<Chinese Version>

	Bin-Da (Brian) Liu
	Position
	Distinguished Professor
	Telephone number
	+886-6-275-7575 ext 62348
	FAX
	+886-6-200-8731
	E-mail
	bdliu@mail.ncku.edu.tw
	Lab
	Special Purpose Integrated Circuits Lab (Room 95608,Chi-Mei Building, One University Rd., Tainan, Taiwan)
Courses
2011 Fall Electric Circuits (I) Seminar (III) 2011 Spring Electric Circuits (II) Electric Circiuts Lab. Seminar (IV)
Educations
Ph.D., National Cheng Kung University, R. O. C.(1983) M.S., National Cheng Kung University, R. O. C.(1975) B.S., National Cheng Kung University, R. O. C.(1973)
Experiences
Director, SoC Research Center, National Cheng Kung University (2004-2008) (2010- present) Distinguished Professor, National Cheng Kung University (2003-present) Chairman,  Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (1999--2002) Associate Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (1996--1999) Director, Electrical Laboratories, National Cheng Kung University (1988--1992) Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering , National Cheng Kung University, R. O. C.(1993--2003) Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering ,National Cheng Kung University, R. O. C.(1984--1993) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,(1983--1984)
Specialities
¡P VLSI Design, Computer-Aided Design ¡P Architectures and VLSI Processors for Neural Networks, Bio-Inspired Reasoning Systems, and Video Signal Processing   ¡P Low Power Circuits and System-on-a-Chip Technologies
Honors and IEEE Committee Memberships
Honors IEEE Fellow, 2006 Member, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 1983 Long-Term Distinguished Paper Award, Acer Foundation, 1991&1997 Best Thesis Award , Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 1995 Senior Member,  IEEE, 1995 Macronix Golden Silicon Award, 2001 Macronix Golden Silicon Award, 2002 Best Thesis Award, Chinese institute of Electrical Engineering, 2002 Best Design Award of Analog Design, CIC, 2002 Best Design Award of Digital Design, CIC, 2003 Best Design Award of Analog Design, CIC, 2003 Macronix Golden Silicon Award (First Runner-up), 2003 The 3rd International Low Power Design Contest Award, ACM/IEEE 2003 Special Honor Award of Digital Design, CIC, 2004 Professor Shen Wen-Zen Memorial Paper Award, Taiwan Integrated Circuits Society, 2004 Two 2004 Dragon Thesis Awards, Acer Foundation Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2004 Lam Research Thesis Award, Lam Research Corporation, 2005 Co-author, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2006 Outstanding Young Author Award  Best Paper Award, the 4th Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering Conference ¤º Macronix Golden Silicon Award, 2006 Best Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems Lam Research Thesis Award, Lam Research Corporation, 2007 Advisor Award of Standard Cell Design Track, 2008 National Integrated Circuits Design Contest Honorable Mention of Paper Award, 2008 Conference on Innovative Applications of Systems Prototyping and Circuit Design IEEE Services & Committee Memberships CAS Associate Editor, IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, July 2003 to March 2005 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers, Jan. 2004 to Dec. 2005 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2006 Associate Editor, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2008.1-2009.12 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on  Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2007.1-2010.12 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on  Fuzzy Systems,  since 2007.1 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on  Circuits and Systems--II: Express Briefs,  since 2010.1 Associate Editor, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), since 2008.12 Chair, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society-- Taipei Chapter,  Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2004 General Chair, 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (Dec. 5-9, 2004) Vice President--Region 10, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2006 Member of Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Member of VLSI Systems and Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Member of Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Member, Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee, IEEE  Circuits and Systems Society External Assessor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (since August 1, 2007) External Assessor, University of Malaya, Malaysia (since April 30, 2011)
Patents
¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang, 1995 "The Device of Current Mode Fuzzy Logic," ROC Patent No. 073517. ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang, 1995 "The Method to Color Reproduction," ROC Patent No. 073857. ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang, 1996 " Current Mode Multiple Input Minimum Current," ROC Patent No. 080865. ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang, C.Y.Chen, 1996 " Current Mode Fuzzy Linguistic Hedge Circuit," ROC Patent No. 082061. ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang,  2001" Minimum Current for Dual Operation," ROC Patent No. 136094. ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Chen,Y.T.Shien, " Programmable Fuzzy Linguistic Hedge Circuit," ROC Patent (pending) ¡P B.D.Liu, C.Y.Huang, " The Recursive Structure for Discrete Cosine Transform," ROC Patent (pending) ¡P B.D.Liu, C.S.Lin, J.C.Chen, " Precomputation-Based Content Addressable Memory," ROC Patent (pending)
Publication List
A. Refereed Papers 1. B. D. Liu, C. Y. Chen, J. Y. Tsao, ¡§Design of Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Controller Based on Linguistic-Hedge Concepts and Genetic Algorithms,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B. Vol. 31, No.1, pp. 32-53, Feb. 2001, February 2001. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/3477.907563 2. Y. C. Hong, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 1.2V Rail-to-Rail Analog CMOS Rank-Order Filter with k-WTA Capability,¡¨ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.219-230, September 2002. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1023/A:1020395524854 3. C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§A New Successive Approximation Architecture for Low-Power Low-Cost CMOS A/D Converter,¡¨ IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 54-61, January 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.806257 4. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Recursive Architectures for Realizing Modified Discrete Cosine Transform and Its Inverse,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems¡V part- II. Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 38-45, January 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.808895 5. C. S. Lin, J. C. Chang, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low Power Precomputation-Based Parallel Content Addressable Memory,¡¨ IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 654-662, April 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.809515 6. C. B. Wu, B. D. Liu , J. F. Yang, ¡§Adaptive Post-Processors with DCT-Based Block Classifications,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 365-375, May 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.811610 7. K. H. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of Predictive Fuzzy Control System Using GESA-Based Grey Predictor,¡¨ Journal of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering., Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 145-154, May 2003. EI 8. Y. C. Hong, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 1-V Comparator for Programmable Analog Rank Extractor,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems¡VI, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp.673-677, May 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.811025 9. G. J. Yu, C. Y. Lu, J. S. H. Tsai, T. J. Su, B. D. Liu, ¡§Stability of Cellular Neural Networks with Time Varying Delay,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems¡VI, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp.677-679, May 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.811031 10. C. B. Wu, B. D. Liu , J. F. Yang, ¡§A Fuzzy-Based Impulse Noise Detection and Cancellation for Real-Time Processing in Video Receivers,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Vol. 52, No. 3, pp 780-784, June 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.814677 11. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Analog CMOS Rank-Order Extractor with O(N) Complexity using Maximum/Winner-take-all Circuit,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Electronics, Vol. E86-C, No. 8,.pp. 1765-1773, August 2003. SCI, EI NAID: 110003214730 12. K. H. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Implementation of Grey Prediction Fuzzy Controller Based on the Reconfigurable CPLD System. Application,¡¨ International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 171-177, September 2003. 13. C. Y. Chen, Y. T. Hsieh, B. D. Liu,, ¡§Circuit Implementation of Linguistic-Hedge Fuzzy Logic Controller in Current-Mode Approach,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 624-646, October 2003. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2003.817841 14. W. B. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§Coefficients Generation for the 4^th-Order Leapfrog Sigma-Delta A/D Converters,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol. E87-A, No. 1, pp. 231-242, January 2004. SCI, EI NAID: 110003212755 15. W. B. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§The Multi-Tone Signal Generators Using Noise-Shaping Technique,¡¨ IEE Proceeding s- Circuits, Devices, and Systems, Vol. 151, No. 1, pp. 25-30, February 2004. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1049/ip-cds:20040198 16. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low-Voltage Wide-Input CMOS Comparator for Sensor Application Using Back-Gate Technique,¡¨ Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 53-59, July 2004. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2003.10.013 17. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, J. L. Wang, ¡§Efficient Recursive Structures for Forward and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 2665-2669, September 2004. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.831911 18. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Direct Recursive Structures for Computing Radix-r Two-Dimensional DCT/IDCT/DST/IDST,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. Vol. 51, No. 10, pp. 2017-2030, October 2004. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.835685 19. K. H. Lin, C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§A High-Speed and Multi-Chip WTA/MAX Circuit Design Based on Averaged-Value Comparison Approach,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Electronics, Vol. E87-C, No. 10, pp. 1724-1729, October 2004. SCI, EI NAID: 110003214782 20. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§High-Reliability Programmable CMOS WTA/LTA Circuit of O(N) Complexity Using Single Comparator,¡¨ IEE Proceeding s- Circuits, Devices, and Systems. Vol. 151, No. 6, pp. 579-584, December 2004. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1049/ip-cds:20040654 21. K. H. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Modified Autoregressive Model for the Calibration Interval of a Measuring Instrument,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 297-304, February 2005. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.840234 22. G. J. Yu, C. Y. Huang, J. J. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of Square-Root Domain Filters,¡¨ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 49-59, April 2005. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1007/s10470-005-6570-2 23. C. B. Wu, C. Y. Yao, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§DCT-Based Adaptive Thresholding Algorithm for Binary Motion Estimation,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 694-703, May 2005. SCI, EI. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2005.846451 24. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Condensed Recursive Structures for Computing Multi-dimensional DCT/IDCT with Arbitrary Length,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems¡VI: Regular Papers, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1819-1831, September 2005. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.852935 25. G. J. Yu, C. Y. Huang, J. J. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of Current-Mode Square-Root Domain Band-Pass Filter with Reduced Voltage,¡¨ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 239-250, September 2005. SCI DOI: 10.1007/s10470-005-3010-2 26. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, C. Y. Tsai, ¡§1-V Bulk-Driven CMOS Analog Programmable Winner-Takes-All Circuit.¡¨ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 53-61, October 2006. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1007/s10470-006-8448-3 27. C. Y. Huang, M. J. Syu, Y. S. Chang, C. H. Chang, T. C. Chou, B. D. Liu,, ¡§A Portable Potentiostat for the Bilirubin-Specific Sensor Prepared from Molecular Imprinting,¡¨ Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1694-1699, Mar. 2007. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2006.07.036 28. H. W. Ting, C. W. Lin, B. D. Liu, and S. J. Chang, ¡§Oscillator-Based Reconfigurable Sinusoidal Signal Generator for ADC BIST,¡¨ Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 549-558, December 2007. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1007/s10836-007-5010-x 29. H. Y. Lin, Y. H. Lu, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§A Highly Efficient VLSI Architecture for H.264/AVC CAVLC Decoder.¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-42, January 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2007.911299 30. H. W. Ting, B. D. Liu, and S. J. Chang, ¡§Histogram Based Testing Method for Estimating A/D Converter Performance,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 420-427, February 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.910106 31. H. H. Ou, S. C. Chang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Low-Power Circuit Techniques for Low-Voltage  Pipelined ADCs Based on Switched-Opamp Architecture,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E91-A, No. 2, pp. 461-468, February 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.2.461 32. C. L. Wei, L. Y. Wu, H. H. Yang, C. H. Tsai, B. D. Liu,, S. J. Chang, ¡¨A Versatile Step-Up/Step-Down Switched-Capacitor-Based DC-DC Converter,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Electronics, Vol.E91-C  No.5  pp.809-812, May 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.5.809 33. J. W. Zhang, Y. Z. Ye, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Current-Recycling Technique for Shadow-Match-Line Sensing in Content-Addressable Memories,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp.677-682, June 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2000247 34. H. H. Ou, B. D. Liu, and S. J. Chang, ¡§A 0.8-V 250-MSample/s Double-Sampled Inverse-Flip- Around Sample-and-Hold Circuit Based on Switched- Opamp Architecture,¡¨ IEICE Transactions on Electronics, Vol.E91-C  No.9  pp.1480-1487, September 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.9.1480 35. B. Karunanithi, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, and W. C. Tsai, ¡§A Low Complexity Detection of Discrete Cross Differences for Fast H.264/AVC Intra Prediction,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. 1250-1260, November 2008. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2008.2004904 36. Y. C. Chao, S. T. Wei, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§Combined CAVLC Decoder, Inverse Quantizer and Transform Kernel in Compact H.264/AVC Decoder,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 53-62, January 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.2009251 37. H. W. Lee, B. D. Liu, K. C. Hung, S. F. Lei, P. C. Wang, and T. L. Yang, ¡§Breast Tumor Classification of Ultrasound Images Using Wavelet-Based Channel Energy and ImageJ,¡¨ IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 81-93, February 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011160 38. H. W. Lee, B. D. Liu, K. C. Hung, S. F. Lei, C. F. Tsai, P. C. Wang, T. L. Yang, and Juen-Sean Lu, ¡§Breast Tumor Classification of Ultrasound Images Using a Reversible Round-Off Non-Recursive 1-D Discrete Periodized Wavelet Transform,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 3. pp. 880-884, March 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2008725 39. C. Y. Huang, T. C. Tsai, J. Tomas, M. H. Lee, B. D. Liu and H. Y. Lin, ¡§Urinalysis with Molecularly Imprinted Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Potentiostat Sensors,¡¨ Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 2611-2617, April 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2009.01.016 40. M. H. Lee, J. L. Thomas, S. B. Tsai, B. D. Liu and H. Y. Lin, ¡§Formation and Recognition Characteristics of Albumin-imprinted Poly(Ethylene-co-Vinyl-Alcohol) Membranes,¡¨ Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 3469-3477, June 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2009.NS18 41. J. W. Zhang, M. Y. Yu, B. D. Liu, X. F. Huang, ¡§A High-Speed and EDP-Efficient Range- Matching Scheme for Packet Classification,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 729-733, September, 2009. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2009.2027946 42. C. H. Kuo, L. C. Chang, K. W. Fan, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Hardware/Software Co-design of a Low Cost Rate Control Scheme for H.264/AVC,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 250-261, February 2010. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2031518 43. H. Y. Lin, K. H. Wu, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§An Efficient VLSI Architecture for Transform-Based Intra Prediction in H.264/AVC,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 894-906, June 2010. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2046059 44. C. H. Kuo, L. C. Chang, H. C. Chiu, B. D. Liu, ¡§Efficient Two-Pass Rate Control Scheme Based on Adjusting Distribution of DCT Coefficients,¡¨ IET Image Processing, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 211-222, June 2010. SCI, EI DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2009.0083 45. K. Bharanitharani, B. D. Liu and J. F. Yang ¡§Classified Region Algorithm for Fast Inter Mode Decision in H.264/AVC Encoder," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2010, Article ID 150809. DOI: 10.1155/2010/150809 46. Y. T. Hsieh, B. D. Liu, J. F. Wu, C. L. Fang, H. H. Tsai, and Y. Z. Juang, "A High Current Accuracy Boost White LED Driver Based on Offset Calibration Technique," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 244-248, April 2011. SCI DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2124590 47. S. T. Wei, C. W. Tien, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡¨Adaptive Truncation Algorithm for Hadamard-Transformed H.264/AVC Lossless Video Coding,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, No. 5, 538-549, May 2011. SCI DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2129030 48. L. C. Chang, C. H. Kuo, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Two Stage Rate Control Mechanism for RDO-based H.264/AVC Encoders,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, No. 5, 660-673, May 2011. SCI DOI: 1109/TCSVT.2011.2129770 49. H. W. Lee, K. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, S. F. Lei, and H. W. Ting, ¡§ Realization of High Octave Decomposition for Breast Cancer Feature Extraction on Ultrasound Images,¡¨ IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Paper, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1287-1299, June 2011. SCI DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2103153 50. M. H. Lee, J. Thomas, H. Y. Tseng, W. C. Lin, B. D. Liu, H Y. Lin, "Sensing of Digestive Proteins in Saliva with a Molecularly Imprinted Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Thin Film Coated Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 3. No. 8, pp. 3064-3071, August 2011. DOI: 10.1021/am2005724 51. I. C. Chung, C. C. Chang, H. S. Chiu, S. F. Jiang, M. H. Lee, C. L. Chung, B. D. Liu, C. Y. Huang, and H. Y. Lin, ¡¨ A Portable Electrochemical Sensor for Caffeine and (-)Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) Based on Molecularly Imprinted Poly(Ethylene-co-Vinyl-Alcohol) Recognition Element,¡¨ Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. (in press) DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2011.3938 B. Conference papers 1. C. S. Lin, P. Ou, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of k-WTA/Sorting Network Using Maskable WTA/MAX Circuit,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 VLSI Symposium on Technology, Systems and Applications, pp. 69-72. (April 18-20, 2001, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/VTSA.2001.934485 2. C. C. Yu, W. P. Wang, B. D. Liu, ¡§A New Level Converter for Low Power Applications,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. I 113-116. (May 6-9, 2001, Sydney, Australia) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921801 3. C. Y. Huang, G. J. Yu, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Hardware Design Approach for Merge-Sorting Network,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. IV 534-537 (May 6-9, 2001 Sydney, Australia) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922292 4. C. B. Wu, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Adaptive Postprocessors with DCT-Based Block Classifications,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. V 271-274. (May 6-9, 2001, Sydney, Australia) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922037 5. C. C. Yu, W. P. Wang, B. D. Liu, ¡§A New Level Converter for Low-Power Applications,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. I-113-116. (May 6-9, 2001, Sydney, Australia) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921801 6. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§A High-Precision Self-Adaptive Analog CMOS Current-Mode Maximum/Minimum Circuit with O(N) Complexity for Rank-Order Extractor,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 1-6. (May 14-15, 2001, Bangkok, Thailand) 7. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design Techniques of Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog CMOS Circuit for Fuzzy Controller and Neural Network,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 19-24. (May 14-15, 2001, Bangkok, Thailand) 8. C. C. Yu, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Simple Procedure in Back-propagation Training,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Conference on Info-Tech and Info-Net, Vol. C, pp. 529-535. (October 29 ¡V November 1, 2001, Beijing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICII.2001.983111 9. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Self-Feedback High-Speed CMOS Loser-Takes-All Circuit for Vector-Quantizer Application,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 International Symposium on Communications, pp. 16.5.1-16.5.4. (November 13 ¡V 16, 2001, Tainan, Taiwan) 10. W. B. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§The 4^th-Order Leapfrog Sigma-Delta A/D Converters Stabilized by Linear Methodology,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology, pp. 283-286. (November 14-16, 2001, Chiangmai, Thailand) 11. K. H. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Implementation of Grey Prediction Fuzzy Controller Based on the Reconfigurable CPLD System. Application,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2001 Ninth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Applications, pp. 732-737. (November 23 ¡V 24, 2001, Chung-Li, Taiwan) 12. C. C. Yu, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Backpropagation Algorithm with Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum Coefficient,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Network. pp. 1218~1223 (May 12-17, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii) EI DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2002.1007668 13. P. Ou, C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Scalable Sorting Architecture Based on Maskable WTA/MAX Circuit,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. IV, pp. 209-212. (My 26-29, 2002, Scottsdale, Arizona) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010426 14. C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of a Pipelined and expandable Sorting Architecture with Simple Control Scheme,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. IV, pp. 217-220. (May 26-29, 2002, Scottsdale, Arizona) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010428 15. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 1-V CMOS Analog Comparator Using Auto-Zero and Complementary Differential-Input Technique,¡¨ Proceedings of the Third IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs, pp. 181-184.(August 6-8, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan) DOI: 10.1109/APASIC.2002.1031562 16. C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of a Shared Buffer Management Scheme for ATM Switches,¡¨ Proceedings of the 15^th Annual IEEE International ASIC/SOC Conference, pp. 261-264. (Sept. 25-28, 2002, Rochester, New York) EI DOI: 10.1109/ASIC.2002.1158068 17. W. B. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§The High-Resolution Multi-Tone Signal Generators,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 245-250. (October 28-31, 2002, Bali, Indonesia) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2002.1114947 18. C. S. Lin, R. J. Chang, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design for Low-Power Low-Cost and High-Reliability Precomputation-Based Content-Addressable Memory,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 319-324. (October 28-31, 2002, Bali, Indonesia) EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2002.1115248 19. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Analog CMOS Rank-Order Extractor with O(n) Complexity Using Maximum/Winner-Take-All Circuit,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp.389-394. (October 28-31, 2002, Bali, Indonesia) EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2002.1115273 20. C. C. Yu, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Adaptive Activation Function for Multi-layer Feed-forward Neural,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE TENCON¡¦02, Vol. 1, pp. 645-650. (Oct. 28-31, 2002, Beijing, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2002.1181357 21. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low-Voltage Wide-Input CMOS Comparator for Sensor Application Using Back-Gate Technique,¡¨ Abstract of the 1^st International Meeting on Microsensors and Microsystems, p. 138. (January 12-14, 2003, Tainan, Taiwan) 22. C. Y. Huang, Y. H. Sheu, J. J. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low-Power Instrumental Amplifier Applied in MIMSCs Signal Processing,¡¨ Abstract of the 1^st International Meeting on Microsensors and Microsystems, p. 141. (January 12-14, 2003, Tainan, Taiwan) 23. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Directed Recursive Structures for Computing Radix-r Two-Dimensional DCT/IDCT/DST/IDST,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. IV, pp. 269-272. (May 25-28, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2003.1205825 24. C. S. Lin, K. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§Low-Power and Low-Voltage Fully Parallel Content-Addressable Memory,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. V, pp. 373-376. (May 25-28, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2003.1206285 25. Y. C. Hung, C. Y. Tsai, B. D. Liu, ¡§1-V Rail-to-Rail Analog CMOS Programmable Winner-Take-All System with Two-Side Searching Capability,¡¨ Proceedings of the 14^th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, pp. 41-44. (August 12-15, 2003 Hualien, Taiwan) 26. Y. C. Hung, C. Y. Tsai, B. D. Liu, ¡§Low-Voltage Low-Power CMOS Similarity Measuremnet Chip for Binary Pattern Identification,¡¨ Proceedings of the 14^th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, pp. 333-336. (August 12-15, 2003 Hualien, Taiwan) 27. G. J. Yu, J. J. Chen, H. Y. Lin, B. D. Liu,, and C. Y. Huang, ¡§A Low-Voltage Low-Power Log-Domain Band-Pass Filter,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, pp. 219-222. (October 6-8, 2003, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/VTSA.2003.1252592 28. C. Y. Huang, G. J. Yu, J. J. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 1.5 V Log-Domain Band-Pass Filter Based on MOSFET Square Law,¡¨ Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on ASIC, pp. 506-509. (October 21-24, 2003, Beijing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICASIC.2003.1277597 29. W. B. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§Stability Analysis for The High-Order Leapfrog Sigma- Delta A/D Converters,¡¨ Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on ASIC, pp. 568-572. (October 21-24, 2003, Beijing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICASIC.2003.1277640 30. C. C. Yu, Y. C. Tang, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of High Performance CMOS Current-Mode Winner-Take-All Circuit,¡¨ Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on ASIC, pp. 681-684. (October 21-24, 2003, Beijing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICASIC.2003.1277613 31. Y. C. Hung, C. Y. Tsai, B. D. Liu, 2003, ¡§1-V Rail-to-Tail Analog CMOS Programmable Winner-Take-All Chip with Two-Side Searching Capability for Neurocomputing Applications,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks & Signal Processing, pp. 337-340. (December 14-17, 2003, Nanjing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICNNSP.2003.1279278 32. B. D. Liu, ¡§Linguistic Hedges and Fuzzy Rule Base Systems,:¡¨ Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks & Signal Processing, pp. 1724-1727. (December 14-17, 2003, Nanjing, China) DOI: 10.1109/ICNNSP.2003.1281218 33. C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Condensed Recursive Structures for Computing Multi-Dimensional DCT with Arbitrary Length,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 405-408. (May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, Canada) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1328769 34. Z. Y. Cheng, C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Unified Selectable Fixed-Coefficient Recursive Structures for Computing DCT, IMDCT, and Subband Synthesis Filtering,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 557-560. (May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, Canada) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1328807 35. G. G. Lee, K. Vissers, B. D. Liu,, ¡¨On a 3D Recursive Motion Estimation (ME) Algorithm and Architecture for Digital Video System-on-A-Chip (SoC),¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. II, pp. 449-451. (July 25-28, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan) EI DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2004.1354190 36. H. C. Tseng, C. S. Lin, H. H. Ou, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low-Power Rail-to-Rail 6-Bit Flash ADC Based on a Novel Complementary Average-Value Approach,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp 252-256. (August 9-11, 2004, Newport Beach, CA.) EI DOI: 10.1109/LPE.2004.250223 37. Y. C. Wu, G. J. Yu, H. H. Ou, C. Y. Huang, B. D. Liu, ¡§1-V Square-Root Domain Filters Design Based on Modified Electronically Simulated Translinear Loop and State-Space Approach,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop, pp. 91-96. (October 14-15, 2004, Macao) 38. H. W. Ting, B. D. Liu and S. J. Chang, ¡§A Time Domain Built-In Self-Test Methodology for SNDR and ENOB Tests of Analog-to-Digital Converters,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asian Test Symposium, pp. 52-57. (November 15-17, 2004, Kenting, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/ATS.2004.18 39. H. W. Ting, B. D. Liu, S. J. Chang, ¡§An On-Chip Concurrent High Frequency Analog and Digital Sinusoidal Signal Generator,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 173-176. (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412720 40. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡¨0.75-V Subthreshold CMOS Logic Using Dynamic Substrate Bias,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 345-348 (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412766 41. H. Y. Lin, C. S. Lin, L. Y. Chiou, B. D. Liu, ¡¨Leakage Current Reduction in CMOS Logic Circuits,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 349-352 (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412767 42. J. D. Chang, H. H. Ou, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 10-bit 350-Msample/s Nyquist CMOS D/A Converter,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 621-624. (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412954 43. C. H. Chen, Y. H. Lu, B. D. Liu, ¡§Gray Prediction Decoding Algorithm for VLC Decoder,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 677-680. (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412968 44. Z. Y. Cheng, C. H. Chen, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang ¡§High Throughput 2-D Transform Architectures for H.264 Advanced Video Coders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1141-1144. (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan). EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1413086 45. C. Y. Huang, W. H. Wei, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of a 1.5 V Analog Current-Mode Median Filter,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, pp.211-215. (Dec. 14-17, 2004, Melbourne, Australia). EI DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2004.1417464 46. L. Y. Chiou, H. W. Lee, S. F. Lei, B. D. Liu, ¡§Design and Implementation of an Efficient Architecture for Higher Order Statistics With DWT,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, pp. 282-285. (April 27-29, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/VDAT.2005.1500077 47. Y. J. Chuang, H. H. Ou, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Novel Bubble Tolerant Thermometer-to-Binary Encoder for Flash A/D Converter,¡§ Proceedings of the International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, pp. 313-316. (April 27-29, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/VDAT.2005.1500084 48. H. Y. Lin, Y. C. Chiao, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Combined 2-D Transform and Quantization Architectures for H.264 Video Coders," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1802-1805. (May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, Japan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464959 49. H. H. Ou, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 1-V, 9-Bit, 2.5-Msample/s Pipelined ADC with Merged Switched-Opamp and Opamp-Sharing Techniques,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1972-1975. (May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, Japan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465001 50. Y. C. Hung, B. D. Liu, ¡§1-V CMOS Similarity Measurement Chip for Binary Pattern Identification,¡¨ Proceedings of the 9^th IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and Their Applications, pp. 36-39. (May 28-30, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/CNNA.2005.1543154 51. H. W. Ting, C. W. Lin, B. D. Liu, S. J. Chang, ¡§Reconstructive Oscillator Based Sinusoidal Signal Generator for ADC BIST,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 65-68. (November 1-3, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2005.251808 52. H. Y. Lin, J. J. Yang, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Efficient Deblocking Filter Architecture for H.264 Video Coders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2617-2620. (May 21-24, 2006, Island of Kos, Greece) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693160 53. H. Y. Lin, Y. H. Lu, B. D. Liu, J. F. Yang, ¡§Low Power Design of H.264 CAVLC Decoder,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2689-2692. (May 21-24, 2006, Island of Kos, Greece) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693178 54. S. F. Lei, L. Y. Chiou, S. W. Lee, B. D. Liu, ¡§An Efficient VLSI Architecture of Frequency Domain Kurtosis for Non-Stationary Acoustic Noise Measurements,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, pp. 2718-2722. (June 25-28, 2006, Guilin, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCCAS.2006.285231 55. H. Y. Lin, H. H. Tsai, B. D. Liu,, S. J. Chang, ¡§An Easy Testable 2-D Transform Scheme in H.264 Advanced Video Coders¡¨ Proceedings of the Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical & Electronic Engineering Conference 2006, pp. 124-128. (July 13-14, 2006, Macau, China) 56. Z. G. Ding, H. H. Ou, S. J. Chang, B. D. Liu, ¡§A Self-Calibrated Pipelined ADC with Open-Loop Constant Gain Amplifier,¡¨ Proceedings of the Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical & Electronic Engineering Conference 2006, pp. 295-299. (July 13-14, 2006, Macau, China) 57. C. W. Zhang, Y. Z. Ye, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A new mismatch-dependent low power technique with shadow match-line voltage-detecting scheme for CAMs,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 135-138. (October 4-6, 2006, Tegernsee, Germany) EI DOI: 10.1109/LPE.2006.4271822 58. H. W. Ting, B. D. Liu, S. J. Chang, ¡§Histogram Based Testing Strategy for ADC,¡¨ Proceedings of the Fifteenth Asian Test Symposium, pp. 51-54. (November 20-23, 2006, Fukuoka, Japan) DOI: 10.1109/ATS.2006.260992 59. H. H. Ou, Y. C. Chen, B. D. Liu, ¡§A 0.7-V 10-bit 3£gW Analog-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Biomedical Applications¡¨, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, pp. 122-125. (November 29-December 1, 2006, London, United Kingdom) EI DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2006.4600323 60. H. Y. Lin, H. H. Tsai, B. D. Liu,, J. F. Yang, S. J. Chang, ¡§An Efficient Design-for-Testability Scheme for 2-D Transform in H.264 Advanced Video Coders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 255-258. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342380 61. Y. C. Chao, S. T. Wei, J. Y. Yang,, B. D. Liu, ¡§Combined CAVLC Decoder and Inverse Quantizer for Efficient H.264/AVC Decoding,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 259-262. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342381 62. R. J. Tsai, H. W. Ting, C. S. Lin, B. D. Liu, ¡§A CAM/WTA-Based High Speed and Low Power Longest Prefix Matching Circuit Design,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, 427-430. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342480 63. P. Manikandan, B. D. Liu, L. Y. Chieu, G. Sundar, C. R. Mandal, ¡§Asynchronous Design Methodology for an Efficient Implementation of Low Power ALU,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 591-594. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342057 64. Y. C. Chao, H. Y. Lin, B. D. Liu, J. Y. Yang, ¡§A High Throughput and Data Reuse Architecture for H.264/AVC Deblocking Filter,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1262-1265. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342392 65. C. W. Zhang, Y. Z. Ye, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low-power Technique based on Charge Injection and Current-Saving Methods for Match-Line Sensing in Content-Addressable Memories,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1295-1298. (December 4-7, 2006, Singapore) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342400 66. L. C. Chang, Y. S. Chen, R. W. Liou, C. H. Kuo, C. H. Yeh, and B. D. Liu, ¡§ A Real Time and Low Cost Hardware Architecture for Video Abstraction System,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 773-776. (May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378000 67. Y. C. Chao, S. T. Wei, J. F. Yang and B. D. Liu, ¡§Combined Decoding and Flexible Transform Designs for Effective H.264/AVC Decoders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 3135-3138. (May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378095 68. Y. C. Chao, H. H. Tsai, Y. H. Lin, J. F. Yang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Novel Design for Computation of All Transforms in H.264/AVC Decoders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 1914-1917. (July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2007.4285050 69. C. H. Kuo, G. C. Huang, L. C. Chang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Source Code Flow Optimization for H.264/AVC Video Decoder Implementing on a Low-cost Embedded System Platform,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE TENCON, paper 283. (Oct. 30-Nov.2, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2007.4428899 70. H. W. Lee, S. F. Lei, K. C. Hung and B. D. Liu, "Breast Lesions Classification Using Modified Non-Recursive Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, pp. 223-226. (November 27-30, 2007, Montreal, Canada) EI DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463349 71. C.-Y. Huang, T.-C. Tsai, M.-H. Lee, B. D. Liu and H.-Y. Lin, ¡§Total Urinary Analysis with Poly (Ethylene-co-Vinyl-Alcohol) Molecular Imprinting Thin Film Potentiostat Sensors,¡¨ presented at the the Tenth World Congress on Biosensors. (May 14-16, 2008, Shanghai, China) 72. C. H. Kuo, L. C. Chang, W. W. Liu, and B. D. Liu, ¡§System Level Design of a Spatial-Temporal Video Resampling Architecture,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2797-2800. (May 18-21, 2008, Seattle, Washington) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4542038 73. S. T. Wei, C. Y. Wen, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§Adaptive Motion Search Algorithms for Fast H.264 Inter Prediction,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, pp. 776-779. (May 25-27, 2008, Xiamen, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCCAS.2008.4657866 74. L. C. Chang, C. H. Kuo and B. D. Liu, ¡§An Improvement to Quality Layer Assignation in the Scalable Extension of H.264/AVC,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, pp. 780-783. (May 25-27, 2008, Xiamen, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCCAS.2008.4657867 75. H. H. Ou, S. J. Chang and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Power-Efficient 0.8 V, 9-bit, 20-MS/s Pipelined ADC with Opamp-Shared Loading-Free Architecture,¡¨ Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, pp. 1172-1175. (May 25-27, 2008, Xiamen, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCCAS.2008.4657947 76. R. L. Wang, T. J. Tsai, H. Y.Lin, C.F. Lin,H. H.Tsai, Y.Z. Juang, C. H. Liu, B. D. Liu, ¡§Electric Characteristics of an On-chip Extended-gate ISFET for Sensing Creatinine,¡¨ presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2008. (June 22-25, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan) 77. Y. C. Chao, K. H. Lin, J. F. Yang, and B. D Liu, ¡¨An Approximate Square Criterion for H.264/AVC Intra Mode Decision,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 333-336. (June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2008.4607439 78. M. H. Lee, T. J. Tasi, C. Y. Huang, B. D Liu , and H. Y. Lin, ¡§Molecularly Imprinting of 8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine on Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Thin Film for the Detection of Oxidative DNA Damage from the Urinary Excretion,¡¨ Abstract of the Fifth International Workshop on Molecularly Imprinting, 2P-7. (September 7-11, 2008, Kobe, Japan) 79. H. Y. Lin, K. H. Wu, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§Transformed-Based Mode Decision Algorithm for H.264/AVC Intra-prediction,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1344-1347. (November 30-December 3, 2008, Macao, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2008.4746277 80. H. D. Hsu, T. J. Liang, B. D. Liu, and K. H. Chen, ¡§Design of a Green Mode PWM Control IC,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1876-1879. (November 30-December 3, 2008, Macao, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2008.4746410 81. K. Bharanitharan, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§A Low Complexity Fast Inter Prediction Algorithm for H.264/AVC,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, pp. 73¡V77. (December 20-22, 2008, Phuket, Thailand). EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCEE.2008.165 82. K. Bharanitharan, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§An Efficient Region Based Intra Prediction Algorithm for H.264/Advanced Video Coding,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, pp. 393-397. (December 20-22, 2008, Phuket, Thailand) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICCEE.2008.190 83. C. F. Lin , H. H. Tsai, Y. Z. Juang, Y. K. Su, W. L. Li, R. L. Wang, H. Y. Lin, J. Y. Guo, T. J. Tsai, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A CMOS-Compatible Biological Transducer for Creatinine Detection: MIP-gate ISFET,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis. (April 28-29, 2009, Chengdu, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/CAS-ICTD.2009.4960739 84. H. W. Ting, I. J. Chao, Y. C. Lien, S. J. Chang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§An Low-Cost Output Response Analyzer Circuit for ADC BIST,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis. (April 28-29, 2009, Chengdu, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/CAS-ICTD.2009.4960751 85. C. Y. Huang, M. H. Lee, Z. H. Wu, H. Y. Tseng, Y. C. Huang, B. D. Liu, and H. Y. Lin, ¡§A Portable Potentiostat with Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Electrode for Dopamine Sensing,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis. (April 28-29, 2009, Chengdu, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/CAS-ICTD.2009.4960767 86. I. J. Chao, T. H. Su, C. Y. Huang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§An Inductively Powered Converter for Implantable Biochemical Sensor Signal Processing System,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis. (April 28-29, 2009, Chengdu, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/CAS-ICTD.2009.4960777 87. C. W. Tien, H. Y. Lin, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§Transform-domain Partial Prediction Algorithm for Intra Prediction in H.264/AVC,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE 2009 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems., pp. 1245-1248. (May 24-27, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117988 88. J. W. Zhang, Y. Z. Ye, B. D. Liu, and F Guan, ¡§Self-Timed Charge Recycling Search-Line Drivers in Content-Addressable Memories,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE 2009 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 3070-3073. (May 24-27, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118451 89. K. C. Chang, K. H. Chen, T. J. Liang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of One-Cycle Control Power Factor Correction IC with Unipolar Supply Voltage,¡¨ Proceedings of the IEEE 2009 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 3078-3081. (May 24-27, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118453 90. Y. C. Wu, C. Y. Huang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§A Low Dropout Voltage Regulator with Programmable Output,¡¨ Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, pp. 3357-3361. (May 25-27, 2009, Xi'an, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2009.5138825 91. S. T. Wei, S. R. Shen, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§Lossless Image and Video Coding Based on H.264/AVC Intra Prediction with Simplified Interpolations,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing., pp. 633-636. (November 7-11, 2009, Cairo, Egypt) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413839 92. Y. C. Wu, C. Y. Huang, I. J. Chao, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Design of a Voltammetry Potentiostat for Biosensors,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2009 International symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics, pp.148-151. (December 9-11, 2009, Melbourne, Australia) 93. I. C. Chung, C. C. Chang, H. S. Chiu, S. F. Jiang, M. H. Lee, B. D. Liu, C. Y. Huang, and H. Y. Lin, ¡§ ¡§A Portable Electrochemical Sensor for Caffeine and (-)Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) Based on Molecularly Imprinted Poly(Ethylene-co-Vinyl-Alcohol) Recognition Element,¡¨ (paper BC 119) Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 International NanoElectronics Conference, pp. 362-363. (January 3-8, Hong Kong, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/INEC.2010.5424748 94. M. H. Lee, H. Y. Tseng, B. D. Liu, and H. Y. Lin, ¡§Sensing of Digestion Proteins in Saliva with Molecularly Imprinted Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Coated QCM Sensor,¡¨ Presented at the 20^th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors. (May 26-28, 2010, Glasgow, UK) 95. L. C. Chang, C. H. Kuo, and B. D. Liu, "Low Complexity MAD Prediction Algorithms for Rate Controllable H.264/AVC Hardware Encoders," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 661-664. (May 30-June 2, 2010, Paris, France) EI DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537501 96. Y. C. Chao, S. T. Wei, C. H. Kao, B. D. Liu, and J. F. Yang, ¡§An Efficient Architecture of Multiple 8¡Ñ8 Transforms for H.264/AVC and VC-1 Decoders,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems, pp. 595-598. (June 21-23, 2010, Shanghai, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICGCS.2010.5542994 97. I. J. Chao, C. Y. Huang, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Behavior Model for Comparator-Based Switched-Capacitor SDM with Relaxed DEM Timing,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems, pp. 495-498. (June 21-23, 2010, Shanghai, China) EI DOI: 10.1109/ICGCS.2010.5543011 98. C. S. Peng, L. C. Chang, C. H. Kuo, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Dual-Core Virtual Platform with QEMU and SystemC,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics, pp. 69-72.. (November 18-19, 2010, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) DOI: 10.1109/ISNE.2010.5669196 99. Y. T. Hsieh, B. D. Liu, J. F. Wu, C. L. Fang, H. H. Tsai, and Y. Z. Juang, ¡§A High Efficiency Boost White LED Drivers for Portable Electronics Applications,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics, pp 13-16. (November 18-19, 2010, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) DOI: 10.1109/ISNE.2010.5669135 100. Y. T. Hsieh, B. D. Liu, J. F. Wu, C. L. Fang, H. H. Tsai, and Y. Z. Juang,, ¡§A High Efficiency Boost White LED Driver with Integrated Schottky Diode,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 660-663. (December 6-9, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) DOI: 10.1109/APCCAS.2010.5775089 101. P. H. Lu, C. Y. Huang, W. J. Chen, B. D. Liu, M. H. Lee,and H. Y. Lin, ¡§The Microcontact Imprinting of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii on Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Electrode for the Microbial Fuel Cells,¡¨ Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems. (February 20 ¡V 23, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) 102. C. H. Hsieh, C. Y. Huang, C. F. Lin, M. H. Lee, B. D. Liu, H. H. Tsai, Y. Z. Juang, and H. Y. Lin. ¡§A Microfluidic and Potentiostatic Sensor Integrated with Neopterin-imprinted Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Based Electrode,¡¨ Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, pp. 606-609. (February 20 ¡V 23, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) 103. C. Y. Huang, Y. L. Chen, P. H. Huang, M. H. Lee, B. D. Liu, and H. Y. Lin , " Differential Pulse Voltammetric Sensing of Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) Using Molecularly Imprinted Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Coated Electrode," Presented at the 4th IEEE International NanoElectronics Conferenc, Paper G11-14. (June 21-24, 2011, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan) 104. Y. L. Chen, H. Y. Lin, C. Y. Huang, M. H. Lee, and B. D Liu, ¡§Sensing of Urinary Melatonin with Moleculalry Imprinted Electrode Integrated Potentiostatic Sensor,¡¨ Proceedings of the 2011 Symposium on Engineering, Medicine and Biology Applications, Paper 8-4. (July 8-10, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) 105. P. C. Hsiao , I. J. Chao , C. L. Hsu , B. D. Liu , C. Y. Huang , and S. J. Chang, ¡§A 9-bit 50 MS/s CBSC Pipelined ADC Using Time-Shifted Correlated Double Sampling,¡¨ Proceedings of the 54^th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paper Tp1A-2 (August 7-10, 2011, Seoul, Korea) 106. Y. T. Hsieh, B. D. Liu, J. F. Wu, C. L. Fang, H. H. Tsai, and Y. Z. Juang,, ¡§A SEPIC LED Driver with a Hybrid Dimming Technique for Road Vehicles,¡¨ presented at the 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications. (August 30 ¡V September 1, 2011, Birmingham, United Kingdom) 107. S. C. Chang, I. J. Chao, B. D. Liu, C. Y. Huang, M. H. Lee, and H. Y. Lin, ¡§Design of a Signal Processing Circuit for Quartz Crystal Microbalance Biosensors,¡¨ invited for presentation at the the IEEE 9^th International Conference on ASIC. (October 25-28, 2011, Xiamen, China) 108. T. A. Chen, C. L. Wei, T. H. Liu, R. Y. Lin, and B. D. Liu, ¡§Dual-Mode Urinalysis Chip by Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy,¡¨ will be presented at the 2011 IEEE International conference on Intelligent Computation and Bio-Medical Instrumentation. (December 14 - 17, 2011, Wuhan, China) C. Book Chapters B. D. Liu, Y. H. Kuo, J. S. Ker, 2002, "CMAC Neural Networks and Systolic Implementation," in Neural Networks and Systolic Array Design. (Chapter 6, pp. 131-162) D. Zhang Ed. Singapore: World Scientific Publisher. B. D. Liu, C. Y. Chen, 2003, "Linguistic Hedges and Fuzzy Rule Based Systems," in¡§Trade-off between Accuracy and Interpretability in Fuzzy Rule-Based Modeling¡¨ Book II: Accuracy Improvements in Linguistic Fuzzy Modeling, pp. 165-192. J. Casillas, O. Cordon, F. Herrera, and L. Magdalena Eds. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.  1. C. S. Lin and B. D. Liu, 2006, "Content Addressable Memory," in VLSI Handbook, 2nd Edition. (Chapter 51) Wai-Kai Chen Ed. Ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Projects
A. National Science Council Projects ¡P SoC Design for MPEG-4 Multimedia Audio and Video System (from Aug. 2003 to July 2006) ¡P Promotion of SoC Design Technologies.  (from Aug. 2002 to July 2005) ¡P Research of Portable Low Power Video SoC Design (from Aug. 2005 to July 2008) B. General Projects ¡P Imprinting Microsensors-- MOE Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities. (from Apr. 2002 to Mar. 2006) ¡P Analog/Test Core IPs Collection and Verification for System-on-Chip Design sponsored by Ministry of Economic Affairs. (from Apr. 2004 to Mar. 2007) ¡P Developing Touch Control IC for Hannstar LCD Panel with Embedded Light Sensor. (from Feb. 2010 to Jan. 2011)
Students
A. Students Shih-Tse Wei(Ph.D.Student), I-jen-Chao(Ph.D.Student), Po-Chang Wu (Ph.D.Student), Jun-Hua Jiang(Ph.D.Student), Chuan-Ming Huang(Ph.D.Student), Wei-Chung Liu(Ph.D.Student), Yuan-Da Hsieh(Ph.D.Student), Cheng-Chi Yen(Ph.D.Student), Pin-Chen Kuo(Ph.D.Student), Shing-Huang Ding(Ph.D.Student) Tsung-Lin Tsai(M.S.Student), Tun-Chieh Young(M.S.Student), Yi-Lyu Shen(M.S.Student), Chia-Ming Kuo(M.S.Student), Jhih-Ming Lin(M.S.Student), Chia-Chun Huang(M.S.Student), Ping Ling Chu(M.S.Student), Shang-Heng Shih (M.S. Student), Ching-Wen Hou(M.S.Student), Yang-Ru Chen(M.S.Student), Kaug-Hsing Lu(M.S.Student), Chun-Chih Tien(M.S.Student) Pao-Chung Chen(Ph.D. 1993), Li-Yang Wang(Ph.D. 1994), Jing-Jou Tang(Ph.D. 1995), Kai-Cheng Wei(Ph.D. 1996), Jar-Shiung Jer (Ph.D. 1996), Shih-Chang Hsia(Ph.D. 1997), Chung-Yuen Huang(Ph.D. 1997), Chuen-Yau Chen(Ph.D. 2000), Wen-Bin Lin(Ph.D. 2003), Chung-Bin Wu(Ph.D. 2003), Yu-Cherng Hung(Ph.D. 2004), Kuo-Huang Lin(Ph.D. 2004), Chi-Sheng Lin(Ph.D. 2004), Che-Hong Chen(Ph.D. 2004),  Gwo-Jeng Yu(Ph.D. 2005), Hsin-Wen Ting(Ph.D.2008), Shin-Hong Ou(Ph.D.2008), K. Bharanitharan (Ph.D. 2009), Heng-Yao Lin(Ph.D.2009), Hsieh-Wei Lee(Ph.D.2009), Li-Chung Chang(Ph.D. 2010), Yi-Chih Chao(Ph.D. 2011) Pin-Chen Kuo(M.S. 2011), Cheng-Hsun Wu(M.S. 2011), Ying-Cheng Wu(M.S. 2011), Hung-Jhe Chen(M.S. 2011), Po-Chun Shiao(M.S. 2011), Ngap-Wei Tham(M.S. 2011), Wei-Chih Chen(M.S. 2011) Ya-Wen Chao(M.S. 2010), Hung-Lung Wu(M.S. 2010), Wei-Lun Luo(M.S. 2010) Chung-Lun Hsu(M.S. 2009), Chia-Hung Kao(M.S. 2009), Chia-Wei Tien(M.S. 2009), Shang-Ju Ch'en(M.S. 2009), Tsung-Huan Chen(M.S. 2009), Hui-Ju Chang(M.S. 2009), Yu-Ju Lu(M.S. 2009) Jing-Wei Shiu(M.S. 2008), Yu-Shiou Lin(M.S. 2008), Gung-Hung Lin(M.S. 2008), Tzung-Han Yang(M.S. 2008), Guan-Shian Wu(M.S. 2008) Manikandan(M.S. 2007), Shih-Tse We(M.S. 2007), Chun-Fang Liao(M.S. 2007), Chun-Yung Wen(M.S. 2007), Hui-Hsien Tsai(M.S. 2007), Wen-chih Tsai(M.S. 2007), Hung-Chang Chen(M.S. 2007), Yun-Han Chen(M.S. 2007), Ruei-Jhe Tsai(M.S. 2007) Yi-Chih Chao(M.S. 2006), Ya-Chi Chen(M.S. 2006), Yu-Jung Lin(M.S. 2006), Chien-Hung Chen(M.S. 2006) Ying-Hong Lu(M.S. 2005), Yung-Fu Lin(M.S. 2005), Shr-Yo Shiu(M.S. 2005), Yau-Ren Juang(M.S. 2005), Shing-Huang Ding(M.S. 2005), Ju-Jiun Yang(M.S. 2005) Hsin-Wen Ting(M.S. 2004), Yi-Ching Wu(M.S. 2004), Zhan-Yuan Chen(M.S. 2004), Hsian-Wei Liu(M.S. 2004), Jeng-Dau Chang(M.S. 2004), Tseng-Hui Chin(M.S. 2004) Heng-Yao Lin(M.S. 2003), Jenn-Jiun Chen(M.S. 2003), Kuan-Hua Chen(M.S. 2003), Chin-Yuan Yao(M.S. 2003), Chung-Yang Tsai(M.S. 2003), Chun-Chu Wang(M.S. 2003) Chun-Chiao(M.S. 2002), Hung-Wei Lin(M.S. 2002), Chin-Jen Yang(M.S. 2002), Jui-Chuan Chang(M.S. 2002), Cheng-Hsi Hong(M.S. 2002) Chin-Chi Hsu(M.S. 2001), Chin-Fa Hsiao(M.S. 2001), Wei-Ping Wang(M.S. 2001), Shin-Hong Lin(M.S. 2001), Hsin-Hong Ou(M.S. 2001) Yun-Chin Tang(M.S. 2000), Che-Hong Chen(M.S. 2000), Yuan-Ta Hsien(M.S. 2000) Chang-Ming Liu(M.S. 1999), Chun-Lung Wang(M.S. 1999), Chien-Jung Wu(M.S.1999) B. Honors for Students Shin-Hong Ou Macronix Golden Silicon Award, 2001 Chi-Sheng Lin  Macronix Golden Silicon Award, Macronix Foundation, 2002 Jui-Chuan Chang Best Thesis Award, Chinese institute of Electrical Engineering 2002 Heng-Yao Lin and Jenn-Jiun Chen Excellent Chip Designer Award, CIC, 2003 Chi-Sheng Lin and Jui-Chuan Chang Excellent Chip Designer Award, CIC, 2003 Chi-Sheng Lin and Kuan-Hua Chen Macronix Golden Silicon Award, Macronix Foundation, 2003  Chi-Sheng Lin and Kuan-Hua Chen Winner of the ACM/IEEE 3rd International Low Power Design Contest, 2003 Chi-Sheng Lin  Excellent Chip Designer Award, CIC, 2004 Chi-Sheng Lin  Professor Shen Wen-Zen Memorial Paper Award, Taiwan Integrated Circuits Society, 2004  Hsin-Wen Ting  Lam Research Thesis Award, Lam Research Corporation, 2005 Chi-Sheng Lin  Dragon Thesis Award, Acer Foundation, 2005  Chi-Hong Chen    Dragon Thesis Award, Acer Foundation, 2005  Chi-Hong Chen    Outstanding Young Author Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2006   Heng-Yao Lin, Hui-Hsien Tsai  Best Paper Award, the Fourth Regional Inter-Universities Postgraduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2006 Hsin-Wen Ting, Ruei-Jhe Tsai    Macroniz Goldern Silicon Award, Macroniz Foundation, 2006   P. Manikandan Best Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems Yi-Chih Chao  Lam Research Thesis Award, Lam Research Corporation, 2007
Holding or Attending International Conferences
Member of Technical Program Committee and Session Chair, the 1998 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (November 24-27, Chiangmai, Thailand)Session Chair, The 1999 International Analog VLSI Workshop. (May 5-7, 1999, Taipei, Taiwan) Member of Technical Program Committee and Session Chair, the 1st IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on ASICs. (August 23-25, 1999, Seoul, Korea) Member of Program Committee, the 1999 IEEE Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing Systems. (October 20-22, 1999, Taipei, Taiwan)Member of Technical Program Committee, The 1999 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems. (December 8-10, 1999, Puhket, Thailand) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2nd IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on ASICs. (August 28-30, 2000, Cheju Island, Korea) Finance Chair, the Ninth Asian Test Conference. December 4-6, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan¡^ Member of Technical Program Committee and Session Chair, the 2000 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (December 4-6, 2000, Tianjin, China) Session Chair, the 2000 Asia Pacific Conference on Multimedia Technology and Applications. (December 17-19, 2000, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Sub-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 3rd IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on ASICs. (August 6-8, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan) International Steering Committer Member and Session Chair, the 2002 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (December 16-18, 2002, Singapore) General Co-Chair, the 1st International Meeting on Microsensors and Microsystems. (January 12-14, 2003, Tainan, Taiwan) Review Committee Member for VLSI Track, the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 25-28, Bankok, Thailand) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2003 International Conference on Imformatics, Cybernetics and System. (December 14-16, 2003, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) International Advisory Committee Member, the 2003 International Conference on Neural Network and Signal Processing. (December 14-17, 2003, Nanjing, China) Review Committee Member for VLSI Systems and Applications Track and Neural Network Systems and Applications Track, the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, Canada) General Chair, General Chair, the 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2005 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test. ( April 27-29, 2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan ) Review Committee Member for VLSI Systems and Applications Track and Multimedia Systems and Applications Track , the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, Japan) Technical Program Co-Chair, 2005 IEEE International Workshop on VLSI Design and Video Technology. (May 28-31, 2005, Suzhou, China) Meeting Chair, the 9th International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and Its Applications. (May 28-30, 2005, Taipei, Taiwan) General Co-Chair, The 2nd International Meeting on Microsensors and Microsystems. (January 16-18, 2006, Tainan, Taiwan) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control ( April 23-25, 2006, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. ) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2006 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test. ( April 26-28, 2006, Hsinchu, Taiwan ) Review Committee Member for VLSI Systems and Applications Track and Multimedia Systems and Applications Track, the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 21-24, 2006, Island of Kos, Greece) Member of Program Committee, the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. (July 9-12, 2006, Toronto , Canada) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the Fourth Regional Inter-university Postgraduate Electrical & Electronic Engineering Conference. (July 13-14, 2006, Macao, China) Member of Program Committee, the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics. ( October 8-11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan ) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2006 IEEE TENCON ( November 14-17, 2006, Hong Kong ) Chair of International Steering Committee, the 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (December 4-7, Singapore)  Asia Liaison Co-Chair, the second International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (December 18-20, 2006 Pasadena, California ) Member of International Program Committee, the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control ( April 15-17, 2007, London , United Kingdom) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2007 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test. ( April 25-27, 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan ) Review Committee Member for VLSI Systems and Applications Track and Multimedia Systems and Applications Track, the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans, U.S.A. ) International Coordinator and Review Committee Member for VLSI Systems and Applications Track and Multimedia Systems and Applications Track, the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 27-30, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. ) Member of Program Committee, the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics. ( October 7-10, 2007, Montreal, Canada ) Member of International Steering Committee, the 2007 IEEE TENCON. ( October 30 - November 2, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan ) Review Committee Member for Neural Systems and Applications Track, the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 18-21, 2008, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. ) Member of Technical Program Committee, the 2008 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test. ( April 23-25, 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan ) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 2008 International Conference on Computer, Communications, Circuits and Systems. ( May 25-27, 2008, Xiamen, China ) Special and Invited Session Chair, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing. (June 7-11, 2008, Nanjing, China) Member of Program Committee, the 3rd Argentine School of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications  (EAMTA) and 1st Argentine Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology, and Applications (CAMTA)  ( Septermber 18-19, 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Member of Program Committee, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics. ( October 12-15, 2008, Singapore ) Co-Chair of International Advisory Committee, the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. (November 30-December 3, Macao, China) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 2009 IEEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis. (April 28-29 , 2009, Chengdu, China ) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 24-27 , 2009, Taipei, Taiwan ) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 2009 International Conference on Computer, Communications, Circuits and Systems. (July 23-25, 2009, San Jose, USA) International Advisor, the First Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics. (Nov. 19-21, 2009, Shanghai, China) Review Committee Member for Multimedia Systems and Applications Track, the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 30-June 2, 2010, Paris, France ) Review Committee Member, 2010 International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems. (June 21-23, 2010, Shanghai, China) Special Session Chair and member of Technical Program Committee, 2010 International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems. (June 21-23, 2010, Shanghai, China) Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, the 2010 International Conference on Computer, Communications, Circuits and Systems. (July 28-30, 2010, Chengdu, China) International Advisor, the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics. (Sep. 22-24, 2010, Shanghai, China) Member of International Program Committee, the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernatics.( October 10-13, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey) Review Committee Member for Multimedia Systems and Applications Track and Biomedical Circuits and Systems Track, the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (May 15-18, 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Program Committee member, The 6th Argentine School of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications (EAMTA) (August 6-14, 2011,  Buenos Aires, Argentina) Program Committee member, The International Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Control. (September 9-11, 2011, Ningbo, China) Review Committee member, 2011 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference. (November 10-12, 2011, San Diego, California, USA) Member of Technical Program Committee, the IEEE 9th International Conference on ASIC. (October 25-28, 2011, Xiamen, China)
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