Filip Tavernier

I am an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven in the MICAS research division. My research interests are analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, high-speed data converters, cryogenic circuits, DC-DC converters, and optical receivers.

I serve as SSCS Associate Vice President for Education and the SSCS Benelux Chapter treasurer. I am a regular member of the Technical Program Committee of the European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Student Research Preview Committee. I also serve regularly as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Solid-State Circuit 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

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, 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 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

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," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1067-1077, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3340976.
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.
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:
- 51 journal articles
- 2 books
- 1 book chapter
- 44 conference proceedings
- 10 abstracts/presentations/posters
- 8 PhD theses