Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, January 2014: Dr. Helmut Graeb, from Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to design centering and structural analysis of analog circuits. Integrated circuits form the basis of any technological progress to make human life better. Analog circuits are crucial components of integrated circuits and for instance responsible for the signal conversion between the real world signals and the digital signal processing on the microchip.
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Helmut Graeb has contributed seminally to the design automation of analog circuits. The theory of worst-case and yield analysis and optimization he developed lead to a perspicuous measure for the circuit reliability, the so-called worst-case distance, which found its way into daily design practice. Graeb’s group developed a method for structural and signal path analysis of analog circuits, which provides design constraints and guidelines boosting the degree of automation and quality of design. The results of his research have been transferred into industrial application through the foundation of the Munich EDA company MunEDA by two members of his group.
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