John Contreras学术报告会-12月6日
2016-12-05
报告时间:12月6日 14:00
报告地点:兴业光学楼525室
题目:Storage Systems’ Signal Integrity and EMC Design Considerations for Hard Disk and Applications in Other Systems.
Introduction of the speaker:

John Contreras joined IBM’s Storage Technology Division in 1982, as an Electronics-Packaging Engineer, working on IC packaging and system/cable communications. In 1987, he joined IBM’s Read/Write IC design group and became a Technical Lead Preamp IC Engineer. In 1996, he joined Philips Semiconductor as an Engineering Senior Manager for a Disk Channel IC Design Group. In 1997, he joined IBM’s Almaden Research Center, which became HGST a Western Digital Company. In 2011, he joined HGST’s Recording Sub-Systems.
His past and present work are in the areas of circuit design, characterization and modeling of interconnects and ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC). John has authored and co-authored sixty-five U.S. patents with an additional twenty-nine U.S. patent applications in progress (94 total). He has published 14 papers, and is an IEEE Senior member, and has received past awards for his contributions in the areas of electronics packaging, write-driver circuits, amplifiers and other circuits related to Read/Write ICs. He received his Undergraduate degree from The University of Texas, Austin, TX, and M.S. degree from Stanford University.
He is currently a Western Digital Fellow and World-Wide Director for the Advanced Front-end Systems and RF Group, working on product staging for the Front-end Systems and Electronic Packaging.