Professor
Tsui obtained his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Hong
Kong, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from University of
Southern California. He
joined the
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology in 1994 and is currently a Professor in
the department.
His
research interests includes designing VLSI architectures for low power
multimedia and wireless applications, developing power management circuits and
techniques for embedded portable devices and ultra-low power systems. Prof.
Tsui has published more than 150 referred technical journal and conference
papers. He received the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Transactions on VLSI
Systems in 1995, IEEE/ACM ISLPED in 2007, IEEE DELTA 2008, and supervised
the Best Student Paper Award of the 1999 IEEE ISCAS. He also received the
Design Awards in the IEEE ASP-DAC University Design
Contest in
2004 and 2006. He holds 7 US
patents.
He is the
General Chair of
the 19th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SOC 2011 and he served on the
organization committee of ASP-DAC'99. He served in the technical program
committees of various conferences including DAC, ISLPED, VLSI, ASP-DAC and
ESTIMEDIA. He is an associate editor of Integration, the International VLSI
Journal. He is the co-founder of Perception Digital Limited, a listed-company
in Hong Kong. He also consulted
for local and multinational companies. He is an IEEE member.
VLSI design and
CAD algorithms for energy efficient high performance microprocessors; power
analysis and optimization for CMOS circuits; low power embedded systems design;
VLSI design for multimedia; high-speed network and wireless application.
1.
Chi Ying Tsui, “Technology Dependent
Optimization for Low Power”, in Logic Synthesis for Low Power VLSI Design, by
Sasan Iman and Massoud Pedram, Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publisher
1. H. Shao, Chi-ying Tsui, A Low Energy Consumption Multi-stage Level Converter for Sub-threshold Logic, accepted
for publication IET Proceedings on Computer and Digital Techniques,
2. Chao Lu, Chi Ying Tsui and Wing Hung Ki, Vibration Energy Scavenging System with Maximum
Power Tracking for Micro Power Applications, accepted for publication in
IEEE
Transactions on VLSI Systems
3. Jun
Yin, Jun Yi, Man Kay Law, Yunxiao Ling, Man
Chiu Lee, Kwok Ping Ng, Bo Gao, Howard
C. Luong, Amine Bermak, Mansun Chan, Wing-Hung Ki, Chi-Ying Tsui, Matthew Yuen,
A System-On-Chip EPC Gen-2 Passive UHF RFID Tag with Embedded temperature
sensor, in IEEE Journal of
Solid States and Circuits, Vol.
45, Issue 11, Nov. 2010, pp. 2404 - 2420
1. Zhiliang Qian, Ying Fei Teh, Chi-Ying
Tsui, A Fault-tolerant NoC Design using Dynamic Reconfiguration of
Partial-Faulty Routing Resources, accepted for publication in IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale
Integration, Oct. 2011
2. Ying Fei Teh, Zhiliang Qian, Chi-Ying
Tsui, A Fault-Tolerant NOC using Combined Link Sharing and Partial Fault
Link Utilization Scheme, accepted
for publication in IEEE/IFIP International
Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, Oct. 2011
3. Wing-Hung Ki, Yan Lu, Feng Su and Chi-Ying Tsui,
Design and Analysis of On-Chip Charge Pumps for
Micro-Power Energy Harvesting Applications, accepted for publication in IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale
Integration, Oct. 2011(invited
paper)
4. Youzhe Fan, James She, and Chi Ying Tsui, Efficient Iterative Receiver for LDPC
Coded Wireless IPTV System, accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference in Image Processing, September 2011
5. Hua
Ding, Wei Wang, Zhiliang Qian, Chi-Ying
Tsui, and Liangzhen
Lai, Thermal Modeling of Three-Dimensional Integrated
Circuits Considering the Thermal Removal Capability of Different
TSVs, in the proceedings of 3rd Asia
Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED2011) July 2011
6. Denis Guangyin Chen, Amine Bermak, and Chi Ying Tsui,
A Low-complexity Image Compression Algorithm for Reducing Address-Event Representation
(AER) Overhead in PWM Image Sensors, IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems, pp. 2825-2828, May 2011
7. Zhiliang Qian, Chi-Ying Tsui, Application Specific and Energy
Balanced Algorithms in Network-on-chip Design, IEEE/ACM Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.
449-454, Yokohama, Jan. 2011
8. LiangZhen Lai, Hua Ding, Chi-Ying
Tsui, Analysis of the Heat Removal Capability of the
Power Distribution Network in 3-D ICs, International Microsysstems, Packaging, Assembly and Circuits Technology, pp.
1-4, Oct. 2010
9. Hui
Shao, Chi-Ying Tsui, Wing-Hung Ki, A Single
Inductor DIDO DC-DC Converter for Solar Energy Harvesting Applications using
band-band control, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and Systems of Chip, pp. 167-172,
Madrid, Spet. 2010
10. Yunxiao Ling, Jun Yi, Chi-ying Tsui and Wing-Hung Ki, System Level Power Optimizations for EPC RFID
Tags to Improve Sensitivity Using Load Power Shaping and Operation Scheduling, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pp. 3012-3015, Paris, May 2010
11.
Jun Yin, Jun Yi, M Law, M. Ling, P.
Lee, B. Ng, B. Gao, H.C. Luong, A.
Bermak, M. Chan, W.H.Ki, Chi-ying
Tsui and M. F. Yuen, EPC Gen-2
System-On-Chip Passive UHF RFID Tag with Embedded Temperature Sensor, IEEE International Solid State and Circuits
Conference, pp. 308-309, San Francisco, Feb. 2010
12.
Hui Shao, Chi-Ying
Tsui, Wing-Hung Ki, Maximizing the Harvested Energy for Micro-power
Applications through Efficient MPPT and PMU Design, IEEE/ACM
Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.
75-80, Taipei, Jan. 2010 (invited paper)
13.
Hui
Shao, Chi-ying Tsui and
Wing-hung Ki, A Single Inductor Dual Input Dual Output DC-DC Converter with
Hybrid Supplies for Solar Energy Harvesting Application, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp.
69-75, San Francisco, USA, 19-21 August 2009
14.
Dan
Luo and Chi-ying Tsui, A
Hybrid Algorithm and its Re-configurable Architecture for MIMO Detector, IEEE Mid-west Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pp.
297-300, Cancun Mexico, August 2009
15.
Jun Yi, W. H. Ki, P. K.T. Mok and Chi-ying Tsui, Dual-Power-Path
RF-DC Multi-Output Power Management Unit for RFID Tags,
IEEE VLSI Technology and Circuit
Symposium, pp. 200-201, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009
16.
Jie Jin and
Chi-ying Tsui,
Improving the Hardware Utilization Efficiency of Partially Parallel LDPC
Decoder with Scheduling and Sub-Matrix Decomposition, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2233-2236, Taipei, May 2009
17.
Ricky Choi and
Chi-ying Tsui,
A Low Energy Two-Step Successive Approximation Algorithm for ADC Design,
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pp.
17-20, Taipei, May 2009
18.
Hui Shao, Chi-ying Tsui and Wing-Hung Ki, An
Inductor-less MPPT Design for Light Energy Harvesting Systems, IEEE/ACM Asian South Pacific Design
Automation Conference, pp.101-102, Yokohama, Jan. 2009
19.
Hui Shao, Chi-ying Tsui and Wing-Hung Ki, Low
Energy Level Converter Design for Sub-Vth Logics, IEEE/ACM Asian South Pacific Design
Automation Conference, pp.107-108, Yokohama, Jan. 2009
20.
Jie Jin and
Chi-ying Tsui,
A Low Power Layered Decoding Architecture for LDPC Decoder Implementation
for IEEE 802.11n LDPC Codes, International
Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 253-258, Bangalore,
India, August 2008
21.
Feng Su, Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui, An SC Voltage Regulator
with Novel Area-Efficient Continuous Output Regulation by Dual-Branch
Interleaving Control Scheme, IEEE VLSI Technology and Circuit Symposium pp.
136-137, Honululu, USA, 17-20, June 2008
22.
Jun Yi, Feng Su, Yat-Hei Lam, Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying
Tsui, An Energy-Adaptive MPPT
Power Management Unit for Micro-Power Vibration Energy Harvesting, IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems, pp. 2570-2573, 18-21 May 2008
23.
Ngok Man Sze, Feng Su, Yat-Hei Lam, Wing-Hung
Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui, Integrated Single-Inductor Dual-Input Dual-Output Boost
Converter, IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2218-2221, 18-21 May
2008 (awarded the best paper)
24.
R. Y.K. Choi and Chi-Ying Tsui, A Low Energy Two-step Successive Approximation
Algorithm for ADC design, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design,
pp.317-320, San Jose, USA, March, 2008
25.
Ngok-Man
SZE, Wing-Hung KI and Chi-Ying
Tsui, Threshold Voltage Start-up Boost
Converter for Sub-mA Applications, IEEE
International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications, pp.
338-341, Hong Kong, Jan. 2008
26.
W.
Wang, S. Lou, K. Chui, S. Rong, C.F. Lok, H. Zheng, H.T. Chan, H.T.S.W. Man, H.C. Luong, H.C. V.K. Lau and Chi-Ying
Tsui, A Single-Chip UHF RFID Reader in 0.18-mm
CMOS, IEEE Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 111-114, 16-19 September
2007
27.
H.
Shao and Chi-Ying Tsui, A Robust, Input Voltage
Adaptive and Low Energy Consumption Level Converter for Sub-threshold Logic, European Solid-State Circuits Conference,
pp.312-315, 11-13 Sept. 2007
28. H. Shao,
Chi-Ying Tsui, and Wing-Hung Ki, A
Micro Power Management System and Maximum Output Power Control for Solar Energy
Harvesting Applications, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power
Electronic and Design, pp. 298-303,
Portland USA, August 2007
29. C. Lu,
Chi-Ying Tsui, and
W. H. Ki, Vibration Energy
Scavenging and Management for Ultra Low Power Applications, IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Low Power Electronic and Design, pp.316-321,
Portland USA, August,2007 (awarded the best paper_
30. Lap Fai, Leung and Chi-Ying
Tsui, Energy-Aware
Synthesis of Networks-on-Chip Implemented with Voltage Islands, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference,
pp. 128-131, San Francisco USA, June 2007
31. Feng Su,
Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui,
An Ultra Fast Fixed
Frequency Buck Converter with Maximum Charging Current Control and Adaptive
Delay Compensation for DVS Applications, IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, pp. 28-29, June 2007
32. Hin-Tat Chan, Wenting Wang, Chi Fung Lok, Vincent K. Lau, Chi-Ying Tsui and Howard C. Luong, A
Mixed-Signal Architecture of Channel Select Filtering with Oversampled ADC for
Multi-Standard RFID Reader Receiver, IEEE
International Conference on RFID, pp. 108-114, March 2007
33.
S.
W. Man, Chi-Ying Tsui,
V. K. N. Lau and H. C.W. Luong, Low Power VLSI Design for a RFID Passive Tag
baseband System Enhanced with an AES Cryptography Engine, RFID Eurasia 2007 Conference, pp. 1-6, September, 2007
34.
S. W. Man,
Chi-Ying Tsui and V. K. N. Lau, Design and Implementation of a Low-Power
Baseband-System for RFID Tag, IEEE
International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, pp. 1585-1588, May 2007
35.
C. Lu, Chi-Ying Tsui
and W. H. Ki, A
Batteryless Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting System for Ultra Low Power
Ubiquitous Applications, IEEE
International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, pp. 1349-1352, May 2007
36.
H. Shao, Chi-Ying
Tsui and W.H. Ki, An
Inductor-Less Micro Solar Power Management System Design for Energy Harvesting
Applications, IEEE International
Symposium of Circuits and Systems, pp. 1353-1356, May 2007
37.
*W.F.
He, *M.L. Zhao, Chi-Ying Tsui and Z.G. Mao, A Scalable
Frame-Level Pipelined Architecture for FSBM Motion Estimation, IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design,
pp. 830-835, India, Jan. 2007
38.
Jie Jin and Chi-Ying Tsui, Low
Complexity SST Viterbi Decoder, IEEE
VTC-Fall 2006, pp. 1-2, pp. 1-2, Sep.
2006
39. Lap Fai, Leung and Chi-Ying Tsui, Optimal link
scheduling on improving best-effort and guaranteed services performance in
network-on-chip systems, in the Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Design Automation
Conference, pp. 833-838, July, 2006
40. Jie Jin and Chi-ying
Tsui, A low power Viterbi decoder implementation using scarce
state transition and path pruning scheme for high throughput wireless
applications, IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Low Power Electronic and Design, August,2007 pp. 406 - 411 , Oct. 2006
41.
Y.-H. Lam, W.-H. Ki and Chi-ying
Tsui, An
Integrated 1.8V to 3.3V Regulated Voltage Doubler using Active Diodes and
Dual-Loop Voltage Follower for Switch-Capacitive Load, IEEE Symposium
on VLSI Technology and Circuits, pp. 85-86, June 2006
42.
Hui Shao, Chi-Ying Tsui and Wing-Hung Ki, A Novel Charge Based
Computation System and Control Strategy for Energy Harvesting Applications,
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2933-2936, May, 2006
43.
Feng Liu and Chi-Ying Tsui, Energy-Aware Optimal
Workload Allocation Among the Battery-Powered Devices to Maximize the
Co-Operation Life Time, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, pp. 5299-5302,
May,2006
44.
Hing-Mo Lam and Chi-Ying
Tsui, High
Performance Single Clock Cycle CMOS Comparator, IEEE
International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 779-782, May, 2006
45.
Feng
Su, Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui, High Efficiency
Cross-Coupled Doubler with No Reversion Loss, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2761-2764, May,2006
46. Chi-Ying
Tsui, Hui Shao, Wing-Hung Ki, Feng S, Ultra-low voltage
power management circuit and computation methodology for energy harvesting applications, IEEE ASP-DAC, pp. 96-97, Jan, 2006
47. Yat-Hei Lam, Koon, S.-C., Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui, Integrated direct
output current control switching converter using symmetrically-matched
self-biased current sensors, IEEE
ASP-DAC, pp. 102-103, Jan, 2006
48.
Yat-Hei Lam, Wing-Hung Ki and
Chi-Ying Tsui, Adaptively-biased
capacitor-less CMOS low dropout regulator with direct current feedback, IEEE
ASP-DAC, pp. 104-105, Jan, 2006
49.
Chi-ying Tsui,
Hui Shao, Wing Hung Ki and Feng Su, Ultra-Low Voltage Power Management and Computation
Methodology for Energy Harvesting Applications, IEEE VLSI Technology and Circuits symposium, pp.
316-319, June, 2005
50.
Feng Liu and
Chi-Ying Tsui A Data Discarding Framework for Reducing the Energy
Consumption of Viterbi Decoder in Decoding Broadcasted Wireless Multi-Resolution
JPEG2000 Images, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, pp-21-26, Sept. 2005
51.
Wing-Hung
Ki, Feng Su and Chi-Ying Tsui, Charge redistribution loss consideration in optimal
charge pump design, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1895-1898, May, 2005
52.
Feng
Su, Wing-Hung Ki and Chi-Ying Tsui, Gate control strategies for high efficiency charge
pumps, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1907-1910, May, 2005
53.
Jin, Jie, Chi-ying Tsui and Wai-Ho
Mow, A threshold-based algorithm and VLSI architecture of a K-best Lattice
Decoder for MIMO Systems, IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, pp. 3359-3362, May, 2005
54. Lap Fai
Leung, Chi-ying Tsui, and Xiaobo
(Sharon) Hu, Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Low
Energy Preemptive Task Scheduling, IEEE Design,
Automation and Test Conference, pp.634-639, March 2005
55. Lap Fai
Leung, Chi-ying Tsui and Xiaobo
(Sharon) Hu, Exploiting Dynamic Workload Variation in Offline
Low Energy Voltage Scheduling, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science-Integrated Circuit and System Design, vol. 3254, pp.553-563, September 2004
56.
Yat-Hei Lam, Wing-Hung Ki, Chi-Ying Tsui and Dongsheng Ma,
Integrated 0.9V Charge-Control Switching Converter with Self-Biased Current
Sensor, IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol.2 pp. 305-308, Aug.
2004
57. Feng Liu and Chi-ying Tsui, Adaptive Spectrum-based Variable Bit Truncation of
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for Energy-Efficient Wireless Multimedia
Communication, IEEE Workshop on Embedded
Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, pp. 81-86, Sept. 2004
58. L.
Jing, M. Hamdi, and Chi-ying Tsui, Scalable
scheduling architectures for high-performance crossbar-based switches, International Workshop
on High Performance and Routing Conference, pp. 104-110, 2004
59.
Siu Kei Wong and Chi-ying Tsui, Dynamic Reconfigurable Bus
Encoding Scheme for Reducing the Energy Consumption of Deep Sub-micron
Instruction Bus, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 321-324,
May 2004
60.
Yi
Ching Au, Chi-ying Tsui, Least-Leakage-Vector-Assisted
Technology Mapping for Total Power Optimization, IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 5, pp. 145-148, May 2004
61.
Siu Kei Wong and Chi-ying Tsui, Re-configurable bus
encoding scheme for reducing power consumption of the cross coupling
capacitance for deep sub-micron instruction bus, IEEE Design, Automation and Test Conference,
pp.321-324, Feb. 2004
62.
Yan
Wang, Chi-ying
Tsui, R. S. K. Cheng and W. H. Mow, Power Control of CDMA Systems with Successive
Interference Cancellation using the Knowledge of the Battery Capacity of the
Mobile, IEEE ASPDAC Conference, pp. 125-130, Jan. 2004
63.
Lap
Fai Leung, Chi-ying
Tsui and Wing-hung Ki, Minimizing Energy Consumption of
Multiple-Processors-Core Systems with Simultaneous Tasks Allocation, Scheduling
and Voltage Assignment, IEEE ASPDAC Conference, pp. 647-652, Jan.
2004
64.
Lap
Fai Leung, Chi-ying
Tsui and Wing-hung Ki,, Minimizing
Energy Consumption of Hard Real-Time Systems with Simultaneous Tasks Scheduling
and Voltage Assignment using Statistical Data, IEEE
ASPDAC Conference, pp. 663-665, Jan. 2004
65.
Dongsheng Ma, Wing-hung Ki and Chi-ying Tsui, Fast Adaptive DC-DC Conversion Using Dual-Loop One-cycle
Control in Standard Digital CMOS Process, IEEE
ASPDAC Conference, pp. 539-540, Jan. 2004
66.
Martin Yeung-Kei Chui, Wing-hung Ki and Chi-ying Tsui, A dual-band switching
Digital Controller for a Buck Converter, IEEE
ASPDAC Conference, pp. 561-562, Jan. 2004
67. Martin Yeung-Kei
Chui, Wing-hung Ki and Chi-ying Tsui,
An Integrated digital controller for DC-DC switching converter with dual-band
switching, IEEE VLSI Technology
and Circuit Symposium, pp. 45-48, June 2003
68.
Yan
Wang, Chi-ying
Tsui, R. S. K. Cheng and W. H. Mow, Threshold channel estimation for OFDM
in wireless systems, Vehicular Technology Conference, Vol. 3, pp.
130-135, April 2003
69.
Hing
Mo Lam and Chi-ying
Tsui, High performance and low power completion detection circuit, IEEE International
Circuits and Systems, Vol. 5, pp V-405-V-408, May 2003
70.
Chun-kit
Hung, M. Hamdi and Chi-ying Tsui, Design and Implementation of high-speed arbiter for
large scale VOQ crossbar switches, IEEE International Circuits and Systems,
Vol. 2, pp II-308-II-311, May 2003
71. Yat Hei Lam, Wing-hung Ki, Chi-ying Tsui and Mok, K.T. Philip, Single-inductor dual-input
dual-output switching converter for integrated battery charging and power
regulation, IEEE International Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, pp III-447-III-450,
May 2003
72.
Lap
Fai Leung, Chi-ying Tsui and Wing-hung Ki,
Simultaneous task allocation, scheduling and voltage assignment for
multiple-processors-core systems using mixed integer non-linear programming, IEEE International
Circuits and Systems, Vol. 5, pp V-309-V-312, May 2003