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David Nairn
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Latest papers
A Simple Wireless Sensor Node System for Electricity Monitoring Applications: Design, Integration, and Testing with Different Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
Latest funding
- $120,000
Advanced Techniques for High-Performance Analog-to-Digital Converters
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
Analysis and design of low-noise anti-aliasing front-ends for high-resolution data acquisition systems
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $50,000
A Low Jitter Testbench for High-Speed Data Converters
ONTARIO · 2008 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
A Simple Wireless Sensor Node System for Electricity Monitoring Applications: Design, Integration, and Testing with Different Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters.
Yang Z, Zarabi S, Fernandes E, Rua-Taborda MI, Debéda H, Salehian A, Nairn D, Wei L
Advanced Techniques for High-Performance Analog-to-Digital Converters
Principal investigators: Nairn, David
Analysis and design of low-noise anti-aliasing front-ends for high-resolution data acquisition systems
Principal investigators: Nairn, David
A Low Jitter Testbench for High-Speed Data Converters
Principal investigators: Nairn, David
Keywords: High-speed sampling, Jitter, Analog Circuits, ADCs, DACs, CMOS, VLSI, Mixed Signal
A Low Jitter Testbench for High-Speed Data Converters
Principal investigators: Nairn, David
Keywords: High-speed sampling, Jitter, Analog Circuits, ADCs, DACs, CMOS, VLSI, Mixed Signal
High performance analog circuits for large scale integrated systems
Principal investigators: Nairn, David
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Lan Wei and Armaghan Salehian: 6 shared papers
- Lan Wei and David Nairn: 1 shared paper
- Armaghan Salehian and David Nairn: 1 shared paper
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- PEng
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