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Design Techniques for Nanometer CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converters

01-03-2012

This talk will present comprehensively the circuit design techniques for successful implementation of various high-speed ADCs with high power efficiency in the state-of-the-art nanometer CMOS technology.

 

Aggressive CMOS technology scaling has been driving the design of analog integrated circuits, especially the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), into new era in which many well-established conventional circuit techniques either do not hold or need to be largely modified to cater for the reduced supply headroom as well as the diminishing intrinsic gain of the transistors. However, the design of ADCs can surely benefits from the technology scaling by smart designs, since an essentially true fact in nanometer CMOS is the physically smaller transistors to be switched, which is the key factor that the ADC can manipulate the signals in the environment with smaller capacitances, leads to simultaneously higher signal processing speed as well as reduced significantly the power consumption. This talk will present comprehensively the circuit design techniques for successful implementation of various high-speed ADCs with high power efficiency in the state-of-the-art nanometer CMOS technology.

 

Data: 9 de Março de 2012, das 14h45 às 15h15

Autor: Sai-Weng Sin (Ph.D)

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Data Conversion and Signal Processing (DCSP) Research Line, State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of Macau

Sai-Weng Sin (Terry) is currently an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and is the Coordinator of the Data Conversion and Signal Processing (DCSP) Research Line in Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI Laboratory, University of Macau. He has published 1 book entitled “Generalized Low-Voltage Circuit Techniques for Very High-Speed Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters” in Springer and over 60 technical journals and conference papers in the field of high performance data converters and analog mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Dr. Sin is currently the is/has been the member of Technical Program Committee of IEEE Sensors 2011 and IEEE RFIT 2011 Conference, Review Committee Member of PrimeAsia 2009 Conference, Technical Program and Organization Committee of the 2004 IEEJ AVLSI Workshop, as well as the Special Session Co-Chair and Technical Program Committee Member of 2008 IEEE APCCAS Conference. He is currently the Secretary of IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) Macau Chapter and IEEE Macau CAS/COM Joint Chapter. He was the co-recipient of the 2011 ISSCC Silk Road Award, Student Design Contest winner in A-SSCC 2011 and the 2011 National Science and Technology Progress Award (second-class), China.