November 12, 2024
PRBS Patterns – Theory, Generation,
Checking, Uses, Pitfalls, and Practical Implementation
Tuesday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Speaker: Greg Warwar
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/443317
PRBS patterns are
ubiquitous in today's highly connected digital world. The
acronym PRBS stands for "Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence", and
as the name implies, they exhibit many characteristics of
random data, yet with completely predictable deterministic
behavior. These properties are of great theoretical
importance, but what really makes them really valuable is the
ease at which they can be implemented in both hardware and
software from the smallest ultra-high performance 100GHz RF
flip-flops, to the largest enterprise software applications.
This talk starts with the basic concepts of how they work, and
how they can be visualized and understood in a simple way and
follows up by numerous practical examples of generating and
checking PRBS sequences in SPICE, Verilog, and Python. A
practical example of testing an 8B/10B encoded communication
channel will also be discussed. All examples will be shared
for hand-on experimentation, as the greatest understanding
usually comes when you can try something out yourself!
About
the speaker: Greg Warwar is a native of
Ventura County. He received a master’s degree in electrical
engineering from Rice University in 1989. Following
graduation, he joined Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX as a
member of the technical staff where he worked on analog to
digital converters for precision audio applications. In 1992,
he joined Vitesse Semiconductor in Camarillo, CA where he
worked for 23 years on high-speed serial communications ICs,
focusing on many areas of analog and mixed-signal design
including VCOs, phase-locked loops, clock recovery, frequency
synthesizers, and adaptive equalization. Since 2015, Greg has
worked as an analog / mixed-signal ASIC designer at
Continental, HRL, and Teradyne in Agoura Hills, CA. Greg holds
seven U.S. patents in the area CMOS mixed-signal IC design.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Communications Society(ComSoc)
November 14, 2024
IEEE BV Section Fall
Mixer- Europa Mission to Jupiter
Thursday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Register
at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/443317
Welcome to the
IEEE BV Section Fall Mixer! Join us for an out-of-this-world
event as we delve into the exciting Europa Mission to Jupiter.
Network with fellow tech enthusiasts, enjoy sumptous dinner
from Stonefire Grill (free), and engage in stimulating lecture
and discussions about space exploration. This in-person event
will be held at Hub101 - Cal Lutheran Center for
Entrepreneurship. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with
like-minded individuals and learn about the latest
advancements in space technology. See you there!
November 21, 2024
Detecting quasars from
the early Universe
Thursday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Speaker: Dominika
Durovcikova
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/439714
Quasars are supermassive
black holes that are accreting matter at very high rates and
thus growing rapidly. As such black holes grow, the infalling
matter releases an extraordinary amount of radiation, which
makes quasars visible even at extremely large distances - the
most distant (i.e. the highest-redshift) quasar we know of
lies more than 13 billion light years away! This talk will
provide an overview of the science done with these distant
quasars, with a particular focus on the technical advancements
that have enabled the detection of their light, emanating
right from the beginning of the Universe.
About
the speaker: Dominika Durovcikova is a 5th
year PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Her main research interests are supermassive black
holes in the early Universe as well as their environments, for
the study of which she uses both ground-based and space-based
telescopes, like the Magellan telescopes in Chile and the
James Webb Space Telescope. In the past, she has also worked
on precision quantum measurements in the context of quantum
gravity.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society(AESS)
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