Department of Microelectronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

ir. D.P.N Mul

PhD student
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics

Expertise: RFIC and Signal Processing

Themes: XG - Next Generation Sensing and Communication

Biography

Dieuwert Mul is born in Heemstede, the Netherlands in 1990. He received his B.Sc, and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Delft Universtiy of Technology in 2012 and 2018 respectively. He is currently working as a Ph.D. candidate at the ELCA group.

Projects history

High Power RF-DAC

This project investigates the next generation of high power RF-DACs and digital intensive receivers

  1. 5.8 A 20W CMOS/LDMOS All-Digital Transmitter with Dynamic Retiming and Glitch-Free Phase Mapper, Achieving 68%/62% Peak Drain/System Efficiency
    Mul, Dieuwert Peter Nicolaas; Bootsman, Rob J; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; El Boustani, Ossama; Shen, Yiyu; Maassen, Daniel; van Velzen, Bart; Rousstia, Mohadig; Koster, Ronald; Gajadharsing, John R; Fritzsch, Thomas; Alavi, Morteza; De Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 104-106, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC49661.2025.10904650
    Keywords: ... Base stations;Frequency modulation;Transmitters;Switches;Logic gates;Solid state circuits;Wideband;Signal resolution;Power generation;Switching circuits.

  2. The Efficiency and Power Utilization of Current-Scaling Digital Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Bootsman, Robert J.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Alavi, Morteza S.; Vreede, Leo C. N. de;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 72, Issue 7, pp. 4350-4366, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3336984
    Keywords: ... Switches;Radio frequency;Logic gates;Transmitters;Power generation;Loading;Power amplifiers;Current control;Peak to average power ratio;Current mode;current scaling;digital transmitter (DTX);Doherty;efficiency;multiphase;peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR);polar;power utilization;RF-DAC;signed Cartesian (SC);upconversion.

  3. High-Power Digital Transmitters for Wireless Infrastructure Applications (A Feasibility Study)
    Bootsman, Robert J.; Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Shen, Yiyu; Hashemi, Mohsen; Heeres, Rob M.; van Rijs, Fred; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 70, Issue 5, pp. 2835-2850, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3153000
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;CMOS technology;Power generation;Logic gates;Transmitters;Threshold voltage;Switches;Class-E;CMOS;digital predistortion (DPD);digital transmitter (DTX);efficient;GaN;high-power RF;laterally-diffused MOS (LDMOS);mixing power digital-to-analog converter (DAC);polar.

  4. A Four-Way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter at mm-Wave Frequencies
    Mortazavi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco; Babaie, Masoud;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 3, pp. 803-817, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3133861
    Keywords: ... Transformers;Power generation;Impedance;Transmitters;Resistance;Linearity;Baseband;Digital phase modulator (DPM);digital polar transmitter (DPTX);digital power amplifier (DPA);Doherty design guide;millimeter-wave transmitter (TX);power amplifier (PA);series Doherty combiner (SDC).

  5. A Load Insensitive Doherty Power Amplifier with better than −39dBc ACLR on 2:1 VSWR Circle using a Constant 50 Ω Trained Pre-distorted Signal
    Singh, Gagan Deep; Mul, Dieuwert; Nemati, Hossein Mashad; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2022 52nd European Microwave Conference (EuMC),
    pp. 222-225, 2022. DOI: 10.23919/EuMC54642.2022.9924452
    Keywords: ... Phased arrays;Printed circuits;Power amplifiers;Prototypes;Load management;Telephone sets;Microwave circuits;self-healing transmitter;VSWR;control circuit;Doherty;six-port reflectometers;tunable matching networks.

  6. A 39 W Fully Digital Wideband Inverted Doherty Transmitter
    Bootsman, Robert; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert; Rousstia, Mohadig; Heeres, Rob; van Rijs, Fred; Gajadharsing, John; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022,
    pp. 979-982, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865405
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Power demand;Three-dimensional displays;Transmitters;Power combiners;Power system harmonics;Harmonic analysis;digital transmitters;LDMOS;CMOS;inverted Doherty;wideband.

  7. 6.2 A 4-Way Doherty Digital Transmitter Featuring 50%-LO Signed IQ Interleave Upconversion with more than 27dBm Peak Power and 40% Drain Efficiency at 10dB Power Back-Off Operating in the 5GHz Band
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Hashemi, Mohsen; Mul, Dieuwert; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 92-94, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365831
    Keywords: ... Wireless communication;Transmitters;Peak to average power ratio;Nanoscale devices;Solid state circuits;Wideband;Standards.

  8. Efficiency and Linearity of Digital "Class-C Like" Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P.N.; Bootsman, Rob J.; Bruinsma, Quinten; Shen, Yiyu; Krause, Sebastian; Quay, Rüdiger; Pelk, Marco J.; van Rijs, Fred; Heeres, Rob M.; Pires, Sergio; Alavi, Morteza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2020 50th European Microwave Conference (EuMC),
    pp. 1-4, 2021. DOI: 10.23919/EuMC48046.2021.9338122
    Keywords: ... Transmitters;Impedance matching;Power amplifiers;Linearity;Energy efficiency;Power generation;Next generation networking;Class-C;digital transmitter;efficiency;linearity;LDMOS;CMOS RFIC;polar transmitter;RFDAC;digital power amplifier.

  9. A 30GHz 4-way Series Doherty Digital Polar Transmitter Achieving 18% Drain Efficiency and -27.6dB EVM while Transmitting 300MHz 64-QAM OFDM Signal
    Mortazavi, Mohsen; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert. P. N.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Spirito, Marco; Babaie, Masoud;
    In 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 1-2, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/CICC51472.2021.9431396
    Keywords: ... Application specific integrated circuits;Transmitters;Power combiners;Communication systems;Scalability;Conferences;Modulation.

  10. An 18.5 W Fully-Digital Transmitter with 60.4 % Peak System Efficiency
    Bootsman, R.J.; Mul, D.P.N.; Shen, Y.; Heeres, R.M.; van Rijs, F.; Alavi, M.S.; de Vreede, L.C.N.;
    In 2020 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS),
    pp. 1113-1116, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/IMS30576.2020.9223942
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Microwave measurement;Thermometers;Power measurement;Transmitters;Power amplifiers;Prototypes;Digital transmitter;CMOS RFIC;LDMOS;polar transmitter;digital pre-distortion (DPD);power RFDAC;digital power amplifier.

  11. Stochastic Resonance Mixed-Signal Processing: Analog-to-Digital Conversion and Signal Processing Employing Noise
    Insani Abdi Bangsa; Dieuwert P. N. Mul; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    In proc. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
    Florence, Italy, May, 27-30 2018.
    document

  12. Stochastic Resonance Mixed-Signal Processing: Analog-to-Digital Conversion and Signal Processing Employing Noise
    Insani Abdi Bangsa; Dieuwert P. N. Mul; Wouter A. Serdijn;
    In ISCAS,
    IEEE, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351308
    document

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