Annual Meeting
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Discovery Learning Center, Engineering Center
University of Colorado at Boulder
Agenda
Listed times are Mountain Standard Time.
Presentation slides (in pdf format)
will be available through the links below by Monday, November 17, 2003.
Maps & directions from DIA
8:00 - 8:30 AM: Continental breakfast
8:30 - 8:50 AM: Welcome, introductions and
highlights from our 2003 research and teaching programs
Research results: Session I
8:50 - 9:10 AM: Digital control architecture for electronic ballasts:
direct digital phase control and experimental FPGA platform
- Yan Yin (GE)
9:10 - 9:30 AM: Simple digital controller chip for low-power DC-DC
converters: test chip design - Ershad Ahmed (NSC)
9:30 - 9:50 AM: Feed-forward digital pulse-width modulators: test chip
design and experimental results - Asif Syed (NSC)
9:50 - 10:10 AM: A/D converter design for current sensing: test chip
design - Hao Peng (TI)
10:10 - 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 - 10:50 AM: Masterless architecture and digital control methods
for multi-phase microprocessor power supplies - Yang Zhang (Artesyn)
10:50 - 11:10 PM: Digitally controlled power converters for high-efficiency
RF power amplifiers - Vahid Yousefzadeh (DARPA)
11:10 - 11:30 AM: A New Family of Multilevel Matrix Converters for
Wind Power Applications: Laboratory Implementation and Control
- Sitthipong Angkititrakul (NREL)
11:30 - 11:50 PM: Custom spectral shaping for EMI reduction in
electronic ballasts - Sandra Johnson (GE)
12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch in the DLC Foyer
12:00 - 1:00 PM: IAB breakout session over lunch
Research results: Session II -- New projects and directions
1:00 - 1:30 PM: Highlight research program for 2004, discuss proposals and opportunities
1:30 - 1:50 PM: System IC controls for backlighting
in wide-screen LCD HDTV - Jianjian Bian (NSC)
1:50 - 2:10 PM: Integrated converters for energy harvesting in wireless
sensors: SOI test chip design - Tian Zhao (NSF and Coleman Institute)
2:10 - 2:30 PM: System identification of power converter modules with
direct digital control - Botao Miao (NASA)
2:30 - 4:30 PM: Lab tour and demonstrations, student poster sessions, informal discussions
Student posters (links provided for materials in addition to above presentations)
- Ershad Ahmed
- "Simple digital controller chip for low-power DC-DC converters: test chip design" (see above)
- Sitthipong Angkititrakul
- "A New Family of Multilevel Matrix Converters for Wind Power
Applications: Laboratory Implementation and Control" (see above)
- Jianjian Bian
- "System IC controls for backlighting
in wide-screen LCD HDTV" (see above)
- Sandra Johnson
- "Custom spectral shaping for EMI reduction in
electronic ballasts" (see above)
"Micro-electonics for in-vivo neuronal recording implants"
- Botao Miao
- "System identification of power converter modules with
direct digital control" (see above)
- Hao Peng
- "A/D converter design for current sensing: test chip
design" (see above)
"Quantization and limit cycling in digitally controlled dc-dc converters"
- Xinli Peng
- "Fast Envelope Tracking Power Supply for High-Efficiency,
High Linearity Switch-Mode RF Power Amplifier"
- Zach Pfeffer
- "Creating and interfacing to large arrays of
anisotropic magnetoresistive sensors to support magnetic imaging applications"
- Asif Syed
- "Feed-forward digital pulse-width modulators: test chip
design and experimental results" (see above)
- Yan Yin
- "Digital control architecture for electronic ballasts:
direct digital phase control and experimental FPGA platform" (see above)
"Dual low voltage IC based high and low side gate drive"
- Vahid Yousefzadeh
- "Digitally controlled power converters for high-efficiency
RF power amplifiers" (see above)
- Yang Zhang
- "Masterless architecture and digital control methods
for multi-phase microprocessor power supplies" (see above)
"On-line Calibrated Current-Sensing Scheme for VRMs"
- Tian Zhao
- "Integrated converters for energy harvesting in wireless
sensors: SOI test chip design" (see above)
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