Christian Enz

EPFLSTISTI-DECPH-STI

Expertise

Low-Power Analog and RF IC Design
MEMS-Based IC Design
Wireless Sensor Networks
Semiconductor Device Modeling
Noise in Devices and Circuits
Inexact and Error Tolerant Circuits and Systems

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Expertise

Low-Power Analog and RF IC Design
MEMS-Based IC Design
Wireless Sensor Networks
Semiconductor Device Modeling
Noise in Devices and Circuits
Inexact and Error Tolerant Circuits and Systems

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Christian C. Enz (M’84, S'12) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the EPFL in 1984 and 1989 respectively. From 1984 to 1989 he was research assistant at the EPFL, working in the field of micro-power analog IC design. In 1989 he was one of the founders of Smart Silicon Systems S.A. (S3), where he developed several low-noise and low-power ICs, mainly for high energy physics applications. From 1992 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor at EPFL, working in the field of low-power analog CMOS and BiCMOS IC design and device modeling. From 1997 to 1999, he was Principal Senior Engineer at Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems), Newport Beach, CA, where he was responsible for the modeling and characterization of MOS transistors for the design of RF CMOS circuits. In 1999, he joined the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) where he launched and lead the RF and Analog IC Design group. In 2000, he was promoted Vice President, heading the Microelectronics Department, which became the Integrated and Wireless Systems Division in 2009. He joined the EPFL as full professor in 2013, where he is currently the director of the Institute of Microengineering (IMT) and head of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICLAB). He is lecturing and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in the field of Analog and RF IC Design at EPFL. His technical interests and expertise are in the field of very low-power analog and RF IC design, semiconductor device modeling, and inexact and error tolerant circuits and systems. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and has contributed to numerous conference presentations and advanced engineering courses. Together with E. Vittoz and F. Krummenacher he is one of the developer of the EKV MOS transistor model and the author of the book "Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling - The EKV Model for Low-Power and RF IC Design" (Wiley, 2006). He has been member of several technical program committees, including the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). He has served as a vice-chair for the 2000 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), exhibit chair for the 2000 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and chair of the technical program committee for the 2006 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). Since 2012 he has been elected as member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Administrative Commmittee (AdCom). He is also Chair of the IEEE SSCS Chapter of Switzerland.

Information

DirectorInstitute of Microengineering (IMT)Head of LaboratoryIntegrated Circuits Laboratory (ICLAB)Full ProfessorSchool of Engineering (STI)

Research Interests

Christian C. Enz is the head of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICLAB), operating in Microcity, the new EPFL antenna in Neuchâtel. He is directed towards low-power and low-voltage electronics and his research covers the following areas:

Selected publications

An ultralow-power UHF transceiver integrated in a standard digital CMOS process: Architecture and receiver.

Porret, A. S., T. Melly, et al.
Published in Ieee Journal of Solid-State Circuits 36(3): 452-466., 2001 in

Addition to

Melly, T., A. S. Porret, et al.
Published in An analysis of flicker noise rejection in low-power and low-voltage CMOS mixers. Ieee Journal of Solid-State Circuits 37(8): 1090-1090., 2002 in

A 1.5-V 75-dB dynamic range third-order G(m)-C filter integrated in a 0.18-mu m standard digital CMOS process.

Yodprasit, U. and C. C. Enz
Published in Ieee Journal of Solid-State Circuits 38(7): 1189-1197., 2003 in

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Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students

Mihaela Grigorie, Rafael Fried, Matthias Bucher, Manfred Punzenberger, Uroschanit Yodprasit, Nicola Scolari, Ananda Sankar Roy, Jérémie Chabloz, Matteo Contaldo, Aravind Prasad Heragu Singaiyengar, Viswanathan Balasubramanian, Anurag Mangla, Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki, Assim Boukhayma, Vladimir Kopta, Huaiqi Huang, Jérémy Schlachter, Vincent Camus, Antonino Caizzone, Raffaele Capoccia, Chunmin Zhang, Francesco Chicco, Arnout Beckers, Sammy Cerida

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Thierry Bernard Melly, Alain-Serge Porret, Dominique Python, Frédéric Zanella, Hung-Chi Han

Courses

Fundamentals of analog VLSI design

EE-424

This course presents the systematic design of low-power analog CMOS integrated circuits based on the concept of inversion coefficient and on the sEKV MOSFET model. It covers device modeling, basic building blocks to more advanced circuits like amplifiers and switched-capacitor circuits.