Lecture Series Archive

Abstract – In recent years, there has been a rapid innovation in the field of portable devices which has revolutionized the whole electronic market. The personalized gadgets such as smartphones are part of users’ life which contain sensitive data and private information. Privacy and protection of the data is a crucial task, consequently so many encryption techniques have been introduced to keep the data out of the hands of hackers. However, hackers employed new techniques that often proved the vulnerability of the crypto-processors. It is therefore imperative that system architects, circuit designers be aware of the security issue and be familiar with techniques to tackle such a rapidly growing threat. In light of the great importance to the new design dimension, security, this talk is proposed to provide an insight into and understanding of security challenges in design of digital circuits, identify the security requirements and present approaches leading to designing secure Cryptosystem-on-Chip (CoC).

Dr. Shahab Ardalan (IEEE M'02, SM'10) received his B.Sc. in EE at Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran in 1999, and his PhD degree at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 2007. Dr. Ardalan joined analog mixed signal research and development group in Gennum Corp. in 2007 where he was continuing his research activities on low-power, low-voltage circuits for high speed data and video broadcasting. In 2010, Dr. Ardalan joined San Jose State University as an assistant professor and director of center for analog and mixed signal where he is teaching and conducting research on topics of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and integrated circuit security. Dr. Ardalan’s research has led to several publications and patents. He is the recipient of the best paper award of ICUE’04 and the CMC Industrial Award from strategic Microelectronic Council of ITAC in 2005. Dr. Ardalan was holding a postgraduate scholarship from National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) from 2004-2007 and NSERC post-doctoral fellowship award in 2010. He has been member of technical and organizing committee for number IEEE conferences and IEEE Canada Central Area Chair 2010-2011, member of IEEE Canada board of executive from 2004 till 2011.

Abstract – Today's talk will survey some fundamental matters regarding electronic filters. We discuss some available technologies, specifications, and the design process. After that, we move into some particular and practical implementation issues faced by board level design engineers at National Instruments, and elsewhere. Broadly, it is asked and answered "why filter" and "how to filter".

Mr. White was born in Chautauqua County, New York. He received a diploma in Electronics Technology from Sylvania Technical Institute in 1982. From 1982 to 1993, Mr. White worked in the two-way radio industry as an FCC licensed radio technician. His work included the design, installation, and maintenance of advanced and co-located Public Safety radio and dispatch systems. Mr. White received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1997. Since receiving his degree, he has worked as design engineer for Metricom (San Jose, CA), Texas Instruments (Santa Rosa, CA), and Symmetricom (Windsor, CA). Currently, Mr. White is a Research and Design engineer for National Instruments (Santa Rosa, CA), with a special interest in circuit theory and filter design.