Wolfgang Fichtner

Satoshi Ono, Mauro Ciappa, Shigeru Hiura, Wolfgang Fichtner: Electro-thermal simulation in the time domain of GaN HEMT for RF switch-mode amplifier. Microelectronics Reliability 52(9-10): 2224-2227 (2012)

Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Hubert Rothleitner, Wolfgang Fichtner: A New Built-In Defect-Based Testing Technique to Achieve Zero Defects in the Automotive Environment. J. Electronic Testing 27(1): 19-30 (2011)

Mauro Ciappa, Luigi Mangiacapra, Maria Stangoni, Stephan Ott, Wolfgang Fichtner: Design of optimum electron beam irradiation processes for the reliability of electric cables used in critical applications. Microelectronics Reliability 51(9-11): 1479-1483 (2011)

Aniello Esposito, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: Synthesis of scanning electron microscopy images by high performance computing for the metrology of advanced CMOS processes. Microelectronics Reliability 51(9-11): 1673-1678 (2011)

Mathieu Luisier, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Wolfgang Fichtner: Atomistic nanoelectronic device engineering with sustained performances up to 1.44 PFlop/s. SC 2011: 2

Mauro Ciappa, Alexander Koschik, Maurizio Dapor, Wolfgang Fichtner: Modeling secondary electron images for linewidth measurement by critical dimension scanning electron microscopy. Microelectronics Reliability 50(9-11): 1407-1412 (2010)

Yuji Sasaki, Mauro Ciappa, Takayuki Masunaga, Wolfgang Fichtner: Accurate extraction of the mechanical properties of thin films by nanoindentation for the design of reliable MEMS. Microelectronics Reliability 50(9-11): 1621-1625 (2010)

Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Hubert Rothleitner, M. Hommel, Wolfgang Fichtner: A new built-in screening methodology for Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converters. Microelectronics Reliability 50(9-11): 1750-1757 (2010)

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Fichtner: Signal Transmission by Galvanic Coupling Through the Human Body. IEEE T. Instrumentation and Measurement 59(4): 963-969 (2010)

Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner, Hubert Rothleitner: Novel built-in methodology for defect testing of capacitor oxide in SAR analog to digital converters for critical automotive applications. European Test Symposium 2010: 170-174

Stefan Eberli, Andreas Burg, Wolfgang Fichtner: Implementation of a 2×2 MIMO-OFDM receiver on an application specific processor. Microelectronics Journal 40(11): 1642-1649 (2009)

Mauro Ciappa, Luigi Mangiacapra, Maria Stangoni, Stephan Ott, Wolfgang Fichtner: Ensuring the reliability of electron beam crosslinked electric cables by the optimization of the dose depth distribution with Monte Carlo simulation. Microelectronics Reliability 49(9-11): 972-976 (2009)

Haruka Kubo, Mauro Ciappa, Takayuki Masunaga, Wolfgang Fichtner: Multiscale simulation of aluminum thin films for the design of highly-reliable MEMS devices. Microelectronics Reliability 49(9-11): 1278-1282 (2009)

Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Hubert Rothleitner, Wolfgang Fichtner: A new built-in screening methodology to achieve zero defects in the automotive environment. Microelectronics Reliability 49(9-11): 1334-1340 (2009)

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Sonja Huclova, Juerg Froehlich, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Fichtner: Galvanic Coupling Enabling Wireless Implant Communications. IEEE T. Instrumentation and Measurement 58(8): 2618-2625 (2009)

Luca Henzen, Flavio Carbognani, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Hardware evaluation of the stream cipher-based hash functions RadioGatún and irRUPT. DATE 2009: 646-651

Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner, Hubert Rothleitner: Novel Solution for the Built-in Gate Oxide Stress Test of LDMOS in Integrated Circuits for Automotive Applications. European Test Symposium 2009: 67-72

Markus Wenk, Peter Luethi, Thomas Koch, Patrick Maechler, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner, Michael Lerjen: Hardware Platform and Implementation of a Real-time Multi-user MIMO-OFDM Testbed. ISCAS 2009: 789-792

Markus Wenk, Peter Luethi, Thomas Koch, Patrick Maechler, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner, Michael Lerjen: Live Demonstration: Hardware Platform and Implementation of a Real-time Multi-user MIMO-OFDM Testbed. ISCAS 2009: 793

Luca Henzen, Flavio Carbognani, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Sean O'Neil, Wolfgang Fichtner: VLSI Implementations of the Cryptographic Hash Functions MD6 and ïrRUPT. ISCAS 2009: 2914-2917

Flavio Carbognani, Felix Bürgin, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Transmission Gates Combined With Level-Restoring CMOS Gates Reduce Glitches in Low-Power Low-Frequency Multipliers. IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst. 16(7): 830-836 (2008)

Mathieu Luisier, Gerhard Klimeck, Andreas Schenk, Wolfgang Fichtner, Timothy B. Boykin: A Parallel Sparse Linear Solver for Nearest-Neighbor Tight-Binding Problems. Euro-Par 2008: 790-800

Christoph Studer, Peter Luethi, Wolfgang Fichtner: VLSI architecture for data-reduced steering matrix feedback in MIMO systems. ISCAS 2008: 300-303

Christian Senning, Christoph Studer, Peter Luethi, Wolfgang Fichtner: Hardware-efficient steering matrix computation architecture for MIMO communication systems. ISCAS 2008: 304-307

Peter Luethi, Markus Wenk, Thomas Koch, Wolfgang Fichtner, Michael Lerjen, Norbert Felber: Multi-user MIMO testbed. WINTECH 2008: 109-110

M. Etherton, J. Willemen, Wolfgang Wilkening, N. Qu, S. Mettler, Wolfgang Fichtner: Verification of CDM circuit simulation using an ESD evaluation circuit. Microelectronics Reliability 47(7): 1036-1043 (2007)

Ulrich Glaser, Kai Esmark, Martin Streibl, Christian Russ, Krzysztof Domanski, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: SCR operation mode of diode strings for ESD protection. Microelectronics Reliability 47(7): 1044-1053 (2007)

D. Barlini, Mauro Ciappa, Michel Mermet-Guyennet, Wolfgang Fichtner: Measurement of the transient junction temperature in MOSFET devices under operating conditions. Microelectronics Reliability 47(9-11): 1707-1712 (2007)

Alberto Castellazzi, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner, M. Piton, Michel Mermet-Guyennet: A study of the threshold-voltage suitability as an application-related reliability indicator for planar-gate non-punch-through IGBTs. Microelectronics Reliability 47(9-11): 1713-1718 (2007)

Stefan Röllin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Improving the Accuracy of GMRes with Deflated Restarting. SIAM J. Scientific Computing 30(1): 232-245 (2007)

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Andreas Kuhn, Juerg Froehlich, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Fichtner: An Attempt to Model the Human Body as a Communication Channel. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering 54(10): 1851-1857 (2007)

C. Hess, Markus Wenk, Andreas Burg, Peter Luethi, Christoph Studer, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Reduced-complexity mimo detector with close-to ml error rate performance. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2007: 200-203

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Martin Hediger, Thomas Kaufmann, Felix Bürgin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Wireless Implant Communications for Biomedical Monitoring Sensor Network. ISCAS 2007: 809-812

Simon Haene, Andreas Burg, Peter Luethi, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: FFT Processor for OFDM Channel Estimation. ISCAS 2007: 1417-1420

Peter Luethi, Andreas Burg, Simon Haene, David Perels, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: VLSI Implementation of a High-Speed Iterative Sorted MMSE QR Decomposition. ISCAS 2007: 1421-1424

David Perels, Christoph Studer, Wolfgang Fichtner: Implementation of a Low-Complexity Frame-Start Detection Algorithm for MIMO Systems. ISCAS 2007: 1903-1906

Andreas Burg, Simon Haene, Wolfgang Fichtner, Markus Rupp: Regularized Frequency Domain Equalization Algorithm and its VLSI Implementation. ISCAS 2007: 3530-3533

Frank K. Gürkaynak, Stephan Oetiker, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Design Challenges for a Differential-Power-Analysis Aware GALS-based AES Crypto ASIC. Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 146(2): 133-149 (2006)

Marco Buzzo, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: Characterization of photonic devices by secondary electron potential contrast. Microelectronics Reliability 46(9-11): 1536-1541 (2006)

Alberto Castellazzi, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner, G. Lourdel, Michel Mermet-Guyennet: Compact modelling and analysis of power-sharing unbalances in IGBT-modules used in traction applications. Microelectronics Reliability 46(9-11): 1754-1759 (2006)

D. Barlini, Mauro Ciappa, Alberto Castellazzi, Michel Mermet-Guyennet, Wolfgang Fichtner: New technique for the measurement of the static and of the transient junction temperature in IGBT devices under operating conditions. Microelectronics Reliability 46(9-11): 1772-1777 (2006)

S. C. Brugger, Andreas Schenk, Wolfgang Fichtner: Moments of the Inverse Scattering Operator of the Boltzmann Equation: Theory and Applications. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 66(4): 1209-1226 (2006)

Frank K. Gürkaynak, Stephan Oetiker, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: GALS at ETH Zurich: Success or Failure. ASYNC 2006: 150-159

Felix Bürgin, Flavio Carbognani, Martin Hediger, Hektor Meier, Robert Meyer-Piening, Rafael Santschi, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Low-power architectural trade-offs in a VLSI implementation of an adaptive hearing aid algorithm. DAC 2006: 558-561

Flavio Carbognani, Felix Bürgin, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Two-phase resonant clocking for ultra-low-power hearing aid applications. DATE 2006: 73-78

Andreas Burg, Simon Haene, David Perels, Peter Luethi, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Algorithm and VLSI architecture for linear MMSE detection in MIMO-OFDM systems. ISCAS 2006

Flavio Carbognani, Felix Bürgin, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: 42% power savings through glitch-reducing clocking strategy in a hearing aid application. ISCAS 2006

Simon Haene, Andreas Burg, David Perels, Peter Luethi, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Silicon implementation of an MMSE-based soft demapper for MIMO-BICM. ISCAS 2006

Markus Wenk, M. Zellweger, Andreas Burg, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: K-best MIMO detection VLSI architectures achieving up to 424 Mbps. ISCAS 2006

Marco Buzzo, Mauro Ciappa, Maria Stangoni, Wolfgang Fichtner: Two-dimensional Dopant Profiling and Imaging of 4H Silicon Carbide Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast. Microelectronics Reliability 45(9-11): 1499-1504 (2005)

Maria Stangoni, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: Assessment of the Analytical Capabilities of Scanning Capacitance and Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy Applied to Semiconductor Devices. Microelectronics Reliability 45(9-11): 1532-1537 (2005)

Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner, T. Kojima, Y. Yamada, Y. Nishibe: Extraction of Accurate Thermal Compact Models for Fast Electro-Thermal Simulation of IGBT Modules in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Microelectronics Reliability 45(9-11): 1694-1699 (2005)

Flavio Carbognani, Felix Bürgin, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Two-Phase Clocking and a New Latch Design for Low-Power Portable Applications. PATMOS 2005: 446-455

Frank K. Gürkaynak, Andreas Burg, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner, D. Gasser, F. Hug, Hubert Kaeslin: A 2 Gb/s balanced AES crypto-chip implementation. ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2004: 39-44

Clemens Czernohous, Wolfgang Fichtner, Daniel Veit, Christof Weinhardt: Management decision support using long-term market simulation. Inf. Syst. E-Business Management 1(4): 405-423 (2003)

F. M. Bufler, Andreas Schenk, Wolfgang Fichtner: Proof of a simple time-step propagation scheme for Monte Carlo simulation. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 62(3-6): 323-326 (2003)

Maria Stangoni, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: A New Procedure to Define the Zero-Field Condition and to Delineate pn-Junctions in Silicon Devices by Scanning Capacitance Microscopy. Microelectronics Reliability 43(9-11): 1651-1656 (2003)

G. Mura, Massimo Vanzi, Maria Stangoni, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: On the behaviour of the selective iodine-based gold etch for the failure analysis of aged optoelectronic devices. Microelectronics Reliability 43(9-11): 1771-1776 (2003)

Jürgen Wassner, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Waveform coding for low-power digital filtering of speech data. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 51(6): 1656-1661 (2003)

Thomas Villiger, Hubert Kaeslin, Frank K. Gürkaynak, Stephan Oetiker, Wolfgang Fichtner: Self-Timed Ring for Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Systems. ASYNC 2003: 141-150

Andreas Burg, Frank K. Gürkaynak, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: Variable delay ripple carry adder with carry chain interrupt detection. ISCAS (5) 2003: 113-116

Wolfgang Stadler, Kai Esmark, Harald Gossner, Martin Streibl, M. Wendel, Wolfgang Fichtner, Dionyz Pogany, Martin Litzenberger, Erich Gornik: Device Simulation and Backside Laser Interferometry--Powerful Tools for ESD Protection Development. Microelectronics Reliability 42(9-11): 1267-1274 (2002)

Mauro Ciappa, Flavio Carbognani, P. Cova, Wolfgang Fichtner: A Novel Thermomechanics -Based Lifetime Prediction Model for Cycle Fatigue Failure Mechanisms in Power Semiconductors. Microelectronics Reliability 42(9-11): 1653-1658 (2002)

Maria Stangoni, Mauro Ciappa, Marco Buzzo, M. Leicht, Wolfgang Fichtner: Simulation and Experimental Validation of Scanning Capacitance Microscopy Measurements across Low-doped Epitaxial PN-Junction. Microelectronics Reliability 42(9-11): 1701-1706 (2002)

Thomas Villiger, Stephan Oetiker, Frank K. Gürkaynak, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner: A Functional Test Methodology for Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Systems. ASYNC 2002: 181-189

A. K. Lutz, J. Treichler, Frank K. Gürkaynak, Hubert Kaeslin, G. Basler, Antonia Erni, S. Reichmuth, P. Rommens, Stephan Oetiker, Wolfgang Fichtner: 2Gbit/s Hardware Realizations of RIJNDAEL and SERPENT: A Comparative Analysis. CHES 2002: 144-158

Olaf Schenk, Klaus Gärtner, Wolfgang Fichtner, Andreas Stricker: PARDISO: a high-performance serial and parallel sparse linear solver in semiconductor device simulation. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 18(1): 69-78 (2001)

Manfred Stadler, Markus Thalmann, Thomas Röwer, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: Design and Verification of a Stack Processor Virtual Component. IEEE Micro 21(2): 69-80 (2001)

Michael Schenkel, Paul Pfäffli, Wolfgang Wilkening, D. Aemmer, Wolfgang Fichtner: Substrate potential shift due to parasitic minority carrier injection in smart-power ICs: measurements and full-chip 3D device simulation. Microelectronics Reliability 41(6): 815-822 (2001)

H. Yabuhara, Mauro Ciappa, Wolfgang Fichtner: Diamond-Coated Cantilevers for Scanning Capacitance Microscopy Applications. Microelectronics Reliability 41(9-10): 1459-1463 (2001)

Kai Esmark, Wolfgang Stadler, M. Wendel, Harald Gossner, X. Guggenmos, Wolfgang Fichtner: Advanced 2D/3D ESD device simulation - a powerful tool already used in a pre-Si phase. Microelectronics Reliability 41(11): 1761-1770 (2001)

J. Thalheim, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner: A new approach for controlling series-connected IGBT modules. ISCAS (3) 2001: 69-72

Jens Muttersbach, Thomas Villiger, Wolfgang Fichtner: Practical Design of Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Systems. ASYNC 2000: 52-

Olaf Schenk, Klaus Gärtner, Wolfgang Fichtner: Scalable Parallel Sparse Factorization with Left-Right Looking Strategy on Shared Memory Multoprocessors. HPCN Europe 1999: 221-230

Olaf Schenk, Klaus Gärtner, Wolfgang Fichtner: Application of Parallel Sparse Direct Methods in Semiconductor Device and Process Simulation. ISHPC 1999: 206-219

Manfred Stadler, Thomas Röwer, Hubert Kaeslin, Norbert Felber, Wolfgang Fichtner, Markus Thalmann: Functional verification of intellectual properties (IP): a simulation-based solution for an application-specific instruction-set processor. ITC 1999: 414-420

P. Douglas Yoder, Klaus Gärtner, Ulrich Krumbein, Wolfgang Fichtner: Optimized terminal current calculation for Monte Carlo device simulation. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 16(10): 1082-1087 (1997)

Arno Liegmann, Wolfgang Fichtner: Solving Large Sparse Linear Systems in a Distributed Computing Environment. PPSC 1995: 496-497

Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Paolo Conti, Wolfgang Fichtner: Mixed element trees: a generalization of modified octrees for the generation of meshes for the simulation of complex 3-D semiconductor device structures. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 12(11): 1714-1725 (1993)

H. Bonnenberg, Andreas Curiger, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, R. Zimmermann, Wolfgang Fichtner: VINCI: Secure Test of a VLSI High-Speed Encryption System. ITC 1993: 782-790

Stephan Müller, Kevin Kells, Wolfgang Fichtner: Automatic rectangle-based adaptive mesh generation without obtuse angles. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 11(7): 855-863 (1992)

Hans-Rudolf Heeb, Wolfgang Fichtner: A module generator based on the PQ-tree algorithm. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 11(7): 876-884 (1992)

Steven J. Seda, Marc G. R. Degrauwe, Wolfgang Fichtner: Lazy-expansion symbolic expression approximation in SYNAP. ICCAD 1992: 310-317

Nancy Hitschfeld, Stephan Müller, Wolfgang Fichtner: Generation of 3-D Delaunay Meshes for Complex Geometries using Iterative Refinement. IFIP Congress (1) 1992: 388-394

Gernot Heiser, Claude Pommerell, Jürgen Weis, Wolfgang Fichtner: Three-dimensional numerical semiconductor device simulation: algorithms, architectures, results. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 10(10): 1218-1230 (1991)

Paolo Conti, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Wolfgang Fichtner: Omega-an octree-based mixed element grid allocator for the simulation of complex 3-D device structures. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 10(10): 1231-1241 (1991)

Josef F. Burgler, William M. Coughran Jr., Wolfgang Fichtner: An adaptive grid refinement strategy for the drift-diffusion equations. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 10(10): 1251-1258 (1991)

Claude Pommerell, Wolfgang Fichtner: PILS: an iterative linear solver package for ill-conditioned systems. SC 1991: 588-599

William M. Coughran Jr., Wolfgang Fichtner, Eric Grosse: Extracting transistor changes from device simulations by gradient fitting. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 8(4): 380-394 (1989)

Josef F. Burgler, Randolph E. Bank, Wolfgang Fichtner, R. Kent Smith: A new discretization scheme for the semiconductor current continuity equations. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 8(5): 479-489 (1989)

Alexander Herrigel, Wolfgang Fichtner: An Analytic Optimization Technique for Placement of Macro-Cells. DAC 1989: 376-381

Wolfgang Fichtner: Design of VLSI Systems. Embedded Systems 1986: 6-17

Randolph E. Bank, William M. Coughran Jr., Wolfgang Fichtner, Eric Grosse, Donald J. Rose, R. Kent Smith: Transient Simulation of Silicon Devices and Circuits. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 4(4): 436-451 (1985)

G. W. Taylor, Wolfgang Fichtner, J. G. Simmons: A Description of MOS Internodal Capacitances for Transient Simulations. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 1(4): 150-156 (1982)