Biomedical Electronics, Noise Shaping ADCs, and Frequency References (PDF)

Pieter Harpe received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. In 2008, he became a researcher at Holst Centre / imec, The Netherlands. Since then, he has been working on ultra low-power wireless transceivers, with a main focus on ADC research and design. In April 2011, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology where he is currently an Associate Professor on low-power mixed-signal circuits. Dr. Harpe is co-organizer of the yearly workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD), analog subcommittee chair for the ESSCIRC conference, and TPC member for the A-SSCC. He also served as ISSCC ITPC member, IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer, and guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and recipient of the ISSCC 2015 Distinguished Technical Paper Award.

Kofi Makinwa holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (B.Sc., M.Sc.), Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E.), and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.). From 1989 to 1999, he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven. He then joined Delft University of Technology, where he is currently a full professor and the head of the Microelectronics department. His main research interests are in the design of analog circuits and sensor interfaces. This has led to 17 books, 300+ publications and 30+ patents. He is the co-recipient of 17 best paper awards, from the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), among others, and is an ISSCC top-10 contributor. Dr. Makinwa was the Analog subcommittee chair of ISSCC and has served on the program committees of several other IEEE conferences. He also served the Solid-State Circuits Society as a distinguished lecturer and as a member of the Adcom. He is a co-organizer of the Advances in Analog Circuit Design workshop (AACD) and the