dr.ir. M.S. Oude Alink (Mark)

Mark S. Oude Alink (S'09 - M'14 - SM'19) was born in 1984, in Hengelo, The Netherlands. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer science in 2004 and the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science (both cum laude) in 2008, all from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He received the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from the same university in May 2013 on RF Spectrum Sensing in CMOS Exploiting Crosscorrelation, for which he received the prestigious Else Kooi award. After 5 years in industry, working as an RFIC system \& design engineer for Bruco Integrated Circuits, Borne, The Netherlands and as Senior RF IC Design Engineer at Dialog Semiconductor, Hengelo, The Netherlands, he returned to his alma mater as assistant professor within the IC-Design group. His research focuses on low-power and digitally-assisted circuits and systems for wireless communication. He has been serving on the Technical Program committee of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) since 2018, also as chair of the Analog subcommittee and Best Paper committee, and was Guest Editor for the CICC 2020 and 2021 Special Issues in the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Since 2022, he is Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters and secretary for the Joint MTT/AP Chapter in the IEEE Benelux Section.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Application Specific Integrated Circuits
# Bandwidth
# Cognitive Radio
# Intermodulation
# Intermodulation Distortion
# Signal To Noise Ratio
# Spectrum Analyzers
# Time Measurement

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), Integrated Circuit Design (ICD)

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Yadav, S., Legaspi, P. A. D. , Oude Alink, M. S. , Kokkeler, A. B. J. , & Nauta, B. (2023). Hardware implementations for voice activity detection: trends, challenges and outlook. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems I: regular papers, 70(3), 1083-1096. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3225717

Dodangeh, M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Nauta, B. (2022). Quantifying the Trade-off between latency and power consumption in Bluetooth Low Energy and its mitigation by Using a Wake-Up Receiver. In IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) IEEE.

Atanasov, A. N., Mukhtar Ahmad, W. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2022). The Load-Modulated linearizer: A technique for intermodulation cancellation in PA systems. In 2022 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS) (pp. 174-177). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS53451.2022.10051742

Atanasov, A. N. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2022). A Figure of Merit for Simultaneous-Multi-Beam Transmit Antenna Arrays. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology (PAST) IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PAST49659.2022.9974975

Oude Alink, M. S., & Sheikh, F. (2022). Guest Editorial 2021 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 57(3), 675-676. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2022.3144705

Huiskamp, M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , Nauta, B. , Annema, A. J. , & Bindra, H. S. (2022). Reconstructing Aliased Frequency Spectra by Using Multiple Sample Rates. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems I: regular papers, 69(3), 999 - 1012. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3131273

Dodangeh, M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Nauta, B. (2022). An apparatus comprising a local oscillator for driving a mixer. (Patent No. GB2599809_A). https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&FT=D&date=20220413&CC=GB&NR=2599809A&KC=A

Atanasov, A. N., Mukhtar, W. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2021). A simple and efficient procedure for identifying the compressing stage in Two-Stage Amplifiers. In 2021 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS) IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS50416.2021.9682499

Purushothaman, V. K. , Mikhael, M. R. M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , Klumperink, E. A. M. , Kokkeler, A. B. J. , & Nauta, B. (2021). Multi-Receiver Cross-Correlation Technique for (B)FSK Radios. IEEE Access, 9, 96791-96798. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3094772

Gu, Q. J. , & Oude Alink, M. S. (2021). Guest Editorial 2020 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 56(3), 679-680. [9361508]. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2021.3049704

Delke, A. S. , Oude Alink, M. S. , Annema, A. J., Jin, Y., Verlinde, J. , & Nauta, B. (2021). Frequency reference generator. (Patent No. US 11,018,625 B1). NXP bv Eindhoven. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f6/22/7b/5e22f0f5b024c1/US11018625.pdf

Delke, A. S. , Annema, A. J. , Oude Alink, M. S., Jin, Y., Verlinden, J. , & Nauta, B. (2021). A Single-Trim Frequency Reference Achieving ±120 ppm Accuracy from -50 °c to 170 °c. IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 56(11), 3434-3444. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2021.3090682

de Boer, P-T. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Klumperink, E. A. M. (2021). Simplified Harmonic Rejection Mixer Analysis and Design Based on a Filtered Periodic Impulse Model. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems II: express briefs, 68(7), 2292-2296. [9324800]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2021.3051769

Atanasov, A. N. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2020). Reverse Intermodulation in Multi-Tone Array Transmitters. In BCICTS 2020 IEEE.

Delke, A. S. , Annema, A. J. , Oude Alink, M. S., Jin, Y., Verlinden, J. , & Nauta, B. (2020). A Colpitts-Based frequency reference achieving a single-trim ± 120ppm accuracy from -50 to 170°C. In 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) [9075878] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075878

Dekker, T. , & Oude Alink, M. S. (2020). Inductor arrangement. (Patent No. US10559419B2). https://patents.google.com/patent/US10559419B2/en

Dekker, T. , & Oude Alink, M. S. (2019). Inductor arrangement. (Patent No. US20190355511A1). https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190355511A1/en?oq=US20190355511A1

Atanasov, A. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2019). Densely Interleaved Arrays for Dual-Tone Transmitters. In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology [9020795] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PAST43306.2019.9020795

Mikhael, M. R. M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Kokkeler, A. B. J. (2019). Using Multiple Chains in Cross-Correlation Receivers to Improve Sensitivity. In 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2019 Fall - Proceedings [8891593] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2019.8891593

Palattella, C. , Klumperink, E. A. M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Nauta, B. (2019). Digital-to-Frequency Converters with a DTC: Theoretical Analysis of the Output SFDR. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems I: regular papers, 66(10), 3761-3774. [8725932]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2019.2915548

Mikhael, M. R. M. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & Kokkeler, A. B. J. (2018). A cross-correlation sub-sampling receiver for low power applications in a low SINR environment. In 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON) (pp. 1108). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCON.2018.8614927

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Electrical Engineering

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5G RF Transceiver Integration (5GRFTI): development of a self-regulating Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) driver for high speed optical links for chip-to-chip and rack-to-rack applications, such as Radio-over-Fiber in 5G basestations.
PhD-student(s): Jelle Bakker
Sponsor(s): Bruco Integrated Circuits, Holland High Tech
Started: Oct 2020

Analog Approximate Accelerators (AAA): development of a SoC with accelerators that internally implement energy-consuming computations in the analog instead of the digital domain,while minimizing the necessary data converter overhead, and a fair benchmark with optimized digital (approximate) accelerators.
PhD-student(s): Shubham Yadav, Patrice Legaspi, Anojh Rajendra
Sponsor(s): NWO (OTP), arm, Dialog Semiconductor, ItoM
Started: Jan 2020

Ultra Low-Power Building Blocks (ULPBB): development of ultra low-power elements for the next generation Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard.
PhD-student(s): Maryam Dodangeh
Sponsor(s): Dialog Semiconductor, Holland High Tech
Started: Dec 2019

Instantaneous Multi-Beam Transmit Architectures: figuring out how to transmit multiple signals (simultaneously) in an antenna array, without compromising on power or linearity, e.g. by using multiple antenna elements per unit cell.
PhD-student(s): Anton Atanasov
Sponsor(s): TNO
Started: May 2019

AD-REM: Ad-hoc Dynamic Radio-spectrum Exploitation via Multi-phase Radio

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