PhD, Consultant, Munich, Germany.
Dr. Rudolf Koch has over 30 years of experience in analog and
mixed-signal design in various positions and responsibilities. His
current main interests are all aspects of data converters,
especially but not only for communication systems.
Rudolf Koch studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical
University in Munich, where he received his Diploma (Masters
Degree) in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1980, respectively.
From 1974 until 1981 he was with the Corporate Research Group of
Siemens AG in Munich, engaged in research work on solid-state area
imagers and at the same time pursuing his Ph.D. thesis.
From then until 1983 he was Group Manager at Eurosil for clock and
watch IC development. Emphasis was on the design of ultra-low power
circuits, including analog blocks such as bandgaps and crystal
oscillators, in 1V CMOS.
In 1983, he joined the Semiconductor Division of Siemens, Munich,
where he built up and headed the Analog Design Group. Among many
other product designs comprising ADCs, DACs, filters, output
buffers, references etc. for wireline and wireless standards he
developed one of the first continuous-time sigma-delta converters
in 5V CMOS when most comparable designs were still done in bipolar
technologies and/or using 10V supply. He was also responsible for
the 'analog' specific infrastructure requirements - process
optimization, design flow, design automation, special CAD
tools.
In 2000, the Siemens Semiconductor Division was spun off as
Infineon Technologies. The same year, he joined the Wireless
Division to start RF CMOS design activities. Among his tasks was
the research and development of RF CMOS as mainstream technology
for wireless applications. Until 2009 he was Innovations Manager in
the Wireless Division of Infineon Technologies.
Rudolf Koch has authored or co-authored around 30 papers and holds
over 40 patents.
He was a member of the ICECS program committee, the ESSCIRC
program committee, Technical Program Chair of ESSCIRC'03 in Lisbon,
Tutorial Chair of ESSCIC'07 in Munich, and Guest Editor of the IEEE
J. Sc. For ten years he was a member of the ISSCC program
committee, later also of the executive committee and served as
European Chair. He has repeatedly been a panelist at DAC and ISSCC
and has organized a number of panels, forums and workshops. For
many years he was a lecturer at the Infineon Institute, and he
served as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Rudolf Koch is a Fellow of the IEEE.
He has been a member of the CEI-Europe faculty since 2007.
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Embedded Data Converters
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Converter Modeling, Simulation and Test