The Distinguished Lecture on “Harmonizing Energy Efficiency and Signal Chain Friendliness in High-Resolution ADCs” will take place as follows:
Date: 17 July 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: Research Building N21, G013
The speaker is:
Prof. LI Shaolan, Texas Instruments Junior Professor in Mixed Signal Design with Georgia Tech School of ECE
The Lecture is:
Harmonizing Energy Efficiency and Signal Chain Friendliness in High-Resolution ADCs
Abstract:
High-resolution ADCs are essential components in many biomedical and environmental sensing applications. As the demand for wearable, miniature, and point-of-care systems continues to increase, the design requirements for high-resolution ADCs also become more stringent, with a strong emphasis on energy efficiency, reliability, and low cost. Over the past few years, numerous design techniques have been developed to enhance the figure-of-merit (FoM) of high-resolution ADCs, with the state-of-the-art approaching the theoretical limit. Nonetheless, many of these works over- looked an essential factor: the signal chain friendliness. While the ADC cores are made to be very efficient, the heavy burdens exerted on the input driver and/or reference buffer are hardly relaxed by those techniques, and sometimes get exacerbated in some architectures. Consequently, the improvement in energy efficiency and cost is limited in the context of the complete signal chain. In this talk, I will introduce some of our works that shed light on this blind spot. They demonstrate how to harmonize energy efficiency and signal chain burden reduction through a synergistic combination of noise cancellation, embedded buffer design, as well as dynamic amplification.
Biography:
Prof. LI Shaolan is currently the Texas Instruments Junior Professor in Mixed Signal Design with Georgia Tech School of ECE. He received his B.Eng. degree with highest honor from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin in 2018, all in electrical engineering. Prof. LI is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award 2023 and NIH Trailblazer Award 2023. He serves on the TPC of IEEE CICC, as well as an Associate Editor for Electronics Letters, Journal of Semiconductor, and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
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