Distinguished Talk 06: Analog processing by digital circuits: fully synthesizable ICs for IoT interfaces by Prof. Dr. Paolo Crovetti (Politecnico di Torino)
Abstract:
Analog integrated circuits do not take advantage of scaling and are easily the bottleneck in terms of cost and performance of integrated circuits targeting emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While this challenge is commonly addressed by devising more “digital friendly” analog cells based on traditional design concepts, the possibility to translate key analog functions into digital, so that to implement them by true digital circuits, which fully take advantage of scaling, automated design flow, configurability and portability across technology nodes, is now emerging as a promising alternative. This approach, which challenges the idea that “analog circuits will be always needed”, will be presented and discussed in the webinar, starting from a theoretical background up to its application in the design of digital-based analog and mixed-signal cells integrated on silicon proposed in recent literature.
Short CV:
Paolo S. Crovetti (S’00, M’04, SM’20) was born in Turin, Italy, in 1976. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Turin, Turin, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino, Turin. He has coauthored more than 70 articles appearing in journals and international conference proceedings. His main research interests are in the fields of analog, mixed-signal, and power integrated circuits. His recent research activities are focused on non-conventional information processing techniques allowing the fully digital implementations of analog functions and on ultra-low-power IC design for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Prof. Crovetti is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as the Subject Editor-in-Chief of IET Electronics Letters in the area of Circuits and Systems and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION SYSTEMS.