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Anantha Chandrakasan, director of MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories, today received the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award.

Research reported this week advances the goal of turning insects into unmanned aerial vehicles

Vivienne Sze, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Algorithms and Architectures for Ultra-Low-Power Video Compression".

Patrick Mercier, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Fully Integrated Pulsed-UWB Transceivers for Small Lightweight Flying Vehicles".

Joyce Kwong, Yogesh Ramadass, Naveen Verma, M. Koesler, K. Huber, H. Moormann, A. Chandrakasan, "A 65nm Sub-Vt Microcontroller with Integrated SRAM and Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter," 2008 ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award.

T. S. Cho, K.-J. Lee, J. Kong, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2008 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, "The Design of a Low Power Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor System", ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp. 84-89, Anaheim, June 8-13, 2008.

D. F. Finchelstein, V. Sze, M. E. Sinangil, Y. Koken, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2008 A-SSCC Student Design Contest - Outstanding Design Award, "A Low-Power 0.7-V H.264 720p Video Decoder", IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Could lead to longer-lasting, self-charging cell phones, more

Yogesh K. Ramadass and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence. "Minimum Energy Tracking Loop with Embedded DC-DC Converter Delivering Voltages Down to 250mV in 65nm CMOS".