Assistant Professor, ECE Department

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB, Canada

Email  : masum@ualberta.ca

Masum Hossain

Publications

Selected Journal Papers:

 

N. Khan, M. Hossain and K.L.E. Law, “A Low Power Frequency Synthesizer for 60-GHz Wireless Personal Area Networks,”IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, pp. 622 – 626, October 2011. (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II Top 10 Download, October 2011)

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “7.4 Gb/s 6.8 mW Source Synchronous Receiver in 65 nm CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, pp. 1337 – 1348, June 2011.

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone “10 Gb/s 70 mW AC Coupled burst mode CDR in 90-nm CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) pp. 524 – 537, March 2010.

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “Multi-Gb/s Bit-by-Bit Receiverb Architectures for 1-D Partial Response Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. pp. 270-279, January 2010.

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “CMOS Oscillators for Clock Distribution and Injection-Locked Deskew,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, pp. 2138 – 2153, August 2009.(Invited Paper)(Journal of Solid-State Circuits Top 10 Download, August 2009)(IEEExplore Top 100 Download, August 2009)

M. Bichan, M. Hossain, A. Chan Carusone, "Frequency-Division Bidirectional Communication over Chip-to-chip Channels," IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, Special Issue on High-Speed I/O Channels, pp. 298-305, May 2009

B. Frank, M. Hossain, Y. Antar,“23 GHz Low Noise Amplifier using Parallel Feedback in 0.18 um CMOS,”  Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, May 2005

B. Frank, M. Hossain, G. Feng Y. Antar, “Coupled loops at 20 GHz for stacked planar circuits,” Electronics Letters, Vol.43, Iss.9, April 26 2007, pp – 513-514

M. Hossain, B. Frank, Y. Antar,“A Low Voltage Highly Linear 24 GHz Down Conversion Mixer in 0.18-um CMOS,” Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol.49, Iss.10, July 2007, pp – 2547-255

Selected Conference Papers:

 

M. Hossain et al., “A 6.4/3.2/1.6 Gb/s Low Power Interface with All Digital Clock Multiplier for On-the-Fly Rate Switching,” Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, California, September 2012

 

F. O'Mahony, B. Casper, M. Mansuri, M. Hossain, “A programmable phase rotator based on time-modulated injection-locking,” Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2010.

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “A 6.8mW 7.4Gb/s clock-forwarded receiver with up to 300MHz jitter tracking in 65nm CMOS,”International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, California, February 2010.

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “20 GHz QVCO and deskew techniques in 0.13 um digital CMOS,” Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, California, September 2008. (Best Student Paper Award)

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “A 14-Gb/s 32 mW AC Coupled Receiver in 90-nm CMOS,” Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, Japan, June 2007.

 

M. Hossain and A. Chan Carusone, “A 19-GHz Broadband Amplifier Using a gm-Boosted Cascode in 0.18-μm CMOS,” Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, California, September 2006.

 

M. Hossain, B. Frank, Y. Antar, “Performance of a Low Voltage Highly Linear 24 GHz      Down Conversion Mixer in 0.18 um CMOS,” IEEE 6th Topical Meeting on Silicon  Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, January 2006, San Diego, CA.