Yong-Bin Kim

Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • 327 Dana Research Center
  • 617.373.2919

Research Focus

Integrated circuit design and for nanoelectronics and nano technology, high speed system integration for signal processing and communication applications, bio-chip and bio-sensor interface circuit design, electronic neuron circuit design, low power adaptive robot controller circuit design; high performance and low power vlsI design, system-on-chip (soc), and Physical VLSI CAD

About

Prof. Yong-Bin Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. Prof. Kim received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, the M.S. degree and PH.D both in Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Colorado State University, respectively.

From 1982 to 1987, Dr. Kim was with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in South Korea as a Member of technical Staff. From 1990 to 1993 he was with Intel Corp. as a Senior Design Engineer, and involved in micro-controller chip design and Intel P6 microprocessor chip design. From 1993 to 1996 he was with Hewlett Packard Co., Fort Collins, Colorado as a Member of Technical Staff, and involved in HP PA-8000 RISC microprocessor chip design. From 1996 to 1998 he was with Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, California as an individual contributor, and involved in 1.5GHz Ultra Sparc5 CPU chip design. From 1998 to 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of University of Utah. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. His research focuses on high speed low power VLSI circuit design and methodology.

Education

  • PhD, Colorado State University, 1996. Joined Northeastern in 2000.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Paper Award in 2020 IEEE ISOCC conference for the paper titled, “An Ultra-Low-Power Tunable Bump Circuit using Source-Degenerated Differential Transconductor” with a graduate student Yixuan He.

Research Overview

Integrated circuit design and for nanoelectronics and nano technology, high speed system integration for signal processing and communication applications, bio-chip and bio-sensor interface circuit design, electronic neuron circuit design, low power adaptive robot controller circuit design; high performance and low power vlsI design, system-on-chip (soc), and Physical VLSI CAD

Research Labs

HPVLSI Lab: The complexity of today’s VLSI systems requires new design methods. The research of the HPVLSI group focuses on methods and tools for the design of high-speed and low-power Digital / Analog Integrated Circuits.

Microsystems and Electron Devices Lab: The Electron Devices Group at Northeastern University serves as a focus for undergraduate and graduate education in a broad area including MEMS, electronic and magnetic materials, microelectronics, microfabrication, circuits, plasma engineering, and VLSI design.

 

Selected Research Projects

  • Compact and Power Efficient Integrated Voltage Tunable RF Multiferroic Inductors with Wide Tunable Inductance
    • – Principal Investigator, Winchester Technology
  • Semi-Self Calibration of High Speed Transceiver for DRAM Interface
    • – Principal Investigator, Hynix Semiconductor

Department Research Areas

Selected Publications

  • He, Y., Choi, M., Kim, Y.-B. (2020). A Tunable High-Gain Low-Noise Transimpedance Amplifier for Biosensing. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 9-12, Springfield, MA, pp.1007-1010.
  • He, Y., Choi, M., Kim, K.K, Kim, Y.-B. (2020). An Ultra-Low-Power Tunable Bump Circuit using Source-Degenerated Differential Transconductor. IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Oct. 21-24, Yeosu, South Korea, pp.131-132. (Outstanding Paper Award)
  • Aldahlawi, A., Kim, K.K., Kim, Y.-B. (2019). GPU Architecture Optimization For Mobile Computing, IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Oct. 6-9, Jeju, South Korea. 247-248.
  • Jeon , G., Kim, K.K., Kim, Y.-B. (2019). Standing Wave Oscillator Based Clock Distribution Minimizing Equivalent Capacitance for Process and Temperature Variation. IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Jeju, South Korea, 241-242.
  • Jeon, G., Kim, Y.-B. (2018). Area Ecient 4GB/s Clock Data Recovery Using Improved Phase Interpolator with Error Monitor. IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Windsor, Canada, 206-209.
  • Choi, Y., Jeon, G., Kim, Y.-B., Jung, H.K. (2018). Transceiver Design for LVSTL Signal Interface with a Low Power On-Chip Self Calibration Scheme. Elseviere Integration the VLSI Journal, 63, 148-159.
  • Jeon, G., Kim, Y.-B. (2017). Switched Capacitor and Infinite Impulse Response Summation for a Quad-Rate DFE 4Gb/s Data Rate. ACM GLSVLSI Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 439-442.
  • Zhu, H., Yang, W., Engel, G., Kim, Y.-B. (2017). A Two-Parameter Calibration Technique Tracking Temperature Variations for Current Source Miamatch in DACs. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, 64(4), 387-391.
Yong-Bin Kim

Faculty

Jan 07, 2021

Kim Awarded South Korean Patent for Autonomous Impedance Calibration on Semiconductor Devices

ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim was awarded a South Korean Patent for creating an “Impedance calibration device for semiconductor device.”

Yong-Bin Kim

Faculty

Aug 04, 2020

Patent for Improved Receiver Circuit that Recovers the Transmitted Signal with Reduced Power Consumption

ECE Professor Yong Bin Kim was awarded a patent for designing a “receiver circuit”.

Faculty

Sep 12, 2018

Detecting Trojan Circuits with On-Chip Temperature Sensors

ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Professor Yong-Bin Kim were awarded a patent for creating a "method to use on-chip temperature sensors for detection of Trojan circuits". Abstract Source: USPTO A method for detecting a malicious circuit on an integrated circuit chip is provided, in which temperature sensors are thermally coupled to primary circuitry on […]

Faculty

Jun 12, 2018

Professor Kim Awarded Patent

ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim was awarded a patent for creating an “Impedance calibration device for semiconductor device”.

Oct 31, 2016

ECE Professor Kim and PhD Students Receive Best Paper Award

ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim and two PhD students were given the Best Paper Award from the 2016 International SoC Design Conference in Jeju, Korea. The title of the awarded paper is “Current Mode Four-Quadrant Multiplier Design Using CNTFET.” The ECE Department is happy to congratulate Professor Kim, PhD Candidate Gyunam Jeon, and PhD Candidate Kyung Ki […]

Jul 23, 2015

Best Paper at Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

ECE Associate Professor Yong-Bin Kim's paper on "Full Custom Implementation of a S-Box Circuit Architecture Using Power Gated PLA Structure" was selected as the best paper at the IEEE MWSCAS 2014 conference.

Dec 11, 2013

Kim Receives 2 Honors

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yong-Bin Kim received a best paper award at the International Soc Design Conference and was appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II Journal.  The International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) aims at providing the world’s premier SoC design forum for leading researchers from academia and […]

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