- Y. Chiu, “Digital Adaptive Calibration of Data Converters Using Independent Component Analysis,” in Sampling Theory, A Renaissance. edited by G. Pfander, Springer-Birkhäuser, 2015, ISBN: 9783319197494
- Y. Chiu, “Digitally-Assisted Design of Data Converters,” in Digitally-Assisted Analog and Analog-Assisted Digital IC Design. edited by X. Jiang, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781107096103
- Y. Chiu, Analysis and Design of CMOS Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converter. Springer, TBP, ISBN: 0387270396
- Y. Chiu, Analysis and Design of Successive-Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter. Springer, TBP, ISBN:
Journal Magazine Articles (refereed)
- (Invited) B. Wu, S. Zhu, B. Xu, and Y. Chiu, “A 24.7mW 45MHz-BW 75.3dB-SNDR SAR-assisted CT ΔΣ modulator with 2nd-order noise coupling in 65nm CMOS,” to appear in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue of ISSCC 2016, Dec. 2016.
- (Invited) S. Zhu, B. Xu, B. Wu, K. Soppimath, and Y. Chiu, “A skew-free 10-GS/s 6-bit CMOS ADC with compact time-domain signal folding and inherent DEM,” to appear in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue for CICC’15, Aug. 2016.
- (Invited) B. Wu and Y. Chiu, “A 40-nm CMOS derivative-free IF active-RC BPF with programmable bandwidth and center frequency achieving over 30-dBm IIP3,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue for CICC’14, vol. 50, pp. 1772-1784, Aug. 2015.
- B. Xu and Y. Chiu, “Comprehensive background calibration of time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, pp. 1306-1314, May 2015.
- H. Xu, Y. Zhou, Y. Chiu, D. Gong, T. Liu, and J. Ye, “High-speed, high-resolution, radiation-tolerant SAR ADC for particle physics experiments,” 2015 JINST 10 C04035, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/04/C04035.
- (Invited) Y. Zhou, B. Xu, and Y. Chiu, “A 12 bit 160 MS/s two-step SAR ADC with background bit-weight calibration using a time-domain proximity detector,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue for VLSI’14, vol. 50, pp. 920-931, Apr. 2015.
- S. Sarkar, Y. Zhou, B. Elies, and Y. Chiu, “PN-assisted deterministic digital background calibration of multistage split-pipelined ADC,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, pp. 654-661, Mar. 2015.
- (Invited) Y. Zhou and Y. Chiu, “Digital calibration of inter-stage nonlinear errors in pipelined SAR ADCs,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer, special issue for MWSCAS’13, vol. 82, pp. 533-542, Mar. 2015.
- S.-C. Lee and Y. Chiu, “A 15-MHz bandwidth 1-0 MASH SD ADC with nonlinear memory error calibration achieving 85-dBc SFDR,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 49, pp. 695-707, Mar. 2014.
- G. Wang, F. Kacani, and Y. Chiu, “IRD digital background calibration of SAR ADC with coarse reference ADC acceleration,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 61, pp. 11-15, Jan. 2014.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “On the operation of CMOS active-cascode gain stage,” Journal of Computer and Communications, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 18-24, Nov. 2013.
- H. Xu, D. Gong, and Y. Chiu, “A comparative study of amplitude and timing estimation in experimental particle physics using Monte Carlo simulation,” Journal of Modern Physics, vol. 4, no. 5B, pp. 42-47, May 2013.
- Y. Chiu, “A digital stochastic gradient-ascent maximum power-point tracking technique for photovoltaic applications,” i-manager’s Journal on Digital Signal Processing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 30-34, Apr.-Jun. 2013.
- Y. Chiu, S.-C. Lee, and W. Liu, “An ICA framework for digital background calibration of analog-to-digital converters,” Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP), SampTA 2011 special issue, vol. 11, no. 2-3, pp. 253-270, 2012.
- W. Liu and Y. Chiu, “Time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion with online adaptive equalization,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 59, pp. 1384-1395, Jul. 2012.
- S. Hoyos, B. Tsang, J. Vanderhaegen, Y. Chiu, Y. Aibara, H. Khorramabadi, and B. Nikolic, “A 15 MHz to 600 MHz, 20 mW, 0.38 mm2 split-control, fast coarse locking digital DLL in 0.13μm CMOS,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 20, pp. 564-568, Mar. 2012.
- W. Liu, P. Huang, and Y. Chiu, “A 12-bit, 45-MS/s, 3-mW redundant successive-approximation-register analog-to-digital converter with digital calibration,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, pp. 2661-2672, Nov. 2011. (Most read/downloaded JSSC article of November 2011)
- (Invited) P. Huang, S.-K. Hsien, V. Lu, P. Wan, S.-C. Lee, W. Liu, B.-W. Chen, Y.-P. Lee, W.-T. Chen, T.-Y. Yang, G.-K. Ma, and Y. Chiu, “SHA-less pipelined ADC with in-situ background clock-skew calibration,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue of CICC 2010, vol. 46, pp. 1893-1903, Aug. 2011.
- Y. Chiu, “Equalization techniques for nonlinear analog circuits,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, pp. 132-139, Apr. 2011.
- S.-C. Lee and Y. Chiu, “Digital calibration of capacitor mismatch errors in sigma-delta modulators,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 58, pp. 690-698, Apr. 2011.
- B. Peng, H. Li, P. Lin, and Y. Chiu, “An offset double conversion technique for digital calibration of pipelined ADCs,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 57, pp. 961-965, Dec. 2010.
- B. Peng, H. Li, S.-C. Lee, P. Lin, and Y. Chiu, “A virtual-ADC digital background calibration technique for multistage A/D conversion,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 57, pp. 853-857, Nov. 2010.
- (Invited) R. Tseng, H. Li, D.-H. Kwon, Y. Chiu, and A. S. Y. Poon, “A four-channel beamforming down-converter in 90-nm CMOS utilizing phase-oversampling,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue of ASSCC 2009, vol. 45, pp. 2262-2272, Nov. 2010.
- S.-C. Lee and Y. Chiu, “Digital calibration of nonlinear memory errors in sigmadelta modulators,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 57, pp. 2462-2475, Sep. 2010.
- (Invited) D.-H. Kwon, H. Li, Y. Chang, R. Tseng, and Y. Chiu, “Digitally equalized CMOS transmitter front-end with integrated power amplifier,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue of CICC 2009, vol. 45, pp. 1602-1614, Aug. 2010.
- H. Li, D.-H. Kwon, D. Chen, and Y. Chiu, “A fast digital predistortion algorithm for radio-frequency power amplifier linearization with loop delay compensation,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 3, issue 3, pp. 374-383, Jun. 2009.
- W. Liu and Y. Chiu, “Background digital calibration of successive approximation ADC with adaptive equalisation,” Electronics Letters, vol. 45, issue 9, pp. 456-458, Apr. 2009.
- P. Huang and Y. Chiu, “Calibration of sampling clock skew in SHA-less pipeline ADCs,” Electronics Letters, vol. 44, issue 18, pp. 1061-1062, Aug. 2008.
- R. Tseng, A. S. Poon, and Y. Chiu, “A mixed-signal vector modulator for eigen-beamforming receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 55, pp. 479-483, May 2008.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, P. R. Gray, and B. Nikolic, “A 14-b 12-MS/s CMOS pipeline ADC with over 100-dB SFDR,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, special issue of ISSCC 2004, vol. 39, pp. 2139-2151, Dec. 2004.
- Y. Chiu, C. W. Tsang, B. Nikolic, and P. R. Gray, “Least-mean-square adaptive digital background calibration of pipelined analog-to-digital converters,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, special issue of advances on analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, vol. 51, pp. 38-46, Jan. 2004.
- Y. Chiu, “Inherently linear capacitor error-averaging techniques for pipelined A/D conversion,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 229-232, Mar. 2000.
- Y. Chiu, B. Jalali, S. Garner, and W. Steier, “Broadband electronic linearizer for externally modulated analog fiber-optic links,” IEEE Journal of Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 11, pp. 48-50, Jan. 1999.

Conference Papers (refereed)
- B. Xu, Y. Zhou, and Y. Chiu, “A 23mW 24GS/s 6b time-interleaved hybrid two-step ADC in 28nm CMOS,” to appear in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI’16, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2016.
- S. Zhu, J. Song, B. Chellappa, A. Enteshari, T. Shan, M. He, and Y. Chiu, “A smart ECG sensor with in-situ adaptive motion-artifact compensation for dry-contact wearable healthcare devices,” in IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED’16, Santa Clara, CA, 2016.
- B. Wu, S. Zhu, B. Xu, and Y. Chiu, “A 24.7mW 45MHz BW 75.3dB SNDR SAR-assisted CT ΔΣ modulator with second-order noise coupling in 65nm CMOS,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC’16, San Francisco, CA, 2016.
- H. Huang, L. Du, and Y. Chiu, “A 1.2GS/s 8bit two-step SAR ADC in 65nm CMOS with passive residue transfer,” in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, ASSCC’15, Xiamen, China, 2015.
- H. Xu, D. Gong, and Y. Chiu, “A sequence detection algorithm for pulse amplitude estimation in high-rate liquid ionization calorimeters,” in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS’15), San Diego, CA, 2015.
- L. Du, H. Xu, Y. Chiu, D. Gong, and J. Ye, “Redundant SAR ADC architecture and circuit techniques for ATLAS LAr Phase-II upgrade,” in Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP’15), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
- S. Zhu, B. Xu, B. Wu, K. Soppimath, and Y. Chiu, “A 0.073-mm^2 10-GS/s 6-bit time-domain folding ADC in 65-nm CMOS with inherent DEM,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’15, San Jose, CA, 2015.
- J. Song, T. Shan, S. Zhu, and Y. Chiu, “A motion-artifact tracking and compensation technique for dry-contact EEG monitoring system,” in IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB’14), Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
- H. Xu, D. Gong, and Y. Chiu, “On the performance of linear optimal filter and Wiener filter for signal detection in liquid ionization calorimeters,” in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS’14), Seattle, WA, 2014.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “A true RF beamforming receiver architecture based on ICA,” in 3rd Huawei Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology Forum, HMMTF, Xi’an, China, 2014.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, F. Kacani, P. Huang, and W. Liu, “A digitally calibrated 14-bit 36-MS/s 65-nm CMOS SAR ADC with redundant double conversion,” in IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, ICSICT’14, Guilin, China, 2014.
- Y. Zhou, H. Xu, Y. Chiu, D. Gong, T. Liu, and J. Ye, “High-speed, high-resolution, radiation-tolerant SAR ADC for particle physics experiments,” in Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP’14), Aix-en-Provence, France, 2014.
- B. Wu and Y. Chiu, “An 85-225MHz Chebyshev-II active-RC BPF with programmable BW and CF achieving over 30dBm IIP3 in 40nm CMOS,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’14, San Jose, CA, 2014.
- B. Wu, S. Zhu, Y. Zhou, and Y. Chiu, “A 9-bit 215-MS/s folding-flash time-to-digital converter based on redundant remainder number system,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’14, San Jose, CA, 2014. (Intel/Texas Instruments/Catalyst Foundation CICC Student Scholarship Award for being one of the highest rated student papers)
- J. Song, M. He, A. Enteshari, and Y. Chiu, “A motion-artifact rejection and stabilization (MARS) technique for bioelectronic interface circuits and systems,” in SRC TECHCON 2014, Austin, TX, 2014.
- (Invited) S. Sarkar, Y. Zhou and Y. Chiu, “PN-assisted deterministic digital calibration of split two-step ADC to over 14-bit accuracy,” in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’14), College Station, TX, 2014.
- Y. Zhou, B. Xu, and Y. Chiu, “A 12b 160MS/s synchronous two-step SAR ADC achieving 20.7fJ/step FoM with opportunistic digital background calibration,” in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI’14, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2014.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “On the operation of CMOS active-cascode gain stage,” in 2013 Electronics and Circuits Conference (ECC’13), Sanya, China, 2013.
- (Invited) B. Elies, F. Kacani, S.-C. Lee, and Y. Chiu, “Modeling and digital correction of summing-node leakage in SAR ADCs,” in International Workshop on Design Automation for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits, co-located with IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD’13, San Jose, CA, 2013.
- H. Xu, Y. Chiu, and D. Gong, “A linear optimal filtering approach for pileup noise removal in high-rate liquid ionization calorimeters,” in 2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS’13), Seoul, S. Korea, 2013.
- G. Wang and Y. Chiu, “Fast FPGA emulation of background-calibrated SAR ADC with internal redundancy dithering,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’13, San Jose, CA, 2013.
- ( Invited ) Y. Zhou and Y. Chiu, “Digital calibration of inter-stage nonlinear errors in pipelined SAR ADC,” in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’13), Columbus, OH, 2013.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, W. Liu, P. Huang, F. Kacani, G. Wang, B. Elies, and Y. Zhou, “Digital calibration of SAR ADC,” in 10th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA’13, Bremen, Germany, 2013.
- H. Xu, D. Gong, and Y. Chiu, “A comparative study of amplitude and timing estimation in experimental particle physics using Monte Carlo simulation,” in 2013 Spring International Conference on Advances in Physics (CAP-S), Wuhan, China, 2013.
- B. Xu and Y. Chiu, “Background calibration of time-interleaved ADC using direct derivative information,” in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS’13, Beijing, China, 2013.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “Demystifying bilateral feedback analysis,” in IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, ICSICT’12, Xi’an, China, 2012.
- (Invited) H. Li, G. Wang, and Y. Chiu, “Real-time FPGA emulation for fast verification of adaptive AMS circuits,” in International Workshop on Design Automation for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits, co-located with IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD’12, San Jose, CA, 2012.
- J. Song, B. Zhu, and Y. Chiu, “Online calibration of interface characteristic variation in capacitively coupled non-contact EEG acquisition system,” in IEEE EMBS Dallas First Annual Texas Medical Device Symposium, Dallas, TX, 2012.
- W. Liu, P. Huang, and Y. Chiu, “A 12-bit 50-MS/s 3.3-mW SAR ADC with background digital calibration,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’12, San Jose, CA, 2012. (Recipient of the CICC Best Regular Paper Award)
- S.-C. Lee, B. Elies, and Y. Chiu, “An 85dB SFDR 67dB SNDR 8OSR 240MS/s ΣΔ ADC with nonlinear memory error calibration,” in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI’12, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2012.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “A framework of digital-domain background calibration of multi-step ADC using pseudorandom test signal injection,” in 9th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA’11, Singapore, 2011.
- P. Huang, S.-K. Hsien, V. Lu, P. Wan, S.-C. Lee, W. Liu, B.-W. Chen, Y.-P. Lee, W.-T. Chen, T.-Y. Yang, G.-K. Ma, and Y. Chiu, “SHA-less pipelined ADC converting 10th Nyquist band with in-situ clock-skew calibration,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’10, San Jose, CA, 2010. (Intel/CICC Student Scholarship Award for being one of the highest rated student papers)
- P. Wan, Y. Chiu, and P. Lin, “A 5.8-mW, 20-MHz, 4th-order programmable elliptic filter achieving over -80-dB IM3,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’10, San Jose, CA, 2010.
- W. Liu, P. Huang, and Y. Chiu, “A 12bit 22.5/45MS/s 3.0mW 0.059mm2 CMOS SAR ADC achieving over 90dB SFDR,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC’10, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
- Y. Chiu and X. Luo, “Direct-sequence maximum power-point tracker for photovoltaic sources,” in IEEE Power and Energy Conference, PECI’10, Urbana, IL, 2010.
- G. D. Nguyen, Y. Chiu, and M. Feng, “24-GHz low noise amplifier using coplanar waveguide series feedback in 130-nm CMOS,” in IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC’09, Singapore, 2009.
- R. Tseng, H. Li, D.-H. Kwon, A. S. Y. Poon, and Y. Chiu, “An inherently linear phase-oversampling vector modulator in 90-nm CMOS,” in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, ASSCC’09, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, D.-H. Kwon, and H. Li, “Design trade-offs for digitally equalized CMOS RF transmitter,” in IEEE International Conference on ASIC, ASICON’09, Changsha, China, 2009.
- D.-H. Kwon, H. Li, Y. Chang, R. Tseng, and Y. Chiu, “CMOS RF transmitter with integrated power amplifier utilizing digital equalization,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’09, San Jose, CA, 2009.
- W. Liu, Y. Chang, S.-K. Hsien, B.-W. Chen, Y.-P. Lee, W.-T. Chen, T.-Y. Yang, G.-K. Ma, and Y. Chiu, “A 600MS/s 30mW 0.13μm CMOS ADC array achieving over 60dB SFDR with adaptive digital equalization,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC’09, San Francisco, CA, 2009. (Winner of the 46th DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest)
- H. Li, D.-H. Kwon, and Y. Chiu, “A fast digital adaptive predistortion and loop-delay compensation algorithm for RF power amplifier linearization,” in IEEE Power Amplifier Symposium, PAS’09, San Diego, CA, 2009.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, “Recent advances in digital-domain background calibration techniques for multistep analog-to-digital converters,” in IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, ICSICT’08, Beijing, China, 2008.
- S. Hoyos, B. Tsang, J. Vanderhaegen, Y. Chiu, Y. Aibara, H. Khorramabadi, and B. Nikolic, “A 15 MHz-600 MHz, 20 mW, 0.38 mm2, fast coarse locking digital DLL in 0.13μm CMOS,” in IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC’08, Edinburgh, UK, 2008.
- B. Tsang, Y. Chiu, J. Vanderhaegen, S. Hoyos, C. Chen, R. Brodersen, and B. Nikolic, “Background ADC calibration in digital domain,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’08, San Jose, CA, 2008.
- D.-H. Kwon, H. Li, and Y. Chiu, “Efficiency and linearity enhancement of CMOS RF power amplifiers using adaptive baseband digital predistortion,” in IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation Test, VLSI-DAT’08, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2008.
- R. Tseng, A. S. Y. Poon, and Y. Chiu, “A mixed-signal MIMO beamforming receiver”, in IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS’08, Orlando, FL, 2008.
- P. Bhoraskar and Y. Chiu, “A 6.1-mW dual-loop digital DLL with 4.6-ps rms jitter using window-based phase detector,” in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, ASSCC’07, Jeju, Korea, 2007.
- W. Liu and Y. Chiu, “An equalization-based adaptive digital background calibration technique for successive approximation analog-to-digital converters,” in IEEE International Conference on ASIC, ASICON’07, Guilin, China, 2007.
- P. Huang and Y. Chiu, “A gradient-based digital algorithm for sampling clock skew calibration of SHA-less pipeline ADCs,” in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS’07, New Orleans, LA, 2007.
- B. Tsang, Y. Chiu, and B. Nikolic, “A 1.2V, 10.8mW, 500kHz sigma-delta modulator with 84dB SNDR and 96dB SFDR,” in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI’06, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006.
- (Invited) Y. Chiu, B. Nikolic, and P. R. Gray, “Scaling of analog-to-digital converters into ultra-deep-submicron CMOS,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC’05, San Jose, CA, 2005.
- Y. Chiu, P. R. Gray, and B. Nikolic, “A 1.8V 14b 10MS/s pipelined ADC in 0.18μm CMOS with 99dB SFDR,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC’04, San Francisco, CA, 2004. (Recipient of the ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award)
- Y. Chiu, B. Jalali, S. Garner, and W. Steier, “Broadband linearization of externally modulated fiber-optic links,” in IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP’98, Princeton, NJ, 1998.
- Y. Chiu and B. Jalali, “Improving dynamic range of AM optical modulator by 1-GHz CMOS predistortion circuit,” in IEEE OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, OECC’98, Chiba, Japan, 1998.