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Jorge Ignacio Marin Niño de Zepeda

Investigador Asociado

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaíso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


My research focuses on designing and testing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), with emphasis on low-power sensors and interfaces for harsh environments in CMOS. I also work on IoT power ICs and integrated power converters using SiC.

Educación

  •  Ciencias de la Ingeniería, mención Eléctrica, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2009
  •  Ingeniero Civil Electricista, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Ciencias de la Ingeniería, mención Eléctrica, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Electrical Engineering, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KUL). Bélgica, 2012
  •  Electrical Engineering, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KUL). Chile, 2019

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor part-time Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES

    Chile

    2008 - 2010

  •   Profesor ayudante Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile

    2009 - 2010

  •   Profesor ayudante Part Time

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KUL)

    Bélgica

    2012 - 2018

  •   Profesor part-time Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile

    2022 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Intern Part Time

    Synopsys R&D Center Chile

    Chile

    2007 - 2009

  •   Corporate Application Engineer Full Time

    Synopsys R&D Center Chile

    Chile

    2009 - 2010

  •   Analog Design Engineer Full Time

    ICSense

    Bélgica

    2018 - 2020

  •   Analog Design Engineer Full Time

    Sony Depthsensing Solutions

    Bélgica

    2020 - 2021

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering/ UTFSM

    Chile

    2021 - 2023

Formación de Capital Humano


Thesis guidance:

(1) Undergraduate thesis co-advisor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Academic year 2023
• Student: Matias Fuentes
• Title: Familiarizacion de plataforma Merus Audio Infineon

(2) Master thesis daily supervisor, KU Leuven, Academic year 2015-2016
• Student: Tomas Vetters
• Title: Design of an On-Chip Temperature Monitoring for Automotive Sensors


Difusión y Transferencia


Workshops and Presentations

1. ”Analog integrated circuit design using opensource software tools and PDKs”, Tutorial, LASCAS 2024

2. ”Low-Cost Development of Sensors and Power Management Integrated Circuit using Open-Source CMOS technologies”, Invited talk, Integracon 2023

3. ”Desarrollo de bajo costo de circuitos integrados para sensores y administración de potencia en ambientes hostiles”, Invited talk, 2do Workshop de Instrumentación en Geociencias: Física Espacial

4. ”Robust and area-efficient time-based CMOS sensor interfaces for IoT applications”, Plenary talk, 2023 Argentine Conference on Electronics (CAE)

Student initiative mentoring

(1) IEEE SSCS Open-Source Chipathon 2022
“Three-Level Flying Capacitor DC-DC Buck Converter for High-Efficiency Energy Power Sources in CubeSat Applications,” Selected project in Open-Source Chipathon 2022, SSCS, IEEE, Jul. 2022

(2) IEEE SSCS Open-Source Chipathon 2023
“Lab-on-chip SAR ADC and LDO,” Selected project in Open-Source Chipathon 2023, SSCS, IEEE, Jul. 2023



 

Article (8)

Analysis and Design of an SiC CMOS Three-Channel DC-DC Synchronous Buck Converter for High-Temperature Applications
On the Experimental Verification of Electrothermal Modeling of GaN-HEMT-based DC-DC Converters
Open-Source Multilevel Converter Power IC Design and Test
A Robust BBPLL-Based 0.18-μm CMOS Resistive Sensor Interface With High Drift Resilience Over a-40 °C-175 °C Temperature Range
Performance Limitation Analysis of Highly-Digital Time-Based Closed-Loop Sensor-to-Digital Converter Architectures
Modeling and Analysis of Drift-Cancellation Techniques for Time-Based Integrated Resistive Sensor Interfaces
Digital-domain chopping technique for high-resolution PLL-based sensor interfaces
Time-Based Sensor Interface Circuits in CMOS and Carbon Nanotube Technologies

ConferencePaper (15)

Design and Automated Layout Generation of a PMIC Core in Skywater 130nm Open-Source Technology
Leveraging Lookup Tables for Efficient LDO Design Exploration using Open-Source CAD Tools and IHP-Open130-G2 PDK
SiC CMOS Gate Driver for High-Temperature Aerospace Applications
Thin gate oxide CMOS DC-DC Buck converter with floating gate drivers
Compact Time-Based Sensor-to-Digital Converters in Skywater 130nm Open-Source Technology
Design and Implementation of Integrated Circuits Using Open Source Tools and SKY130 Free PDK
Generalized Switch-Control Scheme for a Family of T-Type DAB GaN-based DC-DC Converters in EV Powertrain Applications
High Power Density Electric Vehicle Powertrain Based on a T-Type DAB Partial Power DC-DC Converter
Integrated Three-Level Flying Capacitor DC-DC Buck Converter for CubeSat Applications
Finite Control Set MPC for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Asymmetric Multiport Converter
A Single-Temperature-Calibration 0.18-µm CMOS Time-Based Resistive Sensor Interface with Low Drift over a −40°C to 175°C Temperature Range
Controlled-Oscillator Optimization for Highly-Digital CMOS Time-Based Sensor-to-Digital Converter Architectures
Improving the robustness and drift resilience of CMOS BBPLL-based time-based sensor interfaces
Analysis and Modeling of Drift-Resilient Time-Based Integrated Resistive Sensor Interfaces
Digital-domain Chopping Technique for PLL-Based Sensor Interfaces

Proyecto (2)

Robust and Area-Efficient Time-Based Sensor Interface Integrated Circuits for Harsh-Environment Applications
C-SIDE: Calibrated Sensor Interfaces with Drift Enhancement
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Christian Rojas

Research Professor

Electronics

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Alan Wilson

Investigador Postdoctoral

Centro Avanzado de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica

Valparaíso, Chile

25
Jorge Marin

Investigador Asociado

AC3E

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaíso, Chile