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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
Publication
Journal
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  1. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Kun-Han Chan, and Tzu-Hao Hsu, "A Study of Continuous-Time Linear Equalizers for High-Speed Serial Links in Display Applications," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), August 2025
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
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  1. Yu-Ting Huang, Tz-Wun Wang, Chi-Yu Chen, Po-Jui Chiu, Ke-Horng Chen, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Tsorng-Juu Liang, and Hann-Huei Tsai, "A Capacitor-Free Hybrid-Process LDO with Ultra-High Gain Amplifier and Super Source Follower for 0.297mV/a Load Regulation and 0.024mV/V Line Regulation," in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), November 2-5, 2025.
  2. Chih-Hao Wang, and Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "A 1.1 V-Programmable Metal-Fuse Technology With Current-Mode Programming and Program-Guarantee Technique in 28 nm CMOS Technology", in The 11th Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS 2025), August 27-29, 2025.
  3. Ming-Xun Wang, Wei-Ting Lin, Yao-Chia Liu, and Ming-Yan Fan, "A 36-Gb/s 1.6-pJ/b PAM-3 Transmitter Leveraging Digital Logic Cells and 4-Tap FFE in 22-nm CMOS", in The 11th Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS 2025), August 27-29, 2025.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
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  1. Ming-Yan Fan, Chen-An Chen, Hsiang-Yu Ko, Chih-Hao Wang, “NON-VOLATILE MEMORY PROGRAMMING CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF”, US patent app. 63/709,532, 2024. TW patent app. 114117288, 2025.
  2. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Yao-Chia Liu, Ming-Xun Wang, “Hybrid Circuit With High Linearity For Single-Ended And Bi-Directional Transceiver And Extracting Method of Inbound Signal Thereof”, US patent app. 19/182,888, 2025; TW patent app. 114102429, 2025.
  3. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Yi-Fu Chen, Bo-Rui Chen, “Inverter-based comparator” US Patent no. 20240235426A1, 2024.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. James Edward Myers, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Clock adjusting techniques," US Patent no. 10886919, Jan., 2021.
  10. Benoit Labbe, Graham Peter Knight, Philex Ming-Yan Fan, "Performance regulation techniques," US Patent no. 10886847, 2021.
  11. Philex Ming-Yan Fan, Richard Nguyen, Manjunatha Poojary, "Apparatus and method for generating temperature-indicating signal using correlated-oscillators," US Patent no. 10473530, 2019.
  12. Po-Hung Chen, Ming-Yan Fan, "SIMO based DC-DC converters for thermoelectric energy harvesting," US Patent no. 10476388, 2019.
  13. 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
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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, 2024/05~2025/04, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  13. Advanced power chips and high power density converter for high performance computing servers (1/2), co-PI, 2024/05~2025/04, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  14. A low noise low-dropout (LDO) regulator, PI, 2024/10~2025/09, Richtek
  15. MONO-CASE: Micro-Nano Heterogeneous Clock And Synthesizer for The Edge (2/2), PI, 2025/05~2026/04, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  16. Advanced power chips and high power density converter for high performance computing servers (2/2), co-PI, 2025/05~2026/04, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  17. 前瞻全彩Micro-LED與畫素電路及具次畫素渲染技術擴增實境顯示器之設計(1/2), Co-PI, 2025/05~2026/04, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  18. In-field ultra-low-voltage and high-yield programming electrical-fuse memory for hardware security, PI, 2025/07˜2027/06, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
  19. Fast transient response hybrid four-phase Buck converter, PI, 2025/07~2028/06, MediaTek Inc.
Classes
2021 Fall
2022 Spring
2022 Fall
2023 Spring
2023 Fall
2024 Spring
2024 Fall
2025 Spring
2025 Fall
Students
Current Academic Year Lab Members
Ph.D
Ming-Xun Wang
Chih-Hao Wang
Master
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
Bo-Yuan Li
Chien-Cheng Lin
Huan-Wei Chang
Steven Wijaya
Yu-Ching Hsu
Yu-Shun Chang
Pei-Chun Wang
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   Hua-Hsiang Hung
Honors
  1. The PI was awarded the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) Award in 2025
  2. The Master student Young Lee was awarded the International Scholar at imec/KU Leuven University in 2025 and offered 6-month paid internship
  3. The Master student Chao-Shan Tsou was awarded the International Scholar at imec/KU Leuven University in 2024 and offered 6-month paid internship
  4. The Ph.D. student Ming-Xun Wang was awarded the MOE Ph.D. Scholarship in 2024
  5. The Master student Hsiang-Yu Ko was awarded the International Scholar at imec/KU Leuven University in 2024 and offered 6-month paid internship
  6. The PI was awarded the IEEE Tainan Section Best Young Professional Member Award in 2024
  7. The PI's applications to NSTC CBI 2-year project has been granted in 2024
  8. The PI was awarded the Scholar Award of Macronix International Co., Ltd. from 2021 to 2025
  9. The PI was awarded the Yushan Youth Scholar of MOE from 2021 to 2026
  10. The PI was awarded the Yu-Jen Scholar of NCKU from 2021 to 2025
  11. The PI was awarded the Tomorrow's Engineer of UK in 2017
  12. The PI was awarded the Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship of MOE and Cambridge University from 2014 to 2017
  13. The two Master students Kun-Han Chan and Tzu-Hao Hsu receive the Novatek Scholarship from 2022 to 2024
  14. The Ph.D. student Ming-Xun Wang was awarded the Garmin Scholarship in 2023.
  15. The Undergraduate student Hsiang-Yu Ko was awarded the National Science Council Research Scholarship in 2023.
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