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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. D. Ma, J. Wang, M. Song "Adaptive On-Chip Power Supply with Robust One-Cycle Control Technique", IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI), accepted for publication.

  2. K. K. Muchherla, P. Chen, D. Ma, J. Wang “A Non-Iterative Equivalent Waveform Model for Timing Analysis in Presence of Crosstalk”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), pp. 1-21, Vo. 13, Issue 2, Article 25, April 2008.

  3. A. Mitev, M. Marefat, D. Ma, J. Wang, "Parameter Reduction for Variability Analysis by SIR Method," (invited), IEE Proceedings for Circuits, Devices and Systems,  pp. 16-22, Vol. 2, Issue 1,  Feb. 2008.

  4. K. Sanborn, D. Ma, V. Ivanov, "A Sub-1V Low Noise Bandgap Voltage Reference", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2466-2481, Nov. 2007. (Top 10 downloads of IEEE JSSC since Oct. 2007.)

  5. D. Ma, W-H Ki, “Fast-Transient PCCM Switching Converter with Freewheel Switching Control,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems (TCAS) – Part II, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 825-829, Sept. 2007. [pdf]

  6. D. Ma, "Automatic Substrate Switching Circuit for On-Chip Adaptive Power Supply System", IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems (TCAS) - Part II, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 641-645, July 2007.

  7. J. Wang, B. Sukhwani, U. Padmanabhan, D. Ma, K. Sinha, "Simulation and Design of Nanocircuits with Resonant Tunneling Devices", IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems (TCAS) - Part I, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1293-1304, June 2007. [pdf]

  8. D. Ma, Z. Zhang, "Thermal Compensation Method for CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Using Temperature-Adaptive DC-DC Converter", IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems (TCAS) - Part II, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 1284-1288, Nov. 2006. [pdf]

  9. A. Oksasoglu, D. Ma, Q. Wang, "Rank One Chaos in Switch-Controlled Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua Circuit", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 16, No. 11, pp. 3207-3224, Nov. 2006.

  10. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, “An Integrated One-Cycle Control Buck Converter with Adaptive Output and Dual-Loop Output Error Correction”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 39, No.1, pp.140-149, Jan. 2004. [pdf]

  11. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, “A Pseudo-CCM/DCM SIMO Switching Converter with Freewheel Switching”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 38, No. 6, pp.1007-1014, June 2003. [pdf]

  12. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui and P. K. T. Mok, “Single-Inductor Dual-Output CMOS Switching Converters in Discontinuous-Conduction Mode with Time-Multiplexing Control”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 38, No.1, pp. 89-100, Jan. 2003. [pdf]

  13. K. Kan, D. Ma, K. Mak and H. Luong, “Design, Theory and Performance of 1-GHz CMOS Downconversion and Upconversion Mixers,” Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits & Signal Processing, Vol. 24, pp.101-111, Aug. 2000.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

  1. I. Chowdhury, D. Ma, "On-Chip Reconfigurable SC Power Supply with Adaptive Gain/Pulse Control for Self-Powered Energy-Efficient Devices," IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Cambridge, UK, July 2008, accepted for presentation.

  2. M. Song, I. Chowdhury, D. Ma, A. P. Brokaw, "Adaptive Step-Down Switched-Capacitor Power Converter with z-Domain Observation-Based Line-Load Regulation," IEEE VLSI Symp. on Circuits (VLSI), Hawaii, USA, June 2008, accepted for presentation.

  3. D. Nguyen, H. Cormican, A. Baysal, J. Wang, D. Ma, "A Mammography Imaging Hybrid Pixel Sensor Test Chip with Low Noise CMOS Readout IC on Fully Depleted SOI - Design Tradeoff Study," 9th International Conference on Applications for Nuclear Techniques, Crete, Greece, June 2008, accepted for publication.

  4. L. Su, D. Ma, “Design and Optimization of Integrated Low-Voltage Low-Power Monolithic CMOS Charge Pumps,” 19th IEEE International Symp. on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motions (SPEEDAM), Ischia, Italy, June 2008, accepted for publication.

  5. I. Chowdhury, D. Ma, "An Integrated Reconfigurable Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with a Dual-Loop Adaptive Gain-Pulse Control", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seattle, USA, May 2008, accepted for publication.

  6. A. Mitev, M. Marefact, D. Ma, J. Wang, "Principle Hessian Direction based Parameter Reduction for Interconnect Networks with Process Variation", IEEE/ACM International Conference on CAD (ICCAD), pp. 632-637, San Jose, CA, USA, Sept. 2007. [pdf] (Best Paper Award Nomination)

  7. M. Song, D. Ma, "A Fast-Transient Over-Sampled Delta-Sigma Adaptive DC-DC Converter for Power-Efficient Noise-Sensitive Devices", IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics (ISLPED), pp. 286-291, Portland, OR, USA, August 2007.

  8. F. Luo, D. Ma, "An Integrated Switching Power Converter with a Hybrid Pulse-Train/PWM Control", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 305-308, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2007. [pdf]

  9. A. Mitev, M. Marefact, D. Ma, J. Wang, "Parameter Reduction for Variability Analysis by Slice Inverse Regression (SIR) Method", IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), pp. 468-473, Yokohama, Japan, Jan. 2007. [pdf]

  10. H. Chao, D. Ma, M. Koen, P. Prazak, "CMOS Low-Power Variable-Gain CMFB-Free Current Feedback Amplifier for Ultrasound Diagnostic Applications", IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), pp. 427-430, Hangzhou, China, Nov. 13-15, 2006.

  11. D. Ma, V. Vazquas, "Adaptive Switching Power Converter with Dual-Loop Switched-Capacitor Controller and On-Chip Output Capacitor", 32nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 524-527, Montreux, Switzerland, Sept. 18-22, 2006.

  12. N. S. Mohan, D. Ma, "Low-Ripple CMOS Switched-Capacitor Power Converter With Closed-Loop Interleaving Regulation", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conferences (CICC), pp. 245-248, Sept. 2006.

  13. K. Sanborn, D. Ma, I. Vadim, "A Sub-1V Low-Noise Bandgap Voltage Reference", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conferences (CICC), pp. 607-610, Sept. 2006. 

  14. F. Luo, D. Ma, "A periodically Kicked Chaos Circuit For Rank-One Attractor Generation", IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 2006, accepted for publication.

  15. D. Ma, "Robust Multiple-Phase Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter With Digital Interleaving Regulation Scheme", IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics (ISLPED), pp. 400-405, Germany 2006. [pdf]

  16. D. Ma, J. Wang, P. Vazquaz "Adaptive On-Chip Power Supply With Robust One-Cycle Control Technique", IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics (ISLPED), pp. 394-399, Germany 2006. [pdf]

  17. D. Ma, "Automatic Substrate Switching Circuit for On-Chip Adaptive Power Supply System," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2757-2760, Greece, 2006. [pdf]

  18. N. S. Mohan, D. Ma, "Integrated Low-Ripple-Voltage Fast-Response Switched-Capacitor Power Converter with Interleaving Regulation Scheme", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3129-3133, Greece, 2006. [pdf]

  19. H. Chao, D. Ma, "CMOS Variable-Gain Wide-Bandwidth CMFB-Free Differential Current Feedback Amplifier for Ultrasound Diagnostic Applications", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), pp. 649-653, Greece 2006. [pdf]

  20. J. Wang, B. Srinivas, D. Ma, C. Chen, J. Li, "System-Level Power and Thermal Modeling and Analysis by Orthogonal Polynomial based Response Surface Approach”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 728-735, 2005. [pdf]

  21. D. Ma, J. Wang, N. S. Mohan, Z. Hu, “Design and Optimization on Dynamic Power System for Self-Powered Integrated Wireless Sensing Nodes,” IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics (ISLPED), pp. 303-306, Aug. 2005. [pdf]

  22. Z. Hu and D. Ma, “A Pseudo-CCM Buck Converter with Freewheel Switching Control,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3083-3086, May 2005. [pdf]

  23. C. Zhang, D. Ma, “Integrated Adaptive DC/DC Conversion with Adaptive Pulse-Train Technique for Low-Ripple Fast-Response Regulation”, IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics (ISLPED), pp. 257-262, Aug. 2004. [pdf]

  24. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, “Fast Adaptive DC-DC Conversion Using Dual-Loop One-Cycle Control in Standard Digital CMOS Process,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference- Asia & South Pacific, pp. 539-540, Jan. 2004. (Best Design Award)

  25. H. Lam, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui and D. Ma, “Integrated 0.9V Charge-Control Switching Converter with Self-Biased Current Sensor,” IEEE Intl. Midwest Symp. on Ckts & Syst, July 2004. [pdf]

  26. H. Y. H. Lam, W-H Ki and D. Ma, “Loop Gain Analysis and Development of High-Speed High-Accuracy Current Sensors for Switching Converters,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems, pp. 828-831, May 2004. [pdf]

  27. D. Ma, V. Tam, W-H Ki and H. Lam, “A CAD Simulator Based on Loop Gain Measurement for Switching Converters,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems, pp.940-943, Canada, May 2004. [pdf]

  28. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, "A Fast-Response Adaptive-Output Switching Converter with On-Chip Dual-Loop One-Cycle Control", IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC), pp. 379-382, Italy, Sept. 2002.

  29. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, “A Pseudo-CCM / DCM SIMO Switching Converter with Freewheel Switching”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), pp. 390-391, San Francisco, Feb. 2002. [pdf]

  30. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui and P. K. T. Mok, "Single Inductor Multiple Output Converters with Bipolar Outputs", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 301-304, Sydney, Australia, May 2001. [pdf]

  31. W-H Ki, D. Ma, "Single Inductor Multiple Output Switching Converters", IEEE Power Electronic Specialist Conference (PESC), Vol. 1, pp. 226-231, Vancouver, June 2001. [pdf]

  32. D. Ma, W-H Ki, “Single-Inductor Dual-Output Integrated Boost Converter for Portable Applications,” 4th IEEE Workshop on Switch Mode Power Converter, pp. 42-52, 2001.

  33. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui and P. K.T. Mok, "Single Inductor Dual Output Converter for Power Reduction Techniques", IEEE VLSI Symposium on Circuits (VLSI), pp. 137-140, Japan, June 2001. [pdf]

  34. K-K Kan, K-C Mak, D. Ma and H. C. Luong, "A 2-V 900-MHz CMOS Mixer for GSM Receivers," IEEE Intrnational Symposium on Circuits & Systems, pp. 327-330, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2000.

Granted U.S. Patents

  1. D. Ma, C. Zhang, “Thermal Compensation Method for CMOS Integrated Digital Circuits Using Temperature-Adaptive Digital DC/DC Converter,” US Patent No. 7,345,460, March 18, 2008.

  2. I. Chowdhury, D. Ma, Invention Disclosure UA08-049, Nov. 21, 2007.

  3. D. Ma, W-H Ki, C-Y Tsui, “Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Switching Converters in PCCM with Freewheel Switching,” US Patent No. US2004201281, Oct. 14, 2004.

Ph. D Thesis

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D. Ma, "Integrated Single-Inductor Multiple-Output And Adaptive DC-DC Conversion for Efficient Power Management," Ph. D Thesis, HKUST 2003.