Agenda

Wednesday, 18 -- Wednesday, 18 May 2022
10:00-11:00
EEMCS, Snijderszaal

Circuits Crossing the Border

Dr. Taekwang Jang
ETH Zurich

Circuit designers are entering an exciting era in which circuit innovations will be the key enablers of future innovation. Emerging trends such as Machine Learning, the Internet-of-Everything, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Autonomous Driving, 6G Communication and Quantum Computing will drive the design of novel circuits with drastically improved accuracy, speed, and energy efficiency.

However, achieving such improvements will not be straightforward, and will require innovation. A fruitful way of doing this is by using circuits developed for one application domain in other domains. By crossing the border, so to speak, novel circuits with significantly improved performance may be found. In this talk, I will discuss three examples of this design approach:

- A high-power-density DC-DC converter based on class-D LC oscillators

- A noise-efficient amplifier based on a switched capacitor DC-DC converter

- A low-noise PLL with AC-coupled phase detectors from Instrumentation Amplifiers