Ronald Knepper

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

• Life Fellow, IEEE
• 1989 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award
• 1988 IBM Division Award
• 1983 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
• Past Editor, Solid State Electronic

Classes Taught

• EC 700 Adv Special Topics
• EC 582 RF/Analog IC Design Fundamentals
• EC 580 Modern Active Circuit Design
• EC 571 VLSI Principles and Applications
• EC 500 Special Topics in ECE
• EC 466
• EC 464 Senior Design Project II
• EC 412 Analog Electronics
• EC 410 Introduction to Electronics
• EC 312 Computer Organization

Research Interests

• VLSI integrated circuit technology
• SiGe BICMOS device and circuit modeling
• silicon CMOS and bipolar devices
• numerical device simulation
• RF/analog IC design

Selected Publications

• “Modeling and Experimental Measurement of Active Substrate Noise Suppression in Mixed Signal 0.18um BiCMOS Technology,” H Dai and RW Knepper, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2009.
• “Differential Sensing of Substrate Noise in Mixed-Signal 0.18um BiCMOS Technology,” H Dai and RW Knepper, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 898-901, August 2008.
• “A Low Noise, Broadband Cryogenic preamplifier operated in a High Field Superconducting Magnet,” R. Mathur, RW Knepper, and PB O’Connor, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 1781-1789, Sept. 2008.
• “A Novel, High Sensitivity Cryogenic Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Mass Spectrometer,” R Mathur, C Lin, K Aizikov, RW Knepper, PB O’Connor, 56th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Denver, CO, June 2-6, 2008.
• “Chip Substrate Resistance Modeling Technique for Integrated Circuit Design,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 762-765, May 1983; and IEEE Trans Computer-Aided Design, Vol. CAD-3, No. 2, pp. 126-134, April 1984; Johnson, Knepper, Marcello, and Wang.