Speaker: Armin Tajalli, Senior Analog Design Engineer at Kandou Bus
Title: High Speed and Energy Efficient Communication for Distributed Processing System
Abstract: Until recently, technology scaling has been used as the leading means to improve performance and energy efficiency of integrated systems. While technology scaling slows down, future integrated circuits require more advanced and more complicated design techniques in order to keep track of market demands for systems with higher performance and less consumption. A multi-disciplinary approach in which circuit design techniques are combined with advanced signal processing and mathematical algorithms is essential to implement much more efficient and high performance systems. In this talk, I will give a short overview and some examples on design techniques that we have recently developed for implementing very high speed and low power serial data transceivers. The main target of this research is to build modern and very high performance multi-chip module processors.
Bio: Armin Tajalli has received his Ph. D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the topic of power-performance scalable integrated systems. Then he joined as a post-doc to Algorithmic Mathematics Lab. at EPFL, working on advanced coding and communication techniques for power- and pin-efficient serial links. Being part of the initiating team, he is currently working as Senior Analog Design Engineer in Kandou Bus, which is a spin-off company from EPFL. In the past, he has also worked in Swatch Company on the next generation bluetooth low energy transceivers, and also on secure crypto circuits.