{"455691":{"#nid":"455691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Monodeep Kar Selected for SRC TECHCON Best in Session Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonodeep Kar received a Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON 2015, held September 20-22 in Austin, Texas. He is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETECHCON is organized annually by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to showcase a selected set of SRC-sponsored research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second year in a row that Kar has received an SRC Best in Session Award. This year, he received the honor in the Power Management for Circuit Design session for his paper, \u0022A Scalable Hybrid Regulator for Down Conversion of High Input Voltage Using Low Voltage Devices,\u201d\u0026nbsp;co-authored with his Ph.D. advisor and ECE Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay\u0026nbsp;and fellow ECE Ph.D. student Khondker Zakir Ahmed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir work focuses on delivering high quality power with regulated voltage to digital processors, which is a critically sought goal for today\u2019s high performance mobile systems. A critical challenge in achieving that goal is to\u0026nbsp;bring higher voltage (higher than the voltage rating of the devices) closer to the silicon processor.\u0026nbsp;Delivering high voltage directly to the processor chip reduces\u0026nbsp;the conduction losses through the package and PCB traces. If down-conversion of high voltages can be realized using conventional CMOS devices, it will open pathways for seamless integration of regulators with digital microprocessors and will help reduce system volume.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis work presents a unique\u0026nbsp;voltage regulator, referred to as a hybrid regulator, to address this\u0026nbsp;challenge. The hybrid regulator consists of a switched capacitor voltage regulator, followed by an inductive buck regulator. This high conversion ratio hybrid regulator architecture is demonstrated in 130nm standard CMOS technology. Major challenges addressed are sustenance of high voltage stress while using only\u0026nbsp;low voltage digital transistors, safe startup, improvement of low-load efficiency, and load-dependent variable frequency operation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Monodeep Kar received a Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON 2015, held September 20-22 in Austin, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Monodeep Kar received a Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON 2015, held September 20-22 in Austin, Texas."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 15:34:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:43","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"455971":{"id":"455971","type":"image","title":"Monodeep Kar","body":null,"created":"1449256334","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:14","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"Monodeep Kar","file":{"fid":"203481","name":"profile3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/profile3_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/profile3_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":517335,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/profile3_0.png?itok=DuYvOX0m"}}},"media_ids":["455971"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.src.org\/","title":"Semiconductor Research Corporation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/GREEN\/","title":"Gigascale Reliable Energy Efficient Nanosystem Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"107741","name":"Gigascale Reliable Energy Efficient Nanosystem (GREEN) Lab"},{"id":"143731","name":"GREEN Lab"},{"id":"107701","name":"Khondker (Zakir) Ahmed"},{"id":"107691","name":"Monodeep Kar"},{"id":"166900","name":"Saibal Mukhopadhyay"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171490","name":"SRC TECHCON 2015"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}