Training course on

Design of Analog Filter

Date: 18 – 21 May 2011 (Wednesday – Saturday)

Venue: Conference Hall 3, 1/F, Core Building 1, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin
Fee*: 4-day full course Regular HK$8,400.- per head Early bird price: HK$8,000.- per person
Full-time student^ price: HK$7,500.- per person
2-day course Regular HK$5,000.- per head Early bird price: HK$4,800.- per person
(Day 1-2 or Day 3-4) Full-time student^ price: HK$4,500.- per person
Early bird: on or before 11 March 2011, Friday
Speaker: Prof Andrea Baschirotto
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Language: English

*Reimbursement for up to 75% of course fees from entitled HKSTP fund applicable to HKSTP Tenants/Incubatees
^Please submit the document copy showing the validity period of full-time studentship with the registration

Analog filters are basic analog blocks in signal processing. Their importance is significative in order to reduce
undesired energy and then to reduce specifications for blocks following the analog filters. This is the case, for
instance, of telecom receivers and sensor interfaces, where using appropriate analog filters reduces the dynamic
range of the following ADC. In this way the overall power consumption can be lowered with respect to solution without
analog filters. In this course the basic theory of analog filters will be addressed. The course is composed by two
separate parts. In the first part the general filter synthesis theory and the relative implementation with continuous-time
filter topologies is addressed. In this case some example for the design of analog filter for telecom receivers is
introduced (like UMTS, UWB, WLAN, etc….). In the second part the case of the implementation with
Switched-Capacitor techniques is discussed. These implementations are particularly interesting for low-to-medium
frequency and high-quality signal processing. The techniques introduced in this SC section are also fundamental in
the design of analog sampled-data systems, like S&H, and ADC (pipeline, SAR, Sigma-Delta, etc…).

Programme rundown
Day 1-2
„ Application example: Telecom transceiver architectures and relative baseband filter required performance
„ Analog filter parameter definitions: filter mask definition, transfer function synthesis in "s" domain (standard
approximations like Butterworth, Chebicev, and Bessel).
„ Use of MATLAB
„ Transfer function implementation in cascade and ladder structures
„ Continuous-time active filter implementation techniques
„ Active-RC, MOSFET-C, gm-C, Active-Gm-RC, gm-gm-C
„ The tuning system for the adjusting of the filter parameters (pole position and Q) with respect to component
parameters and technology spread

Day 3-4
„ Switched-capacitor filters: The basic concepts
„ The SC building blocks (1st and 2nd order), High-order SC filters: cascade and ladder topologies
„ Implementation issues: capacitors, switches, opamps.
„ Distortion and noise in SC filters
„ Performance improvement: offset cancellation, finite-gain compensation, long time constant integrators,
double-sampling, precise Opamp Gain approach.
„ Realization details: Circuit bias, clock phase generation, simulation issue, layout
„ Low-voltage SC filters
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Training course on
Design of Analog Filter

About the Speaker

Andrea Baschirotto graduated in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) from
the University of Pavia in 1989. In 1994, he received the Ph.D. degree in electronics
engineering from the University of Pavia. In 1994, he joined the Department of
Electronics, University of Pavia, as a Researcher (Assistant Professor). In 1998, he
joined the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Italy, as an
Associate Professor. In 2007, he joined the Department of Physics, University of
Milan-Bicocca, Italy, as an Associate Professor.

Andrea Baschirotto has a long-term experience in microelectronics for what concerns

teaching, researching, and industrial designing. He is teaching regular Academic courses since 1997. He
organized the full educational courses for Electronics Engineering (Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D.) at University of
Lecce. He uses to give industrial courses since 1996 (in Bosch, STMicroelectronics, ITC-IRST, Conexant, Mikron,
etc…). He is a speaker at the MEAD Summer courses held at EPFL (Lausanne – Switzerland). He uses to give
short courses or tutorial at the most important conferences (ISSCC, ISCAS, PRIME).

About his research activity, he founded and he is leading the Microelectronics Group at University of Lecce, which
is collaborating with several companies and research institutions (IMEC, Infineon, University of Pavia, RFDomus,
STMicroelectronics, etc….). His main research interests are in the design of CMOS mixed analog/digital
integrated circuits, in particular for low-power and/or high-speed signal processing. He participated to several
research collaborations, also funded by National and European projects. He is/has been responsible of some
National and Regional projects for the design of ASIC. Since 1989, he also personally collaborated with several
companies on the design of mixed signals ASICs, like STMicroelectronics, Mikron, ACCO, ITC-IRST, RFDomus
(now GloNav), Conexant, etc….

He has authored or co-authored more than 190 papers in international journals and presentations at international
conferences, 6 book chapters, and holds 25 USA patents. In addition, he has co-authored more than 120 papers
within research collaborations on high-energy physics experiments.

Andrea Baschirotto was Associate Editor IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. – Part II for the period 2000-2003, and he is
now serving IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. – Part I as an Associate Editor. He has been the Technical Program
Committee Chairman for ESSCIRC 2002 and he was the Guest Editor for the IEEE JSSC for ESSCIRC 2003 and
ESSCIRC2007. He was the General Chair of IEEE-PRIME2006 and AACD2008.

He is the member of the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences (ISSCC, ESSCIRC,
DATE, etc..). He is serving since several years the ESSCIRC TPC as Data Converter Subcommittee Chairman.
He has been the secretary of the European Committee of ISSCC Technical Program Committee. He is an IEEE
Senior member. He is the founder and the Chairman of the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Italian Chapter.
Training course on
Design of Analog Filter

Date: 18 – 21 May 2011 (Wednesday – Saturday)

Venue: Conference Hall 3, 1/F, Core Building 1, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin
Fee*: 4-day full course Regular HK$8,400.- per head Early bird price: HK$8,000.- per person
Full-time student^ price: HK$7,500.- per person
2-day course Regular HK$5,000.- per head Early bird price: HK$4,800.- per person
(Day 1-2 or Day 3-4) Full-time student^ price: HK$4,500.- per person
Early bird: on or before 11 March 2011, Friday
Speaker: Prof Andrea Baschirotto
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Language: English
*Incubation companies/tenants may apply for maximum 75 % reimbursement of the course fee from HKSTPC fund (up to the limit of the balance
in incubatees’/tenants’ funding account) after the course completion.
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