PhD Researchers in PMIC Circuit Design for Real Time Control of Multi-Level and Multi-Stage Power Converters Contract: Full Time/Fixed Term Microelectronics Circuits Centre Ireland (MCCI) (www.mcci.ie) MCCI is Ireland's national Microelectronics Circuits Research Centre. Hosted by Tyndall Research Institute (www.tyndall.ie), MCCI has a large team of researchers in silicon chip design, at various stages of their careers, from PhD researcher through to Principal Researcher and all are creating world leading, innovative and high impact technologies, which will shape our future lives. Specifically, MCCI's mission is to carry out industry-driven, excellent research in areas such as Analog Precision Circuits, RF and High Speed Transceivers, Cryogenic CMOS and Integrated Power Systems research.
Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) is the world's largest Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM) in the power management field. Analog Devices is sponsoring this prestigious PhD research scholarships in CMOS Power Control ICs, based at MCCI's office at Tyndall National Institute Cork Ireland. The role will position the researcher at technology curve edge and be valuable to a diverse range of career areas in power management or IC design.
The Research Area Generally, the power systems in every electronics hardware system or device are undergoing a number of major technology paradigm shifts, which is making power control central to achieving the continued performance improvements, which we expect in this "more than Moore" era.
From the grid AC electricity connection to the end application, there are typically five stages of power conversion. Powering architectures are changing so that end-to-end efficiency can be pushed into the high eighties, per cent. The key application SoC, ASIC, CPU, MCU, AI Accelerator or GPU in every application is moving to a very fine geometry CMOS node with high digital gate leakage. Driving this trend for a huge number of last-stage highly dynamic rails, is the tendency for applications to go multi-core – presently eight cores for a mobile phone and hundreds of cores in a computer server. These highly integrated rails deliver up to 20 A/ns and having very little local input decoupling (reservoir) capacitance, they push are pushing the requirement for high dynamic performance up-stream to other stages in the powering architecture, such as the 48 V – 5/12 V DC-DC modules.
Controllers required Traditionally, switch mode converter controllers have been voltage-mode or current mode and have been classical PID or PI, respectively to control state-space averaged linear time invariant (LTI) system representations. More recently linear controllers are emerging which show promise with implementing time domain controllers using time, instead of voltage as the processed signal.
Suggest PhD Research Matter High dynamic performance controller for multi-level, multi-stage FCML or ReSC. It is anticipated that a monolithic multi-level converter with high performance mixed-signal controller will be created.
What we offer You will have the opportunity to pursue your research to the highest level in a world-class CMOS technology design center.There will be a 6-month internship at Analog Devices Ireland Design Centre Office at the beginning of the PhD period.Great career development and advancement that is highly visible to the semiconductor industry.Opportunities to publish and present at leading conferences such as IEEE Solid-State Circuits conferences will be very strongly supported.A generous tax-free scholarship payment per year including University college PhD fees.Key Responsibilities Complete your PhD research degree in high dynamic performance, real-time CMOS power management (PMIC).Complete mixed-signal PMIC integrated circuit prototypes from concept, circuit design through silicon layouts, tape-out and silicon test characterization.Perform experimental test characterisation of your stand-alone prototype PMIC test chips.Author or co-author peer-reviewed publications of international standing.Engage in the dissemination of the results of the research.Manage/participate in education and public outreach engagement activities.Ensure all activities are compliant with MCCI Processes and the Tyndall Quality Management System.About You You will be ambitious to achieve a high quality research PhD through publications.You plan committing to a strong technical career in the area of power management with advanced digital control.Essential Criteria The ideal applicant will have a 1st class honours degree in electronic engineering or related discipline.Evidence of a strong desire to innovate and pursue advanced research.Strong fundamental knowledge in core disciplines such as engineering mathematics, analog circuits, control systems theory and power electronic systems.Desirable Criteria Masters Degree in a relevant research area in electronics.Good understanding of switch-mode converter design.Experience with mixed-signal IC design.The annual stipend is €22,000 pa. In addition, yearly University academic fees will be paid by the Tyndall National Institute.
The closing date for applications is 4th November, 2024.
Application Instructions Postgraduate applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of English language proficiency as per UCC regulations.
Please note that Garda vetting and/or an international police clearance check may form part of the selection process.
Tyndall National Institute at University College, Cork is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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