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Distinguished Lecture of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Co-sponsored by the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society
Noise, Noise Matching, Strange Impedance Behaviors, and Other RF FAQs
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| Speaker
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Dr. Tom Lee
Professor - Stanford University
Director of the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA, USA
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| Day and Time
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Friday, November 18, 2011, 9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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| Location
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University of Toronto
Galbraith Building
35 College St.
Room: GB 220
MAP (Look for GB): map
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| Organizer
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IEEE Circuits and Devices Society - Toronto Chapter
IEEE Solid State Circuits Society - Toronto Chapter
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served
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| Contact
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Mohammad Sadegh Jalali, E-mail:
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| Abstract |
RF design remains a mystery to many engineers. Part of the mystery has to do with the sometimes counterintuitive ways that noise manifests itself in both amplifiers and oscillators, and some comes from the many ways that ever-present parasitics undergo surprising impedance transformations. This talk will attempt to answer frequently-asked questions about these and other RF-related topics. It is hoped that attendees will ask additional questions that they would like answered.
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| Biography |
Tom Lee has been teaching at Stanford since 1994, with a focus on circuits for wireless communications. His MIT doctoral thesis described the world's first RF CMOS receiver, and had no immediate impact beyond earning him his degree. He has authored several books on RF design, holds approximately 60 patents, and has founded several companies. For reasons that are unclear even to him, he has thousands of vacuum tubes, over 100 oscilloscopes, and other equipment that warps local spacetime. In his spare time he enjoys playing the violin and singing, although not simultaneously. In April, he was named recipient of this year's Ho-Am Prize ("the Korean Nobel") in Engineering for his work in CMOS RF. He is on leave from Stanford until 2013 to serve at DARPA as Director of the Microsystems Technology Office.
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