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

Associate Professor

About Me

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 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.

Expertise

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

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Research

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Publications

Recent
Bakker, J. H. T. , Oude Alink, M. S. , Schmitz, J. , & Nauta, B. (2023). Characterisation of Photodiodes in 22 nm FDSOI at 850 nm. In ESSDERC 2023 - IEEE 53rd European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) (pp. 65-68). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSDERC59256.2023.10268483
Dodangeh, M. , Oude Alink, M. S., Prummel, J. , & Nauta, B. (2023). A 50μW 2.45GHz direct-conversion RX with on-chip LO with -84dBm sensitivity for 1Mb/s GFSK. In ESSCIRC 2023- IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) (pp. 41-44). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268743
Yadav, S. , Kokkeler, A. B. J. , & Oude Alink, M. S. (2023). Improved Toolchain-Compatible Standard Cells with 5% - 36% Lower EDP for Super Threshold Operation in 65nm Low-Power CMOS Technology. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS); Vol. 2023). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181651
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3225717
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
Oude Alink, M. S., & Sheikh, F. (2022). Guest Editorial 2021 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 57(3), 675-676. Advance online publication. 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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3131273
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
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. Article 9361508. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2021.3049704
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2021.3090682
Atanasov, A. N. , Oude Alink, M. S. , & van Vliet, F. E. (2021). Reverse Intermodulation in Multi-Tone Array Transmitters. In 2020 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS) IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BCICTS48439.2020.9392972
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. Article 9324800. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2021.3051769
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 Article 9020795 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PAST43306.2019.9020795

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Projects

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

Finished Projects

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

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University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré (building no. 15), room C2007
Hallenweg 21
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré  C2007
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7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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