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| Title
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RF-Building Blocks for an All-Digital PLL
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| Speaker
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Dr. Antonio Liscidini
Assistant Professor - University of Pavia
Pavia, Italy |
| Day and Time
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 4:10 - 5:00 p.m.
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| Location
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Room BA1200
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George St.
MAP (look for BA): map
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. |
| Organizer
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IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society - Toronto Chapter |
| Contact
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Dustin Dunwell, E-mail:
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| Abstract |
Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) and Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO) are the most
important mixed-signal building blocks present in an all Digital PLL. After a brief description of
the ADPLL architecture, TDC and DCO limits will be discussed. After that, two prototypes of
TDC and DCO for mobile applications will be presented.
The TDC is based on a 2-dimensions Vernier algorithm that allows to minimized the length of
the delay lines necessary to perform the time quantization. The DCO provides a very fine
frequency resolution exploiting capacitor shirking effect integrated in the classical LC tank
oscillator.
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| Biography |
Antonio Liscidini (S’99 M’06) was born in Tirano, Italy, in 1977. He received the Laurea degree
(summa cum laude) and PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy,
in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He was a summer intern at National Semiconductors in 2003
(Santa Clara, CA) studying poly phase filters and CMOS LNA.
Currently he is Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia and his research interests are in
the implementations of analog RF front-end in CMOS and BiCMOS technology, with particular
focus on the analysis and design of LNAs for multistandard applications, ultra low power
receivers and digital PLLs. In addition to his academic activities, he has been acting as a
consultant for Marvell Semiconductors in the area of integrated circuit design.
He received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE 2005 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. From
Dec. 2007, he serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II:
Express Briefs.
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