Contatto di riferimento: Prof. Riccardo Rovatti
Nell'ambito del corso "Trends in Electronics M" della Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica, curriculum Electronics and Communication Science and Technology (ECST), la professoressa Pamela Abshire - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department - University of Maryland, terrà il seminario dal titolo:
"Integrated Circuits Sensors".
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
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Bio
Pamela Abshire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park.
She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2001, and is an expert in low power mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC), adaptive ICs and IC sensors, and CMOS biosensors.
Her research focuses on better understanding and exploiting the tradeoffs between performance and resources in natural and engineered systems, including hybrid devices incorporating CMOS, MEMS, optoelectronics, microfluidics, and biological components.
She has developed sensors and signal processing circuitry for a variety of applications, including cell-based sensing, high performance imaging, miniature robotics, adaptive data conversion, and closed loop control of MEMS and microfluidic systems.
She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award (2003), the Corcoran Award for Electrical and Computer Engineering education (2004), the Robert E. Kent Teaching Award (2011), the Jimmy H. C. Lin Award for Entrepreneurship (2011), and was named the outstanding faculty member of the Institute for Systems Research (2006).
She currently serves on the Emerging Technologies and Research Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Commerce and on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She is General Co-Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2017.
Abstract
Sensor front-ends have always been one of the important applications of integrated circuits, and this area remains prominent today with the increasing importance of markets such as internet of things, smartphones, and autonomous robotics.
This talk will discuss integrated circuits for front-end sensor interface and signal conditioning, including signal representation and data conversion. One of the most significant developments in this area over the past decade has been the increasing systems-level integration of sensors incorporating front end electronics, signal conditioning, data conversion, and digital signal processing so that what we think of as a sensor actually produces digital output using a standard communication bus rather than analog output that has to be further buffered and processed.
This talk will discuss these traditional approaches in sensor interface circuitry as well as emerging new approaches in analog and mixed-signal circuit architectures for sensor readout.