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SUMMARY:Exceptional IEL seminar on Low-Power Analog Electronics: Power eff
 iciency in the next generation of 5G-6G analog front-ends
DTSTART:20210225T140000
DTEND:20210225T150000
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DESCRIPTION:Antonio Liscidini 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 Na
 tional Semiconductors\, Santa Clara\, CA\, USA\, in 2003\, studying poly p
 hase filters and CMOS low-noise amplifiers. From 2008 to 2012\, he was an 
 Assistant Professor with the University of Pavia and a consultant with Mar
 vell Semiconductors\, Pavia\, in the area of integrated circuit. In 2012\,
  he moved to the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Compute
 r Engineering\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada\, where he i
 s currently an Associate professor. In 2019 he has become consultant for H
 uawei Technology Group in the area of RFIC for optical communication. His 
 research interests are focused on analog mixed signal interfaces with part
 icular emphasis on the implementations of transceivers and frequency synth
 esizers for wireless and wireline communication. Dr. Liscidini was a recip
 ient of the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 2005 Symposium on VLSI Ci
 rcuits and co-recipient of the Best Invited Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE C
 ICC and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE ESSCIRC. He has serv
 ed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System
 s II: Express Briefs (2008-2011) (2017- 2018) and as a Guest Editor for th
 e IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2013) (2016) and Guest Editor of t
 he IEEE RFIC Virtual Journal (2018). He has been member of the ISSCC TPC (
 2012- 2017)\, of the ESSCIRC TPC (2010-2018)\, and of the CICC TPC (2019-c
 urrently). Between 2016 and 2018\, he has been a Distinguished Lecturer of
  the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.\nAbstract: Nowadays\, both digital
  and analog electronics are reaching fundamental limits that will require 
 revolutionary approaches to satisfy the power/bandwidth requirements of th
 e next generation of data-driven applications.\nAfter a brief overview of 
 the modern wireless transceiver architecture\, some key elements that will
  characterize 5G and 6G networks will be discussed. The talk will continue
  by analyzing the power efficiency of the analog signal processing by high
 lighting the presence of a thermodynamic upper-bound which relates dynamic
  range\, bandwidth and power dissipation. Alternative strategies to circum
 vent this limit will be discusses such as adaptivity\, passive time-varian
 t signal processing and quantized analog signal processing. In particular\
 , the latter represents a novel approach where the analog and digital doma
 in are fused together in a more fluid scenario compared to traditional mix
 ed-signal circuits. This operation leads to superior power efficiency and 
 flexibility.\nThe effectiveness of the proposed solutions will be demonstr
 ated through simulations and measurement results on different prototypes.\
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LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81153179432
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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