Analog and RF circuits in Nanometer CMOS
Bram Nauta
Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Twente The Netherlands
Time: 10:30 – 11:15, Tue, 15 Dec 2009
Room: 301/302
Abstract
From a system perspective, wireless transceivers are moving towards software defined architectures. This means that wideband and flexible radio frontends are needed which can receive and transmit many different radio standards.
Since there is a large amount of digital circuitry involved, the technology in which these radios have to be designed is nanometer scale CMOS. These technologies are optimized for high density digital circuits and it's quite a challenge to design the software defined architectures and the required circuits in these technologies.
In this presentation several analog and RF circuit innovations will be given which take benefit from the properties of nanometer scale CMOS.
Biography
Bram Nauta was born in Hengelo, The Netherlands. In 1987 he received the M.Sc degree (cum laude) in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. In 1991 he received the Ph.D. degree from the same university on the subject of analog CMOS filters for very high frequencies.
In 1991 he joined the Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems Department of Philips Research, Eindhoven the Netherlands, where he worked on high speed AD converters and analog key modules. In 1998 he returned to the University of Twente, as full professor heading the IC Design group, which is part of the CTIT Research Institute. His current research interest is high-speed analog CMOS circuits. Besides, he is also part-time consultant in industry and in 2001 he co-founded Chip Design Works.
His Ph.D. thesis was published as a book: Analog CMOS Filters for Very High Frequencies, (Springer, 1993) and he received the "Shell Study Tour Award" for his Ph.D. Work. From 1997 until1999 he served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems -II; Analog and Digital Signal Processing. After this, he served as Guest Editor, Associate Editor (2001-2006) - and from 2007 as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is also member of the technical program committees of the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the European Solid State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC), and the Symposium on VLSI circuits. He is co-recipient of the ISSCC 2002 "Van Vessem Outstanding Paper Award", is distinguished lecturer of the IEEE, elected member of IEEE-SSCS AdCom and IEEE fellow
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