The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Total Enrollment: 19,000+ Graduate Enrollment: 2,700+ 80 undergraduate degree options 53 masters degree options11 doctoral programs (from mid. 1990’s)41 departments Research intensive moving to research extensive ECE department:150 graduate students (M.S., Ph.D.) 400 undergraduate students Extensive expansion: Charlotte Research Institute, research centers, doubling space to 2,000,000 square feet in six new buildings, forested campus in Charlotte (1,500,000 people).

2. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Research Faculty Dr. David Binkley, Dr. Tom Weldon and Dr. Arun Ravindran IC Design tools Cadence, Mentor Graphics, ADS. Test Equipment Probe station, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzer, parametric tester, power supplies. IC prototyping through MOSIS (Research and Educational) TSMC 0.18, AMI 0.5

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6. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Tom Weldon Industry Experience: InterDigital Communications Corp.: 3G radio design Founder MixSig Labs Inc. (RFIC Linearization) AEL (Marconi, BEA Systems): RF & microwave radio design Alpha Industries (Skyworks): RF devices Motorola: Portable police/fire radio design

7. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group New RF Linearization Methods The Financial Chain Reaction: New Linearization Method -> Enables: Less distortion -> Enables : Lower cell phone power/current -> Enables : Smaller cell phone battery -> Enables: Battery cost savings Large battery cost savings 400 Million batteries per year in cell phones!!

8. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group MixSig Labs, Inc. “Holy grail” of wireless chip design Commercialize linearization patents pending Awarded Phase I NSF SBIR Basic Idea: Bad + good = better Take a good amplifier -> add a bad amplifier -> get 20 dB more linear amplifier Completely integrated on chip No external components

9. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Arun Ravindran Ph.D., 2003: The Ohio State University Research Interests Data converters Micropower filters Wireless sensor networks

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12. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Analog, MS, RF Design Group - Teaching 4131/5131, Linear Integrated Circuit Design (senior/M.S.), bipolar analog analysis and design, Gray and Meyer. 4132/5132, Analog Integrated Circuit Design (senior/M.S.), strong inversion modeling, small-signal analysis, frequency response, negative feedback, simple op amps, Allen and Holberg, Razavi, notes. 6437, Mixed-Signal Design (M.S.), project course with chip fabrication in MOSIS using Mentor. 6090/8090, Analog System Design (M.S.) New course on active filter design 6263/8263, Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design (M.S./Ph.D.), noise analysis, low noise design, design in weak, moderate, and strong inversion, dc mismatch, flicker noise, small-channel effects, EKV model, Johns and Martin, extensive notes. 6264, Radio Frequency Design (M.S./Ph.D.), receiver/transmitter architectures, NF, IP3, SFDR, Smith chart, s parameters, etc. 6157/8157, Data Converter Design (M.S./Ph.D.), z-domain analysis, switched capacitor circuits, performance specifications of data converters, pipelined and sigma-delta ADCs, chip fabricated in MOSIS. Circuit and behavioral modeling in Cadence NotesNotes

13. Analog, Mixed Signal and RF Design Group Students Steve Tucker Clark Hopper Allen Calder Matt Davis Robert Crawford Nikhil Verma Dong Lieu Harold Hearne Chris Wichman