David Nairn, PhD, PEng
Associate Professor
Email: nairn@uwaterloo.ca
Location: E5 4007,E2 1778C
Phone: 519-888-4567 x37294,519-888-4567 x43754
Biography
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).
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).
Research Interests
- Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), Circuit Design & VLSI
Teaching*
- ECE 240 - Electronic Circuits 1
- Taught in 2024
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
- 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