Sigma Modulator Topologies for Multimode Communication Systems, Proc. of IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'06), Messe Munich, Germany, March 6-10th, 2006, pp. 1-6.

[C11] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Layout Aware Analog Synthesis based on Multi-level Optimization, Performance Model Approximation, and Solution Space Pruning, Proc. of SINTES12 (International Symposium on System Theory, Automation, Robotics, Computers, Electronics, and Instrumentation), Craiova, Romania, Oct 20-22nd, 2005, pp. 1-4.

[C10] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Parameter Domain Pruning for Improving Convergence of Synthesis Algorithms, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 23-26th, 2005, pp. 1282-1285, Vol. 2.

[C9] H. Zhang, H. Tang, A. Doboli, An Explorative Tile-based Tool for Automated Design, Placement and Routing of High Frequency Analog Filters, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 23-26th, 2005, pp. 5629-5632, Vol. 6.

[C8] H. Tang, A. Doboli, MINLP Based Topology Synthesis for Delta-Sigma Modulators Optimized for Signal Path Complexity, Sensitivity and Power Consumption, Proc. of IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'05), Messe Munich, Germany, Mar 7-11th, 2005, pp. 264-269.

[C7] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Towards High-Level Synthesis of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems from VHDL-AMS Specifications - A Case Study for a Sigma-Delta Analog-Digital Converter, Proc. of Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL'03), Frankfurt, Germany, Sep 23-26th, 2003, pp. 1-11.

[C6] N. Thepaysuwan, H. Tang, A. Doboli, An Exploration Based Binding and Scheduling Technique for Synthesis of Digital Blocks for Mixed-Signal Applications, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'03), Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28th, 2003, pp. 629-632, Vol. 5.

[C5] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Synthesis of Continuous-Time Filters and Analog to Digital Converters by Integrated Constraint Transformation, Floorplanning and Routing, Proc. of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'03), Washington DC, Apr 28-29th, 2003, pp. 207-210.

[C4] H. Tang, H. Zhang, A. Doboli, Layout-Aware Analog System Synthesis Based on Symbolic Layout Description and Combined Block Parameter Exploration, Placement and Routing, Proc. of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI'03), Tampa, FL, Feb 20-21st, 2003, pp. 266-271.

[C3] H. Tang, A. Doboli, Layout-Aware Synthesis for Analog Systems Based on Combined Block Sizing, Floorplanning and Global Routing, poster paper, IEEE Annual International ASIC/SOC Conference, Rochester, NY, Sep 25-27th, 2002.

[C2] H. Tang, A. Doboli, Employing Layout Templates for Synthesis of Analog Systems, Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Tulsa, OK, August 6-8th, 2002, pp 505-508, Vol. 2.

[C1] H. Tang, A. Doboli, Layout Aware Synthesis Methodology for Analog Systems Based on Combined Block Sizing, Floorplanning and Global Routing, Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS), New Orleans, LA, Jun 4-7th, 2002, pp. 41-44.

 

 


PhD Forum Presentation:

An Efficient Methodology and Algorithm for Synthesis and Optimization of Analog and Mixed-signal Systems, Ph.D. thesis presented at 2005 3rd EDAA PhD Forum (joint with Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'05)), Messe Munich, Germany, Mar 7-11th, 2005.