Friday June 9, 2017 at 2:10 p.m. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Professor at Lund University Pietro Andreani will be presenting “RF Integrated Harmonic Oscillators in Silicon Technologies”.
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Day & Time: Friday June 9, 2017
2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Pietro Andreani
Professor, Lund University
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Professor
Location: University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 2E4
Bahen Center of Information Technology
Room Number: B024
Free for everyone. Complimentary refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Dustin Dunwell
Organizers: Solid State Circuits Society
Abstract: As one of the truly fundamental analog functions in any wireless/wireline application, the voltage-controlled oscillator keeps attracting a great deal of well-deserved attention. In this presentation, we will investigate the mechanisms of phase noise generation in harmonic oscillators, including some recently published general results, after which we will analyze both classical and emergent oscillator architectures, describing pros and cons for each. Various techniques to achieve a very wide oscillator tuning range will be illustrated as well.
Biography: Pietro Adreani received the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from Lund University, Sweden, in 1999. Between 2001 and 2007 he was chair professor at the Center for Physical Electronics, Technical University of Denmark. From 2005 to 2014 he had a 20% position as analog/RF designer at Ericsson AB in Lund, Sweden. Since 2007, he has been associate professor at the department of Electrical and Information Technology (EIT), Lund University, working analog/mixed-mode/RF IC design. He is also the head of the VINNOVA Center for System Design on Silicon, hosted by EIT. He has been a TPC member of ISSCC (2007-2012), is a TPC member of ESSCIRC (chair of the Frequency Generation subcommittee since 2012, TPC chair in 2014) and RFIC, and Associate Editor of JSSC. He has been an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer since 2017. He has authored numerous papers on harmonic oscillators and phase noise.