Xu, Pengcheng

Curriculum Vitae

Pengcheng Xu is a Research Associate in the Chair of Circuit Design.

He received the bachelor’s degree in physics from Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2013, the master’s degree in integrated circuit engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2021. In 2015, he was an exchange student with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

His research area includes analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. He had worked in Huawei technology company as an analog IC engineer in 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Research Assistant in electrical engineering with the Université catholique de Louvain. From 2020 to 2023, he had been a Research Associate in the Department of Circuits and Systems, Fraunhofer EMFT, Munich, Germany. He has published technical papers in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSCIRC), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC) and IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). He holds one delivered European/USA patent on RF energy harvesting.

He is a Member of IEEE and Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Germany in 2023-2024. He also serves as a Reviewer for various journals and conferences, such as the IEEE JSSC, IEEE TCAS-I/II, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Access, IEEE ICECS conference. He is a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2022-2024. He was a recipient of the Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award in 2013 and 2016, the Meritorious Winner in 2013 Mathematical Contest in Modeling of America (MCM) and Chinese government award for outstanding self-finance students abroad in 2020. He was the Holder of the Chinese National Scholarship in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Research Area

From technique level, my research area is analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. From application viewpoint, I have research experiences on power management, energy harvesting and neuromorphic accelerator design.

Be free to contact me if you are interested in doing a master or bachelor thesis on one of these topics!

Key Publications

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2023

• Lei Zhang, Pengcheng Xu, David Borggreve, Frank Vanselow, Ralf Brederlow. " A FeFET In-Memory-Computing Core with Offset Cancellation for Mitigating Computational Errors." IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSCIRC), 2023.
• Marco Gonzalez, Pengcheng Xu, Rémi Dekimpe, Maxime Schramme, Ivan Stupia, and David Bol. " Limits of 2.45-GHz Wireless Power Transfer for Battery-less Sensors – A SWIPT Room Occupancy Tracking Use Case." IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023.

2022

• Pengcheng Xu, Lei Zhang, Ferdinand Pscheidl, David Borggreve, Frank Vanselow, Ralf Brederlow. "A Dynamic Charge-Transfer-Based Crossbar with Low Sensitivity to Parasitic Wire-Resistance." IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2022.
• Pengcheng Xu, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. "Analysis and Design of RF Energy-Harvesting Systems with Impedance-Aware Rectifier Sizing." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), 2022.

2021

• Pengcheng Xu, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. "A Self-Gating RF Energy Harvester for Wireless Power Transfer with High-PAPR Incident Waveform." Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021.
• David Bol, Maxime Schramme, Ludovic Moreau, Pengcheng Xu, Rémi Dekimpe, Roghayeh Saeidi, Thomas Haine, Charlotte Frenkel, and Denis Flandre. " SleepRunner: A 28-nm FDSOI ULP Cortex-M0 MCU With ULL SRAM and UFBR PVT Compensation for 2.6–3.6-μW/DMIPS 40–80-MHz Active Mode and 131-nW/kB Fully Retentive Deep-Sleep Mode " Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021.

2020

• Pengcheng Xu, Denis Flandre, David Bol. "Energy Harvesting System." European Patent, May 31, 2020.

2019

• Pengcheng Xu, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. " Analysis, Modeling and Design of a 2.45-GHz RF Energy Harvester for SWIPT IoT smart sensors." Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2019.
• David Bol, Maxime Schramme, Ludovic Moreau, Thomas Haine, Pengcheng Xu, Charlotte Frenkel, Rémi Dekimpe, François Stas, and Denis Flandre. "A 40-to-80MHz Sub-4μW/MHz ULV Cortex-M0 MCU SoC in 28nm FDSOI With Dual-Loop Adaptive Back-Bias Generator for 20μs Wake-Up from Deep Fully Retentive Sleep Mode." IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2019.
• Rémi Dekimpe, Pengcheng Xu, Maxime Schramme, Pierre Gérard, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. "A battery-less BLE smart sensor for room occupancy tracking supplied by 2.45-GHz wireless power transfer." Journal of Integration VLSI, 2019.

2018

• Pengcheng Xu, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. " Design of a 2.45-GHz RF Energy Harvester for SWIPT IoT smart sensors." IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), 2018.
• Rémi Dekimpe, Pengcheng Xu, Maxime Schramme, Denis Flandre, and David Bol. "A Battery-Less BLE IoT Motion Detector Supplied by 2.45-GHz Wireless Power Transfer." IEEE International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), 2018.

2017

• Pengcheng Xu, Cecilia Gimeno, and David Bol. "Optimizing TSPC frequency dividers for always-on low-frequency applications in 28nm FDSOI CMOS." IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S), 2017.