Conference Papers

  1. Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Wonjoon Sohn, Claudia Serrano-Amenos, Mina Ibrahim, Derrick Lin, Shravan Thaploo, Susan J. Shaw, Michelle Armacost, Hui Gong, Brian Lee, Darrin Lee, Richard A. Andersen, Payam Heydari, Charles Y. Liu, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, “A Fully-Integrated 1μW/Channel Dual-Mode Neural Data Acquisition System for Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces,”  IEEE Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 2024. [First Place Winner of Young Professional Paper Competition]
  2. Zisong Wang, Huan Wang, Youssef O. Hassan, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Fully Integrated 120-Gbps RF-64QAM F-band Transmitter with an On-Chip Antenna for 6G Wireless Communication,” IEEE RFIC Symp., June. 2024, pp. 1-4. 
  3. Youssef O. Hassan, Mohammad Oveisi, Huan Wang, and Payam Heydari, “A Power-Efficient, F-Band, 6.5-dB NF, Staggered-Tuned, Inverter-Based CMOS LNA for 6G Receivers,” IEEE Int’l Microwave Symp., June 2024, pp. 1-4. 
  4. Xuyang Liu, Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi, Mahdi Alesheikh, Payam Heydari, and Hamidreza Aghasi, “A 49-63 GHz Phase-Locked FMCW Radar Transceiver for High Resolution Applications,”IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sept. 2023, pp. 509-512.
  5. Mohammad Oveisi, Huan Wang, and Payam Heydari “A Comparative Study of RF-QAM and Conventional Transmitter Architectures,”IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems), May 2023, pp. 1-5.
  6. Haoran Pu, Ahmad Reza Danesh, Mahyar Safiallah, Jeremy Lim, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “ A CMOS BD-BCI Incorporating Stimulation with Dual-Mode Charge Balancing and Time-Domain Pipelined Recording,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), Paper 23.1, April 2023, pp. 1-4.
  7. Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Haoran Pu, Ahmad Reza Danesh, Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Charles Y. Liu, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “A Fully-Integrated 1μW/Channel Dual-Mode Neural Data Acquisition System for Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces,”  IEEE Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Nov. 2021 
  8.  Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi, Zisong Wang, Huan Wang, Soheil Saadat, Payam Heydari, and Hamidreza Aghasi, “A GSG-Excited Ultra-Wideband 103-147 GHz Stacked Patch Antenna on Flexible Printed Circuit,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), Dec. 2021.
  9. Zisong Wang, Huan Wang, and Payam Heydari, “CMOS Power-Amplifier Design Perspectives for 6G Wireless Communications,” IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2021.
  10. Payam Heydari, “Transceivers for 6G Wireless Communications: Challenges and Design Solutions,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), April 2021, pp. 1-8. [Invited Paper] [Best Paper Award]
  11. Payam Heydari, “Noise Analysis of Passive Sampling Mixers Using Auto- and Cross-Correlation Functions,”IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2021.
  12. Ahmad RezaDanesh and Payam Heydari, ” A Comprehensive Analysis of Charge-Pump-Based Multi-Stage Multi-Output DC-DC Converters,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2021.
  13. Haoran Pu, Ahmad Reza Danesh, Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Won Joon Sohn, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, and Payam Heydari, “A 40V Voltage-Compliance 12.75mA Maximum-Current Multipolar Neural Stimulator Using Time-Based Charge Balancing Technique Achieving 2mV Precision,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), April 2021, pp. 1-4.
  14. Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Susan J. Shaw, Michelle Armacost, Hui Gong, Charles Y. Liu, An H. Do, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, “Pre-Whitening and Null Projection as an Artifact Suppression Method for Electrocorticography Stimulation in Bi-Directional Brain Computer Interfaces,”  IEEE Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Aug. 2020 
  15. Claudia Serrano-Amenos, Frank Hu, Po T. Wang, Spencer Kellis, Richard Andersen, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, “Thermal Analysis of a Skull Implant in Brain-Computer Interfaces,”  IEEE Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Aug. 2020 
  16. Won Joon Sohn, Po T. Wang, Spencer Kellis, Richard Andersen, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, “A Prototype of a Fully-Implantable Charge-Balanced Artificial Sensory Stimulator for Bi-Directional Brain-Computer-Interface (BD-BCI),”  IEEE Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Aug. 2020 
  17. Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Haoran Pu, Charles Y. Liu, Spencer Kellis, Richard A. Andersen, Payam Heydari, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, “Dipole Cancellation as an Artifact Suppression Technique in Simultaneous Electrocorticography Stimulation and Recording,” 9th Int. IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 2019, pp. 725-729.
  18. Huan Wang, Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Damla Dimlioglu, Payam Heydari, “A 100-120GHz 20Gbps Bits-to-RF 16QAM Transmitter Using 1-bit Digital-to-Analog Interface,” 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, 2019.
  19. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Huan Wang, Andreia Cathelin, Payam Heydari, “A Single-Channel RF-to-Bits 36Gbps 8PSK RX with Direct Demodulation in RF Domain,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, 2019. [Nominated for Outstanding Student Paper award]
  20. Huan Wang, Zisong Wang, and Payam Heydari, “A Wideband Blocker Tolerant Receiver with High-Q RF-Input Selectivity and <-80dBm LO Leakage,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2019, pp. 450-452.
  21. Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Omid M. Arasteh, Susan J. Shaw, Michelle Armacost, Hui Gong, Charles Y. Liu, An H. Do, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, ” Characterization of Stimulation Artifact Behavior in Simultaneous Electrocorticography Grid Stimulation and Recording,” 40th Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 18), 2018, pp. 4748-4751.
  22. Po T. Wang, Colin M McCrimmon, Payam Heydari, An H. Do, Zoran Nenadic, “ Subspace-Based Suppression of Cortical Stimulation Artifacts,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, 2018, pp. 2426-2429
  23. Razieh Abedi, Rouzbeh Kananizadeh, Amir Esmaili, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A 53-61GHz Low-Power PLL With Harmonic Positive Feedback VCO in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2018.
  24. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Razieh Abedi, Amir Esmaili, and Payam Heydari, “A 64-67GHz Partially-Overlapped Phase-Amplitude-Controlled 4-Element Beamforming-MIMO Receiver,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, CA, 2018.
  25. Mao-Cheng Lee, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Omid Malekzadeh-Arasteh, Po T. Wang, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Inductorless MedRadio OOK Transceiver With a 42μW Event-Driven Supply-Modulated RX and a 14% Efficiency TX for Medical Implants,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Diego, CA, 2018.
  26. Peyman Nazari, Zheng Wang, and Payam Heydari, “A High-Power Multi-port 0.46THz Radiation Source in Nano-scale Silicon Technology Using Fundamental-Frequency Oscillation Beyond fMAX of Transistors,” ACM NanoCom, Sep. 2017.
  27. Peyman Nazari, Saman Jafarlou and Payam Heydari, “A Fundamental Frequency 114 GHz Circular-Polarized Radiating Element with 14-dBm EIRP, –99.3 dBc/Hz Phase-Noise at 1MHz Offset, and 3.7% Peak Efficiency,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2017, pp. 322-323.
  28. C. M. McCrimmon, Ming Wang, Lucas Silva Lopez, Po T. Wang, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, “A small, portable, battery-powered brain-computer interface system for motor rehabilitation,”  38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), August 2016.
  29. P. T. Wang, Keulanna Gandasetiawan,  Colin M. McCrimmon, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, “Feasibility of an ultra-low-power digital signal processor platform as a basis for a fully implantable brain-computer interface system,”38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, 2016, pp. 2776-2779.
  30. Payam Heydari, “Integrated Millimeter-Wave/Terahertz Sensor Systems for Near-Field IoT,” 53rd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Austin, TX, 2016. [Invited Paper]
  31. Saman Jafarlou, Peyman Nazari, and Payam Heydari, “A Study of Metal Density Limitations on the Performance of On-chip Terahertz Waveguides,” IEEE AP-S/URSI, July 2016.
  32. Colin M McCrimmon, Ming Wang, Lucas Silva-Lopes, Po T Wang, Alireza Karimi-Bidhendi, Charles Y. Liu, Payam Heydari, Zoran Nenadic, An H Do, “A small, portable, battery-powered brain-computer interface system for motor rehabilitation,” 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, 2016, pp. 2776-2779.
  33. Po T. Wang, Alireza Karimi Bidhendi, Charles Y. Liu, Zoran Nenadic, Payam Heydari, and An H. Do, “A Low-Cost, Fully Programmable, Battery Powered Direct Cortical Electrical Stimulator,” Accepted and presented at The Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2016), April 11–14, 2016 Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  34. Saman Jafarlou, Peyman Nazari, and Payam Heydari, “A 370 GHz On-Chip Rectangular Waveguide-Based Slot Antenna,” USNC-URSI National Radio Meeting, Jan. 2016.
  35. Akshay Mahajan, Alireza Karimi Bidhendi, Po T Wang, Colin M. McCrimmon, Charles Y. Liu, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do, and Payam Heydari, “A 64-Channel Ultra-Low Power Bioelectric Signal Acquisition System for Brain-Computer Interface,”  IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Atlanta, GA, 2015.
  36. Payam Heydari, “Millimeter-wave integrated circuits for wireless transceivers in BiCMOS technologies,” IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), Boston, MA, 2015, pp. 52-59. [Invited Paper].
  37. Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Alireza Karimi, Michael Green, and Payam Heydari, “A Low-Power BiCMOS 50 Gbps Gm-Boosted Dual-Feedback Transimpedance Amplifier,” IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), October 2015.
  38. Peyman Nazari, Mohammad-Hossein Mohammad-Nejad, and Payam Heydari, “A Broadband Nonlinear Lumped Model for Silicon IMPATT Diodes,”  IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting(BCTM), Boston, MA, 2015, pp. 145-148.
  39. Zheng Wang, Peyman Nazari, and Payam Heydari, “Bottom-Feed On-chip Waveguide Slot Antenna for THz Applications,” IEEE AP-S/URSI, July 2015.
  40. Payam Heydari, “The World’s First Fully Integrated 210GHz Fundamental Frequency Transceiver in CMOS,”GOMACTech, April 2014.
  41. Pei-Yuan Chiang, Zheng Wang, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A 300GHz Frequency Synthesizer with 7.9% Locking Range in 90nm SiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2014, pp. 260-261.
  42. Peyman Nazari, Byung-Kwan Chun, Vipul Kumar, Eric Middleton, Zheng Wang, Payam Heydari, “A 130nm CMOS Polar Quantizer for Cellular Applications,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2013.
  43. Zheng Wang, Pei-Yuan Chiang, Peyman Nazari, Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, and Payam Heydari, “A 210 GHz Fully Integrated Differential Transceiver with Fundamental Frequency VCO in 32 nm SOI CMOS,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2013.
  44. Francis Caster, II, Leland Gilreath, Shiji Pan, Zheng Wang, Filippo Capolino, and Payam Heydari, “A 93-113GHz BiCMOS 9-Element Imaging Array Receiver Utilizing Spatial-Overlapping Pixels with Wideband Phase and Amplitude Control,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2013.
  45. Pei-Yuan Chiang, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A Highly Efficient 0.2 THz Varactor-Less VCO with -7dBm Output Power in 130nm BiCMOS,” IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symp. (CSICS), Oct. 2012.
  46. Behrooz Javid and Payam Heydari, “A 4-bit 12 GS/s Data Acquisition System-on-Chip Including a Flash ADC and 4-Channel DeMUX in 130nm CMOS,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), Sept. 2012.
  47. Shiji Pan, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, Filippo Capolino, “An On-Chip W-Band Bowtie Slot Antenna in Silicon,” IEEE Antenna and Propagation Symp. (APS), July 2012.
  48. Caner Guclu, Shiji Pan, Payman Nazari, Byung-Kwan Chun, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino, “Metamaterial Waveguide with Loss Compensation,” URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of International Union of Radio Science, Istanbul, July 2011.
  49. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, Payam Heydari, “A Fully Integrated 96GHz 2×2 Focal-Plane Array with On-Chip Antenna,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2011. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  50. Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Payam Heydari, “W-Band Frequency Synthesis Using a Ka-Band PLL and Two Different Frequency Triplers,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Baltimore, MD, June 2011.
  51. Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, “A CMOS distributed amplifier with active input balun using GBW and linearity enhancing techniques,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Baltimore, MD, June 2011. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  52. Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, “Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Delay Circuits,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2011.
  53. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “A 80-92-GHz Receiver Front-End using Slow-Wave Transmission Lines in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symp. (CSICS), Oct. 2010.
  54. Shiji Pan, De Wong, Leland Gilreath, Payam Heydari, and Filippo Capolino, “Investigation of On-Chip Antenna with CMOS Technology in Sub-Millimeter-Wave Range,” ICNC/USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting, Toronto Canada, July 11-17, 2010.
  55. Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, Hsin-Cheng Yao, Le Zheng, and Payam Heydari, “A 94-GHz Passive Imaging Receiver using a Balanced LNA with Embedded Dicke Switch,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, May 2010.
  56. Zhiming Chen and Payam Heydari, “An 85-95.2 GHz Transformer-Based Injection-Locked Frequency Tripler in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE Int’l Microwave Symp. (IMS), May 2010.
  57. Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “A W-Band LNA in 0.18-mm SiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2010.
  58. Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, Le Zheng, Hsin-Cheng Yao, and Payam Heydari, “A Fully Integrated W-Band Passive Imaging Receiver IC in Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS Technology,” Proc. of SPIE Defense Security + Sensing, April 2010.
  59. Le Zheng, Leland Gilreath, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a W-Band Detector in 0.18-mm SiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Jan. 2010.
  60. Lei Zhou, Zhiming Chen, Chun-Cheng Wang, Fred Tzeng, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “A 2Gbps RF-Correlation-Based Impulse-Radio UWB Transceiver Front-End in 130nm CMOS,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2009.
  61. Vipul Jain, Fred Tzeng, Lei Zhou, and Payam Heydari, “A Single-Chip Dual-Band 22-to-29GHz/77-to-81GHz BiCMOS Transceiver for Automotive Radars,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2009.
  62. Le Zheng, Hsin-Cheng Yao, Fred Tzeng, and Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a Current-Reuse Transmitter for Ultra-Low Power Applications,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2009.
  63. Chun-Cheng Wang, Zhiming Chen, Vipul Jain, and Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of a Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Divide-by-3 Injection-Locked Frequency Divider,” IEEE Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Jan. 2009.
  64. Payam Heydari, “A Novel Millimeter-Wave Transceiver for Automotive Radars in Jazz BiCMOS Technologies,”Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal Circuits, Applications & Technologies Conference, Oct. 2008.
  65. Vipul Jain, Babak Javid, Payam Heydari, “A Dual-Band Millimeter-Wave 24/77GHz BiCMOS Frequency Synthesizer,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 487-490, Sept. 2008.
  66. Ramin Miri, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, “Timing Synchronization in Impulse-Radio UWB: Trends and Challenges,” IEEE NEWCAS-TAISA, June 2008.
  67. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Deyi Pi, Payam Heydari, “A CMOS Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Front-End for Spatial Multiplexing, Spatial Diversity and Beamforming,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, June 2008. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  68. Fred Tzeng, Amin Jahanian, Payam Heydari, “A Universal Code-Modulated Path-Sharing Multi-Antenna Receiver Architecture,” IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2008.
  69. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, “A 2.5-3.2GHz GHz Continuously-Tuned Varactor-Less LC-VCO with Differential Control,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Nov. 2007.
  70. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, and Payam Heydari, “A Current-Equalized Distributed Receiver Front-End for UWB Direct Conversion Receivers,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007.
  71. Vipul Jain, Sriramkumar Sundararaman, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS 22-29GHz Receiver Front-End for UWB Automotive Pulse-Radars,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007.
  72. Deyi Pi, Byung-Kwan Chun, and Payam Heydari, “A Synthesis-based Bandwidth Enhancing Technique for CML Buffers/Amplifiers,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Sept. 2007. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  73. Jeffrey Johnson, Vipul Jain, Payam Heydari, “A Nonlinear Model for Phase Noise and Jitter in LC Oscillators,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3095-3098, May 2007.
  74. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, “Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for UWB-MIMO Transceivers,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 138-141, Sept. 2006.
  75. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari, “A Novel Ultra-Low Power (ULP) Low Noise Amplifier using Differential Inductor Feedback,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 352-355, Sept. 2006.
  76. Aminghasem Safarian, Lei Zhou, Payam Heydari, “A Distributed RF Front-End for UWB Receivers,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 805-808, Sept. 2006.
  77. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari “A Novel Power Optimization Technique for Ultra-Low Power RFICs,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 274-279, Oct. 2006.(Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  78. Amin Shameli and Payam Heydari, “Ultra-Low Power RFIC Design Using Moderately Inverted MOSFETs: An Analytical/Experimental Study,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 521-524, June 2006.
  79. Fred Tzeng and Payam Heydari, “A Novel Millimeter-Wave Multi-Order LC Oscillator,” IEEE Int’l Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 4667-4670, May 2006.
  80. Payam Heydari and Denis Lin, “A Performance Optimized CMOS Distributed LNA for UWB Receivers,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 337-340, Sept. 2005.
  81. Ravindran Mohanavelu and Payam Heydari, “A Novel 40-GHz Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider in 0.18mm CMOS,” IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 185-188, Sept. 2005.
  82. Asad Abidi and Payam Heydari, “Special Session: Low-Power UWB Transceiver Design,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 301, Aug. 2005.
  83. Payam Heydari, Denis Lin, Amin Shameli, Ahmad Yazdi, “Design of CMOS Distributed Circuits for Multiband UWB Wireless Receivers,” IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 695-698, June 2005.
  84. Amin Q. Safarian and Payam Heydari, “A Study of High-Frequency Regenerative Frequency Dividers,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 3, pp. 2695-2698, May 2005.
  85. Payam Heydari, “Design Considerations for Low-Power Ultra Wideband Radio Receivers,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 668-673, March 2005.
  86. Payam Heydari, “A Comprehensive Study of Low-Power Ultra Wideband Radio Transceiver Architectures,” IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), vol. 2, pp. 758-763, March 2005.
  87. Ahmad Yazdi, Denis Lin, Payam Heydari, “A 1.8V Three-Stage 25GHz 3dB-BW Differential Non-Uniform Downsized Distributed Amplifier,” IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), paper 8.4, pp. 156, Feb. 2005.
  88. Ying Zhang and Payam Heydari, “A Novel Linearization Technique for Linear/Pseudo-Linear RF CMOS Power Amplifiers,”  IEEE RFIC Symposium, pp. 563-566, June 2004.
  89. Ahmad Yazdi and Payam Heydari, “A Novel Non-Uniform Distributed Amplifier,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 613-616, May 2004.
  90. Amir Safarian and Payam Heydari, ” Design and and Analysis of a Distributed Regenerative Frequency Divider Using a Distributed Mixer,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 992-995, May 2004.
  91. Ravindran Mohanavelu and Payam Heydari, “A Novel Ultra High-Speed Flip-Flop-Based Frequency Divider,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. 169-172, May 2004.
  92. Ahmad Yazdi and Payam Heydari, “The Design and Analysis of Non-Uniform Down-Sized Differential Distributed Amplifiers,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 528-533, March 2004.
  93. Payam Heydari, “High-Frequency Noise in RF CMOS Mixers,”  Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), pp. 57-61, Jan. 2004.
  94. Payam Heydari and Ying Zhang , “A Novel High-Frequency, High-Efficiency, Differential Class-E Power Amplifier in 0.18μm CMOS,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 455-458, Aug. 2003.
  95. Payam Heydari, “Characterizing the Effects of Clock Jitter Due to Substrate Noise in Discrete-Time D/S Modulators,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 532-537, June 2003.
  96. Payam Heydari and Ravindran Mohavavelu, “Design of Ultra High-Speed CMOS CML buffers and Latches,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 208-211, May 2003.
  97. Payam Heydari, “Design Issues in Low-Voltage High-Speed Current-Mode Logic Buffers,” IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), pp. 21-26, April 2003.
  98. Soroush Abbaspour, Payam Heydari, Massoud Pedram, “Optimizing the Energy-Delay-Ringing Product in On-Chip CMOS Line Drivers,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 261-266, March 2003.(Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  99. Payam Heydari, “Design and Analysis of Low-Voltage Current-Mode Logic Buffers,”  IEEE Int’l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 293-298, March 2003.
  100. Payam Heydari, “Analysis of DLL Jitter Due to Substrate Noise,” 45th IEEE Int’l Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 348-351, Aug. 2002.
  101. Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, “A Comprehensive Study of Energy Dissipation in Lossy Transmission Lines Driven by CMOS Inverters,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 517-520, May 2002.
  102. Payam Heydari, “Energy Dissipation Modeling of Lossy Transmission Lines Driven by CMOS Inverters,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 4, pp. 309-312, May 2002.
  103. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Interconnect Energy  Dissipation in High-Speed VLSI Circuits,” IEEE VLSI Design / ASP-DAC Conference, pp. 132-137, Jan. 2002.
  104. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Model Reduction of  Variable-Geometry Interconnects Using Variational Spectrally-Weighted Balanced  Truncation,” IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 586-591, Nov. 2001.
  105. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram,  “Jitter-Induced Power/Ground Noise in CMOS PLLs: A Design Perspective,” IEEE  Int’l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 209-213, Sept. 2001.
  106. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis and Reduction of  Capacitive Coupling Noise in High-Speed VLSI Circuits,” IEEE  Int’l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 104-109, Sept. 2001.
  107. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Balanced Truncation with  Spectral Shaping for RLC Interconnects,” IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), pp. 203-208, Feb. 2001.
  108. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis and  Optimization of Ground Bounce in Digital CMOS Circuits,”   IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD),  pp. 121-126, Sept. 2000. (Recipient of the 2000 Best Paper Award)
  109. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis of  Jitter due to Power-Supply Noise in Phase-Locked Loops,” SRC TECHCON Conference, Paper 10.6, Sept. 2000.
  110. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis of  Jitter due to Power-Supply Noise in Phase-Locked Loops,”   IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 443-446, May 2000. (Honorable Award from USC)
  111. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Calculation of  Ramp Response of Lossy Transmission Lines Using Two-Port Network  Functions,” ACM Int’l Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), April 1998, pages 152-157.
  112. Payam Heydari and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis of Off-chip and On-chip Simultaneous Switching Noise in VLSI Circuits,” SRC TECHCON  Conference, Paper 14.8, Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 1998.