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Sanquan Song

Sanquan Song joined NVIDIA Research in 2015. He completed his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His area of research is high-speed links for high-speed computing and analog/mixed signal circuits. He has previously worked at Samsung Display America Lab from 2013 to 2015, focusing on the SerDes for large display panels; and at Intel Hudson from 2010 to 2013, developing  DDR/VMSE PHY on Intel server chips. 

Research Area(s)
Circuits and VLSI Design

Publications

2024

A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) (Volume: 59, Issue: 4, April 2024)

2023

A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
2023 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI TECHNOLOGY & CIRCUITS
A 0.297-pJ/Bit 50.4-Gb/s/Wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bi-Directional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Walker Turner, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 58, Issue: 4, April 2023)

2022

A 0.297-pJ/bit 50.4-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bidirectional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
2022 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI TECHNOLOGY & CIRCUITS
AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies
Hao Chen, Walker Turner, Sanquan Song, Keren Zhu, George Kokai, Brian Zimmer, Tom Gray, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
International Symposium on Physical Design 2022

2020

Reference-Noise Compensation Scheme for Single- Ended Package-to-Package Links
Xi Chen, Nikola Nedovic, Stephen Tell, Sudhir Kudva, Brian Zimmer, Trey Greer, John Poulton, Sanquan Song, Walker Turner, John Wilson, Tom Gray
2020 International Solid-State Circuits Conference

2019

Voltage-Follower Coupling Quadrature Oscillator with Embedded Phase-Interpolator in 16nm FinFET
Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, John Poulton, Nikola Nedovic, Brian Zimmer, Stephen Tell, Tom Gray
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2019
A 1.17-pJ/b, 25-Gb/s/pin Ground-Referenced Single-Ended Serial Link for Off- and On-Package Communication Using a Process- and Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Regulator
John Poulton, John Wilson, Walker Turner, Brian Zimmer, Xi Chen, Sudhir Kudva, Sanquan Song, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, Wenxu Zhao, Sunil Sudhakaran, Tom Gray, William Dally
IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS

2018

Ground-Referenced Signaling for Intra-Chip and Short-Reach Chip-to-Chip Interconnects
Walker Turner, John Poulton, John Wilson, Xi Chen, Stephen Tell, Matt Fojtik, Trey Greer, Brian Zimmer, Sanquan Song, Nikola Nedovic, Sudhir Kudva, Sunil Sudhakaran, Rizwan Bashirullah, Wenxu Zhao, William Dally, Tom Gray
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
A Switching Linear Regulator Based on a Fast-Self-Clocked Comparator with Very Low Probability of Meta-stability and a Parallel Analog Ripple Control Module
Sudhir Kudva, Sanquan Song, John Poulton, John Wilson, Wenxu Zhao, Tom Gray
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
A 1.17pJ/b 25Gb/s/pin Ground-Referenced Single Ended Serial Link for Off- and On-Package Communication in 16nm CMOS Using a Process- and Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Regulator
John Wilson, Walker Turner, John Poulton, Brian Zimmer, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, Wenxu Zhao, Sunil Sudhakaran, Tom Gray, William Dally
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