NOVÁK, István, Distinguished Engineer, 
Signal and Power Integrity, Oracle, Boston, USA.

Dr. Novák is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to signal-integrity modelling, measurements and simulations. He has 30 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 execitive editor of the book "Power Distribution Design Methodologies," published in 2008. He currently leads a signal-integrity team at Oracle (previously SUN Microsystems) doing 10Gbp passive-channel characterization, designs and modeling, as well as power distribution and new technology developments for server platforms.

During the past eleven years he has been doing the high-speed signal-integrity and power-integrity designs of SUN's succesful 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,  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Technion.

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