Seminar: How Not to Waste Time in Real-Time Signal Processing
In conventional digital signal processors, the only use of timing is through the ubiquitous clock, which synchronizes all sampling and computational activity. Clocks are difficult to synchronize over a large microelectronic chip, dissipate large power, introduce latency, and most importantly carry no information. In this talk, we will review techniques for utilizing timing to advantage, in ways that require no clocking. The resulting systems use binary signals that carry information in both the amplitude and time dimensions, and dissipate energy only when signal activity demands it. The talk will be tutorial in nature.
About Prof. Yannis P. Tsividis
Yannis P. Tsividis is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits at the device, circuit, system, signal processing, and computer simulation level. He has received the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication, and is recipient or co-recipient of best paper awards from the European Solid-State Circuits Conference, the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (Darlington Award and Guillemin-Cauer Award). He has received Columbia’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award. He was elected Professor Honoris Causa at the University of Patras, Greece, and received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, and has received the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
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