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Former PhD-students and staff of the Circuit and Systems group since its establishment in 1981.
Note: this is not a complete list. It is kept up to date with the best of the webmaster's knowledge.

Monga, Udit
PhD Thesis 2011 ''Modeling and Characterization of SOI multigate MOSFETs''
Currently at Intel Mobile Communications (Previously Infineon Technologies AG), Munich, Germany
Cenkeramaddi, Linga Reddy
PhD Thesis 2011 ''Nanoscale Analog Front-end Amplifiers for Medical Ultrasound Imaging''
Currently Senior Engineer (R & D) Microelectronics/VLSI at the University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology
Halvorsrød, Thomas
PhD Thesis 2010 ''On Low Power, Analog Modules for Medical Ultrsound Imaging Systems''
Currently Program Manager (& Senior Engineer) at GE Vingmed Ultrasound
Sæther, Trond
Professor in the CAS group between 1999 and 2010
Adjunct Professor in the CAS group between 1994 and 1999
PhD Thesis 1991 ''ANALOG CMOS IC DESIGN Switched-Capacitor Circuit Cell Library with Integrated Substrate Shielding''
Currently IP Manager at Nordic Semiconductors
Havashki, Asghar
PhD Thesis 2009 ''On Power Consumption Issues in FIR Filters with Application to Communication Receivers: Complexity, Word length, and Switching Activity''
Currently R & D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductors
Sing, Tajeshwar
PhD Thesis 2009 ''Capacitive Sensor Interface Circuits''
Currently Design Engineer at Atmel Norway
Wulff, Carsten
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Efficient ADC's for Nano-Scale CMOS Technology''
Currently R & D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductors
Børli, Håkon
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Modeling of Drain Current and Intrinsic Capacitances in Nanoscale Double-Gate and Gate-All-Around MOSFETs''
Currently Design Engineer at Energy Micro
Løkken, Ivar
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Digital-to-Analog Conversion in High Resolution Audio''
Currently Design Engineer at Arctic Silicon Devices
Saha, Shimul Chandra
PhD Thesis 2008 ''RF MEMS Switch Circuits''
Oskuii, Saeeid Tahmasbi
PhD Thesis 2008 ''Design of Low-Power Reduction-Trees in Parallel Multipliers''
Currently Design Engineer at Texas Instruments Norway
Kolberg, Sigbjørn
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Modeling of Electrostatics and Drain Current in Nanoscale Double-Gate MOSFETs''
Hu, Qubo
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Hierarchical Memory Size Estimation for Loop Transformation and Data Memory Platform Exploration''
Currently Design Engineer at Atmel Norway
Sand, Åsmund
PhD Thesis 2007 ''Applying the Internet to Instrumentation and Metrology''
Gjermundnes, Øystein
PhD Thesis 2006 ''Exploiting Arithmetic Built-In Self-Test Techniques for Path Delay Fault Testing''
Currently Hardware Engineer at ARM Norway
Bjørnsen, Johnny Gudmund
PhD Thesis 2005 ''Design of a High-speed, High-Resolution Analog to Digital Converter for Medical Ultrasound Applications''
Currently manager (and founder) of Analog Concepts AS
Westby, Eskild Ronæss
PhD Thesis 2004 ''Macromodelling of Microsystems''
Njølstad, Tormod
Assistant Professor in the CAS group between 1990 and 1996
PhD Thesis 1996 ''On VLSI Realization of a Low-Power Audio Coder with Low System Delay''
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1996 and 2003
Currently CEO of New Index
Aunet, Snorre
PhD Thesis 2002 ''Real-time reconfigurable devices implemented in UV-light programmable floating-gate CMOS''
Currently Associate Professor at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Sølhusvik, Johannes
Adjunct Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1998 and 2002
Currently Senior Research Engineer at Aptina Norway AS
Hernes, Bjørnar
PhD Thesis 2001 ''Design Criteria for Low Distortion in Feedback Opamp Circuits''
Currently Senior Design Engineer at Arctic Silicon Devices
Kjeldsberg, Per Gunnar
PhD Thesis 2001 ''Storage Requirement Estimation and Optimization for Data Intensive Applications''
Currently Professor at IET, NTNU
Strøm, Øyvind
PhD Thesis 2000 ''VLSI Realization of an Embedded Microprocessor Core with Support for Java Instructions''
Currently Product Line Director at Atmel Norway
Torp, Jon H.
Assistant Professor in the CAS group between 1987 and 1988
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1988 and 1998
Currently retiree
Wichlund, Sverre
PhD Thesis 1998 ''Graph partitioning with application to VLSI system realization''
Currently Senior ASIC Designer at Nordic Semiconductors
Haaheim, Nils
Associate Professor in the CAS group between 1981 and 1985
Professor in the CAS group between 1985 and 1997
Currently retiree
Aaserud, Oddvar
Professor in the group between 1989 and 1997
Currently CEO of Venturos Venture AS
Sunsbø, Ingil
PhD Thesis 1997 ''Analysis and VLSI Design of Synthesis Filter Bank for Image Subband Coding''
Currently Senior ASIC Designer at Nordic Semiconductors
Bayegan, Markus
Adjunct Professor in the CAS group between 1985 and 1997
Currently retired from the position as chief technology officer at ABB Ltd.
Pihl, Johnny
PhD Thesis 1996 ''Design Automation of High Speed Digital Signal Processing in VLSI with Applications in Speech Recognition Systems based in Hidden Markov Models''
Currently Senior Chip Integration Engineer at Atmel Norway
Øye, Jan Egil
PhD Thesis 1996 ''High Speed Cell Library in CMOS for Bitserial Implementation of DSP Algorithms''
Currently Senior Technical Manager Layout at Nordic Semiconductors
Kristoffersen, Linda
PhD Thesis 1992 ''Exact and Approximate Testability Analysis of Combinational Networks''
Currently Senior Test Engineer at Nordic Semiconductors
van Vo, Nhon
PhD Thesis 1992 ''A contribution to High Level Synthesis of VLSI Systems''
Currently Associate Professor at Institute for Microsystem Technology, Vestfold University College
Larsen, Bjørn B.
PhD Thesis 1991 ''Compact Test Sets by a Pin Toggle Test Generation Strategy''
Currently Associate Professor at IET, NTNU
Klingsheim, Karl
PhD Thesis 1990 ''VLSI DESIGN THEORY. Concurrent Decision Cycles in VLSI Systems Design''
Currently general manager of NTNU Technology Transfer
Svarstad, Kjetil
PhD Thesis 1989 ''VLSI building-blocks for PROLOG machines''
Currently Professor at IET, NTNU
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