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The 2025 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) concluded successfully in Boston, USA. As one of the world’s premier academic conferences in integrated circuits (ICs), CICC is renowned for its rigorous review standards and strong focus on cutting-edge technologies, serving as a key platform for global chip design leaders to exchange ideas and showcase major innovations. At this year’s conference, the Advanced Communication Integrated Circuits (ACE) Research Group from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) presented another landmark achievement entitled “BASS-PLL: A Bandwidth Augmented Sub-Sampling PLL Achieving a Wide Bandwidth Above 30% of the Reference Frequency and a Worst-Case FoMREF of −247.9 dB at 3 GHz with a Ring Oscillator.” This work was selected as a Best Paper Finalist and was also invited for submission to the top-tier international journal IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).

The 2025 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) was held in San Francisco, USA. Widely regarded as the “Olympics” of the global integrated circuit (IC) design community, ISSCC brings together the world’s leading research groups and industry experts and serves as the premier venue for presenting cutting-edge advances in chip technology. At this year’s conference, the Advanced Communication Integrated Circuits (ACE) Research Group from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) presented a landmark paper entitled “A 1.8-to-3.0 GHz Fully Integrated All-In-One CMOS Frequency Management Module Achieving −47/+42 ppm Inaccuracy from −40 °C to 95 °C and −150/+70 ppm After Accelerated Aging.” This work represents a major technical breakthrough in high-performance frequency management chips and marks SJTU’s first-ever ISSCC publication in the field of analog and RF integrated circuit design, signifying the ACE Research Group’s emergence on the global analog and RF IC stage.

In April 2024, the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), one of the world’s premier academic conferences in the field of custom integrated circuits (ICs), was held in Denver, USA. The ACE (Advanced Communication Electronics) Research Group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) presented its latest research on a high-performance CMOS clock reference chip, marking SJTU’s first publication of related research at CICC.