Rice: ECE Affiliates Meeting 2005 - Dr. Thanh Tran


	Tranh Tran Hardware Productization Manager Texas Instruments, Inc.

	Challenges in Analog DSP Design
	Analog DSP is defined as DSP running at gigahertz clock speed with many gigahertz inputs and outputs and analog macro-cells such as video DAC and ADC. The familiar digital design rules have changed and new design challenges have arrived in a big way. One of these challenges is how to transmit and receive signals properly with minimum BER and acceptable signal integrity to and from another DSP. To achieve this, DSP designers can no longer rely on the digital design tools and behavioral models that the whole industry has learned to love for many years. They now have to face the problems with inaccurately simulating DSP design with millions of transistors and to deal with sparameters where eye-diagram and return loss are the important parameters for making design tradeoffs. This talk highlights the challenges we are facing today and what we need to do to enable the advancement of our analog DSP future.
	Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:15p.m. - Duncan Hall, TBD Rice University
	* Biography: Dr. Thanh Tran has 20 years plus of experience in audio, video, computer and communication systems design and is a Hardware Productization Manager at Texas Instruments Incorporated where he is managing a team to assist customers and to develop reference designs and frameworks for high speed DSP/SOC systems. He has held other senior design positions at Compaq Computer, ReplayTV, Eagle Wireless Incorporated, Bose Corporation and Zenith Electronics Corporation. Tran is an IEEE Senior member and currently serves on the Texas Instruments Developers Conference Advisory Committee and the IEEE System-On-Chip Organizing Committee. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Rice University. He has published over 14 technical papers and current holds 18 issued patents related to designs of video, audio, computer and communication systems. He received a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and Master of Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

ECE Affiliates Meeting - Afternoon Session

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