Advanced Multiphasing Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters (PDF)

Nicolas Butzen was born in Wilrijk, Belgium, in 1990. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Power Delivery Research Scientist with Intel Corporation's Circuits Research Lab (CRL), Hillsboro, OR, USA. His research interests include power management circuits in CMOS and monolithic switched-capacitor dc-dc converters.







Dr. Butzen was a recipient of several awards for his innovative work, including Third and First Place at the SSCS Benelux Chapter Chip Design Contest from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018, respectively, the ISSCC 2016 Distinguished-Technical-Paper Award, the ISSCC 2017 Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper, and the IEEE SSCS 2017-2018 Predoctoral Achievement Award.





Michiel Steyaert received the master's degree in electrical-mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium, in 1983 and 1987, respectively. In 1988, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. In 1989, he was a Research Associate with the National Fund of Scientific Research, Belgium, and a Senior Research Associate in 1992. He was a Research Director with the Laboratory ESAT, KU Leuven, in 1996, where he was a part-time Associate Professor from 1989 to 1996. He is currently a Full Professor with KU Leuven. He was an IWONL Project Researcher with the Laboratory ESAT, KU Leuven, in 1987, where he is responsible for several industrial projects in the field of analog micro power circuits. He has authored or co-authored over 500 papers in international journals or proceedings and co-authored over 24 books. His current research interests include high-performance and high-frequency analog integrated circuits for telecommunication systems and analog signal processing. From 1983 to 1986, he was a Research Assistant