Saroj Rout
Ph.D. (EE), Senior Member IEEE
Academic/Engineer/Entrepreneur with more than 22 years of semiconductor experience in CMOS integrated circuit (IC) design. He is the co-founder of Boston Microtechnology, a semiconductor startup in the Greater Boston area developing power management ICs. He is an Adjunct Professor at Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India where he is passionate about mentoring aspiring students. He holds 8 patents and is the author of "Active Metamaterial", a Springer-Nature Publication. He holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University, Medford MA, USA, Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India.
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Bio
Saroj Rout received the B.E. degree in Instrumentation and the M.E. degree in Microelectronics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, in 2016, where he worked on terahertz metamaterials for his doctoral dissertation. He has taught undergraduate electrical engineering courses both at BITS, Pilani and Tufts University. From 1998 to 2000, he was a research assistant at Iowa State University, Iowa, USA, where he worked on low-voltage CMOS analog circuit design.
From 2000 to 2007, he was an analog IC design engineer at Silicon Laboratories, Inc. where he worked on high performance CMOS and BiCMOS circuits for applications such as Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC) for VoIP phones, modems for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), Direct Access Arrangement (DAA) for PC and embedded modems, RF radio tuners and RF TV tuners, of which, two of the products, DAA and SLICs, have sold more than 1.5 Billion units.
He is the founder and principal engineer at Mixignal Innovations, an analog IC design consulting company and, also the co-founder and VP of Boston Microtechnology, a NSF-funded semiconductor startup in the Greater Boston area. He is the Principal Investigator for SBIR Phase-I, a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. He is the inventor of 8 patents and author of several publications in the area of CMOS circuit design and terahertz metamaterials. He is the author of the book "Active Metamaterials", a Springer-Nature publication. He is an Adjunct Professor at Silicon Institute of Technology, India, where he directs and mentors the Advanced VLSI Laboratory. He is a Senior Member, IEEE.
Book/Thesis/Monograph
- S. Rout, and S. Sonkusale, "Active Metamaterials: Terahertz Modulators and Detectors", Springer, 2017. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-52219-7 | Book Sample
- S. Rout, "Active Metamaterials for Terahertz Communication and Imaging", Ph.D. Thesis, Tufts University, 2016. | PDF
- S. Sonkusale, W. Xu, and S. Rout., "Active metamaterials for modulation and detection", CMC: Computers, Materials & Continua, 39(3):301-315, 2014.
Patents
- R. Lipka, S. Rout,"Trans impedance amplifier capacitance isolation stage", 2021, US Patent 11,128,260 B2
- S. Rout, A. Garlapati, and Q. Yu.,"Method for calibration of a system with time-multiplexed sensors", 2018, US Patent 9939290
- R. Lipka, S. Rout, and A. Garlapati, "Method and system for detecting and correcting quadrature error signals from MEMS device", 2017, US Patent No. 9702898
- S. Rout, A. Garlapati, and Q. Yu, "Time-Domain multiplexed signal processing block and method for use with multiple MEMS devices", 2017, U.S. Patent No. 9699534
- S. Sonkusale, W. Padilla, and S. Rout, "Active Manipulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Metamaterials," 2016, U.S. Patent 9459375
- L. Gao and S. Rout, "Television receiver with automatic gain control (AGC)", 2011, U.S. Patent 8009776.
- T.J. Dupuis and S. Rout, "DC holding circuit," 2005, U.S. Patent 6968055
- K. F. Lee, S. Rout, and M. Goldenberg, "Integrated circuit beta compensator for external interface circuitry," 2004, U.S. Patent 6812744
PrePrints
- Sarangi S., Tripathy D., Mahapatra S.S., Rout S., "A Power and Area Efficient CMOS Bandgap Reference Circuit with an Integrated Voltage-Reference Branch", engrXiv, 2019
- Mohapatra S. S., Singh A., Nath M., Mrudula P., Sarangi S. and Rout S. "SRAM for IoT Applications in 0.6um CMOS", engrXiv, 2020
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Journals/Conferences
- Sarangi S., Tripathy D., Mahapatra S.S., Rout S. (2020) "A Power- and Area-Efficient CMOS Bandgap Reference Circuit with an Integrated Voltage-Reference Branch". In: Goel N., Hasan S., Kalaichelvi V. (eds) Modelling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing. MoSICom 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 659. Springer, Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4775-1_16 (PREPRINT)
- S. Rout and S. Sonkusale, "A low-voltage high-speed terahertz spatial light modulator using active metamaterial." APL Photonics 1, 086102 (2016), doi:10.1063/1.4958739
- S. Rout and S. Sonkusale, "A wireless multi-level terahertz amplitude modulator using active metamaterial-based spatial light modulation."Opt. Express 24(13) 14618-14631, June 2016.doi:10.1364/OE.24.014618
- S. Rout, D. Shrekenhamer, A. C. Strikwerda, C. Bingham, R. D. Averitt, S. Sonkusale, and W. J. Padilla, "High speed terahertz modulation from metamaterials with embedded high electron mobility transistors," Opt. Express 19(10) 9968-9975, May 2011. PDF | doi:10.1364/OE.19.009968
- S. Rout, Seethalakshmy, P. Srivastava, and J. Majumdar, "Multi-modal image segmentation using a modified Hopfield neural network," Pattern Recognition, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 743-750, Jun. 1998. PDF
- P. Singh, S. Rout, J. Hopwood, and S. Sonkusale., "Metamaterials for wireless generation of microplasma array",International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (6th) (META '15), page 1466, 2015.PDF
- S. Rout and S. Sonkusale.,"Real-time continuous-wave amplitude terahertz modulation system based on active metamaterials",International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (6th) (META '15), page 1450, 2015. PDF
- S. Sonkusale, W. Xu, S. Rout, G. Fu, and P. Singh,"Terahertz metamaterials for modulation and detection",SPIE Sensing Technology+ Applications, pages 948306-948306. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2015. PDF
- S. Rout, D. Shrekenhamer, S. Sonkusale, and W. Padilla, "Embedded HEMT/metamaterial composite devices for active terahertz modulation," IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the, 2010, pp. 437-438. PDF
- V. Rentala, S. Rout, E. Lee, and R. J. Weber, "A constant GM rail-to-rail opamp with a novel input stage for BiCMOS process," in The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001, 2001, vol. 1, pp. 224-227 PDF
- S. Rout and E. K. F. Lee, "Design of 1 V switched-current cells in standard CMOS process," in The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 421-424 PDF
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