Analog/Mixed-Signal Research Group

Analog / Mixed-Signal Research Group

High-Speed I/O, Data Converters, Embedded Machine Learning

Publications

For a comprehensive list of more recent publications, please see my Google Scholar page.

Journals

  1. N. Wainstein, A. Orren, R. G. Nir-Harwood, E. Yalon, and S. Kvatinsky, "Asymmetric and Symmetric Single-Pole Double-Throw with Improved Power Handling using Indirectly Heated Phase-Change Switches," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 334-349, January 2025. (Paper)
  2. D. Kim, S. Yang, N. Wainstein, G. Ducournau, E. Pallecchi, H. Happy, E. Yalon, M. Kim, and D. Akinwande, “Emerging memory electronics for non-volatile radiofrequency switching technologies ,” Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 10-23, January 2024. (Paper)
  3. T. Swoboda, N. Wainstein, S. Deshmukh, C. Koroglu, X. Gao, M. Lanza, H. Hilgenkamp, E. Pop, E. Yalon, and M. Muñoz-Rojo, “Nanoscale temperature sensing of electronic devices with calibrated scanning thermal microscopy,” Nanoscale, vol. 15, 2023.  (Paper)
  4. B. Hoffer, N. Wainstein, C. Neumann, E. Pop, E. Yalon, and S. Kvatinsky, “Stateful Logic using Phase Change Memory,” IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 77-83, December 2022. (Paper)
  5. M. Kim, G. Ducournau, S. Skrzypczak, S.J. Yang, P. Szriftgiser, N. Wainstein, K. Stern, H. Happy, E. Yalon, E. Pallecchi, and D. Akinwande, “Monolayer molybdenum disulfide switches for 6G communication systems”, Nature Electronics, vol. 5, pp.367-373, 2022.  (Paper)
  6. K. Stern, N. Wainstein, Y. Keller, C. Neumann, E. Pop, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yalon, “Sub-Nanosecond Pulses Enable Partial Reset for Analog Phase Change Memory,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1291-1294, September 2021. (Paper)
  7. N. Wainstein, G. Ankonina, T.P.E. Swoboda, M. Muñoz-Rojo, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yalon, “Indirectly Heated Switch as a Platform for Nanosecond Probing of Phase Transition Properties in Chalcogenides,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68, no. 3, 2021. (Paper)
  8. K. Stern1, N. Wainstein1, C. Neumann, Y. Keller, E. Pop, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yalon, “Uncovering Phase Change Memory Energy Limits by Sub-Nanosecond Probing of Power Dissipation Dynamics,” Advanced Electronic Materials 7 (8), 2021. ( 1Equal contribution) (Paper)
  9. N. Wainstein, G. Adam, E. Yalon, and S. Kvatinsky, “Radio Frequency Switches Based on Emerging Resistive Memory Technologies: A Survey,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 75-95, January 2021. (Paper)
  10. N. Wainstein, G. Ankonina, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yalon, “Compact Modeling and Electro-thermal Measurements of Indirectly-Heated Phase Change RF Switches,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 5182-5187, November 2020. (Paper)
  11. L. Danial, E. Pikhay, E. Herbelin, N. Wainstein, V. Gupta, N. Wald, Y. Roizin, R. Daniel,
    and S. Kvatinsky, “Two-terminal floating-gate transistors with a low-power memristive operation mode for analogue neuromorphic computing,” Nature Electronics, vol. 2, pp. 596-605, December 2019. (Paper)
  12. M. Ramadan*, N. Wainstein*, R. Ginosar, and S. Kvatinsky, “Adaptive Programming in Multi-Level Cell ReRAM,” Microelectronics Journal, vol. 90, pp. 169-180, August 2019. (* indicates equal contribution) (Paper)
  13. L. Danial, N. Wainstein, S. Kraus, and S. Kvatinsky, “Breaking Through the Speed-Power-Accuracy Tradeoff in ADCs using a Memristive Neuromorphic Architecture,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 396-409, October 2018. (Paper)
  14. N. Wainstein and S. Kvatinsky, “A Lumped RF Model for Nanoscale Memristive Devices and Non-Volatile Single-Pole Double-Throw Switches,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 873-883, September 2018.
  15. N. Wainstein and S. Kvatinsky, “TIME—Tunable Inductors using MEmristors,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1505-1515, May 2018. (Paper)
  16. L. Danial, N. Wainstein, S. Kraus, and S. Kvatinsky, “DIDACTIC: A Data Intelligent Digital-to-Analog Converter with a Trainable Integrated Circuit using Memristors,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 146-158, March 2018.

Conferences

  1. N. Wainstein and E. Avner, "A Delay-Locked Loop with Binary Search Locking and Dead Clocks Detection," Design, Technology, and Test Conference (DTTC) - Intel, 2024.
  2. N. Wainstein, E. Avitay, M. Rosenthal, and E. Avner, "Novel Clock Architecture for Ultra-Low Power DDR PHY," Design, Technology, and Test Conference (DTTC) - Intel, 2022.
  3. M. Kim, G. Ducournau, S. Skrzypczak, S.J. Yang, P. Szriftgiser, N. Wainstein, K. Stern, H. Happy, E. Yalon, E. Pallecchi, and D. Akinwande, “Towards 500GHz Non-Volatile Monolayer 6G Switches,” IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2022.
  4. K. Stern, N. Wainstein, Y. Keller, C. M. Neumann, E. Pop, S. Kvatinsky, and E. Yalon, “Sub-Nanosecond Partial Reset for Analog Phase Change Neuromorphic Devices”, IEEE Device Research Conference (DRC), June 2021. Best poster award.
  5. N. Wainstein, G. Ankonina, S. Kvatinsky, E. Yalon, “Electrothermal Compact Modeling of Indirectly Heated Phase Change RF Switches”, IEEE Device Research Conference (DRC), June 2020, late news.
  6. N. Wainstein, G. Ankonina, S. Kvatinsky, E. Yalon, “Nanosecond Probing of Phase Transition Properties in Chalcogenides using Embedded Heater-Thermometer”, MRS Spring Meeting 2020.
  7. N. Wainstein, T. Tsabari, Y. Goldin, E. Yalon, and S. Kvatinsky, “A Dual-Band CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier using Memristor-Based Tunable Inductors,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2019.
  8. N. Wainstein and S. Kvatinsky. “An RF Memristor Model and Memristive Single-Pole Double-Throw Switches,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Proceedings, May 2017.
  9. N. Wainstein, S. Kvatinsky. “RF Memristor Modeling,”  Seiden Beyond-CMOS Workshop, Haifa, Israel, June 2017.
  10. N. Wainstein, S. Kvatinsky. “RF Memristor Modeling,” International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems (MEMRISYS),  Athens, Greece, April 2017.
  11. R.A. Suárez, R. Siri, N. Wainstein , G. Abal. “GOES-East satellite images processing in Uruguay and future perspectives,”  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Conference, May 2015.
  12. M. González, J. Schandy, N. Wainstein , L. Barboni, A. Gomez, C. Croce. “Wireless image-sensor network application for population monitoring of lepidopterous insect pest (moths) in fruit crops,” IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings, May 2014.
  13. M. González, J. Schandy, N. Wainstein, M. Beltran, N. Martínez, L. Barboni, A. Gómez. “A Wireless Sensor Network Application with Distributed Processing in the Compressed Domain,” Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing (AMMDS), August 2014.

Lectures and Talks

  1. “The Chiplet Revolution and its Challenges on Die-to-Die Interfaces” at "High-Speed Wireline Forum". IEEE Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic Systems (COMCAS), Tel Aviv, Israel, 10 July 2024. (Organizer and speaker)
  2. “Nanosecond Probing of Phase Transition Properties in Chalcogenides using Embedded Heater-Thermometer”. MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, USA, November 2020.
  3. “Electrothermal Compact Modeling of Indirectly Heated Phase Change RF Switches,” Device Research Conference (DRC), Columbus, Ohio, US, 21-24 June 2020.
  4. “Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design with Memristors”. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Half-day Tutorial, Florence, Italy, 27 May 2018.
  5. “Memristors for RF and Mixed-Signal Circuits”. International Conference on Microwave, Communication, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), Tel Aviv, Israel, 13-15 November 2017.
  6. “Memristor-based Reconfigurable Radiofrequency Circuits”. International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems (MEMRISYS), Dresden, Germany, 12-13 May 2019.
  7. “Reconfigurable RF Circuits using Memristors”. International Workshop on Memristors - Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and Applications (MemoCIS), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 12-13 March 2018.