Carsten Wulff

Analog designer, programmer and educator

Work experience

Nordic Semiconductor

2023-now Principal IC Scientist

2015-2023 Group Manager, Wireless

2014-2015 Team Lead

2011-2014 Senior R & D Engineer

2008-2011 R & D Engineer

NTNU

2021-now Associate Professor

2020-2021 Guest Researcher
Development of TFE4188 - Advanced Integrated Circuits

2014-2017Post.Doc

2004-2008 Ph.D. student

2001-2003 Teaching assistant
Planning and execution of transfer of the CAD system from HP-UX to Linux
Development of Next Generation Lab, an online electronics lab.
Linux administration

Wulff Consulting

2000-2010Board member and consultant

Interconsult group

1999-2000Summer intern, part time

Lecture experience

2022-now TFE4188 - Advanced Integrated Circuits

2021 TFE4152 - Design of Integrated Circuits

2010-now Guest lectures at NTNU every year.

2006 TFE4200, Analog integrated circuits, responsible for frequency response, noise and CMOS modeling

Programming

I’ve had a love of programming since my first real summer internship back in 1999. Over the years I’ve programmed in Visual BASIC, PHP, Ruby, Perl, C#, SKILL, Ocean, Verilog-A, C++, Go, BASH, AWK, VHDL, SPICE, MATLAB, ASP, Java, C, SystemC, Verilog, and probably a few I’ve forgotten. These days, it’s usually Python, C and C++.

2019-now Python front-end to ciccreator – Python
Simulation toolbox – Python
Configuration toolbox – Python

2009-now Rapid layout generation tool for SAR ADCs – C++

2017 Power meter blink to kWh using nRF52 – C/Python

2015 Ocean script support package – Perl

2004 SystemDotNet.Report – C#

2005 SystemDotNet: mixed-signal, discrete time, event driven simulator – C#

2003 Time Tracker 2 – C#

2001 NextGenLab.Chart – C#

Education

2004-2008 NTNU, Ph.D.

1997-2002 NTNU, Master of Science

Publications

Carsten Wulff on Google Scholar
Carsten Wulff on IEEE Xplore

Books

2003 Tor A. Fjeldly, Michael S. Shur “Lab on the Web: Running Real Electronics Experiments via the Internet” Chapter 4: Carsten Wulff, Trond Ytterdal, Thomas Aas Sæthre, Arne Skjevlan, “NEXT GENERATION LABORATORY - A solution for remote characterization of analog integrated circuits”, ISBN: 0-471-41375-5, Wiley, 2003

Journal Papers

2017 Wulff, C; Ytterdal. T. A Compiled 9-bit 20-MS/s 3.5-fJ/conv.step SAR ADC in 28-nm FDSOI for Bluetooth Low Energy Receivers, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol: 52, Issue: 7, July 2017

2010 Wulff, C; Ytterdal, T. “Comparator-based switched-capacitor pipelined analog-to-digital converter with comparator preset, and comparator delay compensation”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, December 2010 , © Springer

2009 L. Lewyn, T. Ytterdal, C. Wulff, and K. Martin, “Analog Circuit Design in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies”, Proceedings of the IEEE , Vol: 97 , No: 10, 2009 DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2024663 © IEEE

2009 Wulff, C; Ytterdal, T. “Resonators in Open-Loop Sigma-Delta Modulators”, Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 56, No. 10, 2009, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2015211 © IEEE

2008 Wulff, C; Knauserud, Ø; Ytterdal, T. “Switched Capacitor Analog Modulo Integrator For Application In Open Loop Sigma-Delta Modulators”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Febuary 2008 , © Springer

Conference Papers

2019 Garvik,H; Wulff, C; Ytterdal,T A 68 dB SNDR Compiled Noise-Shaping SAR ADC With On-Chip CDAC Calibration ,IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 193-194

2017 Garvik,H; Wulff, C; Ytterdal,T An 11.0 bit ENOB, 9.8 fJ/conv.-step noise-shaping SAR ADC calibrated by least squares estimation IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 1-4

2016 Wulff, C; Ytterdal, T. “A compiled 3.5fJ/conv.step 9b 20MS/s SAR ADC for wireless applications in 28nm FDSOI”, 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2016

2016 Garvik,H; Wulff, C; Ytterdal,T Noise transfer functions and loop filters especially suited for noise-shaping SAR ADCs , IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 1034-1037

2009 Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “CBSC pipelined ADC with comparator preset, and comparator delay compensation”. Proc. NORCHIP 2009 © IEEE.

2008 Ytterdal, T; Wulff, C “On the Energy Efficiency of Analog Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies”, International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM2008). Invited paper.© IEEE.

2008 Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “Design and behavioral simulation of comparator-based switched-capacitor circuits”. Proc NORCHIP 2008.© IEEE. Visual supplements

2007 Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “Design Of A 7-bit, 200MS/s, 2mW Pipelined ADC With Switched Open-Loop Amplifiers In A 65nm CMOS Technology”. Proc NORCHIP 2007. ISBN 1-4244-1517-9 © IEEE. Visual supplements

2006 Wulff, C.;Knauserud,Ø; Ytterdal, T. “Analog Modulo Integrator For Use In Open-Loop Sigma-Delta Modulators”. Proceedings of NORCHIP 2006. © IEEE. Visual supplements

2005 Lillebrekke, C. ; Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “Bootstrapped Switch In Low-Voltage Digital 90nm CMOS Technology”. Proceedings of NORCHIP 2005, © IEEE

2005 Berntsen, Ø. ; Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “High Speed, High Gain OTA in a Digital 90nm CMOS Technology”. Proccedings of NORCHIP 2005, © IEEE

2005 Wulff, C.; Ytterdal, T. “0.8V 1GHz Dynamic Comparator in Digital 90nm CMOS Technology”. Proceedings of NORCHIP 2005, © IEEE

2005 Francisco Colodro, Marta Laguna, Carsten Wulff, Trond Ytterdal and Antonio Torralba. “New approach for Continuous Time Sigma Delta Modulators”. Proceedings of NORCHIP 2005

2004 Wulff, C. Erstad, R. Ytterdal, T. “Programmable Analog Integrated Circuit”. Proceedings of NORCHIP 2004. © IEEE

2002 Wulff, C. Ytterdal, T. “Programmable analog integrated circuit for use in remotely operated laboratories”. International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE-2002). Visual supplements

2002 Wulff, C. Ytterdal, T. Sæthre, T.A. Skjevlan, A. Fjeldy, T.A. et al “Next Generation Lab - A solution for remote characterization of analog integrated circuits”. International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICCDCS-2002). © IEEE. Visual supplements

Educational Work

2008 Wulff, C; Ph.D. Thesis “Efficient ADCs for nano-scale CMOS technology” © Carsten Wulff Pipelined Schematics

2002 Wulff, C; Master Thesis “Programmable Analog Integrated Circuit w/Table of Content” © Carsten Wulff

Unpublished Works

2014 Wulff, C; “The Universal Design Project”, 2014

2008 Wulff, C; “An ADC primer”, stuff about ADCs that did not make it into my Ph.D. thesis. This is a rough cut, so there may be some trains of thought that might be difficult to follow.

2006 Wulff, C; “FE8113 High Speed Data Converters: A Summary”

2006 Wulff, C; “Introduction to Mathematics of Noise Sources”

2006 Wulff, C; “On Spectral Density”

2005 Wulff, C: “A Brief Introduction to SystemDotNet”

Patents

2022 Fast-locking all-digital phase-locked loop and applications thereof

2021 Device locations using machine learning

2020 Exchange of ranging data

Ranging between radio devices

Radio frequency distance determination

Peripheral interconnect controller

Digital radio communications

2018 Reference voltages

2017 Power supply circuits

Integrated circuits

2015 Integrated power-on-reset circuit

Analogue-to-digital converter

Supervisor/Co-Supervisor

Ph.D. students

2023-now Jonathan Sæthre Ege

2021-now Fredrik Esp Feyling

2019-now Olivia Mirea

2015-now Harald Garvik

Master Students

2023 Jenny Aune Forbord Bayesian range estimate from two-directional phase measurements

Mathias Olsen Design and Optimization of a 2.4 GHz, 30 dBm Power Amplifier Utilizing Drain Modulation for Enhanced Efficiency

Johan Nicolas Suarez Lojan Improving Accuracy of MCPD Distance Measurements

Jonathan Sæthre Ege; Sondre Hånes Egge Design and implementation of a 0.01 mm² current-mode temperature sensor in 22 nm FD-SOI with a sensing range of -40 °C to 125 °C and 6.3 nW at 0.8 V

2021 E.V.R Robstad Mapping Wireless Network Nodes Automatically to a Predefined Set of Positions using Distance Measurements

M.G. Aalien Development and Optimization of a Contact Tracing Wearable

F.E Feyling Design Considerations for a Low-Power Control-Bounded A/D Converter

2020 H. Nyholm Localizing Sheep using a Bluetooth Low Energy enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Round-trip Time of Arrival-based Multilateriation

C. Nielsen; Ultra Low Power Frequency Synthesizer

2019 S. Balasubramanian; Behavioral Modelling and Design of Noise Shaping SAR ADC in 22nm FDSOI

2015 H. Garvik; An energy efficient noise-shaping SAR ADC in 28 nm FDSOI

E. Strandvik; Compensation of Threshold Voltage for Process and Temperature Variations in 28nm UTBB FDSOI

T. Nornes Ultra-Low Power SAR-ADC in 28nm CMOS Technologies

2006 Ø. Knauserud Investigation of errors in open-loop sigma-delta modulators utilizing analog modulo integrators

2005 Ø. Berntsen High Speed, High Gain OTA in a Digital 90 nm CMOS Technology

C. Lillebrekke Bootstrapped switches in low voltage nanoscale CMOS process

L. Røysland Utvikling av testoppsett for en Programmerbar Analog IC

M. Moksnes Design criteria for a 12-bit 2 Msample/s 1.8 V ADC for realization in 0.18μm CMOS technology

2004 J. Daleng; ALEXIS - Automated Laboratory Experiment eXercise Interactive Setup

F. Strand; NGAS – Next Generation Analog Station

2003 V. Pedersen; NGL webgrensesnitt for FPGA med mikrokontroller

Hobbies

Trail-running, Rando and Bouldering