Senior Principle Engineer, Signal and Power Integrity,
Oracle, Boston, USA.
Dr. Novák is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to
signal-integrity modeling, measurements and simulations. He has 35
years of experience in high-speed electronics designs as well as
teaching and consulting. He is the lead-author of the book
"Frequency Domain Characterization of Power Distribution Networks",
published in 2007, and the executive editor of the book "Power
Distribution Design Methodologies," published in 2008. He currently
leads a team of signal and power-integrity engineers at Oracle
doing 10 - 25 Gbp passive-channel characterization, designs and
modeling, as well as power distribution and new technology
developments for server platforms.
During the past fourteen years he has been doing the high-speed
signal-integrity and power-integrity designs of SUN's successful
V880, V480, V890, V490, V440, T1000, T2000, T5120 and T5220
midrange server families. He introduced the industry's first 1-mil
laminates into volume-produced server PCBs, and drove the
multi-company development of controlled-ESR bypass capacitors. He
was SUN's representative on the InfiniBand Cable and Connector
Workgroup.
Previously Dr. Novák advised the European Laboratory for Particle
Physics (CERN) on signal-integrity and EMC issues for Fibre Channel
data-collection systems of the Large Hadron Collider. He worked and
consulted for several companies in the computer and
telecommunications industry, to do clock- and power-distribution
networks, switching-mode power converters as well as high-speed
backplanes, and copper and optical interconnects in the GB/s
range.
Dr. Novák had his technical education from the Technical
University of Budapest, and his Ph.D. degree from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences. He organized and led the High Speed Technology
Team at the Technical University of Budapest, where his teaching
activity covered transmission lines and wave propagation,
communications systems, EMC and signal-integrity issues of
high-speed designs.
He holds twenty five patents in the field of power distribution,
signal integrity, precision measurements and digital signal
processing, and published over one hundred technical papers.
Besides CEI-Europe, he has been teaching industry short courses
through George Washington University, Besser Associates, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and Technion.
Dr. Novák's homepage: http://www.electrical-integrity.com/
Dr. Novák has been a member of the CEI-Europe faculty since
1992.
Course #55
Signal Integrity: Advanced High-Speed Design and
Characterization
Course #56
Power Integrity: Advanced Design and Characterization