{"612044":{"#nid":"612044","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Juan Pablo Caram Wigdorsky","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhase Noise Improvement Techniques for Mixed-mode Phase-locked Loops in Nanometer CMOS\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Stevenson Kenney, ECE, Chair , Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Stephen Ralph, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Gregory Durgin, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard Causey, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Paul Kohl, ChBE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research presents circuit-level solutions for frequency synthesis and other time-domain signal processing problems. Specifically, three circuit architectures are proposed: a hybrid digital and analog phase-locked loop architecture that is capable of suppressing reference and VCO phase noise simultaneously, a VCO architecture that eases tradeoffs between ring VCOs and LC VCOs, and a time-to-digital converter with a sample-and-hold mechanism, dynamic element matching and quantization noise scrambling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Phase Noise Improvement Techniques for Mixed-mode Phase-locked Loops in Nanometer CMOS "}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2018-09-27 20:15:38","changed_gmt":"2018-09-27 20:15:38","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-10-11T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-10-11 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-10-11 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-10-11 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}