Journal Papers 

  1. M. Safi-Harb, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Sawan, “A Time-Based Technique for Testing LC-Tank Oscillators,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I.

  2. E. Sarraf, B. Cousins, E. Cretu, and S. Mirabbasi, “Design and Implementation of a Novel Sliding Mode Controller Architecture for Highly Sensitive Micro-Accelerometers,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

  3. N. Nouri and S. Mirabbasi, “A 67-GHz Low-Phase-Noise Oscillator and Its Application in a Polar Transmitter,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s10470- 011-9747-x, pp. 1-10, August 2011.

  4. A.K. Ram Rakhyani, S. Mirabbasi, M. Chiao, “Design and Optimization of Resonance-Based Efficient Wireless Power Delivery Systems for Biomedical Implants,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 48-63, February 2011.

  5. S. Jalali Mazlouman, S. Sheikhaei, and S. Mirabbasi, "Digital Compensation Techniques for Frequency-Translating Hybrid Analog-to-Digital Converters," IEEE Tran. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 758-767, March 2011.

  6. M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, G. Lemieux, S. Mirabbasi, W. Dunford, and P. Palmer, "A 4 GHz Non-resonant Clock Driver with Inductor-assisted Energy Return to Power Grid," IEEE Tran. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 2099-2108, August 2010.

  7. M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, G. Lemieux, S. Mirabbasi, W. Dunford, and P. Palmer, "A Fully Integrated 660MHz Low-swing Energy-recycling DC-DC Converter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1475-1485, June 2009.

  8. E. Lee, G. Lemieux, and S. Mirabbasi, "Interconnect Driver Design for Long Wires in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, Springer, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 57-76, April 2008.

  9. B. Rahmatian and S. Mirabbasi, "A Low-Power 75-dB Digitally Programmable Variable-Gain Amplifier in 0.18µm CMOS," (IEEE Canada) Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 181-186, Fall 2007.

  10. S. Jalali Mazlouman and S. Mirabbasi, “A Frequency-Translating Hybrid Architecture for Wideband Analog-to-Digital Converters,”  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 54, no. 7, July 2007, pp. 576-580.

  11. P. Sameni, C. Siu, S. Mirabbasi, H. Djahanshahi, M. Hamour, K. Iniewski, and J. Chana, "Modeling and Characterization of VCOs with MOS Varactors for RF Transceivers," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special issue on CMOS RF Circuits for Wireless Applications, vol. 2006, Article ID 93712, 12 pages, 2006.

  12. R. Saleh, S. Wilton, S. Mirabbasi, A. Hu, M. Greenstreet, G. Lemieux, P. Pande, C. Grecu, and A. Ivanov, "System-on-Chip: Reuse and Integration," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, no. 6, June 2006, pp. 1050-1069.

  13. Z.S. Ebadi, S. Mirabbasi, and R. Saleh, "The Application of Complex Quantized Feedback in Integrated Wireless Receivers," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 53, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 594-603.

  14. S. Sheikhaei, S. Mirabbasi, A. Ivanov, "A 0.18µm CMOS Pipelined Encoder for a 5 GS/s 4-bit Flash Analogue-to-Digital Converter," Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 30, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 183-187.

  15. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "Design of prototype filter for near-perfect-reconstruction overlapped complex-modulated transmultiplexers," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 8, August 2003, pp. 456-469.

  16. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "Classical and Modern Receiver Architectures," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 11, November 2000, pp. 132-139.

  17. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "Hierarchical QAM: A Spectrally Efficient DC-FREE Modulation Scheme," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 11, November 2000, pp. 140-146.

  18. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "Design of Loop Filter in Phase-Locked Loops," Electronics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 21, October 1999, pp. 1801-1802.

  19. S. Mirabbasi, B.A. Francis, and T. Chen, "Controlling distortions in maximally decimated filter banks," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, July 1997, pp. 597-600.

Conference Papers

  1. P. Behnamfar and S. Mirabbasi, “A CMUT Read-Out Circuit with Improved Receive Sensitivity Using an Adaptive Biasing Technique,”  IEEE Biomedical Circuits and System Conference (BioCAS), Nov. 2011.

  2. M. Safi-Harb, M. Tariqus Salam, S. Mirabbasi, D. K. Nguyen, and M. Sawan, “A Low-Power High-Sensitivity CMOS Mixed-Signal Seizure-Onset Detector,” International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ’11), August 30 to September 3, 2011.

  3. J. Shiah, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, “A Low-Noise Parasitic-Insensitive Switched- Capacitor CMOS Interface Circuit for MEMS Capacitive Sensors,” IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, June 26-29 2011.

  4. M. Beikahmadi and S. Mirabbasi, “A Low-Power Low-Noise CMOS Charge-Sensitive Amplifier for Capacitive Detectors,” IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, June 2011 (Best Student Paper Award, Second Place).

  5. P. Kamalinejad, S. Mirabbasi, V.C.M. and Leung, “An Ultra-Low-Power SAR ADC with an Area-Efficient DAC Architecture,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2011.

  6. R. Molavi, S. Mirabbasi, and H. Djahanshahi, “27-GHz Low-Power Push-Push LC VCO with Wide Tuning Range in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE ISCAS, May 2011.

  7. A. Zargaran Yazd, S. Mirabbasi, and R. Saleh, “A 10 Gb/s Low-Power SerDes Receiver Based on a Hybrid Speculative/SAR Digitization Technique,” ISCAS, May 2011.

  8. M.S. Jalali, A. Sharif Bakhtiar, S. Mirabbasi, “A Hybrid Phase-Locked Loop for CDR Applications,” IEEE ISCAS, May 2011.

  9. X. Zhang, S. Mirabbasi, and L. Lampe, “A Temperature-Stable 60-dB Programmable-Gain Amplifier in 0.13-µm CMOS” IEEE ISCAS, May 2011.

  10. N. Sadeghi and S. Mirabbasi, “A Technique for Implementing Monolithic Resistors with Near- Zero Temperature Coefficient,” Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Eng. (CCECE), May 2011.

  11. N. Taherinejad, R. Rosales, S. Mirabbasi, and L. Lampe, “A Study on Access Impedance for Vehicular Power Line Communications,” IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, April 2011.

  12. P. Behnamfar and S. Mirabbasi, “Design of a High-Voltage Analog Front-End Circuit for Integration with CMUT Arrays,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Nov. 2010.

  13. S. Yang, R.J. Dorst, M.R. Greenstreet, S. Mirabbasi, and F. O’Mahony, “Varactor-Based Signal Restoration for Near-Speed-of-Light Surfing Global Interconnect,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2010.

  14. N. Nouri, M.R. Nezhad-Ahmadi, S. Mirabbasi, and S. Safavi, “Double-Balanced CMOS Mixer with on-Chip Balun for 60-GHz Receivers,” IEEE NEWCAS, June 2010.

  15. H. Rashtian, C. Majek, S. Mirabbasi, T. Taris, Y. Deval, J.B. Begueret, “On the Use of Body Biasing to Control Gain, Linearity, and Noise Figure of a mm-Wave CMOS LNA,” IEEE NEWCAS, June 2010. (Best Student Paper Award, Third Place)

  16. M.S. Jalali, A. Sharif Bakhtiar, and S. Mirabbasi, “A Charge-Pump with a High Output Swing for PLL and CDR Applications,” IEEE NEWCAS, June 2010.

  17. A. Sharif Bakhtiar, M.S. Jalali, and S. Mirabbasi, "An RF Power Harvesting System with Input-Tuning for Long-Range RFID Tags," IEEE Intenrnational Symposium on Circuits and Systems,  May-June 2010.

  18. J. Shiah, H. Rashtian, and S. Mirabbasi, "A Low-Noise High-Sensitivity Readout Circuit for MEMS Capacitive Sensors,"  to be presented at IEEE Intenrnational Symposium on Circuits and Systems,  May-June 2010.

  19. M. Safi-Harb, M. Sawan, and S. Mirabbasi, "Super-Regeneration-Inspired Time-Based Testing of LC-Tank Oscillators,"  to be presented at IEEE Intenrnational Symposium on Circuits and Systems,  May-June 2010.

  20. E. Liu, S. Mirabbasi, T.C.M. Graham, and C.P.J. Bennington, “Design and Calibration of a Flow-Following Sensor Prototype for Operation up to 175°C,” IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2010.

  21. A. Kumar, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Chiao, "Resonance-Based Wireless Power Delivery for Implantable Devices," IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), pp. 25-28, Novermber 2009.

  22. N. Sadeghi, S. Mirabbasi, and C.P.J. Bennington, "A 2.5 V 0.13 μm CMOS Amplifier for a High-Temperature Sensor System," Joint IEEE North-East Workshop on Circuits and Systems and TAISA Conference (NEWCAS-TAISA), June-July 2009.

  23. M. Mohammadi, L. Lampe, M. Lok, S. Mirabbasi, M. Mirvakili, R. Rosales, and P. van Veen, “Measurement Study and Transmission for In-Vehicle Power Line Communication,” International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), March-April 2009

  24. Y.-S. Lee, S. Sheikhaei, and S. Mirabbasi, "A 10Gb/s Active-Inductor Structure with Peaking Control in 90nm CMOS," IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Nov. 2008.

  25. D. Van Vorst and S. Mirabbasi, “Low-Power 1V 5.8GHz Bulk-Driven Mixer with On-Chip Balun in 0.18µm CMOS”, to be presented at IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Design, June 2008.

  26. D. Van Vorst and S. Mirabbasi, “Low-Voltage Bulk-Driven Mixer with on-Chip Balun,” to be presented at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008.

  27. Y.-S. M. Lee and S. Mirabbasi, “Design of an Active-Inductor-Based Termination Circuit for High-Speed I/O,” to be presented at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2008.

  28. M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, G. Lemieux, S. Mirabbasi, W. Dunford, and P. Palmer, “Energy Recovery from High-frequency Clocks using DC-DC Converters,” to be presented in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, April 2008

  29. G. Lemieux, M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, P. Palmer, and S. Mirabbasi, “SoC Energy Savings = Reduce+Reuse+Recycle: A Case Study Using a 660MHz DC-DC Converter with Integrated Output Filter,” to be presented in IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2008.

  30. M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, G. Lemieux, P. Palmer, S. Mirabbasi, and W. Dunford, “A 660MHz ZVS DC-DC Converter Using Gate-Driver Charge-Recycling in 0.18µm CMOS with an Integrated Output Filter,” IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, June 2008.

  31. S. Sheikhaei, S. Mirabbasi, A. Ivanov, “A 43mW Single-Channel 4GS/s 4-Bit Flash ADC in 0.18µm CMOS,” to be presented at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2007.

  32. M. Alimadadi, S. Sheikhaei, G. Lemieux, S. Mirabbasi, and P. Palmer, "A 3GHz Switching DC-DC Converter Using Clock-TreeCharge-Recycling in 90nm CMOS with Integrated Output Filter,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 532-533, February 2007.

  33. E. Lee, G. Lemieux, and S. Mirabbasi, “Interconnect Driver Design for Long Wires in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays,” IEEE International Conference of Field Programmable Technology, FPT, pp. 89-96, December 2006

  34. K. Allidina and S. Mirabbasi, "A Widely Tunable Active RF Filter Topology," Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2006.

  35. S. Au, S. Mirabbasi, L. Lampe, and R. Schober, "Per-Survivor Processing Viterbi Decoder for Bluetooth Applications," Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2006.

  36. R. Molavi, S. Mirabbasi, and R. Saleh, "A High-Speed Low-Energy Dynamic PLA Using Input-Isolation Scheme," Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2006.

  37. M. Hekmat, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Hashemi, "On the Behaviour of Passive Guard-Rings in Lightly-Doped Substrates," Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2006.

  38. Siu, K. Iniewski, M. Hamour, S. Mirabbasi, H. Djahanshahi, and J. Chana, "Modeling of MOS Varactors and Characterizing the Tuning Curve of a 5-6 GHz LC VCO," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 5071-5074.

  39. R. Molavi, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Hashemi, "A Wideband CMOS LNA Design Approach," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 5107-5010.

  40. M. Hekmat, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Hashemi, "Ground Bounce Calculation due to Simultaneous Switching in Deep Sub-micron Integrated Circuits," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 5617-5620.

  41. S. Sheikhaei, S. Mirabbasi, and A. Ivanov, "A 0.35μm CMOS Comparator Circuit For High-Speed ADC Applications"  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 6134-6137.

  42. S. Sheikhaei, S. Mirabbasi, and A. Ivanov, "A 4-Bit 5GS/s Flash A/D Converter in 0.18μm CMOS,"  IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 6138-6141.

  43. P. Sameni and S. Mirabbasi, “A 1/8-Rate Clock and Data Recovery Architecture For High-Speed Communication Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2004, Vancouver, Canada, vol. 4, pp. 305-308.

  44. S. Shang, S. Mirabbasi and R. Saleh, "A Technique for DC-Offset Removal and Carrier Phase Compensation in Integrated Wireless Receivers," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2003, Bangkok, Thailand, vol. 1, pp. 173-176.

  45. M. Hamour, R. Saleh, S. Mirabbasi, and A. Ivanov, "Analog IP Design Flow for SoC Applications", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2003, Bangkok, Thailand, vol. 4, pp. 676-679.

  46. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "Design of Prototype Filter for Near-Perfect-Reconstruction Overlapped Complex-Modulated Transmultiplexers" IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2002, Arizona, USA, vol. 1, pp. 821-824.

  47. S. Mirabbasi and K. Martin, "IIR Digital Filter for Delta-Sigma Decimation, Channel Selection, and Square-Root-Raised-Cosine Nyquist Filtering," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2002, San Francisco, USA, San Francisco, USA, vol. 1, pp. 130-131, 452.

  48. S. Mirabbasi, S. Gazor, and K. Martin, "A Wideband Carrier-Recovery System for Multilevel QAM Signals," presented at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2000, Geneva, Switzerland, vol. 4, pp. 661-664.

  49. S. Mirabbasi, B. Francis, and T. Chen, "Input-output gains of linear periodic discrete-time systems with application to multirate signal processing," Proceedings of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 1996, Atlanta, USA, vol. 2, pp.193-196.

Other Conference Papers (Refereed by Abstract)

  1. S. Jalali Mazlouman, S. Sheikhaei, and S. Mirabbasi, “A Prototype Implementation of a Two-Channel Frequency-Translating Hybrid ADC,” presented at the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August 2007.

  2. D. Ho and S. Mirabbasi, “Low-Power Design Considerations for CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers,” Presented at the 20th IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Apr. 2007.

  3. S. Jalali Mazlouman, A. Mahanfar, and S. Mirabbasi, “A Low-Power CMOS Modulator for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Transmitters,” Presented at the 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), April 2007.

  4. B. Rahmatian and S. Mirabbasi, “A low-Power 75-dB Digitally Programmable CMOS Variable-Gain Amplifier,” Presented at the IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), April 2007. (Best Student Paper Award)

  5. P.D. Lawrence , C.A. Hennessey, J. Calviño-Fraga, A. Ivanov, D.L. Pulfrey, S.E. Salcudean, M. Yedlin, M.S. Davies, L. Chrostowski, J. Madden, S. Mirabbasi, and K. Walus “Comparing Student Assessed Competencies in PBL and Traditional ECE Programs,” The Third CDEN/RCCI International Design Conference on Education, Innovation, and Practice in Engineering Design

  6. D. Ho and S. Mirabbasi, “A Low-Voltage Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2006.

  7. N. Nouri and S. Mirabbasi, “'A 900MHz-2GHz Low-Swing Low-Power 0.18μm CMOS PLL” Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2005, pp. 1566-1569.

  8. R. Molavi, S. Mirabbasi, and M. Hashemi, “SNR-Based Design Technique for Broadband LNAs,” Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2005, pp. 835-838.

  9. S. Sheikhaei, S. Mirabbasi, and A. Ivanov, “An Encoder for a 5GS/s 4-Bit Flash ADC in 0.18µm CMOS,” Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2005, pp. 698-701. (Best Student Paper Award)

  10. P. Sameni, C. Siu, K. Iniewski, S. Mirabbasi, H. Djahanshahi, M. Hamour, and J. Chana, “Characterization and Modeling of Accumulation-Mode MOS Varactors,” Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2005, pp. 1562-1565.

  11. P. Sameni and S. Mirabbasi, “A Fully Differential High-Speed Low Voltage Double-Edge Triggered Flip-Flop (DETFF),” Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 2004, pp. 1459-1462.