Faculty of Engineering,  Department of Microelectronics,  University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq,   Msida MSD 06, Malta. Tel. (+356) 2340 2075    Fax. (+356) 2134 3577

Ivan Grech received his B.Eng.(Hons.) degree in 1993 and M.Sc. in 1996 from the University of Malta. In 1994 he joined the Department of Microlectronics at the University of Malta where he is employed as a lecturer. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey, U.K. in 2002. His research interest is in CMOS analog integrated circuit design (analogue, RF and data conversion) and electronics systems design.

List of Publications

2. G. Azzopardi, I. Grech, J. Micallef, and F. Maloberti, "A low voltage high resolution pipelined incremental
    ADC", Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Cyprus, vol. III, pp 1499-1502,
    1999

3. I Grech, J. Micallef, C.J. Debono, P. Malcovati, and F. Maloberti, "A  1 V  Second Order Sigma-Delta
    Modulator", Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems,  Cyprus, vol. III,
    pp. 1511-1514, 1999.

4. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "A ±0.9 V Switched-Capacitor CMOS Multiplier with Rail-to-Rail Input", Electronics Letters, vol. 35, pp.1688-1689, 1999.

5. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Low-Voltage, High-Speed Fully Differential CMOS Op Amp”,      Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Lebanon, pp. 7-11, 2000.

6. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Low-Voltage, SC TDM Correlator for the Extraction of Time  Delay”, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Lebanon, pp.112-115, 2000.

7. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, “Two ±0.7 V S²I Class AB Fully Differential Memory Cells”, Electronics Letters, vol. 36, pp. 2062-2063, 2000.

8. I Grech, J. Micallef, C.J. Debono, P. Malcovati, and F. Maloberti, "A  1 V  Second Order Sigma-Delta Modulator", Analogue Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 24, pp. 151-164, 2001.
 
9. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Low Voltage Programmable Current Mode Circuit for Onset Detection in a Sound Signal”, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta, pp. 1119-1122, 2001.

10. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Low Voltage Log Domain Front End for the Extraction of 2-D Sound Localization Cues”, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Malta,  pp. 1473-1476, 2001.

11. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Experimental results obtained from analog chips used for extracting sound localization cues", Proceedings of the  9th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dubrovnik, pp. 247 -251, 2002.

12. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Low-Power Log-Doman CMOS Filter Bank for 2-D Sound Localization", Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Special Issue on ICECS 2001, pp. 99 - 117, 2003.

13. I. Grech, J. Micallef, G. Azzopardi, and C. J. Debono, "A 0.9 V Wide-Input-Range Bulk-Input CMOS OTA for Gm-C Filters", Proceedings of the  10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems,  pp. 818 -821, 2003.

14. I. Grech, J. Micallef, and T. Vladimirova, "Analog CMOS Chipset for  2-D Sound Localization System", Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2004.

15. M. A. Sammut, I. Grech and J. Micallef, “CMOS Integrated Sensor Interface for the Voltammetric Detection of Dopamine”, Eurosensors XVIII, Rome, Italy, 2004.

16. Grech Ivan, Micallef Joseph, Azzopardi George, Debono Carl, “A Low Voltage Wide-Input-Range Bulk-Input CMOS OTA, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 43(2), pp. 127-136, 2005.

17. Jose Manuel Blasco, Eduardo Monton, Salvador Romero, Joseph Micallef, Ivan Grech, Edward Gatt, Theirry Herve, “Sensation Body Area Network: Sensor Network for the wireless monitoring of patients”, Proceedings of the Eurosensors XIX, Barcelona, Spain, September 11-14, 2005

18. Casha Owen, Grech Ivan, Gatt Edward, Micallef Joseph, “1.6 GHz Low Power Low Phase Noise Quadrature Phase Loop with on chip DC-DC converter for wide tuning range”, Proceedings of the  12th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Gammarth, Tunisia, December 11-14, 2005.

19. Charmaine Demanuele, Ivan Grech, Joseph Micallef, Edward Gatt, “Issues on the Design of a Variable Power LINC Amplifier System in SiGe operating at 2.4 GHz”, Proceedings of the  13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Nice, France, pp. 439-442, December 10-13, 2006.

20. Owen Casha, Ivan Grech, Joseph Micallef and Edward Gatt, “Design of a 1.2 V Low Phase Noise 1.6 GHz  CMOS Buffered Quadrature Output VCO with Automatic Amplitude Control”, Proceedings of the  13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Nice, France,  pp. 192-195, December 10-13, 2006. (Awarded 3^rd rank best student paper).

21. Mark Bonnici, Edward J. Gatt, Joseph Micallef and Ivan Grech,  “Artificial Neural Network Optimization for FPGA”, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Nice, France, pp. 1340-1343, December 10-13, 2006.