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SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture: (Subtly) launching hardware innovation from mix
 ed-signal circuits
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kyojin Choo\nAbstract\nHidden behind the lay gaze upon e
 very electronic device are integrated circuits that are hard at work. Goin
 g further down from there\, now into the microscopic level\, there are bil
 lions of undetectably tiny transistors magically configured to orderly fir
 e signals at picosecond precision and microvolt resolution. This is where 
 our subtle art of mixed-signal circuit design takes place.\nWe aim to laun
 ch hardware innovations by creating novel circuit structures/architectures
  that enable the most resource-efficient and high-performing chips. Our ex
 ploration expands to communication\, computing\, and sensing\, among other
  applications. Focusing on the analog/mixed-signal aspect of circuit behav
 iors\, we investigate the best way to harness the devices' promises and bu
 ild them into valuable system features that impact people’s lives. And N
 O\, op-amps and OTAs are NOT sufficient for every design we do.\nIn this t
 alk\, I will share our design pursuits in dynamic analogs and charge-domai
 n circuits and discuss emerging opportunities in the mixed-signal IC domai
 n. I wish to show how small qualitative changes in circuit construction ca
 n lead to solid quantitative gains and how those (seemingly incremental) q
 uantitative gains could compound to bring about significant qualitative br
 eakthroughs in the system.\n\nBio\nKyojin Choo heads the Mixed-Signal Inte
 grated Circuits Lab (MSIC-Lab) in the Institute of Electrical and Micro En
 gineering (STI-IEM) at EPFL since late 2021. His team works on developing 
 fundamental mixed-signal circuit techniques to apply in critical applicati
 ons where better efficiency and performance are highly sought. He received
  his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University (Seoul\, South Korea) an
 d worked at Samsung (Yongin\, South Korea)\, developing high-end image sen
 sor products for DSLRs and mobile phones. Upon fulfilling his military ser
 vice\, he pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor\, MI\
 , USA) and continued as a Post-Doctoral Fellow until he joined EPFL. He is
  active in the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.\n 
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