IEEE Solid State Circuits Society 2018 Spring Seminar
For this year's IEEE SSCS Spring Seminar on May 18th, we will host Dr. Matt Straayer from Maxim Integrated Products, who is a SSCS Distinguished Lecturer: Link
Dr. Straayer is an expert in data converters and will present lectures on time-based circuits and their applications in high-speed ADCs.
Talk #1: Fundamentals of Time-Based Circuits:
Compared to circuits utilizing voltage or current to convey analog signals, time-based circuits offer unique attributes, ranging from simple, area efficient quantization to more complex techniques for time-based processing such as integration, interpolation, and noise shaping. Although time-based circuits are not new, the availability of fast, low-power transistors in advanced process nodes, combined with the challenges of traditional analog design techniques, has renewed interest in time as a signal domain both in academia and in industry. This talk will look at some obvious and more subtle differences between voltage and time-based circuits, and discuss tradeoffs in the context of application requirements. A few advanced state-of-the-art time-based circuits will motivate the audience to consider how time-based circuits can be a useful tool for their own designs.
Talk #2: Time-Based Circuits for High-Performance ADC
Time-based circuits have seen an increased use in advanced process nodes with fast transistors and low supply voltages. Specifically, high-performance ADC see benefits using time-based circuits due to the ease of quantizing binary time-based signals with simple digital circuits. This talk will discuss concepts such as phase-domain signals, noise-shaping, and metastability of time-based quantizers, highlighting a number of ADC architectures that directly utilize time. Finally, recent examples of state-of-the art time-based ADC will be reviewed.
Speaker Biography:
Matt Straayer received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at Integrated Sensing Systems designing custom CMOS IC for capacitive and resonant MEMS sensors, and from 2003-2008 he designed mixed-signal circuits for high-speed analog and RF applications at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In 2008 he helped co-found Cambridge Analog Technologies (CAT), an IP company where he led the commercialization of zero-crossing circuits for high performance analog-to-digital converters. Since acquisition in 2011 he has been with Maxim Integrated Products, and is currently Managing Director of the Advanced R&D design team leading corporate technology development and IP re-use programs. Dr. Straayer is the author of numerous publications and patents, and currently serves on the ISSCC data converter technical program committee.
Lunch is free for SSCS members and there is a small fee for non-members. Please be sure to register using the link below.
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- Date: 18 May 2018
- Time: 10:00 AM to 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- University of Utah
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- United States 84112
- Building: SMBB
- Room Number: 2650
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- Starts 19 April 2018 12:37 PM
- Ends 18 May 2018 12:37 PM
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- Menu: Non-vegetarian, Vegetarian, Halaal
Agenda
10 AM - 11:30 AM: Seminar #1
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Lunch
12:30 - 1:45 PM: Seminar #2
1:45 PM - 2 PM: Misc. Chapter Items
2 PM: Adjourn Meeting