ChiMei Building 6F R95603
Assistant Professor Philex Fan
Background
Educations
2014/10~2019/07
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2008/09~2011/09
M.S., Institute of Electrical Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2007/09~2008/06
Exchange Student, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2004/09~2008/06
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Undergraduate Honors Program, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Experiences
2021/08~present
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
2020/11~2021/07
Principle Engineer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan
2018/01~2020/05
Senior Research Engineer, Arm Research, Arm Ltd., Cambridge, UK
2016/06~2016/12
Engineering Intern, Qualcomm Technologies International, Cambridge, UK
2014/07~2014/08
Intern Component Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc., Taipei, Taiwan
2012/11~2014/06
Research Assistant, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Specialities
- Low-power analog integrated circuits for edge-computing
- Low-power power management integrated circuits for IoTs
- Fast transient respone power management integrated circuits for mobile devices
- Wireless power transfer receiver
- One-time programmable, non-volatile memory integrated circuits
- Ultra wideband wireline transceiver
- Power factor correction
Publication
Journal
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- Benoit Labbe, Philex Fan, Thanusree Achuthan, Pranay Prabhat, Graham Peter Knight, James Myers, “A Supply Voltage Control Method for Performance Guaranteed Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller”, in IEEE Journal of Soild-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, issue 2, pp. 601-611, February, 2021.
- Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Anand Savanth, Benoit Labbe, Pranay Prabhat, and James Myers, “A 0.98nW/kHz 33kHz Fully-Integrated Subthreshold-Region Operation RC Oscillator With Forward-Body Biasing,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuit Letters (SSC-L), vol. 2, issue 9, pp. 175-178, October 2019.
- Philex Ming-Yan Fan, and Mohamad Hazwan bin Mohd Daut, “Near-Unity Power Factor, Voltage Step-Up/Down Conversion Mono-periodical Pulse-Width Modulated Integrated Switching Rectifier for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), vol. 34, issue 11, 2019.
Conference
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- Anand Savanth, Philex Fan, Sahan Gamage, Thanusree Achuthan and Fernando Garcia-Redondo, “-17dBm Differential Charge Pump EPC Gen2 UHF RFID Demodulator for 9 dB Receive Sensitivity Boost,” in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Accepted, 2021
- Shaun Chou, Gu-Huan Li, Shawn Chen, Jun-Hao Chang, Wan-Hsueh Cheng, Shao-Ding Wu, Philex Fan, Chia-En Huang, Yu-Der Chih, Yih Wang, and Jonathan Chang, “A 16Kb Antifuse One-Time-Programmable Memory in 5nm High-K Metal-Gate FinFET CMOS Featuring Bootstrap High Voltage Scheme, Read Endpoint Detection and Pseudo-Differential Sensing,” in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June, 2021.
- Pranay Prabhat, Benoit Labbe, Graham Knight, Anand Savanth, Jonas Svedas, Matthew J. Walker, Supreet Jeloka, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Fernando Garcia-Redondo, Thanusree Achuthan and James Myers, “M0N0: A Performance-Regulated 0.8-38MHz DVFS Arm Cortex-M33 SIMD MCU With 10nW Sleep Power,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) – Digest of Technical Papers, February, 2020.
Patent
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- Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Parameshwarappa Anand Kumar Savanth, Benoit Labbe, Bal S Sandhu, Pranay Prabhat, James Edward Myers, "Integrated Oscillator," US Patent No. 10903822, May 2021.
- James Edward Myers, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Clock adjusting techniques," US Patent no. 10886919, Jan., 2021
- Benoit Labbe, Graham Peter Knight, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Performance regulation techniques," US Patent no. 10886847, 2021.
Others
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Projects
- Low-power single-inductor quad-output (SIQO) dc-dc step-down power converter, PI, 2021/09~2023/08, Himax Technologies, Inc.
- Yu-shan youth scholar program, PI, 2021/08˜2026/07, Ministry of Education
- Low-power serdes transmitter for USB4, PI, 2021/12˜2023/10, Genesys Logic.
- A high-power factor ac-dc switching rectifier capable of voltage regulation, battery charging and feedforward envelope detection for near-field wireless power transfer, PI, 2022/01˜2024/12, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Low-voltage programmed electrical-fuse one-time-programmable memory with a high-yield guaranteed in-field programming for hardware security, PI, 2022/08~2023/07, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Design of an integrated-circuits high-power factor pre-regular, 2022/08~2024/07, co-PI, Leadtrend Technology Corp.
- Low Power, Wide Compensation Range Equalizer for High Speed Serial Links Receiver, 2022/11~2024/10, PI, Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Classes
Students
Current Academic Year Lab Members
Master
Y-Fu Chen
Ray Chen
Chen-An Chen
Wei-Ting Lin
Chih-Yen Chang
Hui-Chiao Chen
Yu-Ting Chiu
Hua-Hsiang Hung
Chih-Hao Wang
Jason Huang
Ming-Feng Yang
Kun-Han Chan
Bo-Chen Yang
Shih Ruei Ma
Xuan-Hao Lin
Regina Kuo
Jing-Lun Chen
Tzu-Hao Hsu
Chao-Shan Tsou
Young Lee
Yu-Kai Huang
You-Xuan Lin
Wei-Chieh Tsao
Jing-Yan Cheng
Kuan-Hung Yeh
Pre-Master
Yun-Yin Kuo
Jing-Jie Wang
Hsiang-Yu Ko
Undergrad
Chi-Feng Huang
Pai-Chuan Wu
Hsuan-Ssu Yu
Hsuan-Hao Lin
Shao-Ming Juan
Yu-Ping Tseng
Hsin-Chi Yang
Chia-Chu Li
Tsung-Han Tsai
Graduates of all Previous Years
Honors
- The PI was awarded the Yushan Youth Scholar of MOE from 2021 to 2026
- The PI was awarded the Yu-Jen Scholar of NCKU from 2021 to 2022
- The PI was awarded the Tomorrow's Engineer of UK in 2017
- The PI was awarded the Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship of MOE and Cambridge University from 2014 to 2017
- Master students Kun-Han Chan and Tzu-Hao Hsu receive the Novatek Scholarship from 2022 to 2024