EE Building 9F R92901
Associate Professor Kuang-Wei Cheng
Address
Email

TEL
+886-6-2757575 ext.62369
Lab Weblink
Wireless Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab
(R92971/ext.92971)
Background
Educations
2009
Ph.D., University of Washington, WA, USA
2002
M.S.E.E., National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2000
B.S.E.E., National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Experiences
2018/1-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
2012/02-2017/12
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
2010/01-2012/02
Principal Investigator of Biomedical IC Group, Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore
2006/06-2006/09
Circuit Design Engineer, National Semiconductor Corporation, USA
2002/08-2004/07
IC Design Senior Engineer, MediaTek Inc., Taiwan
Specialities
- Ultra-low-power RF front-end circuits and energy efficient wireless transceivers
- Low power techniques for ADC and PLL
- Wireless power transfer and energy harvest techniques
- Bio-medical and sensor interface integrated circuits design
Publication
Journal
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- K.-W. Cheng, W.-W. Chen, and S.-D. Yang, “A Low Power Sub-GHz Wideband LNA Employing Current-Reuse and Device-Reuse Positive Shunt-Feedback Technique,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2022
- K. -W. Cheng and S. -E. Chen,"An Ultralow-Power OOK/BFSK/DBPSK Wake-Up Receiver Based on Injection-Locked Oscillator," in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1379-1391, July 2021.
- S.-E. Chen, J.-S. Lin, H.-F. Li and K.-W. Cheng, "Reference-less wake-up receiver with noise suppression and injection-locked clock recovery," in IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 168-175, March 2020.
Conference
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- P.-C. Yeh, S.-E. Chen, and K.-W. Cheng, “A 187 μW Multi-Mode Wake-Up Receiver Achieving –97 dBm Via a Balun LNA,” in VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, Aug. 2022. (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
- S.-E. Chen, Y.-C. Lin, and K.-W. Cheng, “A High Sensitivity RF Energy Harvester with Dynamic Body-Biasing CMOS Rectifier,” IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2022
- B.-S. Li, S.-K. Chang, Z.-T. Tsai, and K.-W. Cheng, “A 1.17-nW/kHz Frequency-Locked On-Chip Wake-Up Timer in 0.18-μm CMOS, ” in VLSI Design/CAD symp., Aug. 2021.
Patent
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- K.-W. Cheng, Y.-C. Wu, and S.-E. Chen, “Self-Compensated Complementary Rectifier,” TW Patent I623182, 2018.
- K.-W. Cheng, W.-H. Ho, and S.-K. Chang, “Ultra Low Power Transmitter Applied in Multi-Channel Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Communication,” US Patent 9,565,042, 2017.
- K.-W. Cheng, W.-H. Ho, and S.-K. Chang, “Ultra Low Power Transmitter Applied in Multi-Channel Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Communication,” TW Patent I535223, 2016.
Others
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- Kuang-Wei Cheng and Yi-Jen Chiu,“The Realization of the Batteryless IoT Link,” MOST Science Development Monthly, no. 527, Nov. 2016
Projects
- Analysis, design and implementation of high-security, low-power IoT circuits and systems, May 2018–Apr. 2022, Co-PI
- Ultra-low-power interferer-resilient wireless transceiver for high RF security wake-up IoT systems, May 2018–Apr. 2022,PI
- The development of wireless lead-free piezoelectric MEMS accelerometers system with low power consumption, Jun. 2017–May 2018.
- Ultra-low-power wake-up receiver for self-powering sensor platform, Dec. 2016–Dec 2017
- Ultra-low-power multi-mode wireless transceiver for IoT applications, Aug. 2016–Jul. 2019
- Ultra low power capacitive to digital converter for environmental humidity detection on self-powering sensor platform, Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2016
- 應用於腦波感知安全帽之神經放大器, College student research scholarship, Jul. 2015–Feb. 2016
- 無線電獵能裝置轉換驅動電子鐘, College student research scholarship, Jul. 2014–Feb. 2015
- Low power quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, Jul. 2013 - Aug. 2015, PI
- General: A self-sustained wireless communication system with green energy harvesters; Sub-project 2: An ultra-low power, miniaturized transceiver for autonomous radio, May. 2013 - Apr. 2016, PI
- Ultra low power wake-up receiver for wireless sensor networks, Jul. 2012 - Aug. 2013, PI
Classes
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2020 Spring
Students
Current Academic Year Lab Members
Ph.D.
Sheng-Kai Chang
Master
Chao-An Shen
Ren-Wei Syu
Shao-Ting Chang
Yi-Chung Lin
Pin-Cheng Yeh
Yuan-Cheng Wu
Sin Wang
You-Ren Chuang
Ming-Hsuan Kuo
Yen-Chang Chen
Yun-Sheng Hsieh
Yi-Hsuan Hsia
Tai-Jung Hsu
Yu-Chi Chiu
Graduates of all Previous Years
master
100
Yu-Chun Ying (co-advisor)
102
Shih-En Chen   Wen-Hao He
103
Yu-Hao Chiu (co-advisor)
104
Jhih-Syuan Lin
105
Yi-Ching Wu   Shang-Te Yang
106
Sing-Hao Wang
107
Chen-Min Chou   Hsin-Fang Li   Sih-Hong Chen   Yung-Chang Lin   Wei-Wei Chen   Zhi-Ting Tsai
108
Yu-Chieh Huang   Yu-Ting Chiu
109
Si-Lou Li   Li-Xuan Tsai
110
Jia-Cheng Li   Jing-Guang Chen
111
Bo-Sheng LI   Cheng-Hao Kao
Ph.D.
109
Shih-En Chen
Honors
- Bronze Award of Design Group/Award of Instructor 22th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2022
- Excellent Teaching Faculty Award, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NCKU,2021
- S.-K. Chang, S.-E. Chen:Bronze Award of Design Group, 20th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2020
- Best Advisor Award, 20th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2020
- Best Young Professional Member Award, IEEE Tainan Section,2019
- Future Science and Technology Breakthrough Award,MOST,2019
- Excellent Teaching Faculty Award, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NCKU,2019
- C.-M. Chou, S.-H. Chen : Design integrity of the Award, Analog Circuits Design Group, University/College IC Contest, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2018
- IEEE Tainan Section Macronix Award, 2018
- S.-K. chang : Winner of the SSCS 2017- 2018 Circuit Analysis and Design Contest
- S.-K. Chang, S.-E. Chen:Silver Award of Design Group, 17th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2017
- C.-M. Chou:Best Design, CIC Outstanding Chip Design Award, 2017
- Best Advisor Award, 17th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2017
- Outstanding Advanced Research Project Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2016
- Excellent Teaching Faculty Award, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NCKU, 2016
- S.-E. Chen, S.-K. Chang:Bronze Award, Technology and Engineering for New Generation (TENG) Prize, NCKUEE, 2016
- S.-E. Chen, S.-T. Yang:Excellence Award of Application Group, 16th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2016
- Outstanding Project Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2015
- J.-S. Lin, P.-M. Chu, S.-K. Chang : Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, NCKUEE, 2015
- S.-E. Chen, Y.-H. Chiu : Design integrity of the Award, Analog Circuits Design Group, University/College IC Contest, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2015
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symp., 2009
- Graduate Student Travel Award, Graduate School's Fund for Excellence and Innovation, University of Washington, Seattle, 2008
- Outstanding Student Designer Award, Analog Devices Inc., 2008
- Second Place, VLSI Conference Poster Contest, Dept. of Electric Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 2006
- Lee Memorial Fellowship, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 2005-2006
- Excellent Prize of Analog Circuit Design Group, University Integrated Circuit Design Contest, Taiwan, 2002
- Excellent Prize of Hard IP Design Group, University Silicon Intellectual Property Design Contest, Taiwan, 2002
- First Prize of Design Group, 2nd Semiconductor Design and Application Competition, Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Taiwan, 2002