Filip Tavernier

I am an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of KU Leuven, in the MICAS research division. My research covers analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, with a focus on circuits that enable emerging applications in communication, computing and quantum technology. Current topics include:

High-speed time-interleaved ADCs for high-speed communication
Cryogenic CMOS circuits for the readout and control of qubits
Pixel and converter design for imagers
Integrated DC-DC converters with a focus on high-voltage for robotics and electric vehicles

I serve as SSCS Associate Vice President for Education and as chair of the SSCS Benelux Chapter. I am a member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in the Technology Directions subcommittee, and of the European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), in the analog subcommittee. I have served as Associate Editor and reviewer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters and the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

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

Integrated high-voltage DC-DC converter for battery management systems applications - PHD students: Robbe Stassart
Ultra-High-Speed Analog Front Ends for Time-Interleaved ADCs - PHD students: Tim Borremans
Ultra-High-Speed ADCs for Wireline Communication - PHD students: Shuangmu Li
Low noise CMOS image sensor - PHD students: Prayag Wakale
Monolithic Optical Clock Receiver with Integrated Schottky Photodiode - PHD students: Arnaud Van Mieghem
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, High-Linearity Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converter - PHD students: Zongyuan Li
High-Speed Precision ADCs for the Next-Generation of Low-Power, Low-Latency Sensing and Communication - PHD students: Jun Feng
Cryo-CMOS Data Converters 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

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 J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1553–1564, Jun. 2020.
A. Ramkaj, M. Strackx, M. S. J. Steyaert, and F. Tavernier, “A 1.25-GS/s 7-b SAR ADC with 36.4-dB SNDR at 5 GHz using switch-bootstrapping, USPC DAC and triple-tail comparator in 28-nm CMOS,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1889–1901, Jul. 2018.
B. Veraverbeke and F. Tavernier, “A cryo-CMOS 800-MS/s 7-bit charge-injection SAR ADC with only 4-fF input capacitance and 64-dB SFDR in 40-nm bulk CMOS,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 4532–4542, Dec. 2025.
T. Van Daele and F. Tavernier, “Monolithic 230-VRMS-to-12-VDC AC-DC converter at 9 mW/mm² enabled by a 31–325-VDC input range capacitive multi-ratio DC-DC converter,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1067–1077, Apr. 2024.
W. Diels, M. Steyaert, and F. Tavernier, “1310/1550 nm optical receivers with Schottky photodiode in bulk CMOS,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1776–1784, Jul. 2020.

Awards & honors

2021 - SSCS Senior Member
2021-2022 - SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
Author of:
- 69 journal articles
- 3 books
- 2 book chapter
- 52 conference proceedings
- 2 invited lectures
- 13 abstracts/presentations/posters
- 10 PhD theses