【Introduction to MSIC Lab】
        MSIC Lab was founded by Prof. Tai-Haur Kuo in 1992. Prof. Kuo has extensive international research and teaching experience in industry and academics (Prof. Kuo’s Honors, Honors of Ministry of Education and Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute, TSRI). He has over 30 years of research experience regarding analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design, and his supervised students (Rank in EE, NCKU) produce outstanding research achievements (Students’ Honors). Numerous research results have been published in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), the number 1 international conference and journal in IC design, respectively. IEEE ISSCC is also known as the ‘Olympics of IC design’. Since 2012, there have been 11 papers published in IEEE ISSCC and 16 papers published in IEEE JSSC from the MSIC Lab. According to the number of published IEEE ISSCC and JSSC papers, the MSIC Lab is one of the world-leading research groups in our field (Research Topics). Part of the developed techniques are transferred to renowned companies, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Richtek, and Realtek. Those techniques and the related patents have been some of the most widely used around the world, and are currently applied in numerous electronic products, leading to considerable economic benefit. After graduation, most supervised students join international tier-1 companies (Offers Received), such as Qualcomm (QCOM, US), Apple (AAPL, US), Analog Devices (ADI, US), MediaTek (MTK, TW), Novatek (TW), TSMC (TW) and NVDIA (NVDA, TW), where they engage in the research and development of core technologies. Most of them have worked for MediaTek. In addition, 80% of the supervised students pursuing PhD degrees in the USA study at the world’s top-10 universities, such as Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Columbia University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
        Our research topics include artificial intelligence (AI) interface circuits, Internet-of-Things (IoT) wireless sensor nodes, power management, delta-signal modulation (DSM) techniques, class-D audio amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), digital-to-analog converters (DACs), MEMS microphones, and green and energy harvesting.