Citations

*Co-First Authors

2026

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A 1.92µm Pitch Current-Controlled Oscillator ADC Array Featuring Charge-Injection-Based Two-Stage Conversion for In-Memory Computing
David Iselin, Kyeongwon Jeong, Tim Keller, Giorgio Cristiano, Kwantae Kim, Woojun Choi, Oscar Toomey, Abhairaj Singh, Athanasios Vasilopoulos, Abu Sebastian, Manuel Le Gallo, Taekwang Jang
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2026

2025

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A Unipolar IGZO TFT-Based 9.23 μW Operational Amplifier Achieving 73.7 dB Loop Gain and 554.6 kHz Bandwidth
Zhenhan Wang, Kwantae Kim
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BIOCAS), 2025
📚 Open-Sourced Design Parameters
IEEE CASS Student Travel Grant Award
An 8.62-µW 75-dB DRSoC Fully-Integrated SoC for Spoken Language Understanding
Sheng Zhou, Zixiao Li, Longbiao Cheng, Jérôme Hadorn, Chang Gao, Qinyu Chen, Tobi Delbruck, Kwantae Kim, Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2025
A 2.3nA-to-205nA Clock-Tunable Dynamic Current Reference with a Built-in 2nd-Order Current-Mode Low-Pass Filter and Coarse-Fine Regulation
Kaiyuan Jiang, Youngwoo Ji, Marko Kosunen, Kwantae Kim
IEEE International NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS), 2025
📚 Open-Sourced Design Parameters
A 2.48 μW 33.13 nV/√Hz Instrumentation Amplifier for Bio-Impedance Sensors with Source Degenerated Current Mirror and DTMOS Transistor
Yu Xue, Kwantae Kim
IEEE International NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS), 2025
📚 Open-Sourced Design Parameters
Invited to IEEE TCAS-I
IEEE CASS Student Travel Grant Award
DeltaKWS: A 65nm 36nJ/Decision Bio-inspired Temporal-Sparsity-Aware Digital Keyword Spotting IC with 0.6V Near-Threshold SRAM
Qinyu Chen*, Kwantae Kim*, Chang Gao*, Sheng Zhou, Taekwang Jang, Tobi Delbruck, Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI), 2025
An 8.62μW, 75dB DRSoC End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding SoC with Channel-Level AGC and Temporal-Sparsity-Aware Streaming-Mode RNN
Sheng Zhou, Zixiao Li, Tobi Delbruck, Kwantae Kim, Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2025
📚 Invited to IEEE JSSC
Demonstration Session Award

2024

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Bringing Dynamic Sparsity to the Forefront for Low-Power Audio Edge Computing: Brain-inspired approach for sparsifying network updates
Shih-Chii Liu, Sheng Zhou, Zixiao Li, Chang Gao, Kwantae Kim, Tobi Delbruck
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2024
Open-Source Silicon—Unleashing Innovation and Collaboration
Matthew Guthaus, Kwantae Kim, Francisco Brito-Filho, Satoshi Kawakami, Boris Murmann
IEEE Design & Test, 2024

2023

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Neuro-CIM: ADC-Less Neuromorphic Computing-in-Memory Processor With Operation Gating/Stopping and Digital–Analog Networks
Sangyeob Kim; Sangjin Kim; Soyeon Um; Soyeon Kim; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2023
High-Accuracy and Energy-Efficient Acoustic Inference using Hardware-Aware Training and a 0.34nW/Ch Full-Wave Rectifier
Sheng Zhou*; Xi Chen*; Kwantae Kim; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2023
Best Poster Award
Continuous-Time Analog Filters for Audio Edge Intelligence: Review on Circuit Designs
Kwantae Kim; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2023
🎉 Top-1 in the Most Popular Articles in IEEE CAS Magazine (Sep. ~ Oct. 2023)
An Area-Efficient Ultra-Low-Power Time-Domain Feature Extractor for Edge Keyword Spotting
Qinyu Chen; Yaoxing Chang; Kwantae Kim; Chang Gao; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2023
A 3.11 μW 40 nV/√Hz Instrumentation Amplifier for Bio-Impedance Sensors Exploiting Positive-Feedback-Assisted Gain Boosting
Kwantae Kim; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2023
📚 Open-Sourced Design Parameters

2022

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Energy-Efficient Activity-driven Computing Architectures for Edge Intelligence
Shih-Chii Liu; Chang Gao; Kwantae Kim; Tobi Delbruck
IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2022
A 23-μW Keyword Spotting IC With Ring-Oscillator-Based Time-Domain Feature Extraction
Kwantae Kim; Chang Gao; Rui Graça; Ilya Kiselev; Hoi-Jun Yoo; Tobi Delbruck; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2022
🎉 Highlighted in the IEEExplore Main Page (Sep. ~ Oct. 2023)
🎉 Top-2 in the Most Popular Articles in IEEE JSSC (Sep. ~ Oct. 2023)
Design of Sub-10-μW Sub-0.1% THD Sinusoidal Current Generator IC for Bio-Impedance Sensing
Kwantae Kim; Sangyeob Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2022
Open-Sourced MATLAB/Verilog Code in PhD Thesis
Relevant Publication
Neuro-CIM: A 310.4 TOPS/W Neuromorphic Computing-in-Memory Processor with Low WL/BL activity and Digital-Analog Mixed-mode Neuron Firing
Sangyeob Kim; Sangjin Kim; Soyeon Um; Soyeon Kim; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Hot Chips Symposium (HCS), 2022
FlashMAC: A Time-Frequency Hybrid MAC Architecture With Variable Latency-Aware Scheduling for TinyML Systems
Surin Gweon; Sanghoon Kang; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2022
Neuro-CIM: A 310.4 TOPS/W Neuromorphic Computing-in-Memory Processor with Low WL/BL activity and Digital-Analog Mixed-mode Neuron Firing
Sangyeob Kim; Sangjin Kim; Soyeon Um; Soyeon Kim; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (S.VLSI), 2022
A 23μW Solar-Powered Keyword-Spotting ASIC with Ring-Oscillator-Based Time-Domain Feature Extraction
Kwantae Kim*; Chang Gao*; Rui Graça; Ilya Kiselev; Hoi-Jun Yoo; Tobi Delbruck; Shih-Chii Liu
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2022
📚 Invited to IEEE JSSC 2022

2021

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FlashMAC: An Energy-Efficient Analog-Digital Hybrid MAC with Variable Latency-Aware Scheduling
Surin Gweon; Sanghoon Kang; Donghyeon Han; Kyoung-Rog Lee; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2021

2020

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A 0.5-V Sub-10-μW 15.28-mΩ/√Hz Bio-Impedance Sensor IC With Sub-1° Phase Error
Kwantae Kim; Ji-Hoon Kim; Surin Gweon; Minseo Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2020
A 0.5V, 6.2μW, 0.059mm2 Sinusoidal Current Generator IC with 0.088% THD for Bio-Impedance Sensing
Kwantae Kim; Changhyeon Kim; Sungpill Choi; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (S.VLSI), 2020
A 9.6 mW/Ch 10 MHz Wide-bandwidth Electrical Impedance Tomography IC with Accurate Phase Compensation for Breast Cancer Detection
Jaehyuk Lee; Surin Gweon; Kwonjoon Lee; Soyeon Um; Kyoung-Rog Lee; Kwantae Kim; Jihee Lee; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2020

2019

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An Ultra-Low-Power Analog-Digital Hybrid CNN Face Recognition Processor Integrated with a CIS for Always-on Mobile Devices
Ji-Hoon Kim; Changhyeon Kim; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2019
93.8% Current Efficiency and 0.672 ns Transient Response Reconfigurable LDO for Wireless Sensor Network Systems
Surin Gweon; Jaehyuk Lee; Kwantae Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2019
A 7.0fps Optical and Electrical Dual Tomographic Imaging SoC for Skin-Disease Diagnosis System
Yongsu Lee; Kwantae Kim; Jiwon Lee; Kyoung-Rog Lee; Surin Gweon; Minseo Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2019
A 0.5V 9.26μW 15.28mΩ/√Hz Bio-Impedance Sensor IC With 0.55° Overall Phase Error
Kwantae Kim; Ji-Hoon Kim; Surin Gweon; Jiwon Lee; Minseo Kim; Yongsu Lee; Soyeon Kim; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2019
Silver Award in 2019 Samsung HumanTech paper competition

2017

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A 1.4-mΩ-Sensitivity 94-dB Dynamic-Range Electrical Impedance Tomography SoC and 48-Channel Hub-SoC for 3-D Lung Ventilation Monitoring System
Minseo Kim; Jaeeun Jang; Hyunki Kim; Jihee Lee; Jaehyuck Lee; Jiwon Lee; Kyoung-Rog Lee; Kwantae Kim; Yongsu Lee; Kyuho Jason Lee; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2017
An Adaptive DC-Balanced and Multi-Mode Stimulator IC with 1GΩ Output Impedance for Compact Electro-Acupuncture System
Jiwon Lee; Minseo Kim; Kwantae Kim; Kiseok Song; Sanghoon Lee; Weon Kim; Jong Shin Woo; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2017
A 24 μW 38.51 mΩrms Resolution Bio-Impedance Sensor with Dual Path Instrumentation Amplifier
Kwantae Kim; Kiseok Song; Kyeongryeol Bong; Jaehyuk Lee; Kwonjoon Lee; Yongsu Lee; Unsoo Ha; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2017
A 1.4mΩ-Sensitivity 94dB-Dynamic-Range Electrical Impedance Tomography SoC and 48-Channel Hub SoC for 3D Lung Ventilation Monitoring System
Minseo Kim; Hyunki Kim; Jaeeun Jang; Jihee Lee; Jaehyuk Lee; Jiwon Lee; Kyungrog Lee; Kwantae Kim; Yongsu Lee; Hoi-jun Yoo
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017
A 25.2mW EEG-NIRS Multimodal SoC for Accurate Anesthesia Depth Monitoring
Unsoo Ha; Jaehyuk Lee; Jihee Lee; Kwantae Kim; Minseo Kim; Taehwan Roh; Sangsik Choi; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017

2016

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A 54-μW Fast-Settling Arterial Pulse Wave Sensor for Wrist Watch Type System
Kwantae Kim; Minseo Kim; Hyunwoo Cho; Kwonjoon Lee; Seung-Tak Ryu; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2016
A 141μW Sensor SoC on OLED/OPD Substrate for SpO2/ExG Monitoring Sticker
Yongsu Lee; Hyeonwoo Lee; Jaeeun Jang; Jihee Lee; Minseo Kim; Jaehyuk Lee; Hyunki Kim; Kyoung-Rog Lee; Kwantae Kim; Hyunwoo Cho; Seunghyup Yoo; Hoi-Jun Yoo
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016




Acknowledgments
Thanks to Zuowen Wang for taking an awesome photo!