Reliable Circuit Techniques for Low-Voltage Analog Design in Deep ...

38 Fayomi, Sawan and Roberts
Professor at UniversitéduQuébec à Montréal (UQÀM)
in the Computer Science Department. His research
interest is the design of reliable low voltage deep submicron
CMOS mixed-signal integrated circuits and
systems.
Mohamad Sawan received the B.Eng. degree in
electrical engineering from Université Laval, Canada,
in 1984, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Université
de Sherbrooke, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively,
and post-graduate training from McGill University,
Canada, in 1991. He is currently a Professor at the
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
His scientific interests are the design and test of
mixed-signal (analog, digital and RF) circuits and
systems, the digital and analog signal and image
processing. His interests deal also with modeling, design,
integration, assembly and validation of medical
devices such as implantable sensors and neuromuscular
stimulators, catheters, ultrasound devices, advanced
wireless powered and controlled implantable monitoring
and measurement techniques and devices, and
more particularly at the array level dedicated to cortical
applications.
Dr. Sawan is a holder of a Canadian Research Chair
in Smart Medical Devices and Fellow of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering. He is leading a research
center known by ReSMiQ (Microelectronics Strategic
Alliance of Quebec) and the Eastern Canadian IEEE-
Solid State Circuits Society Chapter. Also, he is cofounder
of the Int. Functional Electrical Stimulation
Society and the founder of PolySTIM neurotechnology
research laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique de
Montreal.
Gordon W. Roberts received the B.A.Sc. degree
from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1983 and
the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Toronto, Canada, in 1986 and 1989, respectively,
all in electrical engineering. Dr. Roberts is currently
a full professor at McGill University where he holds
the James McGill Chair in Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
Over the years, he has conducted extensive research
on analog integrated circuit design and mixed-signal
test issues. He has co-written two undergraduate textbooks,
entitled: SPICE For Microelectronic Circuits
with Prof. Adel Sedra and An Introduction to Mixed-
Signal IC Test Measurement with Mark Burns. He also
co-written three research monographs, Analog Test
Signal Generation Using Periodic SD-Encoded Data
Streams (with Benoit Dufort), Analog Signal Generation
For Built-In Self-Test of Mixed-Signal Integrated
Circuits (with Albert Lu), and Design and Analysis
of Log-Domain Filter Circuits (with Vincent Leung).
He has published over 110 papers in scientific journals
and conferences, and he has contributed 11 chapters
to other books. He is past associate editor of the IEEE
Transaction on Circuits and Systems, Part II, and past
associate editor for the IEEE Design & Test of Computers
Magazine. Prof. Roberts was also a past Distinguished
Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society
and the Circuits and Systems Society. Prof. Roberts
has received numerous department, faculty and university
awards for teaching test and electronics to undergraduates,
and received several IEEE awards for his
work on mixed-signal testing. Prof. Roberts is presently
the program chair of the IEEE International Test
Conference.