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SSCS Members Robert W. Adams and Khalil Najafi
Receive IEEE Field Awards at ISSCC 2015

IEEE Fellows Robert W. Adams (left) and Khalil Najafi (right), who are 20-year members of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, being congratulated by IEEE President Howard Michel (on the right) during the ISSCC plenary awards program for having received the IEEE Pederson and
Noble field awards, respectively, for 2015.

THE PEDERSON AWARD WINNER
The IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in SolidState Circuits is sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society and recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits.
The Pederson Award for 2015 is awarded to
IEEE Fellow Robert W. Adams, currently a fellow
with Analog Devices, Inc., of Wilmington, Massachusetts, "for contributions to noise-shaping
data converter circuits, digital signal processing,
and log-domain analog filters."
Adams' long history of endeavor and accomplishment spans decades. One of his earliest accomplishments was his discovery of the log-domain analog filter principle in 1978. Today, you
will find this technique in widespread use in ultra-low-power medical
integrated circuits requiring highly programmable filters.

In the late 1980s, after working in high-resolution noise-shaping converters for a number of
years, he introduced the first analog-to-digital
converter for audio with 18-bit resolution. His
design was the first to use a continuous-time
loop filter with multibit quantization. At the time,
this technique was revolutionary-today, it is the
standard for the industry.
Adams also gave us two innovative circuit techniques, a mismatch-shaping technique based on
a data-directed Butterfly switching network, and
a "dual return-to-zero" technique to overcome
inter-symbol interference. The paper containing
these two techniques won a best paper award,
and the techniques earned patents for Adams.
These are the hallmarks of the career of Robert W. Adams.

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Date of publication: 25 June 2015

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