José Epifânio da Franca

Seminars & Lectures

International Lectures and Invited Seminars

1983

IEEE Evening Lecture, Imperial College London, UK
• Narrowband Bandpass Switched-Capacitor Filter Systems

1984

Allen Clark Research Centre, Plessey (Caswell), UK

Applications of Decimation and Interpolation Techniques in SC Filter Systems

1985

University of Hull, Department of Electronics Engineering, UK

• Principles of Operation of Switched-Capacitor Filter Systems

• Switched-Capacitor Techniques for Sampling Rate Conversion

• On the Design of Parasitic-Insensitive Switched-Capacitor Biquadratic Sections

1986

8th CAVE (CAD for VLSI in Europe) Workshop, Grassau, Germany

• From Circuits to Systems – A View of the Role and Needs of Analogue Signal Processing Now and in the Future  

1987

University of Pavia, Department of Electronics, Italy

• Switched-Capacitor Processing of Bandpass Signals

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Circuits

1988

Microelectronics Design Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

• Present Achievements and Future Prospects of Multirate SC Signal Processing

• Design of Switched-Capacitor Filters by Signal Flow Graphs

1989

Portland State University, USA

• High-Level Architecture Compilation of Charge Redistribution Data Converters 

 

Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education, USA

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Signal Processing

 

Center for Communications Research, Columbia University (NY), USA

• Novel Aspects and Applications of Sampled-Data Switched-Capacitor Circuits 

1990

Portland State University, USA

• High-Level Architecture Compilation of Charge Redistribution Data Converters 

 

Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education, USA

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Signal Processing

 

Center for Communications Research, Columbia University (NY), USA

• Novel Aspects and Applications of Sampled-Data Switched-Capacitor Circuits 

1992

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland

• Analog Interfacing for Digital VLSI Systems

 

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA

• Communications Applications of Multirate Switched-Capacitor Systems

• Continuous-Time Filter Tuning

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Networks for High-Frequency Filtering

• Analog Interfacing for Digital VLSI Systems

1993

Oregon State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA

• Analog Interfacing for Digital VLSI Systems

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Networks for High-Frequency Filtering

• Recent Developments and Future Trends of Multirate A-D Signal Processing and Conversion

 

Portland State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, USA

• Multirate Switched-Capacitor Networks for High-Frequency Filtering

• Recent Developments and Future Trends of Multirate A-D Signal Processing and Conversion

 

Technical Research Center of Finland (Espoo, Helsinki)

• High-Performance Integrated CMOS Data Converters – Overview of the Research Work at IST

 

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Institute for Information and Signal Processing

• Low-Cost Field Programmable Switched-Capacitor and Switched-Current Filters

• Continuous-Time Filter Tuning

• Recent Developments and Future Trends of Multirate A-D Signal Processing and Conversion

• Analog Interfacing for Digital VLSI Systems

 

Nokia Mobile Phones Research Center, Oulu, Finland

• Narrow and Very Narrow Bandpass Integrated Filtering

• Recent Developments and Future Trends of Multirate A-D Signal Processing and Conversion

• Low-Cost Field Programmable Switched-Capacitor and Switched-Current Filters

1995

Siemens Research Centre, Munich, Germany

Digital VLSI-Compatible Analog Design

1996

Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of China

High-Performance Integrated CMOS Data Converters – Overview of the Research Work at IST

• Recent Developments and Future Trends of Multirate A-D Signal Processing and Conversion

1997

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

• Self-Adjusted Analog Circuits

 

Invited Lecture, Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Conference, Seville

• Block-Driven CMOS Interface Design

 

Chinese University of Hong Kong

• A/D and D/A Converters

• Self-Adjusted Analog Circuits

 

 

1998

Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Microelectronics for Competitiveness

1999

Invited Lecture, International Microelectronics Conference, Sozopol, Bulgaria

Self-Adjusted Analog Circuits

 

University of California, Irvine (CA), USA

Programmable Transceivers for Mobile Communications

Lectures and Presentations in Portugal

1980

CEAUTL, IST, Lisbon

Active Filters with Multiple Feedback Structures: Applications in Telephone Channel Equipment

1981

Organized under the course “Applied Electronics IV,” IST, Lisbon

High-Quality RC-Active Filter Implementation Using Direct and Operational Simulation Techniques

 

1983

Organized by IEEE Portugal Section and CEAUTL, IST, Lisbon

Biquadratic Sections with Switched Capacitors

Decimation and Interpolation Circuits Using Switched Capacitors

1985

Organized by IEEE Portugal Section and the Department of Telecommunications and Electronics, University of Aveiro

Introduction to Switched-Capacitor Circuit Technology

 

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Introduction to Switched-Capacitor Circuit Technology

1989

First IST-LNETI Technology Innovation Symposium, May

Thick-Film Analog Circuits

1990

IEEE Student Chapter, University of Aveiro

Monolithic Integrated Circuits

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