Ultra Low Power Receivers Presented by Antonio Liscidini

Abstract:
This talk will start with a brief introduction of the requirements of a wireless receiver and an overview of the most common architectures and techniques tailored for ultra-low power applications. In the second part of this presentation, the concept of current/device reuse will be discussed providing several examples as proof of the effectiveness of this strategy when applied to the area of low power transceivers. Current reuse technique will be analyzed in several way, form the design of the RF analog front-end up to the clock distribution and the analog base band.
Bio:
Antonio Liscidini was born in Tirano, Italy, in 1977. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He was a summer Intern with National Semiconductors, Santa Clara, CA, USA, in 2003, studying poly phase filters and CMOS low-noise amplifiers. From 2008 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor with the University of Pavia and a Consultant with Marvell Semiconductors, Pavia, in the area of integrated circuit design. In 2012, he moved to the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, where he is currently an Associate professor. His research interests are focused on analog mixed signal interfaces with particular emphasis on the implementations of wireless transceivers and frequency synthesizers for cellular and ultra-low power applications. Dr. Liscidini was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 2005 Symposium on VLSI Circuits and a co-recipient of the Best Invited Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2008-2011) (2017- 2018) and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2013) (2016) and Guest Editor of the IEEE RFIC Virtual Journal (2018). Between 2016 and 2018, he has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He has been member of the International Solid-State Circuit TPC (2012- 2017), member of the European Solid-State Circuit Conference TPC (2010- currently) and member of the Custom Integrated Circuit Conference TPC (2019-currently).