Erkan Isa

News

• 6 Apr 2013 - regenerated the web page with WikiPad, a great application; still many things to change and upload

Interests

• System-on-chip design & verification methodologies
• System-level modeling, specification, design, and optimization
• Mixed-signal and analog circuits
• High-speed communication interfaces
• Analog-to-digital converters
• Finance and economy

Unprofessional interests

• Paragliding
• ViaFerrata
• PlayingWithTrains
• Drawing

Practical

• How to annotate PDF documents with line numbers on left or right margin - for communicating review information (PDF)
• How to measure distance on a map with Plot Digitizer- an exotic application (PDF)
  

CMOS Art

• (new) Power density on metal lines of an IO cell

Past

• 11/2010 - 03/2013: Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer, Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany.
• 09/2007 - 09/2010: I had worked at CEA, LETI in Grenoble, France for developing methods and circuits for reducing the power consumption of pipelined A/D converters in deep sub-micron technologies.
  

Education

• PhD, Microelectronics and Microsystems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2012
• MS, Microelectronics and Microsystems, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany, 2006
• BS, Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, 2005
• BS, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
  

Publications

1. Erkan Isa, "Power-Efficient Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converter Architectures for Advanced CMOS Technologies," Dissertation, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2012 (Abstract)
2. Alp Oguz, Dominique Morche, Catherine Dehollain, Erkan Isa, "Adaptive power reconfigurability for preventing excessive power dissipation in wireless receivers," 17th IEEE Int. Conf. Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 12-15 Dec. 2010 (Abstract)
3. Erkan Isa, Dominique Morche, and Catherine Dehollain, "Optimal design of a multiplying D/A converter stage with time-shifted correlated double sampling," 8th International NEWCAS Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 20-23, 2010 (Abstract)
4. Erkan Isa, Dominique Morche, and Catherine Dehollain, "A novel multiplying D/A converter stage with low sensitivity to amplifier gain," International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 30th-June 2nd, 2010 (Abstract)
5. Nashwa Abo Elneel, Erkan Aksoy, and Dietmar Schröder, "A power-adaptable A/D converter with integrated data compression," J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2010 (Abstract)
6. Erkan Isa, Dominique Morche, and Catherine Dehollain, "Generalized multiplying D/A converter stages for low power pipelined A/D converters," Proc. 13th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Antalya, Turkey, 23-27 Aug. 2009 (Abstract)
7. Nashwa Abo Elneel, Erkan Aksoy, and Dietmar Schröder, "A power-adaptable entropy-coding A/D converter," Proc. 26th Norchip Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, 16-17 Nov. 2008 (Abstract)