The Distinguished Lecture on “Ultra low power SAR ADCs and versatile, dynamic sensor interfaces” will take place as follows:
Date: 31 October 2025 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Venue: Research Building N21, G/F, G013
The speaker is:
Dr. Pieter Harpe, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
The Lecture is:
Ultra low power SAR ADCs and versatile, dynamic sensor interfaces
Abstract:
In this talk, we will take a look at ultra low power sensor interfaces for IoT applications. In such applications, the sensing operation is often done at a relatively low frequency, and sometimes it is heavily duty-cycled, or it should be triggered by particular events or thresholds. For that reason, dynamic operation is beneficial as compared to static operation. We will review ADC and sensor interface architectures that can operate dynamically and that can be triggered by a single clock pulse. Various capacitive and resistive sensor interfaces are shown, and the final example shows a resistive-based temperature sensor interface including analog correction techniques for gain, offset and distortion.
Biography:
Dr. Pieter Harpe received the MSc and PhD degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, and then he worked for several years at imec on ultra low-power ADCs. In 2011, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology where he is currently an Associate Professor and lead of the Resource Efficient Electronics Lab. His main activities are on low-power analog and mixed-signal circuits. Dr. Harpe is TPC member for ISSCC and A-SSCC, Associate Editor for TCAS-I, SSCS AdCom Member-at-Large and SSCS Distinguished Lecturer.
