Talk: A modern engineer’s challenge - design of communication and software radio system

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Abstract

With the ever-increasing complexity of ICs and technology trends in the evolving world, engineers are often challenged to keep up with the fast moving pace within the industrial and commercial marketplace. This is mostly dictated by customer’s demand for more functionality, complexity and smaller IC packages. At the same time, Designers and Engineers are often faced with budgets, resources, schedules, and time to market issues. From this constraint, engineers face the challenges in rapid prototyping, testing and debugging of hardware at various critical stages during the development, to achieve for a ‘first time right’ design.
This presentation will look at some of these issues and address them from past design experiences. The speaker will highlight some practice that worked well and disseminates some design tips and trick from a systems perspective. He will include PCB hardware design and layouts that you will not normally find in textbooks. Some areas he will look at include how we can do things better, faster and smarter for a first time right and avoid some of the pitfalls and reiterations through a design cycle.

Introduction includes:

Analog Devices (ADI) Product portfolio and applications ;

A brief introduction of ADI IC Applications areas, portfolios, software, tools and reference designs and how to help the designer in reducing project design cycle time.

Topics of interest and coverage;

Noise, Power/regulators designs. High power multi voltage regulators for FPGA (>10 amps). Digital potentiometers (DIGIPOTS). High-Speed Giga Samples ADCs and DACs. IC Isolators. Digital Direct Synthesis (DDS). Micro Electromechanical Machines (MEMs) technology, Accelerometers, Tilt Sensors, Inertia Measuring Unit (IMUs), JESD204B standards and protocols, FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) Standard. Software Define Radio (SDR). I&Q modulation issues and solutions.

Speaker

Ching received his BEng.(Hons) Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and a MSc. in VLSI and Digital Signal Processing Systems in 1993. Both from University Of Westminster, London, U.K.

After Graduation he had spent over 25 years working in Applications, Research, Design and Development, with various multi-nationals in Ireland1 and in the U.K2. He worked for Tellabs1 and Nortel2 for a number of years, designing Firmware (VHDL) and hi-speed, telecommunication hardware systems in, signaling systems, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). He later joined Silicon & Software Systems2 and Duolog Technology2 (now ARM) designing hi-speed ASICs and synthesizable test bench verification for Mobile phone chipsets. He also spent a few years lecturing Electronic Engineering in Ireland. He is currently with Analog Devices (ADI) as a Senior Applications Engineer since 2007. His current role involves applications, design, support, presentation of technical seminars and training materials for designers within European regions.

His fields of expertise are broad in nature with a special focus in; Design, Support, ATM, Telecommunications, systems hardware architecture, Software define radio (SDR), Hi-speed design, and from ASIC design to synthesizable tests bench verification techniques.

He published and presented articles, Tutorial papers, and Conference papers in; IEEE, IET, Electronica, Analog Devices. He also provides Seminars, Webinars and training materials for designers and Field Application Engineers. He’s obtained his Chartered Engineer (CEng) in 1998, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2016. His other research and on-going activities are in systems and algorithm architecture, noise reduction techniques, Aqua-Marine Sonar systems design applications and deployment.