David Nairn, PhD, PEng

Dr. David Nairn retired in 2026 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and now holds the title of Associate Professor Emeritus.

His research focuses on electronic circuits, including analog and mixed-signal circuit design, with a particular 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, 2025
• ECE 444 - Integrated Analog Electronics
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• 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