Selected conference papers:
A. Emira, A. Valdes-Garcia, B. Xia, A. Mohieldin, A. Valero-Lopez, S. T. Moon, C. Xin and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A dual mode 802.11b/Bluetooth Receiver in 0.25um BiCMOS”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Vol. 47, pp. 270-271, Feb. 2004.
A. Valdes-Garcia, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “An On-Chip Transfer Function Characterization System for Analog Built-In Testing”, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, pp. 261-266, April 2004.
A. Y. Valero-Lopez, A. Valdes-Garcia and E. Sanchez-Sinencio “Frequency Synthesizer for On-Chip Testing and Automated Tuning”, IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 565-568, 2004.
A. Emira, A. Valdes-Garcia, B. Xia, A. Mohieldin, A. Valero-Lopez, S. T. Moon, C. Xin and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A BiCMOS Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Receiver”, IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium, pp. 519-522, 2004.
B. Xia, A. Valdes-Garcia and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A Configurable Time-Interleaved Pipeline ADC for Multi-Standard Wireless Receivers”, IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference, pp. 259-262, 2004.
A. Valdes-Garcia, R. Venkatasubramanian, R. Srinivasan, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A CMOS RF RMS Detector for Built-in Testing of Wireless Receivers”, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, pp. 249-254, May 2005.
C. Mishra, A. Valdes-Garcia, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, “A Carrier Frequency Generator for Multi-Band UWB Radios”, IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, June 2006.
A. Valdes-Garcia, C. Mishra, F. Bahmani, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, “An 11-Band 3.4 to 10.3 GHz MB-OFDM UWB Receiver in 0.25m SiGe BiCMOS”, IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2006, pp. 254-255.
A. Valdes-Garcia, S. Reynolds and U. Pfeiffer, “A 60GHz Clase-E Power Amplifier in SiGe”, IEEE Asian Solid State Circuits Conference, pp. 199-202, November 2006.
B. Floyd, U. Pfeiffer, S. Reynolds, A. Valdes-Garcia, C. Haymes, Y. Katayama, D. Nakano, T. Beukema, B. Gaucher, and M. Soyuer, "Silicon Millimeter Wave Radio Circuits at 60-100GHz", IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, pp. 213-218, January 2007 (Invited).
A. Valdes-Garcia, W. Khalil, B. Bakkaloglu, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “Built-in Self Test of RF Transceiver SoCs: from Signal Chain to RF Synthesizers” Invited to IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, June 2007.
A. Valdes-Garcia, T. Beukema and S. Reynolds, “Multi-Mode Modulator and Frequency Demodulator Circuits for Gb/s Data Rate 60 GHz Wireless Transceivers”, Accepted for IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September 2007.
S. Reynolds, A. Valdes-Garcia, Brian Floyd, Brian Gaucher, Duixian Liu, and Nils Hivik, “Second Generation Transceiver Chipset Supporting Multiple Modulations at Gb/s data rates”, Invited to IEEE Bipolar / BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, October 2007.
Journal:
M. G. Mendez Rivera, A. Valdes-Garcia, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “An On-Chip Spectrum Analyzer for Analog Built-In Testing”, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, vol. 21, pp. 205-219, June 2005. #1 most downloaded paper from the JETTA website 06/2005-09/2005.
U. Pfeiffer and A. Valdes-Garcia, “Millimeter-Wave Design Considerations for Power Amplifiers in a SiGe Process Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol.54, no.1, pp. 57-64, January 2006.
C. Mishra, A. Valdes-Garcia, F. Bahmani, A. Batra, E. Sanchez-Sinanencio and J. Silva-Martinez, “Frequency Planning and Synthesizer Architectures for Multi-band UWB Radios”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques., vol.53, no.12, pp. 3744-3756, December 2005. #90 most downloaded paper from all IEEE in December 2005.
A. Emira, A. Valdes-Garcia, B. Xia, A. Mohieldin, A. Valero-Lopez, S. T. Moon, C. Xin and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “Chameleon: A Dual Mode 802.11b/Bluetooth Receiver System Design”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I, vol.53, no. 5, pp. 992-1002, May 2006.
B. Xia, A. Valdes-Garcia and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A 10-bit 44Ms/s 20mW Configurable Time-Interleaved Pipeline ADC for an 802.11b/Bluetooth Dual-Mode Receiver”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits., vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 530-539, March 2006. #15 most downloaded paper from all IEEE in March 2006.
A. Valdes-Garcia, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, “On-Chip Testing Techniques for Wireless RF Transceivers”, Invited to IEEE Design & Test of Computers, July/August 2006, pp. 268-277.
A. Valdes-Garcia, F. Hussein, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “An Integrated Transfer Function Characterization System with a Digital Interface for Analog Testing”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41, no.10, pp. 2301-2313, October 2006.
A. Valdes-Garcia, C. Mishra, F. Bahmani, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, “An 11 Band 3-10 GHz Receiver in SiGe BiCMOS for MB-OFDM UWB Comunication”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Special Issue on the 2006 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 935-948.
#24 most downloaded paper from all IEEE in April 2007.
A. Valdes-Garcia, R. Venkatasubramanian, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, “A Broadband CMOS RF Amplitude Detector for On-Chip RF Measurements”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, to appear.
Book Chapters:
A. Valdes-Garcia, J. Silva-Martinez and E. Sánchez-Sinencio, “On-chip testing techniques for RF wireless transceiver systems and components”, in Test and Diagnosis of Analogue and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits, IET 2007, to appear.