Filip Tavernier

I am an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven in the MICAS research division. I am leading the research on the CMOS integration of novel optical communication circuits, high-performance data converters, DC-DC converters, and cryogenic circuits. I am a member of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) and Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) technical program committees. I am the treasurer of the SSCS Benelux Chapter and SSCS Webinar chair.

Filip Tavernier

Academic staff

Analog and power management circuits

Mixed-signal circuits and data converters

Wireline and Optical Circuits

Quantum and cryogenic circuits

+3216321085

filip.tavernier@esat.kuleuven.be

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Current research topics

Integrating a 90V to 5V DC-DC converter for high-voltage battery management systems. - PHD students: Tim Rens
Scalable large array nanopore readouts for proteomics and next-generation sequencing - PHD students: Sander Crols
Fully Integrating High-Voltage DC-DC and AC-DC Conversion - PHD students: Tuur Van Daele
Cryo-CMOS circuits for the Einstein Telescope - PHD students: Alberto Gatti
Pixel-Parallel Conversion for Image Sensors - PHD students: Rico Jossel Maestro
A high-speed, energy-efficient time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter - PHD students: Zongyuan Li
High Speed×Resolution Nyquist A/D Conversion for Low-Latency Applications - PHD students: Jun Feng
Cryo-CMOS circuits for quantum computing - PHD students: Bram Veraverbeke
Sub-bandgap light detection in bulk CMOS

Career overview

2020 - Associate Professor - KU Leuven
2015 - Assistant Professor - KU Leuven
2014 - Postdoc - KU Leuven
2011 - Senior Fellow - CERN
2005 - Ph.D. Researcher - KU Leuven

Publications

T. Thielemans and F. Tavernier, “Boosting Wide-Range Conversion Efficiency With Dynamic Voltage-Domain Stacking,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 14944–14954, 2022, doi: 10.1109/tpel.2022.3189430.
T. Van Daele and F. Tavernier, “A 400-to-12 V Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Achieving 119 mW/mm2 at 63.6 % Efficiency,” presented at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022.
A. Ramkaj, M. J. M. Pelgrom, M. S. J. Steyaert, and F. Tavernier, “In the Pursuit of the Optimal Accuracy–Speed–Power Analog-to-Digital Converter Architecture: A mathematical framework,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 45–53, 2022, doi: 10.1109/mssc.2021.3128310.
W. Diels, M. Steyaert, and F. Tavernier, “1310/1550 nm Optical Receivers With Schottky Photodiode in Bulk CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1776–1784, 2020.
A. T. Ramkaj, J. C. Pena Ramos, M. J. M. Pelgrom, M. S. J. Steyaert, M. Verhelst, and F. Tavernier, “A 5-GS/s 158.6-mW 9.4-ENOB Passive-Sampling Time-Interleaved Three-Stage Pipelined-SAR ADC With Analog-Digital Corrections in 28-nm CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1553–1564, 2020, doi: 10.1109/jssc.2019.2960476.

Awards & honors

2021 - SSCS Senior Member
2021-2022 - SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Author of:
- 41 journal articles
- 2 books
- 1 book chapter
- 38 conference proceedings
- 8 abstracts/presentations/posters
- 5 Ph.D. theses