Program

Wednesday March 18th 2026
Advances in high-performance ADCs
Chair: Prof. Bram Nauta
08:00Registration
09:00Opening ceremony
09:15Wideband continuous-time ADCs for automotive applications
Lucien Breems
NXP Semiconductors
10:00High-Speed ADC Innovations: Architectures, Circuit Techniques & Calibration
Pieter Harpe
Eindhoven University of Technology
10:45Coffee break
11:15High performance Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs
Michael Flynn
University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
12:00High Linearity Delta-Sigma Analog to Digital Converters: From Discrete Time to Continuous-Time Architectures
Francesco Conzatti
Infineon Technologies, Austria
12:45Lunch
13:45Advances in High-Resolution Incremental ADCs
John G. Kauffman
University of Ulm, Germany
14:30Linearizing VCO-based ADCs Using A Pseudo-Virtual Ground Feedforwarding Technique
Drew Hall
UC San Diego, USA
15:15Coffee break
15:45Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Michael Weber
President of University of Ulm
16:00Panel discussion
17:00Welcome reception

Thursday March 19th 2026
Sensor interface circuits
Chair: Prof. Andrea Baschirotto
09:00Common-Mode Replication for High-Impedance Sensor Interfaces
Qiang Li
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
09:45Ultra-Low Power, High-Resolution Sigma-Delta Modulators for Multi-Sensor Platforms
Piero Malcovati
University of Pavia, Italy
10:30Coffee break
11:00Beyond Closed-Loop Architectures: Delivering High Performance in Power Constrained Gyroscopes
Francesco Diazzi
Bosch Sensortec GmbH, Munich, Germany
11:45Echography System evolution and HV Ultrasound Drivers
Giulio Ricotti
STMicroelectronics, Italy
12:30Lunch
13:30Advanced Interface Circuits for Magnetic Sensors
Johannes Janschitz
Infineon Technologies, Austria
14:15Time-to-Digital Converters for LiDAR and Advanced Sensing Applications
Daniele Perenzoni
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe, Italy
15:00Coffee break
15:30Panel discussion
19:00Gala Dinner
(Restaurant Zur Lochmühle)

Friday March 20th 2026
High-Performance On-Chip References
Chair: Prof. Kofi Makinwa
08:30The Bandgap Reference: Achieving Stability in a Mass-Production World
Brendan Whelan
Analog Devices, San Jose, CA, USA
09:15Bandgap References: Recent Developments and Challenges in Nanometer CMOS
Matthias Eberlein
Fraunhofer EMFT, Munich, Germany
10:00Coffee break
10:30A Family of Simple Current References Based on 2T Voltage References
Martin Lefebvre
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
11:15A Sub-Ranging Current Reference with Process-Insensitive Second-Order TC Reduction
Pangi Park
KAIST, South Korea
12:00Lunch
13:00Hybrid LC/RC Frequency References
Anne-Johan Annema
University of Twente, Twente, The Netherlands
13:45A High-Stability High-Accuracy RC Frequency Reference
Karimeldeen Mohamed
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
14:30Panel discussion
15:30End of Workshop