Expertise

     Radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) designs
     Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designs
     Digital, analog and mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) designs

Specialties

     VLSI circuits for digital, analog and mixed-signal applications
     RFIC designs for wireless and radar applications
     Ultra-high frequency synthesis
     Analog and mixed signal built-in self-test (BIST)

   For details visit Dr. Dai's Auburn RFIC Design and Testing Laboratory

Applications

  Wireless, Wire-line, Radar and Satellite Applications

Research Funding

  Over million-dollar research contracts on integrated circuit designs sponsored by U. S.
  Army Research Lab (ARL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U. S.
  Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), National Science Foundation (NSF)
  and other government and industrial funding agents

Industrial Experiences

      Hughes Network Systems
     Analog and digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for wireless and
     satellite communication system, leading role in frequency synthesizer IC designs
     for broadband communications.

    YAFO Networks Inc.
     Leading role in high-speed IC designs for OC-192 10Gb/s and OC-768 40Gb/s  
     fiber communications.

     Cognio Inc. (Acquired by Cisco Systems)
     RFIC design for wireless local area networks (WLAN), leading role in frequency
     synthesizer IC designs for integrated WLAN transceivers.

Book and Book Chapters

	Integrated Circuit Design for High-Speed Frequency Synthesis ARTECH HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC. February 2006. ISBN: 1-58053-982-3
	Chapter 15 Frequency Synthesis for Multi-band Wireless Networks Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems and Devices CRC Press, October 2007. ISBN:978-0849379963
	Chapter 15 Analog and Mixed-Signal Test Architectures System-on-Chip Test Architectures: Nanometer Design for Testability Morgan Kaufmann, November, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-12-373973-5