Monday April 25 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
Skyler Weaver Advanced Design I/O Group Intel Automated Synthesis of Analog-to-Digital Conversion This presentation describes circuit architectures and techniques that facilitate the automatic synthesis and fabrication of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Since automated synthesis already exists for digital circuits and is part of the digital circuit design flow, this work demonstrates the feasibility of ADC synthesis with little or no modification to presently existing software tools. In the end, it is demonstrated that an ADC can be implemented from synthesizable Verilog code, making it highly portable from one process technology to another. Moreover, by demonstrating how to use existing standard digital gates to generate analog functions (e.g. an analog comparator), the physical implementation of an ADC can be as automatic and straightforward as a standard digital circuit. Biography Skyler Weaver received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 2006 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, also from Oregon State, in 2010. While at OSU, he was an SRC Fellow studying low-complexity, synthesizable data converters and won Best Paper at ICECS in 2009. Currently, Dr. Weaver is with Intel in the Advanced Design I/O group where he is helping create high speed serial I/O in development of the state-of-the-art Intel process technologies. His current research interests include data converters and serial I/O. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
