Elad Alon

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Communications & Networking (COMNET)
• Design of Electronic Systems (DES)
• Energy (ENE)
• Integrated Circuits (INC)

Research Centers

• Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
• Integrated Modeling Process and Computation for Technology (IMPACT)

Teaching Schedule (Fall 2009)

• EE 141. Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits, TT 11:00-12:30P, 155 Kroeber
• EE 298-3. Integrated Circuits, M 4:00-5:00P, 521 Cory

Biography

He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001, 2002, and 2006, respectively. In Jan. 2007, he joined the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where he is now a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has also held visiting positions at Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on integrated circuits for a variety of applications using bulk and SOI processes from 130nm down to 45nm. His research focuses on the design and implementation of energy-efficient integrated systems and the circuits/technologies that comprise them.

Selected Publications

• C. Marcu, D. Chowdhury, C. Thakkar, L. Kong, M. Tabesh, J. Park, Y. Wang, B. Afshar, A. Gupta, A. Arbabian, S. Gambini, R. Zamani, A. Niknejad, and E. Alon, "A 90nm CMOS Low-Power 60GHz Transceiver with Integrated Baseband Circuitry," in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, 2009, pp. 314-315.
• F. Chen, H. Kam, D. Markovic, T. King Liu, V. Stojanovic, and E. Alon, "Integrated Circuit Design with NEM Relays," in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2008.
• E. Alon and M. Horowitz, "Integrated Regulation for Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 1795-1807, Aug. 2008.
• E. Alon, J. Kim, S. Pamarti, K. Chang, and M. Horowitz, "Replica Compensated Linear Regulators for Supply-Regulated Phase-Locked Loops," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 413-424, Feb. 2006.
• V. Abramzon, E. Alon, B. Nezamfar, and M. Horowitz, "Scalable Circuits for Supply Noise Measurement," in Proc. 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC 2005), L. Fesquet, A. Kaiser, S. Cristoloveanu, and M. Brillouet, Eds., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2005, pp. 463-466.
• E. Alon, V. Stojanovic, and M. A. Horowitz, "Circuits and Techniques for High-Resolution Measurement of On-Chip Power Supply Noise," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 820-828, April 2005.
• K. Chang, S. Pamarti, K. Kaviani, E. Alon, X. Shi, T. J. Chin, J. Shen, G. Yip, C. Madden, R. Schmitt, C. Yuan, F. Assaderaghi, and M. Horowitz, "Clocking and Circuit Design for a Parallel I/O on a First-Generation CELL Processor," in 52nd IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC 2005) Digest of Technical Papers, L. C. Fujino, Ed., Vol. 48, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2005, pp. 526-527, 615.
• E. Alon, V. Stojanovic, J. M. Kahn, S. Boyd, and M. Horowitz, "Equalization of Modal Dispersion in Multimode Fiber using Spatial Light Modulators," in Proc. 2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (GLOBECOM '04), Vol. 2, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2004, pp. 1023-1029.