David Nairn, PhD, PEng

Dr. David Nairn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

His research is mainly in the field of electronic circuits, including analog and mixed signal circuit design, with an emphasis on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and digital-to-analog converters (DACs).

• Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), Circuit Design & VLSI

• ECE 240 - Electronic Circuits 1
  • Taught in 2024
• ECE 444 - Integrated Analog Electronics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• ECE 740 - Special Topics in Electronic Circuits
  • Taught in 2019
• GENE 123 - Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation
  • Taught in 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Nairn, David G, Cascode loads and amplifier settling behavior, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 44, 2012
• Hai, N and Nairn, DG, A capacitor scaling and capacitor sharing technique for reducing power dissipation in algorithmic ADCs, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 333, 2012
• Nairn, David G, Time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters, 2008 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2008 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, , 2008