IEEE  Distinguished Lecturer Presentation hosted jointly by the 
IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter, and the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapter

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Speaker  :   Professor Ram Achar, Department of Electronics, Carleton University

Topic    :   Demystifying Signal Integrity in High Speed Designs

Date     :   Tuesday November 10, 2015

Time     :   5:00 PM  to 7:00 PM

Location :   FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc.,375 Terry Fox Dr. Ottawa, ON K2K 0J8

Parking  :   Free 

Registration:Free, and is on a first to reply basis.
             Preference given to IEEE EMC/MTT/AP society members.  
             Seating is limited. E-mail Reservation is required.
             Pizza and soft drinks will be served. 
           
Organizer:   Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
             Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca, 
             Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 355 - 6632
            
             Dr. Qingsheng Zeng , Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
             [qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca]

Directions: Attached


           
Abstract

With the increasing demands for higher signal speeds coupled with the need for 
decreasing feature sizes, signal integrity effects such as delay, distortion, 
reflections, crosstalk, ground bounce and electromagnetic interference have 
become the dominant factors limiting the performance of high-speed systems. 
These effects can be diverse and can seriously impact the design performance 
at all hierarchical levels including integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, 
multi-chip modules and backplanes. If not considered during the design stage, 
signal integrity effects can cause failed designs. Since extra iterations in 
the design cycle are costly, accurate prediction of these effects is a necessity 
in high-speed designs. Consequently, preserving signal integrity has become one 
of the most challenging tasks facing designers of modern multifunction and 
miniature electronic circuits and systems.  This talk provides a comprehensive 
approach for understanding the multidisciplinary problem of signal integrity: 
issues/modeling/analysis in high-speed designs.


Biography
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Prof. Ram Achar received the B. Eng. degree in electronics engineering from 
Bangalore University, India in 1990, M. Eng. degree in micro-electronics from 
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1992 and the Ph.D. 
degree from Carleton University in 1998. Dr. Achar currently is a professor 
in the department of electronics engineering at Carleton University. Prior to 
joining Carleton university faculty (2000), he served in various capacities 
in leading research labs, including T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, New York 
(1995), Larsen and Toubro Engineers Ltd., Mysore (1992), Central Electronics 
Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India (1992) and Indian Institute of 
Science, Bangalore, India (1990). His research interests include signal/power 
integrity analysis, EMC/EMI analysis, circuit simulation, parallel and numerical 
algorithms and mixed-domain analysis. 
Dr. Achar has published extensively in international transactions/conferences, 
he and and his students have received several prestigious awards, including 
Carleton university research achievement awards (2010 & 2004), NSERC 
(Natural Science and Engineering Research Council) doctoral medal (2000, 2010), 
IEEE best transactions paper awards (TAdvp:2007 and T-CPMT: 2013). Prof. Achar 
currently serves as the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EMC Society, General 
Chair for HPCPS-2016 and General Co-chair of SIPI-2016 and on the executive/
steering/technical-program committees of several leading IEEE international 
conferences, such as SIPI, EPEPS and EDAPS.