Analog design guru Professor Willy Sansen is to deliver a course on mastering the art of low-noise, low-power analog IC design. The three-day seminar, part of a series of continuing professional development courses run by the Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) in conjunction with Silicon South West, will take place between 21st-23rd July 2008 at the Bath Innovation Centre.

Highlighting that low noise and low power involves compromise, Professor Sansen, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, commented: "The reduction of channel lengths leads to lower supply voltages, allowing a considerable drop in power consumption. However, lower supply voltages lead to lower signal levels and moreover lower power leads to more noise, even more decreasing the signal-to-noise ratios."

The course, which will discuss all aspects of analog IC design with an emphasis on low power and low noise, is intended for both analog and digital designers, as well as those who simply wish to update their knowledge of the latest analog design techniques. Standard CMOS and BiCMOS implementations will be discussed in parallel.

Professor Sansen gained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Stanford, Lausanne, Philadelphia and Ulm. Since 1984, Professor Sansen has been the head of the ESAT-MICAS laboratory on analog design.

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