Distinguished Lecture with Jose Silva-Martinez: Baseband Integrated Circuits Design in the Era of 5G and IoTs: New Paradigms?

When

November 8, 2019    
1:10 pm - 2:00 pm

Where

3043 ECpE Building Addition
Coover Hall, Ames, Iowa, 50011

Event Type

Speaker: Jose Silva-Martinez, Texas Instruments Professor in Analog Engineering at Texas A&M University

Title: Baseband Integrated Circuits Design in the Era of 5G and IoTs: New Paradigms?

Abstract: Recent developments in mobile computing and wireless internet have led to an increasing demand for portable computers and smart phones equipped with wireless local area network (WLAN) operating with multi-standard capabilities. Mobile phone vendors shipped a total of around 334 million units in the first quarter of 2015, and sales continuous increasing at a rate of approximately 20% per year. This tendency will continue in the coming years. More standards and applications will be incorporated in the near future because minimum feature size transistors in VLSI technology allow more devices on a single chip with massive digital signal processing and memory capabilities. The era of Internet of Things (IoT) elevate the connectivity of devices to a levels never seen before. The emerging applications will allow the use of bandwidths over 160MHz for in-house short range communications. The market of the Front-end modules expects to grow from $10.1B in 2016 up to $22.8B in 2022. The growing demand for high speed and high precision analog integrated circuits dictates stringent design specifications for the required building blocks; among others, the RF front-end (LNA, Power Amplifier, filters and tuning of Antennas) are recognized as the big challenges for the emerging standards. In baseband, the high performance ADCs is an unavoidable block and always remain as a challenge when migrating to more advanced nodes and more demanding specifications; e.g. higher bandwidth and higher resolution. The ultimate limit for the design of systems on chip is the restricted power consumption, making the power management system very critical especially for battery operated devices. In this seminar, the design aspects of circuits and systems for advanced ADCs as well as power management circuits are re-visited. The technological challenges and demanding specifications will be discussed, and relevant solutions will be analyzed. The most relevant cases addressed in this presentation will include low-dropout regulators, sigma-delta modulators and pipeline ADCs. We will show that the solutions for the new technological challenges are still based on the fundamental principles of IC design. We will show that the fundamentals on control theory are the main tool needed, as well as a thoroughly characterization of your technology. The trend towards faster and smaller transistors offer opportunities to address the challenges posed by the 5G and IoT applications.

Bio: Jose Silva-Martinez received the M.Sc. degree from the National Institute of Astro-physics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, in 1981 and the Ph.D. degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1992. In 1993, he joined the Electronics Department, INAOE, where he was the Head of the Electronics Department from 1995 to 1998. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University where he holds the position of Texas Instruments Professor. He has co-authored over 130 and 180 journal and conference papers, respectively, three books, 14 book chapters, and holds six granted patents and five more filed. His current research interests include the design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication, radar, and biomedical applications. Dr. Silva-Martinez is the Technical Conference Co-Chair for ISCAS-2022 and MWSCAS 2019, member of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2018-2020), member of the CASS Board of Governors (2017-2019) and he was a member of the CASS Distinguish Lecture Pro-gram from 2013 to 2014, and a Senior Editorial Board Member of the IEEE JOURNAL ON EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS from 2014 to 2015. From 2014 to 2015, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM—PART II and the Conference Chair of MWCAS-2014. He has served as the IEEE CASS Vice President Region-9 from 1997 to 1998, an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—PART II from 1997 to 1998 and 2002 to 2003, an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—PART I from 2004 to 2005 and 2007 to 2008, and currently serves on the Board of Editors for the other three major journals. He was a recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Professor Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, TAMU, and the MWCAS 2011 and RFIC 2003 Best Student Paper Awards, co-advised in testing techniques the Ph.D. student who was the Winner of the 2005 Best Doctoral Thesis Award, presented by the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council, the IEEE Computer Society. He was also the recipient of the 1990 IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award.

ECpE Seminar Host: Cheng Huang

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