NCKUEE Faculty Data
Chinese Version
Assistant Professor Philex Fan
Address
ChiMei Building 6F R95603
Email
TEL
+886-6-2757575 ext.62370
Lab Weblink
Lab 604
(R95604/ext.62400-2860)
Background
Educations
2014/10~2019/07
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2008/09~2011/09
M.S., Institute of Electrical Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2007/09~2008/06
Exchange Student, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2004/09~2008/06
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Undergraduate Honors Program, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Experiences
2021/08~present
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
2020/11~2021/07
Principle Engineer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan
2018/01~2020/05
Senior Research Engineer, Arm Research, Arm Ltd., Cambridge, UK
2016/06~2016/12
Engineering Intern, Qualcomm Technologies International, Cambridge, UK
2014/07~2014/08
Intern Component Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc., Taipei, Taiwan
2012/11~2014/06
Research Assistant, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Specialities
  • Low-power analog integrated circuits for edge-computing
  • Low-power power management integrated circuits for IoTs
  • Fast transient respone power management integrated circuits for mobile devices
  • Low-noise power management integrated circuits
  • One-time programmable, non-volatile memory integrated circuits
  • Ultra wideband wireline transceiver
  • Power factor correction
Publication
Journal
more
less
  1. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Chen-An Chen, Chih-Hao Wang, and Hsiang-Yu Ko, "A 1.1V-Programmable Metal-Fuse Technology With Current-Mode Programming and Program-Guarantee Technique in 28 nm CMOS Technology," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), vol. 72, issue 2, pp. 685-693, February 2025
  2. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Ming-Xun Wang, Wei-Ting Lin, and Yao-Chia Liu, “A 36-Gb/s 1.6-pJ/b PAM-3 Transmitter Leveraging Digital Logic Cells and 4-Tap FFE in 22-nm CMOS,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I: Regular Papers (TCASI), vol. 72, issue 1, pp. 365-373, January 2025.
  3. Benoit Labbe, Philex Fan, Thanusree Achuthan, Pranay Prabhat, Graham Peter Knight, James Myers, “A Supply Voltage Control Method for Performance Guaranteed Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller”, in IEEE Journal of Soild-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, issue 2, pp. 601-611, February, 2021.
  4. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Anand Savanth, Benoit Labbe, Pranay Prabhat, and James Myers, “A 0.98nW/kHz 33kHz Fully-Integrated Subthreshold-Region Operation RC Oscillator With Forward-Body Biasing,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuit Letters (SSC-L), vol. 2, issue 9, pp. 175-178, October 2019.
  5. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, and Mohamad Hazwan bin Mohd Daut, “Near-Unity Power Factor, Voltage Step-Up/Down Conversion Mono-periodical Pulse-Width Modulated Integrated Switching Rectifier for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL), vol. 34, issue 11, 2019.
  6. Po-Hung Chen, Tze-Tun Su, and Philex Ming-Yan Fan, “Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Interface Circuit with Capacitive Bootstrapping Technique for Energy-Efficient IoT Devices,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, issue 5, pp.4058-4065, October 2018.
  7. Po-Hung Chen, and Philex Ming-Yan Fan, “An 83.4% Peak Efficiency Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Based Adaptive Gate Biasing DC-DC Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 405-412, March 2015.
Conference
more
less
  1. Philex Fan and Ray Bo-Ray Chen, "A Fast Transient Response Hybrid Single-Inductor Dual-Output Converter with < 1% Under/Overshoot at 570mA Load Change", in The 10th Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS 2024), August 23-25, 2024.
  2. Anand Savanth, Philex Fan, Sahan Gamage, Thanusree Achuthan and Fernando Garcia-Redondo, “-17dBm Differential Charge Pump EPC Gen2 UHF RFID Demodulator for 9 dB Receive Sensitivity Boost,” in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Accepted, 2021
  3. Shaun Chou, Gu-Huan Li, Shawn Chen, Jun-Hao Chang, Wan-Hsueh Cheng, Shao-Ding Wu, Philex Fan, Chia-En Huang, Yu-Der Chih, Yih Wang, and Jonathan Chang, “A 16Kb Antifuse One-Time-Programmable Memory in 5nm High-K Metal-Gate FinFET CMOS Featuring Bootstrap High Voltage Scheme, Read Endpoint Detection and Pseudo-Differential Sensing,” in IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June, 2021.
  4. Pranay Prabhat, Benoit Labbe, Graham Knight, Anand Savanth, Jonas Svedas, Matthew J. Walker, Supreet Jeloka, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Fernando Garcia-Redondo, Thanusree Achuthan and James Myers, “M0N0: A Performance-Regulated 0.8-38MHz DVFS Arm Cortex-M33 SIMD MCU With 10nW Sleep Power,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) – Digest of Technical Papers, February, 2020.
  5. Philex Fan, Anand Savanth, Benoit Labbe, Pranay Prabhat, and James Myers, “A 0.98nW/kHz 33kHz Fully-Integrated Subthreshold-Region Operation RC Oscillator With Forward-Body Biasing,” in Proceedings of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), September 2019.
  6. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Hashem Zare-Hoseini, David G. Hasko, and Arokia Nathan, “High Power Factor Wireless Power Transfer Front-End Circuit For Heterogeneous Systems”, in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 444-447, August 2017.
  7. hilex Ming-Yan Fan, Oi-Ying Wong, Ming-Jie Chung, Tze-Yun Su, Xin Zhang, and Po-Hung Chen, “Energy Harvesting Techniques: Energy Sources, Power Management and Conversion”, in European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), pp. 1-4, August 2015.
  8. Wen-Shen Chou, Po-Hsien Huang, Ming-Yan Fan, Ke-Horng Chen, Kuei-Ann Wen, Zhih Han Tai, Yi Hsuan Cheng, Chi Chung Tsai, Hsin-Yu Luo, Shih-Ming Wang, Long-Der Chen, Cheng-Chen Yang, and Jui-Lung Chen, “Embedded Fully Self-Biased Switched-Capacitor for Energy and Area-Efficient Cholesteric LCD Drivers” in Proceedings of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 351-354, September 2013.
  9. Yu-Huei Lee, Po-Hsien Huang, Ming-Yan Fan, Wei-Chung Chen, Ke-Horng Chen, Sheng-Fa Liu, Pao-Hsien Chiu, Sandy Chen, Chun-Yu Shen, Ming-Ta, Hsieh, Huai-An Li, Chang-An Ho, Chih-Jen Chen, and Chao-Chiun Liang, “Energy and Area-Efficient Driving Scheme in Cholesteric LCD by Embedded fully Symmetric Self-Biased Switched-Capacitor” in Proceedings of The Society For Information Display (SID) Dig. Tech. Papers, vol. 43, pp. 587-591, June 2012.
  10. Wei-Chung Chen, Chao-Chang Chiu, Chun-Yu Hsieh, Tzu-Chi Huang, Yu-Huei Lee, Yao-Yi Yang, Chun-Jen Shih, Ming-Yan Fan, and Ke-Horng Chen, “A Single-Inductor Bipolar-Output Converter with 5mV Positive Voltage Ripple for Active Matrix OLED,” in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), September 2011.
  11. Yu-Huei Lee, Ming-Yan Fan, Wei-Chung Chen, Ke-Horng Chen, Sheng-Fa Liu, Pao-Hsien Chiu, Sandy Chen, Chun-Yu Shen, Ming-Ta, Hsieh, and Huai-An Li, “A Near-Zero Cross-Regulation Single-Inductor Bipolar-Output (SIBO) Converter with an Active- Energy-Correlation Control for Driving Cholesteric-LCD,” in Proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference(CICC), pp. 1-4, September 2011.
  12. Kuan-Yu Chu, Yu-Huei Lee, Ming-Yan Fan, Ke-Horng Chen, Sheng-Fa Liu, Pao-Hsien Chiu, Sandy Chen, Chun-Yu Shen, Ming-Ta, Hsieh, and Huai-An Li, “A Single-Inductor Bipolar-Output Converter with Power Conservation Mechanism (PCM) for Driving Cholesteric LCD,” in Proceedings of The Society For Information Display (SID) Dig. Tech. Papers, vol. 42, issue 1, pp. 1300-1303, June 2011.
  13. Chun-Jen Shih, Yu-Huei Lee, Yang-Ching Lin, Ming-Yan Fan, Ke-Horng Chen, Sheng-Fa Liu, Pao-Hsien Chiu, Sandy Chen, Chun-Yu Shen, Ming-Ya Hsieh, Huai-An Lo, Yean-Kuo Luo, and Wei-Chou hsu, “An LCD Supplied by Highly Integrated Dual-Side Dual-Output Switched-Capacitor Regulator with Only Two Flying Capacitors,” in Proceedings of The Society For Information Display (SID) Dig. Tech. Papers, vol. 42, issue 1, pp. 1304-1307, June 2011.
  14. Yao-Yi Yang, Chun-Yu Hsieh, Tzu-Chi Huang, Yu-Huei Lee, Shih-Wei Wang, Ming-Yan Fan, Ming-Jhe Du, Shih-Hsien Cheng, and Ke-Horng Chen, “A 80V Output Voltage Boost Converter with Low Voltage Ripple for Avalanche Photodiode (APD),” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 757-760, May 2011.
  15. Yu-Huei Lee, Ming-Hsin Huang, Yu-Nong Tsai, Ming-Yan Fan, and Ke-Horng Chen, “A single-inductor multiple positive and negative outputs(SIMPNO) converter with a vector current control mode for electronic paper displays(EPDs)” in Proc. IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 446-449, September 2010.
  16. Ming-Hsin Huang, Yu-Huei Lee, Yu-Nong Tsai, Ming-Yan Fan, and Ke-Horng Chen, “A Single-Inductor Multi-Output Converter with Multi-Vector Current Control in Power-Saving Driving Skill of Electronic Paper Displays (EPDs),” in Proceedings of The Society For Information Display (SID) Dig. Tech. Papers, vol. 41, issue 1, pp. 369-373, May 2010.
Patent
more
less
  1. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Yi-Fu Chen, Bo-Rui Chen, “Inverter-based comparator” US Patent no. 20240235426A1, 2024.
  2. Perng-Fei Yuh, Yih Wang, Meng-Sheng Chang, Jui-che Tsai, Ku-Feng Lin, Yu-Wei Lin, Keh-Jeng Chang, Chansyun David Yang, Shao-Ting Wu, Shao-Yu Chou, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Tzu-Hsien Yang “Memory devices, semiconductor devices, and methods of operations a memory device” US Patent no. 20240147711A1, 2024.
  3. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Chia-En Huang, Yih Wang, Jonathan Tung-Yong Chang, “System for differentiated thermal throttling of memory and method of operating same” US Patent no. 20240185895A1, 2024.
  4. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Anand Savanth, Sahan Gamage, Pranay Prabhat, Benoit Labbe, and Thanusree Achuthan, “Device and/or Method For Wireless Signal Detection” US Patent no. 11,664,681, 2023.
  5. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Benoit Labbe, Parameshwarappa Anand Kumar Savanth, “System, device and method for generating a biasing current” US Patent no. 11,698,653, 2023.
  6. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Anand Savanth, Benoit Labbe, Bal S Sandhu, Pranay Prabhat, James Edward Myers, "Integrated Oscillator," US Patent No. 11,398,813, 2022.
  7. James Edward Myers, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Clock adjusting techniques," US Patent no. 10886919, Jan., 2021.
  8. Benoit Labbe, Graham Peter Knight, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Performance regulation techniques," US Patent no. 10886847, 2021.
  9. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Richard Nguyen, Manjunatha Poojary, "Apparatus and method for generating temperature-indicating signal using correlated-oscillators," US Patent no. 10473530, 2019.
  10. Po-Hung Chen, Ming-Yan Fan, "SIMO based DC-DC converters for thermoelectric energy harvesting," US Patent no. 10476388, 2019.
  11. Ke-Horng Chen, Jean-Shin Wu, Yu-Nong Tsai, Ming-Yan Fan, "Inductive conversion device and energy control method," US Patent no. 8305054, 2012.
Others
more
less
Projects
  1. Low-power single-inductor quad-output (SIQO) dc-dc step-down power converter, PI, 2021/09~2023/08, Himax Technologies, Inc.
  2. Yu-shan youth scholar program, PI, 2021/08˜2026/07, Ministry of Education
  3. Low-power serdes transmitter for USB4, PI, 2021/12˜2023/10, Genesys Logic.
  4. A high-power factor ac-dc switching rectifier capable of voltage regulation, battery charging and feedforward envelope detection for near-field wireless power transfer, PI, 2022/01˜2024/12, Ministry of Science and Technology
  5. Low-voltage programmed electrical-fuse one-time-programmable memory with a high-yield guaranteed in-field programming for hardware security, PI, 2022/08~2023/07, Ministry of Science and Technology
  6. Design of an integrated-circuits high-power factor pre-regular, 2022/08~2024/07, co-PI, Leadtrend Technology Corp.
  7. Low power, wide compensation range equalizer for high speed serial links receiver, 2022/11~2024/10, PI, Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
  8. Low-power single-inductor quad-output (SIQO) dc-dc Buck-Boost power converter, PI, 2023/10~2025/09, Himax Technologies, Inc.
  9. Multi-phase dc-dc inverting Buck-Boost power converter, PI, 2023/11~2025/10, Himax Technologies, Inc.
  10. Equalizer design for USB4.0 Gen 2x2 receiver, PI, 2024/2˜2026/1, Genesys Logic.
  11. Small-area, low-ripple, high-voltage generator for NVM and OTP in advanced node, PI, 2024/03~2026/02, TSMC
  12. MONO-CASE: Micro-Nano Heterogeneous Clock And Synthesizer for The Edge (1/2), PI, 2024/05~2026/03, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  13. Advanced power chips and high power density converter for high performance computing servers (1/2), co-PI, 2024/05~2026/03, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  14. A low noise low-dropout (LDO) regulator, PI, 2024/10~2025/09, Richtek
Classes
2021 Fall
2022 Spring
2022 Fall
2023 Spring
2023 Fall
2024 Spring
2024 Fall
2025 Spring
Students
Current Academic Year Lab Members
Ph.D
Ming-Xun Wang
Chih-Hao Wang
Master
Hua-Hsiang Hung
Bo-Chen Yang
Shih Ruei Ma
Xuan-Hao Lin
Regina Kuo
Jing-Lun Chen
Tzu-Hao Hsu
Chao-Shan Tsou
Young Lee
Yu-Kai Huang
Wei-Chieh Tsao
Jing-Yan Cheng
Kuan-Hung Yeh
Yun-Yin Kuo
Jing-Jie Wang
Hsiang-Yu Ko
Wei-Hsiang Hung
Wei-Yun Shih
Yi-Shiang Chang
Yu-Chieh Cheng
Yu-Wei Chen
Yi-Po Tsai
Zen-Hung Chiu
Jhen-Yi Yan
Graduates of all Previous Years
Master
2024
Y-Fu Chen   Ray Chen   Chen-An Chen   Wei-Ting Lin
2025
Chih-Yen Chang   Yu-Ting Chiu   Jason Huang   Ming-Feng Yang   Kun-Han Chan
Honors
  1. The Ph.D. student Ming-Xun Wang was awarded the MOE Ph.D. Scholarship in 2024
  2. The Master student Hsiang-Yu Ko was awarded the International Scholar at imec/KU Leuven University in 2024 and offered 6-month paid internship
  3. The PI was awarded the IEEE Tainan Section Best Young Professional Member Award in 2024
  4. The PI's applications to NSTC CBI 5-year project has been granted in 2024
  5. The PI was awarded the Yushan Youth Scholar of MOE from 2021 to 2026
  6. The PI was awarded the Yu-Jen Scholar of NCKU from 2021 to 2022
  7. The PI was awarded the Tomorrow's Engineer of UK in 2017
  8. The PI was awarded the Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship of MOE and Cambridge University from 2014 to 2017
  9. The two Master students Kun-Han Chan and Tzu-Hao Hsu receive the Novatek Scholarship from 2022 to 2024
  10. The Ph.D. student Ming-Xun Wang was awarded the Garmin Scholarship in 2023.
  11. The Undergraduate student Hsiang-Yu Ko was awarded the National Science Council Research Scholarship in 2023.
NCKU EE