SSCS Technical Webinars

Abstract: Analog-to-digital converters that incorporate inherent anti-alias filtering and are easy to drive significantly simplify system design. The continuous-time pipelined (CTP) ADC is one such architecture — and it turns out to be a fundamental improvement over the conventional active filter followed by ADC cascade, both in power efficiency and linearity. This tutorial traces the […]

Abstract: With the rapid rise of AI in various fields, we naturally wonder whether it can help or even replace analog designers. We first ponder a general question: how can AI become a competent analog designer? We postulate that AI must climb a five-level pyramid. At the foundation, AI must analyze circuits correctly. This ability […]

Abstract: Continuous-time (CT) zoom analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are highly efficient for high-resolution applications but typically suffer from DAC mismatch errors or require complex digital calibration. This talk presents advanced CT zoom ADC architectures that achieve state-of-the-art energy efficiency and high resolution by utilizing advanced filtering to ensure high linearity without explicit calibration. We focus on key […]

Abstract: We have long understood, from fundamental circuit operation, that analog computation can be substantially more efficient than digital computation in lower dynamic range regimes. One of the dominant trends in AI computation has been low-precision computation for neural networks, providing an attractive opening to harness the efficiency of analog computation. However, there is an […]