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Publications

Over the years Bruco engineers have contributed to quite a number of publications and articles for well-known journals and conferences world wide. Certainly not all work has been done within or for Bruco, but it does express the knowledge and expertise that Bruco Integrated Circuits engineers have to offer to our customers.

Journal/conference articles

2013

Oude Alink, M. S., Klumperink, E. A. M., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Ru, Z., Cheng, W., Nauta, B., “Using crosscorrelation to mitigate analog/RF impairments for integrated spectrum analyzers”, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 2013.
Cheng, W., Oude Alink, M. S., Annema, A. J., Wienk, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “A wideband IM3 cancellation technique for CMOS and T-attenuators”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 358–368, Feb. 2013.

2012

Cheng, W., Oude Alink, M. S., Annema, A. J., Croon, J. A., Nauta, B., “RF circuit linearity optimization using a general weak nonlinearity model”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 59, No. 10, pp. 2340–2353, Oct. 2012.
Oude Alink, M. S., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Klumperink, E. A. M., Ru, Z., Cheng, W., Nauta, B., “Improving harmonic rejection for spectrum sensing using crosscorrelation”, Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC), Bordeaux, France, 17-21 Sept., pp. 361–364, 2012.
Oude Alink, M. S., Klumperink, E. A. M., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Cheng, W., Ru, Z., Ghaffari, A., Wienk, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “A CMOS spectrum analyzer frontend for cognitive radio achieving +25dBm IIP3 and -169 dBm/Hz DANL”, Proc. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. (RFIC), Montréal, Canada, 17-19 June, pp. 35–38, 2012.
Oude Alink, M. S., “Cross-correlation spectrum sensing - breaking the trade-off between linearity and noise performance”, Proc. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. (RFIC) (invited talk in tutorial ‘RF Spectrum Sensing and Signal Feature Detection Circuits’), Montréal, Canada, 17-19 Jun. 2012.
Oude Alink, M. S., Klumperink, E. A. M., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Soer, M. C. M., Smit, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “A CMOS-compatible spectrum analyzer for cognitive radio exploiting crosscorrelation to improve linearity and noise performance”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 479–492, March 2012.
Cheng, W., Oude Alink, M. S., Annema, A. J., Wienk, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “A wideband IM3 cancellation technique for CMOS attenuators”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb. 19-23, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 78–79, 2012.

2011

Oude Alink, M. S., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Klumperink, E. A. M., Smit, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “Lowering the SNR wall for energy detection using cross-correlation”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., Vol. 60, No. 8, pp. 3748–3757, Oct. 2011.
Oude Alink, M. S., Smeenge, A. R., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Klumperink, E. A. M., Smit, G. J. M., Nauta, B., “Exploring the use of two antennas for crosscorrelation spectrum sensing”, Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Fall, San Francisco, 5-8 Sept., 2011.

2010

Mensink, E., Van Gorsel, J., Heuvelmans, S., Boerrigter, M., “A 10Gb/s serial communication transceiver in 0.13μm CMOS for a 2m micro twisted-pair cable”, JINST, Proceedings of the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP), Aachen, Germany, 20 - 24 sept., 2010.
Oude Alink, M. S., Klumperink, E. A. M., Soer, M. C. M., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Nauta, B., “A 50MHz-to-1.5GHz cross-correlation CMOS spectrum analyzer for cognitive radio with 89dB SFDR in 1MHz RBW”, Proc. 4th IEEE Symp. on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Singapore, 6-9 April, 2010.
Mensink, E., Schinkel, D., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "Power Efficient Gigabit Communication Over Capacitively Driven RC-Limited On-Chip Interconnects", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 447-457, Feb. 2010.

2009 and older

Oude Alink, M. S., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Klumperink, E.A.M., Rovers, K. C., Smit, G., Nauta, B., “Spurious-free dynamic range of a uniform quantizer”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 434–438, June 2009.
Schinkel, D., Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "Low-Power, High-Speed Transceivers for Network-on-Chip Communication", IEEE transactions on Very Large Scale Integrationsd (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 12-21, Jan. 2009. ISSN 1063-8210.
Klumperink, E.A.M., Shrestha, R., Mensink, E., Arkesteijn, V.J., Nauta, B., "Cognitive radios for dynamic spectrum access - Polyphase Multipath Radio Circuits for Dynamic Spectrum Access", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, Iss. 5, pp. 104 - 112, May 2007.
Klumperink, E.A.M., Shrestha, R., Mensink, E., Wienk, G.J.M., Ru, Z., Nauta, B., "Multipath Polyphase Circuits and their Application to Radio Transceivers", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, USA, 27-30 May, pp. 273-276, 2007. ISBN: 1-4244-0921-7.
Mensink, E., Schinkel, D., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "Optimal Positions of Twists in Global On-Chip Differential Interconnects", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 15, Iss. 4, pp. 438-446, April 2007. ISSN: 1063-8210.
Schinkel, D., Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "Double-Tail Latch-Type Voltage Sense Amplifier With 18ps Setup+Hold Time", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb. 11-15, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 314-315, 2007. ISBN Softbound 1-4244-0852-0, ISBN CD-ROM 1-4244-0853-9, ISSN 0193-6530.
Mensink, E., Schinkel, D., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "A 0.28pJ/b 2Gb/s/ch Transceiver in 90nm CMOS for 10mm On-Chip Interconnects", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb. 11-15, Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 414-415, 2007. ISBN Softbound 1-4244-0852-0, ISBN CD-ROM 1-4244-0853-9, ISSN 0193-6530.
Shrestha, R., Klumperink, E.A.M., Mensink, E., Wienk, G.J.M., Nauta, B., "A Polyphase Multipath Technique for Software Defined Radio Transmitters", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 2681-2692, Dec. 2006. ISSN: 0018-9200.
Shrestha, R., Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Wienk, G.J.M., Nauta, B., "A Multipath Technique Cancelling Harmonics and Sidebands in in a Wideband Power Upconverter", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb. 6-8, ISSCC Digest, pp. 452-453, 2006.
Schinkel, D, Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "A 3Gb/s/ch Transceiver for 10-mm Uninterrupted RC-Limited Global On-Chip Interconnects", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 297- 306, Jan. 2006. ISSN: 0018-9200.
Mensink, E., Schinkel, D., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van , Nauta, B., "Optimally-Placed Twists in Global On-Chip Differential Interconnects", Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC), Grenoble, France, pp. 475-478, 2005. ISBN: 0-7803-9205-1.
Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Nauta, B., "Distortion Cancellation by Polyphase Multipath Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 1785 - 1794, Sept. 2005.
Schinkel, D, Mensink, E., Klumperink, E.A.M., Tuijl, A.J.M. van, Nauta, B., "A 3Gb/s/ch Transceiver for RC-limited On-Chip Interconnects", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb. 6-10, 2005. ISSCC Digest: ISSN 0193-6530, ISBN 0-7803-8904-2.
Mensink, E., Klumperink E.A.M., Nauta B., "Distortion Cancellation via Polyphase Multipath Circuits", Proceedings of 2004 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004), ISBN 0-7803-8252-8, pg. I-1096-1199, Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
Zeijl, P. v., Eikenbroek, J. W., Vervoort, P. P., Setty, S., Tangenberg, J., Shipton, G., Kooistra. E., Keekstra, I. C., Belot, D., Visser, K., Bosma, E., Blaakmeer, S. C., “A Bluetooth Radio in 0.18-µm CMOS”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 1679-1687, Dec. 2002.
Tangenberg, J., Klumperink, E.A.M., Eikenbroek, J.W., Nauta, B., "A CMOS Q-Enhancement Bandpass-Filter For Use In Paging Receivers", 9th IEEE/ProRISC Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Mierlo, The Netherlands, Nov. 25-27, 1998.

Posters

DSM, Bruco IC, "Laser markable resins", PrintValley Closing symposium, Eindhoven, June 28, 2011.

Books

Mensink, E, "High Speed Global On-Chip Interconnects and Transceivers", PhD Thesis University of Twente, 2007, ISBN: 978-90-365-2504-6

Book chapters

Oude Alink, M. S., Klumperink, E. A. M., Kokkeler, A. B. J., Smit, G. J. M., Nauta, B., "CMOS RF Transceiver Considerations for Dynamic Spectrum Access", Cognitive Communications: Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Regulatory Policy and Economics, Implementation, ch. 15, pp. 417–464, Wiley, Aug. 2012.