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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 12, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ken Poulton, Agilent Research Laboratories
Talk Title: ADC for RF Instruments: Performance and Perils
Abstract: Our group at Agilent Technologies recently published a 2.5 GSa/s, 14-bit ADC.This uses both analog and digital techniques to get world's best performance in several dimensions, including 78 dB SFDR up to 1 GHz input frequency and a metastable error rate of 1e-17.
I'll describe some of the techniques we use, including the use of over two hundred on-chip self-calibration loops. I'll also describe some of the problems that arose in this high-power chip design and how we solved them.
Biography: Ken Poulton received a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980. He then joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA (now Agilent Research Laboratories in Santa Clara, CA) where he has developed chips for data conversion in GaAs MESFET, GaAs HBT, silicon bipolar, BiCMOS and CMOS technologies.
Ken has published papers on eight world's-fastest data converters. He was a member of the ISSCC technical program committee from 1998 to 2003. He holds 10 patents. Ken is an IEEE Fellow.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi and Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
