Analog Design Techniques in Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Applications

Presented by Solid State Circuits Society

The Boston SSCS Chapter presents an Analog Design Workshop featuring SSCS Distinguished Lecturers Willy Sansen and Peter Kinget and Analog Devices IEEE Fellow Gabriele Manganaro for topics an Advances in Analog Circuit Design. The workshop will include three plenary style talks as well as examples from researchers and practioners in the state-of-the-art of Analog Design. A reception will be held following the talks, sponsored by Analog Devices and the SSCS Boston Chapter.

1. Willy Sansen: Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Analog Design Techniques in Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Applications

Channel lengths of standard CMOS technologies continue to shrink, as predicted by Moore. Moreover applications such as the Internet-of-Things require much lower power level. This talk will focus on low-power design procedures for analog circuits in scaled technologies. At low power levels, noise and distortion establish severe limitations in dynamic range. Analog design techniques such as the use of negative resistors, bootstrap techniques to mitigate these limitations will be discussed.

Willy Sansen has been a full Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium since 1980. He has headed the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design from 1984 to 2008. In 2011 he received the D.O. Pederson Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

2. Gabriele Manganaro, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA

Designing High Speed Analog Systems is not for the Faint of Heart

CMOS scaling provided device speed gains benefitting analog circuits, albeit to the detriment of many other crucial analog properties. Higher digital density is allowing digital assistance to analog technology to be an increasingly powerful antidote to many of nanometer scale’s ailments. Many of these trends are however changing and diminishing in finer lithography nodes. There are many hard problems demanding for a generation of engineers that can think broadly across multiple technologies.

Gabriele Manganaro is the Engineering Director for High Speed Converters at Analog Devices since 2010. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the IET since 2009, and a member of the Board of Governors for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2016-2018 period.

3. Peter Kinget: Columbia University, New York City

Scaling Analog Circuits: Why and How?

Analog circuits remain the critical interfaces to connect the digital cores of SoCs to the physical world and need to satisfy increasing performance demands. At the same time, designing analog functions with scaled devices and reducing supply voltages is getting harder. Meeting more stringent performance requirements with poorer analog devices makes the task of the analog designer very challenging and interesting. This talk will focus on challenges and design paradigms that address analog circuit scaling.

Peter R. Kinget is a Professor of the EE department at Columbia University, NY since 2002. His research interests are in analog, RF and power integrated circuits and the applications they enable in communications, sensing, and power management. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Registration is requested in advance: please register at this link: http://tinyurl.com/sscs-workshop-2016
Organizers with the SSCS Boston Chapter and MIT:

Bruce Hecht, Analog Devices Inc., Rabia Tugce Yazicigil, MIT, and Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan, MIT

Meeting Location: MIT EECS, Grier Room, Building 34, Room 401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

For more information contact: Bruce Hecht, SSCS Chapter Chair, Analog Devices, Bruce.Hecht@Analog.com Phone: 781-937-1535