dr. Gao
PhD student
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics
PhD thesis (Dec 2023): Digitally Intensive Frequency Synthesis and Modulation Exploiting a Time-mode Arithmetic Unit
Promotor: Masoud Babaie, Bogdan Staszewski
Biography
Zhong Gao is a Ph.D. candidate researcher at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), since Jan. 2019. He received the BSc degree from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2011 and MSc degree from University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2014. Before joining TU Delft, he worked on wireless transceiver design in Altobeam Inc., Beijing, China.
Publications
- A 4×Two-Way mm-Wave Doherty CMOS PA
Kumaran, Anil Kumar; Wu, Yizhuo; Pashaeifar, Masoud; Nachouane, Hamza; Gao, Chang; Cornelis Nicolaas de Vreede, Leonardus; Alavi, Morteza S.;
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
Volume 73, Issue 10, pp. 7482-7499, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3569155
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Impedance;Power combiners;Power amplifiers;Power generation;Bandwidth;Peak to average power ratio;Inductors;5G mobile communication;Capacitors;CMOS technology;Adaptive biasing;artificial intelligence (AI);compact;digital predistortion (DPD);Doherty;lumped components;millimeter-wave (mm-wave);power amplifier (PA);power combiner;three-stage;voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). - DeltaDPD: Exploiting Dynamic Temporal Sparsity in Recurrent Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Wideband Digital Predistortion
Wu, Yizhuo; Zhu, Yi; Qian, Kun; Chen, Qinyu; Zhu, Anding; Gajadharsing, John; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Gao, Chang;
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters,
Volume 35, Issue 6, pp. 772-775, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/LMWT.2025.3565004
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Vectors;Recurrent neural networks;Wideband;Radio frequency;Predistortion;Artificial neural networks;Logic gates;Computational modeling;Arithmetic;Wireless communication;Digital predistortion (DPD);digital signal processing (DSP);power amplifier (PA);recurrent neural network (RNN);temporal sparsity. - TCN-DPD: Parameter-Efficient Temporal Convolutional Networks for Wideband Digital Predistortion
Duan, Huanqiang; Versluis, Manno; Chen, Qinyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Gao, Chang;
In 2025 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2025,
pp. 1103-1106, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/IMS40360.2025.11103923
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Radio frequency;Measurement;Predistortion;Hardware;Microwave amplifiers;Convolutional neural networks;Wideband;temporal convolutional networks;power amplifiers;digital predistortion;behavioral modeling;dilated convolution. - DPD-NeuralEngine: A 22-nm 6.6-TOPS/W/mm2 Recurrent Neural Network Accelerator for Wideband Power Amplifier Digital Pre-Distortion
Li, Ang; Wu, Haolin; Wu, Yizhuo; Chen, Qinyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Gao, Chang;
In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
pp. 1-5, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043563
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Wireless communication;Power measurement;Measurement uncertainty;Power amplifiers;Artificial neural networks;Throughput;Hardware;Vectors;Software;Wideband;Deep Neural Network;Digital Pre-distortion;Software-Hardware Co-Design;ASIC;FPGA. - MP-DPD: Low-Complexity Mixed-Precision Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Digital Predistortion of Wideband Power Amplifiers
Wu, Yizhuo; Li, Ang; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Singh, Gagan Deep; Chen, Qinyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza; Gao, Chang;
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters,
Volume 34, Issue 6, pp. 817-820, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/LMWT.2024.3386330
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Power demand;Quantization (signal);Neural networks;Logic gates;Energy efficiency;Wideband;Data models;Digital systems;Deep neural network (DNN);digital predistortion (DPD);digital transmitter (DTX);power amplifier (PA);quantization. - OpenDPD: An Open-Source End-to-End Learning & Benchmarking Framework for Wideband Power Amplifier Modeling and Digital Pre-Distortion
Wu, Yizhuo; Singh, Gagan Deep; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza; Gao, Chang;
In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
pp. 1-5, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558162
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Codes;Transmitters;OFDM;Power amplifiers;Artificial neural networks;Documentation;Benchmark testing;digital pre-distortion;behavioral modeling;deep neural network;power amplifier;digital transmitter. - A Low-Spur Fractional-N PLL Based on a Time-Mode Arithmetic Unit
Gao, Zhong; He, Jingchu; Fritz, Martin; Gong, Jiang; Shen, Yiyu; Zong, Zhirui; Chen, Peng; Spalink, Gerd; Eitel, Ben; Alavi, Morteza S.; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Babaie, Masoud;
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
pp. 1-20, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3209338 - A 2.6-to-4.1GHz Fractional-N Digital PLL Based on a Time-Mode Arithmetic Unit Achieving -249.4dB FoM and -59dBc Fractional Spurs
Gao, Zhong; He, Jingchu; Fritz, Martin; Gong, Jiang; Shen, Yiyu; Zong, Zhirui; Chen, Peng; Spalink, Gerd; Eitel, Ben; Yamamoto, Ken; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Alavi, Morteza S.; Babaie, Masoud;
In 2022 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
pp. 380-382, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42614.2022.9731561 - A DPLL-Based Phase Modulator Achieving -46dB EVM with A Fast Two-Step DCO Nonlinearity Calibration and Non-Uniform Clock Compensation
Gao, Zhong; Fritz, Martin; He, Jingchu; Spalink, Gerd; Staszewski, Robert Bogdan; Alavi, Morteza S.; Babaie, Masoud;
In 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits,
pp. 14-15, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/VLSITechnologyandCir46769.2022.9830398 - Recurrent Neural Network Control of a Hybrid Dynamic Transfemoral Prosthesis with EdgeDRNN Accelerator
C*. Gao; R*. Gehlhar; A. D Ames; S.-C. Liu; T. Delbruck;
In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2020. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196984 - A digital to time converter with fully digital calibration scheme for ultra-low power ADPLL in 40 nm CMOS
B. Wang; Y. H. Liu; P. Harpe; J. van den Heuvel; B. Liu; H. Gao; R. B. Staszewski;
In 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
pp. 2289-2292, May 2015. - BiCMOS integrated waveguide power combiner at submillimeter-wave frequencies
Alonso-delPino, M.; Cavallo, D.; Thippur-Shivamurthy, H.; Gao, H.; Spirito, M.;
In 2015 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz),
pp. 1-2, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327937
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Metals;Power combiners;BiCMOS integrated circuits;Permittivity;Dielectrics;Silicon germanium;Pins.
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Last updated: 26 Apr 2024
Zhong Gao
Alumnus- Left in 2023