Biography

Issy Kipnis is a Senior Principal Engineer and Associate Director of Intel Labs Berkeley. He holds an Ingeniero en Electrónica (BSEE) degree from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Mexico City, and a MSE in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1981 to 1983, he worked for Fairchild Camera and Instruments in Palo Alto, CA, designing microprocessors utilizing integrated injection logic technology.

From 1983 to 1990, he was a senior member of technical staff at Avantek in Newark, CA, working in the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). From 1990 to 1997, he was a senior staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, where he led the design of the detector readout ICs for the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker and the Atlas Semiconductor Strip Tracker. From 1997 to 2000, he was a R&D section manager at HP/Agilent Technologies in Newark, CA, managing and leading a team in the design and development of radio chipsets for CDMA mobile handsets.

He joined Intel in 2000 where he has been involved in the design and development of RF, wired and optical integrated transceivers for RFID, cellular phones, Bluetooth, high-speed serial and sonet applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Patents

Dual mode RF power amplifier

U.S. Patent 7,612,684, November 3, 2009

Semiconductor substrate with inerconnections and embedded circuit elements

U.S. Patent 7,312,505, December 25, 2007

Integrated radio front-end module with embedded circuit elements

U.S. Patent 7,307,331, December 11, 2007

MEMS based tunable antenna for wireless reception and transmission

U.S. Patent 7,167,135, January 23, 2007

Phase locked loop having a single sideband modulator

U.S. Patent 6,940,938, September 6, 2005

Unilateral coupling for a quadrature voltage controlled oscillator

U.S. Patent 6,870,432, March 22, 2005

Variable gain amplifier with adjustable gain slope

U.S. Patent 6,791,416, September 14, 2004

Isolated reference bias generator with reduced error due to parasitics

U.S. Patent 6,326,836, December 4, 2001

Frequency divider with Darlington transistors

U.S. Patent 4 769 621, September 6, 1988

Self-oscillating mixer with Darlington transistors

U.S. Patent 4 688 005, August 18, 1987

Publications

A 900MHz UHF RFID reader transceiver IC

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 2822-2833, December 2007

A 900MHz UHF RFID reader transceiver IC

2007 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Digest, pp. 214-215, February 2007

A 10-GHz CMOS quadrature LC-VCO for multirate optical applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1626-1634, October 2003

The BaBar detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 478, pp. 1-116, February 2002

The BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 461, pp. 162-167, April 2001

Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0 decays to CP Eigenstates

Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 2515-2522, March 19, 2001

Performance and running experience of the BaBar silicon vertex tracker

2000 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 65-69, October 2000

The BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 453, pp. 78-83, October 2000

Refining CDMA mobile-phone power control

Microwaves & RF, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 71-77, June 2000

The design and construction of the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 447, pp. 15-25, June 2000

Functional characteristics and radiation tolerance of AToM, the front-end chip of BaBar silicon vertex tracker

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 1865-1870, December 1999

A VLSI front-end circuit for microstrip silicon detectors for medical imaging applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 436, pp. 401-414, November 1999

The BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 435, pp. 25-33, October 1999

A CDMA/FM upconvertor and variable-gain driver amplifier integrated circuit

1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium Digest, pp. 81-84, June 1999

Functional characteristics and radiation tolerance of AToM, the front-end chip of BaBar silicon vertex tracker

1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 80-85, November 1998

The rad-hard readout system of the BaBar silicon vertex tracker

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 409, pp. 354-359, May 1998

Beam test of the ATLAS silicon detector modules

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 409, pp. 236-239, May 1998

XPS: a mutli-channel preamplifier-shaper IC for X-ray spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 732-734, June 1998

Performance of the ATLAS silicon strip detector modules

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 403, pp. 247-255, February 1998.

The analog front-end section of the BaBar silicon vertex tracker readout IC

Nuclear Physics B 61B, pp. 532-538, February 1998.

Performance of the binary silicon system for ATLAS

Nuclear Physics B 61B, pp. 218-223, February 1998.

PD3, a low-noise precise timing analog front-end integrated circuit

1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 240-243, November 1997

XPS: a mutli-channel preamplifier-shaper IC for X-ray spectroscopy

1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 5-7, November 1997

A time-over-threshold machine: the readout integrated circuit for the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 289-297, June 1997

Beam test of a large area n-on-n silicon strip detector with fast binary readout electronics

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 736-742, June 1997

All-sky X-ray & gamma-ray astronomy monitor (AXGAM)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 572-576, June 1997

Test results on silicon micro-strip detectors for ATLAS

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 386, pp. 122-128, February 1997

Beam tests of a double-sided silicon strip detector with fast binary readout electronics before and after proton-irradiation

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 383, pp. 211-222, December 1996

Monitoring the performance of silicon detectors with binary readout in the ATLAS beam test

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 383, pp. 245-251, December 1996

All-sky X-ray & gamma-ray monitor (AXGAM)

1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 84-88, November 1996

Beam test of the ATLAS silicon detector modules with binary readout in the CERN H8 beam in 1996

1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 175-180, November 1996

Beam test of a large area n-on-n silicon strip detector with fast binary readout electronics

1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 573-577, November 1996

Signal processing in the front-end electronics of BaBar vertex detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 377, pp. 459-464, August 1996

Progress in multi-element silicon detectors for synchrotron XRF applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1442-1445, June 1996

Development of a digital radiography system based on silicon microstrip detector

Physica Medica, vol. XII, no. 1, January 1996

Progress in multi-element silicon detectors for synchrotron XRF applications

1995 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 584-587, October 1995

An efficient digital X-ray imaging system with high spatial resolution and robust energy sensitivity

1995 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 1602-1606, October 1995

The SVX2 readout chip

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 803-807, August 1995

Signal-to-noise in silicon microstrip detectors with binary readout

EEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 445-450, August 1995

The SVX II silicon vertex detector upgrade at CDF

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 360, pp. 118-124, June 1995

The SVX2 readout chip

1994 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 483-487, November 1994

An analog front-end bipolar-transistor integrated circuit for the SDC silicon tracker

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1095-1103, August 1994

16-channel charge-sensitive amplifier IC for a pin photodiode array based PET detector module

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1469-1472, August 1994

A high rate, low noise X-ray silicon strip detector system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1037-1041, August 1994

A bipolar analog front-end integrated circuit for the SDC silicon tracker

1993 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 872-876, November 1993

A high rate, low noise X-ray silicon strip detector system

1993 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 440-444, November 1993

Beam test of the SDC double-sided silicon strip detector

1993 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Digest, pp. 38-42, November 1993

Fully packaged 11 Gb/s parallel processing decision circuit using submicron silicon bipolar ICs

Proc. of the 1990 IEEE Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 44-47, September 1990

Silicon bipolar active mixers

Applied Microwave Magazine, pp. 108-117, Spring 1990

Submicron silicon bipolar decision circuit and demultiplexer for very high speed lightwave communication systems

1990 Optical Fiber Communication Conference Digest, pp. 40, January 1990

Submicron silicon bipolar master-slave D-type flip-flop for use as 8.1 Gbit/s decision circuit and 11.2 Gbit/s demultiplexer

Electronics Letters, vol. 25, pp. 1346-1347, 28th September 1989

Silicon bipolar fixed and variable gain amplifier MMICs for microwave and lightwave applications up to 6 GHz

1989 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 109-112, June 1989

Silicon bipolar double balanced active mixer MMICs for RF and microwave applications up to 6 GHz

1989 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 281-285, June 1989

Computer simulation models performance of RF converters

Microwaves & RF, vol. 28, pp. 183-192, May 1989

Large signal computer-aided analysis and design of silicon bipolar MMIC oscillators and self-oscillating mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. MTT-37, pp. 558-564, March 1989

A bipolar MMIC active mixer for applications to 5 GHz

Proc. of the RF Technology Expo 89, pp. 43-50, February 1989

A wideband, low-power, high-sensitivity and small-size 5.5 GHz static frequency divider IC

Proc. of the 1988 IEEE Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 150-152, September 1988

Bipolar process produces Si MMIC building blocks

Microwaves & RF, vol. 27, pp. 231-238, May 1988

20 GHz frequency-divider silicon bipolar MMIC

Electronics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 1085-1087, 24th September 1987

Silicon bipolar MMIC for frequency-conversion applications up to 20 GHz

1987 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, pp. 855-858, June 1987

10 GHz frequency-convertor silicon bipolar MMIC

Electronics Letters, vol. 22, pp. 1270-1271, 6th November 1986

A 10 GHz frequency converter IC using a silicon Darlington-connected transistor pair

Proc. of the 1986 IEEE Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp. 61-62, September 1986

A 3000 gate 1 ns bipolar TTL gate array

Proc. of the 1983 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 7781, May 1983