Patents

Li Yu and Martin Snelgrove, “Signal Processor for reducing undesirable signal content” U.S. Patent 6 804 359 issued October 12, 2004.

Duncan G. Elliott and W. Martin Snelgrove “Method and apparatus for an energy efficient operation of multiple processors in a memory” U.S. Patent 6 560 684 issued May 6, 2003.

W.M. Snelgrove, “Establishing and managing communications over telecommunication networks,” U.S. Patent 6 535 592 issued March 18, 2003

A. Swaminathan, E.W. MacRobbie, W.M. Snelgrove, “Method and apparatus for minimiz­ing mismatch in a complex filter,” U.S. Patent 6 329 939 issued December 11, 2001

D.G. Elliott, and W.M. Snelgrove, “Memory device with multiple processors having par­allel access to the same memory area,” U.S. Patent 6 279 088 issued August 21, 2001.

Duncan G. Elliott and W. Martin Snelgrove “Memory device with multiple processors hav­ing parallel access to the same memory area” U.S. Patent 5 956 274 issued Sept 21 1999

D.G. Elliott and W. M. Snelgrove “Method and Apparatus for a Single Instruction Oper­ating Multiple Processors on a Memory Chip”. U.S. Patent 5 546 343, issued August 13 1996, filed October 1990.

Journal Papers

J.A. Cherry, W.M. Snelgrove and W. Gao, “On the Design of a Fourth-Order Continuous- Time LC Delta-Sigma Modulator for UHF A/D Conversion,” T-CAS-II, pp. 518-530 vol. 47 no. 6 June 2000

J. A. Cherry and W. M. Snelgrove, “Excess Loop Delay in Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators,” accepted for T-CAS-II 1999

J. A. Cherry and W.M. Snelgrove, “Clock Jitter and Quantizer Metastability in Continu­ous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators,” accepted to T-CAS-II 1999

L. Yu and Martin Snelgrove, “A Novel Adaptive Mismatch Cancellation Scheme for Quadrature IF Radio Receivers,” T-CAS-II pp. 789-801 vol. 46 no. 6 June 1999

J. A. Cherry and W.M. Snelgrove, “On the Characterization and Reduction of Distortion in Bandpass Filters,” T-CAS-I pp. 523-537 May 1998

Omid Shoaei and Martin Snelgrove, “Design and Implementation of a Tunable 40MHz- 70MHz Bandpass Delta-Sigma Modulator,” IEEE T-CAS-II, to appear july 1997

J. A. Cherry, W. M. Snelgrove, and P. Schvan, “Signal-Dependent Timing Jitter in Contin­uous-Time Sigma Delta Modulators,” Electronics Letters, June 1997, pp. 1118-1119.

W. Gao, M. Snelgrove and S. Kovacic, “A 5-GHz SiGe HBT Return-to-Zero Comparator for RF A/D Conversion,” IEEE-JSSC, v. 31 # 10, pp. 1502-1506, October 1996,

N.G. Tarr, R. Soreefan, T.W. MacElwee, W.M. Snelgrove and S. Bazarjani, “A Simple Back­gated MOSFET Structure for Dynamic Threshold Control in Fully-Depleted SOI CMOS,” Elec. Lett. v. 32, pp. 1093-1095, 6 June 1996

A. Shoval, W.M. Snelgrove and D.A. Johns, “A 100Mb/s BiCMOS Adaptive Pulse-Shap­ing Filter,” IEEE J. Selec. Areas Commun., vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1692-1702 Dec. 1995

Stephen H. Lewis, R. Ramachandran and W. Martin Snelgrove, “Indirect Testing of Digital- Correction Circuits in Analog-to-Digital Converters with Redundancy,” T-CAS-II, vol. 42, no. 7 pp. 437-445 July 1995.

Ayal Shoval, David A. Johns and W. Martin Snelgrove, “Comparison of DC Offset Effects in Four LMS Adaptive Algorithms,” T-CAS-II, vol. 42, no. 3 pp. 176-185 March 1995

Frank W. Singor and Martin Snelgrove, “Switched-Capacitor Bandpass Delta-Sigma A/D Modulation at 10.7MHz,” IEEE JSSC, v. 30 # 3, pp. 184-192, March 1995.

Frank X.Y. Gao and W. Martin Snelgrove “Adaptive Nonlinear Recursive State-Space Fil­ters,” IEEE T-CAS Transactions Brief, T-CAS-II vol. 41 # 11 pp. 760-764 November 1994

W. Gao and M. Snelgrove, “Floating-gate MOS Device as an Analog Trimming Element”, MJ v. 25 #5 pp. 353-361, August 1994.

A. Shoval, D.A. Johns and Martin Snelgrove, “A Wide-Range Tunable BiCMOS Transconductor”, MJ, v. 24, #5, pp. 555-564, Aug 1993	.

S.A. Jantzi, M. Snelgrove and P. Ferguson Jr., “A Fourth-order Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator”, IEEE JSSC, v. 28 #3, pp. 282-291, March 1993

Frank X.Y. Gao and W. Martin Snelgrove “An Adaptive Backpropagation Cascade IIR Filter”, IEEE T-CAS-II, v. 39 #9 pp. 606-610, Sept. 1992

Martin Snelgrove and Ayal Shoval “A Balanced 0.9µm CMOS Transconductance-C Filter Tunable over the VHF Range”, IEEE JSSC, v.27 #3 pp. 314-323, March 1992

Stephen Jantzi, Richard Schreier and Martin Snelgrove, “Bandpass Sigma-Delta Analog-to- Digital Conversion”, IEEE T-CAS (Express Letter), v.38 #11 pp. 1406-1409, Nov. 1991

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Continuous-time LMS Adaptive Recursive Filters”, IEEE T-CAS, v.38 #7 pp. 769-778., July 1991

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Adaptive Recursive State-Space Filters us­ing a Gradient-Based Algorithm”, IEEE T-CAS v. 37 #6 pp. 673-684, June 1990.

R. Schreier and M. Snelgrove, “Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulation”, Electron. Lett., v. 25, #23, pp. 1560-1561, Nov. 1989.

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S.Sedra, “Orthonormal Ladder Filters”, IEEE T-CAS v. 36 #3, pp. 337-343, March 1989.

J.S.Rose, W.M.Snelgrove and Z.G.Vranesic, “Parallel Standard Cell Placement Algo­rithms with Quality Equivalent to Simulated Annealing”, IEEE T-CAD, v. 7. #3, pp. 387- 396, March 1988.

W. Song, K.C. Smith and W.M.Snelgrove, “Partitioning for Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing is NP-Complete”, Electron. Lett., vol. 23 no 20, pp. 1060-1062, Sept. 1987.

G.W. Roberts, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S.Sedra, “Switched-Capacitor Realization of an Nth Order Transfer Function Using a Single Multiplexed Op-Amp”, IEEE T-CAS, v. 34 #2, pp.140-148, Feb. 1987.

W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Synthesis and Analysis of State-Space Active Filters Us­ing Intermediate Transfer Functions”, IEEE T-CAS, v. 33 #3 pp.287-301, March 1986. (Guillemin-Cauer best paper award, 1986).

Wayne M. Loucks, Martin Snelgrove, and Safwat G. Zaky, “A Vector Processor Based on One-Bit Microprocessors”, IEEE Micro, v. 2 #1, pp. 53-62, Feb. 1982.

W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “On State-Variable Biquads with Optimum Integrator Sensitivities”, IEE Proc. v.128 Part G, #4, pp. 173-175, August 1981.

Journal Papers in Preparation and Review and Patents Applied for

D.G. Elliott and W. M. Snelgrove “Memory with a fast SIMD processor”. Application filed October 1990 (continuing in part)

Refereed Conference Papers

Peter M. Nyasulu, Ralph Mason, W. Martin Snelgrove, and Duncan G. Elliott, “Minimizing the Effect of the Host Bus on the Performance of a Computational RAM Logic-in-Mem­ory Parallel-Processing System,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Diego, May, 1999

W. Gao, J. A. Cherry and W.M. Snelgrove, “A 4GHz Fourth-Order SiGe HBT Bandpass Delta-Sigma Modulator,” VLSI Symposium May 1998

J. A. Cherry and W. M. Snelgrove, “Loop Delay and Jitter in Continuous-Time Sigma Del­ta Modulators,” ISCAS 1998, v. 1, pp. 587-590.

J. A. Cherry and W. M. Snelgrove, “Approaches to Simulating Continuous-Time Sigma Delta Modulators,” ISCAS 1998, v. 1, pp. 596-599.

Weinan Gao and Martin Snelgrove, “A 950MHz Second-Order Integrated LC Bandpass	Modulator,” VLSI Symposium ‘97 Digest pp. 111-112, Kyoto, June 12-14 1997

Seyfi Bazarjani and Martin Snelgrove, “A 40MHz IF Fourth-Order Double-Sampled SC Bandpass	Modulator,” Proc. ISCAS-97 v.1 pp. 73-76, Hong Kong, June 10-12 1997

Seyfi Bazarjani, Martin Snelgrove, Trevor Monson and Tom MacElwee, “1 V Mixed-Signal Circuits in a	CMOS Technology,” Proc. ISCAS-97 v. 3, pp. 1860-1863, Hong Kong, June 10-12 1997

Weinan Gao and W. Martin Snelgrove, “A Linear Q-Enhanced Monolithic LC Filter,” Proc. ISCAS-97 v.1 pp. 97-100, Hong Kong, June 10-12 1997

Weinan Gao, Omid Shoaei and W. Martin Snelgrove, “Excess Loop Delay Effects in Con­tinuous-Time Modulators and the Compensation Solution,” Proc. ISCAS-97 v. 1 pp. 65-68, Hong Kong, June 10-12 1997

T.M. Le, W.M. Snelgrove and S. Panchanathan, “Computational*RAM Implementation of MPEG-2 for real-time encoding,” presented at SPIE Multimedia Hardware Architectures 1997, San Jose, Feb 8-14 1997

N.G. Tarr, R. Soreefan, T.W. MacElwee, W.M. Snelgrove and S. Bazarjani, “A Simple Im­planted Backgate MOSFET for Dynamic Threshold Control in Full Depleted SOI CMOS,” Int’l SOI Conf., Fort Myers, Florida, Oct. 1-3 1996

Ashok Swaminathan, A., Martin Snelgrove, Steven Jantzi and Seyfi Bazarjani. “A Monolith­ic Complex Sigma-Delta Modulator for Digital Radio,” IEEE-CAS Region 8 Workshop, Pavia, Italy Sept. 13-14, 1996

H.K. Yang and Martin Snelgrove, “Symbol Timing Recovery Using Oversampling Tech­niques,” ICC-96, Dallas, June 23-27 1996

O. Shoaei and Martin Snelgrove, “A Wide-Range Tunable 25MHz-110MHz BiCMOS Continuous-Time Filter,” Proc. ISCAS-96, Atlanta, May 12-15 1996

H.K. Yang and Martin Snelgrove, “High-Speed Polyphase CIC Decimation Filter,” Proc. ISCAS-96, Atlanta, May 12-15 1996

T. Varelas, S. Bazarjani and Martin Snelgrove, “A Bipolar Sampled-Data Bandpass Delta- Sigma A/D Modulator”, Proc. CICC-96, San Diego, May 6-8 1996

Seyfi Bazarjani, W.M. Snelgrove, and Tom MacElwee “A 1V Switched-Capacitor Modulator,” presented at SLPE ‘95, San Jose, Oct 1995.

W. Gao, M. Snelgrove, T. Varelas, S. Kovacic and D. Harame, “A 5-GHz SiGe HBT Return- to-Zero Comparator,” Proc. BCTM ‘95 pp. 166-169, Minneapolis Oct. 2-3 1995

S. Bazarjani, T. MacElwee and M. Snelgrove, “Optimizing the Natural MOSFETs in a Process for 1V Mixed-Signal Applications,” presented at the 25th ESSDERC, The Hague, Sept. 25-27 1995

B. Korst-Fagundes, J. Xie and M. Snelgrove, “Multipoint Equalization with the Condition Number,” Proc. MWSCAS ‘95,	Rio de Janeiro August 1995.

Seyfi Bazarjani and W.M. Snelgrove, “A Fourth-Order SC Bandpass Modulator De­signed on a Digital CMOS Process,” Proc. MWSCAS ‘95,	Rio de Janeiro August 1995.

James A. Cherry and W. Martin Snelgrove, “Analog Filter Banks with Low Intermodula­tion Distortion,” Proc. ISCAS 95, v. 2 pp. 1195-1198, Seattle, WA April 29-May 3 1995

Omid Shoaei and W. Martin Snelgrove, “A Multi-feedback design for LC bandpass Delta- Sigma modulators,” Proc. ISCAS-95, v. 1 pp. 171-174, Seattle, WA April 29-May 3 1995

S. Bazarjani, W. Snelgrove, “Low Voltage SC Circuit Design with Low-Vt MOSFETs,” Proc. ISCAS-95, v. 2 pp. 1021-1024, Seattle, WA April 29-May 3 1995

Seyfi S. Bazarjani, W.M. Snelgrove, N.G. Tarr and K. Howlett, “Low Voltage SC Circuit Design Using Short-Channel MOSFET Switches,” Proc. ASICON 94, pp. 344-347, Beijing, Oct. 94

Thinh M. Le, Sethuraman Panchanathan and Martin Snelgrove, “Computational RAM Im­plementation of Vector Quantization for Image Compression,” IEEE Conf. on Visual Sig­nal Processing and Communications, Rutgers, NJ, pp. 157-162 Sept. 19-20, 1994

Frank W. Singor and Martin Snelgrove, “10.7MHz Bandpass Delta-Sigma A/D Modula­tors,” Proc. CICC-94, San Diego, CA, pp. 163-166, May 1-4 1994

S.A. Jantzi, K.W. Martin, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “A Complex Bandpass Converter for Digital Radio,” Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 5 pp. 453-456 May 30-June 2 1994

O. Shoaei and M. Snelgrove, “Optimal (Bandpass) Continuous-Time Sigma - Delta Mod­ulator,” Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 5 pp. 489-492 May 30-June 2 1994

A. Shoval, D.A. Johns and M. Snelgrove, “DC Offset Performance of Four LMS Adaptive Algorithms,” Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 2 pp. 409-412 May 30-June 2 1994

Z. Gu and M. Snelgrove, “Analysis and Design of Adaptive Self-Trimming Technique for A/D Converters”, Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 5 pp. 457-460 May 30-June 2 1994

Z. Gu and M. Snelgrove, “Frequency-Domain Analysis of A/D Converter Nonlinearity”, Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 5 pp. 373-376 May 30-June 2 1994

W. Gao and Martin Snelgrove, “Floating Gate Charge Sharing: a Novel Circuit for Analog Trimming”, Proc. ISCAS 94, London, Eng., v. 4 pp. 315-318 May 30-June 2 1994

A. Shoval, D.A. Johns and Martin Snelgrove, “A Wide-Range Tunable BiCMOS Transconductor”, Proc. CCVLSI ‘92, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp. 81-88, Oct. 18-20 1992

W. Gao and Martin Snelgrove, “Floating Gate MOS Device as an Element for Analog Trimming”, CCVLSI ‘92, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp. 147-154, Oct. 18-20 1992

C. Ouslis, S.C. Good, M. Snelgrove and A. Sedra, “FiltorX: Computer-Aided Filter Design and Industry”, CCVLSI ‘92, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp. 180-187, Oct. 18-20 1992

E.M. Distefano and Martin Snelgrove, “An Efficient Synchronization Mechanism for A Multi-DSP Application”, ICSPAT ‘92, Cambridge MA, Nov. 2-5 1992

Zhiqiang Gu and Martin Snelgrove, “Application of A Novel Self-Calibration Technique For Pipelined Multi-Stage A/D Converters”, Proc. 35th MWSCAS, Washington DC., pp. 64-67, August 9-12, 1992

Zhiqiang Gu and Martin Snelgrove, “A Novel Self-Calibrating Scheme for Video-rate Two-step A/D Converters”, Proc. ISCAS-92, San Diego, CA, pp. 601-604, May 10-13 1992

C. Ouslis, M. Snelgrove and A. S. Sedra, “Multirate Switched-capacitor Filter Design: fil­torX in Action”, Proc. ISCAS-92, San Diego, CA, 1183-1186, May 10-13 1992

Ayal Shoval, David A. Johns and W. Martin Snelgrove, “Median-based Offset Cancellation Technique”, Proc. ISCAS-92, San Diego, CA, 2033-2036, May 10-13 1992

S.A. Jantzi, M. Snelgrove and P. Ferguson Jr., “A Fourth-order Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator,” Proc. CICC’92, Boston, pp. 16.5.1-4, May 3-6 1992

D.G. Elliott, W.M. Snelgrove and M. Stumm, “Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD Hybrid and its Application to DSP”, Proc. CICC’92, Boston, pp. 30.6.1-4, May 3-6 1992

Stephen Jantzi, Richard Schreier and Martin Snelgrove, “A Bandpass SD Convertor for a Digital AM Receiver”, Intl Conf. on A/D and D/A conversion, Swansea, pp. 75-80, Sept. 1991.

Chris Ouslis, Martin Snelgrove and Adel S. Sedra, “A filter designer’s filter design aid: fil­torX”, ISCAS'91, Singapore, pp. 376-379, June 11-14, 1991,

Richard Schreier and Martin Snelgrove, “Stability in Sigma-Delta Modulators”, ICIAM'91, Washington, D.C., July 8-12 1991

X.Y. Gao and Martin Snelgrove, “An Efficient Adaptive Cascade IIR Filter”, ISCAS'91, Singapore, pp. 444-447, June 11-14 1991.

Richard Schreier and Martin Snelgrove	“Modulation is a Mapping”, ISCAS'91, Sin­gapore, pp. 2415-2418, June 11-14, 1991.

Richard Schreier and Martin Snelgrove, “Stability in a General Modulator”, IC­ASSP'91, Toronto, pp. 1769-1772, May 14-17, 1991.

X.Y. Gao and W.M. Snelgrove, “Adaptive Linearization of a Loudspeaker”, ICASSP'91, Toronto, pp. 3589-3592, May 14-17, 1991.

Martin Snelgrove and Ayal Shoval, “A CMOS Biquad at VHF”, CICC '91, San Diego, pp. 9.2.1-9.2.6, May 13, 1991.

Duncan G. Elliott and W. Martin Snelgrove, “C-RAM: Memory with a Fast SIMD Proces­sor”, CCVLSI '90, Ottawa, pp. 3.3.1-3.3.6, Oct. 21-23, 1990.

C. Ouslis, M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “FiltorX: An Interactive Design Language for Fil­ters”, Advances in Electrical Engineering Software, First Int'l. Conf. on Electrical Engineer­ing Analysis and Design, Lowell, Massachusetts, Springer Verlag, pp. 227-240, Aug. 1990.

X.Y. Gao and W.M. Snelgrove, “Adaptive Linearization Schemes for Weakly Nonlinear Systems Using Adaptive Linear and Nonlinear FIR Filters”, 33rd MWSCAS, pp. 3122- 3125, Aug. 1990.

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Performance Improvements for Fine-Tuned Adaptive Recursive Filters”, ISCAS’90, New Orleans, pp. 1951-1954, May 1990.

R. Schreier and W.M. Snelgrove, “Decimation for Bandpass Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digi­tal Conversion”, ISCAS’90, New Orleans pp.1801-1804, May 1990.

X.Y. Gao and W.M. Snelgrove, “Adaptive Nonlinear State-Space Filters”, ISCAS’90, New Orleans, pp. 3122-3125, May 1990.

S. Zhou, T. McInerny, M. Snelgrove, M. Stumm, D. Wortman, “Shared Virtual Memory: A Simple Model for Implementing Distributed Applications”, CCECE, Montreal, pp. 716- 719, Sept. 1989.

D.A. Johns, W.M.Snelgrove, A.S. Sedra, “DC Offsets in Analogue Adaptive IIR Filters”, ECCTD’89, Brighton, pp. 137-141, Sept. 1989.

D.A.Johns, W.M. Snelgrove A.S.Sedra, “Nonideal Effects in Analog Adaptive IIR Filters”, MWSCAS, Champaign-Urbana IL, Aug. 1989.

E.M DiStefano and W.M. Snelgrove, “A Multi-DSP Board for a Parallel Computer using a Packet-Switched Pipelined Bus”, IEEE Pacific Rim Conf. on Communication, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, B.C., pp. 156-160, June 1989.

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Continuous-Time Analog Adaptive Recur­sive Filters”, ISCAS’89, Portland, May 1989.

X.Y. Gao, W.M. Snelgrove and D.A. Johns, “Nonlinear IIR Adaptive Filtering Using a Bi­linear Structure”, ISCAS’89 Portland, May 1989

D.A. Johns, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “State-Space Adaptive Recursive Filters”, IS­CAS’88, Helsinki, pp. 2153-2156, June 1988.

E.P. Nowicki, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Circuit and Layout of a State Multiplexed Switched-Capacitor Filter”, CCVLSI, Winnipeg, pp. 43-48, Oct. 25-27 1987.

John Kitamura, David Blythe and Martin Snelgrove, “DSPs for Music at Toronto”, 83rd Convention of the AES, New York, Oct. 1987.

D.R. Galloway, D.R. Blythe and M. Snelgrove, “Graphical CAD of Digital Filters”, Prod. IEEE Pacific Rim Conf, Victoria, B.C., pp. 303-305, June 1987.

G.V. Eaton, D.G. Nairn, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “SICOMP: A Silicon Compiler for Switched-Capacitor Filters”, ISCAS’87, Philadelphia, pp. 321-324, May 1987.

G.W. Roberts, W.M. Snelgrove, and A.S. Sedra, “SC Circuit Simulations of State-Space Formulations Derived from LC Ladder Network Prototypes”, ISCAS’87, Philadelphia, pp. 722-725, May 1987.

J.S. Rose, D.R.Blythe, W.M.Snelgrove, Z.G. Vranesic, “Fast, High Quality VLSI Place­ment on an MIMD Multiprocessor”, ICCAD, Santa Clara, Nov 10-13 1986.

J.J. Culbert and W.M.Snelgrove, “A Continuous-Time 5 MHz Biquad Filter in BNR CMOS-1B”, CCVLSI, Montreal, pp. 247-252., Oct 27-28 1986

D. Rosati and W.M. Snelgrove, “A Knowledge Base for a VLSI Design Environment”, CCVLSI, Montreal, pp. 295-300, Oct 27-28 1986.

G.V. Eaton, D.G. Nairn, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “SICOMP: A Silicon Compiler for Switched-Capacitor Filters”, CCVLSI, Montreal, pp. 349-352, Oct 27-28 1986.

D.R. Blythe, J. Kitamura, D.R. Galloway and W.M. Snelgrove, “Virtual Patchcords for the Katosizer”, ICMC, Amsterdam, Oct. 20-22 1986, pp. 359-363.

T.H. Yeap, T.H. Szymanski,W.M Snelgrove and S.G. Zaky, “An Automated Diagnostician for Hardware Faults in Digital Systems”, IASTED Intl Conf. Applied Simulation and Mod­elling, Vancouver, B.C., pp.510-514,June 4-6, 1986.

Qingli Liu, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S.Sedra,“Switched-Capacitor Implementation of Com­plex Filters”, ISCAS’86, San Jose, pp. 1121-1124, May 5-7 1986.

G.W. Roberts, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S.Sedra, “Switched-Capacitor State-Space Filters Using Intermediate-Function Synthesis”, ISCAS’86, San Jose, pp. 614-617, May 5-7 1986.

J.S.Rose,W.M.Snelgrove and Z.G.Vranesic, “ALTOR: An automatic Standard-Cell Lay­out Program”, CCVLSI, Toronto, pp 169-173, Nov. 1985.(joint winner, Best Paper Award).

T.H. Szymanski and W.M. Snelgrove, “A Semantic Data Model for VLSI”, CCVLSI, Tor­onto, pp.113-116, Nov 1985.

L.J. McNaughton, V.C. Hamacher and W.M.Snelgrove, “A Multiprocessor Fault Simulator for VLSI Circuits”, CCVLSI, Toronto, pp. 93-96, Nov. 1985.

T.H. Yeap, W.M. Loucks, W.M. Snelgrove and S.G. Zaky, “Implementing the VASTOR Architecture using a VLSI Array of 1-bit Processors”, ICCD, Port Chester, pp. 494-499, Oct. 1985.

J. Kitamura, W. Buxton and W.M. Snelgrove, “Music Synthesis by Simulation using a Gen­eral-Purpose Signal Processing System”, ICMC, Burnaby, pp. 155-158, Aug. 1985.

G.W. Roberts, W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “Switched-Capacitor Realization of an N- th Order Transfer Function Using a Multiplexed Op-Amp”, MWSCAS, pp. 621-624, Aug. 1985.

Adel S. Sedra, W.M. Snelgrove and R. Allen, “Complex Analog Bandpass Filters Designed by Linearly Shifting Real Low-Pass Prototypes”, ISCAS’85, Tokyo 1985.

T.H. Yeap, W.H. Lo, W.M. Snelgrove, W.M. Loucks and S.G. Zaky, “A VLSI Implementa­tion of a 1-bit Processing Element for the VASTOR Array Processor”, CCVLSI, Water­loo, pp. 18-21, Oct. 1983.

W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “A Novel Approach to Transfer-Function Error Model­ling with Application to Filter Approximation”, ISCAS’82, Rome, May 1982, pp. 1127- 1131.

W.M. Snelgrove and A.S. Sedra, “State-Space Synthesis of Complex Analog Filters”, EC­CTD’81, Den Haag, pp. 420-424, Aug. 1981.

W.M. Loucks, W.M. Snelgrove and S.G. Zaky, “VASTOR: A Microprocessor Based Asso­ciative Vector Processor for Small Scale Applications”, ICPP, August 1980,.pp. 37-46.

W.M. Snelgrove and A. Sedra, “A Novel Synthesis Method for State-Space Active Net­works”, MWSCAS, Toledo OH, pp. 196-200, Aug. 1980.

W.M. Snelgrove and A. Sedra, “Optimization of Dynamic Range in Cascade Active Fil­ters”, ISCAS’78, New York, pp. 151-155, May 1978.

Submitted to refereed conferences

Workshop Presentations

Robert N. McKenzie, W. Martin Snelgrove and Duncan G. Elliott, “A 1024 Processing-Ele­ment Computational RAM,” ITRC/TRIO Workshop, Kingston, May 1997

Duncan Elliott, Martin Snelgrove, Christian Cojocaru and Michael Stumm, “A PetaOp/s is Currently Feasible by Computing in RAM,” presented at the PetaFLOPS Frontier Work­shop, IEEE Frontiers Symp., McLean VA, Feb. 6 1995

Martin Snelgrove, “A/D Architectures for Wireless,” IEEE Solid State Circuits & Technol­ogy Committee Workshop on Design Challenges for Wireless ICs, Toronto, Aug. 25 1994

S. Bazarjani and M. Snelgrove, “Single-battery mixed Analog/Digital Signal Processing with Natural Transistors,” Int’l Workshop on Low-Power Design, Napa Valley, CA, April 24-27 1994

Ayal Shoval, W.M. Snelgrove and D.A. Johns, “A 4.5 Octave Tunable BiCMOS Biquad at VHF to Demonstrate an Adaptive Analog Pulse-Shaping Filter”, Technical Exposition of the 1993 CMC Workshop, Queen’s University, May 1993. (Honourable Mention in the CSDA competition)

W.M. Snelgrove, “Silicon Compilation of Switched-C Filters”, presented in the Presympo­sium Workshop on Expert System Tools for Analog Signal Processing Applications, ISCAS 1988, Helsinki, June 1988.

Invited Conference Papers

Duncan Elliott, Martin Snelgrove and Christian Cojocaru, “Computing RAMs for Media Processing,” SPIE Multimedia Hardware Architectures 1997, San Jose, Feb 8-14 1997

Martin Snelgrove and Duncan Elliott, “(Do Some) Computing in RAM,” presented at the 1995 International Symposium on Future Information-Processing Technologies, Haikko, Fin­land Sept. 1995

Martin Snelgrove, “Does Engineering Belong in the Modern University?,” 46th annual Carleton University Spring Conference, May 1995.

Frank X.Y. Gao and W. Martin Snelgrove “Adaptive Linearization of a Loudspeaker”, pre­sented at the 93rd AES Convention, San Francisco, Oct 1-4, 1992

Martin Snelgrove, “Digital Signal Processing in Audio”, presented (in Spanish) at the 5o Simposium de Ingeniería Electrónica, Guadalajara, Mexico, May 20-23 1992

W.M. Snelgrove, “Zen and the Art of Analog Design Automation”, panel position paper, Proc. IFIP 11th World Computer Congress, San Francisco, Aug.1989, p. 914.

Martin Snelgrove, “Digital Signal Processing in Audio”, AES 7th Int'l Conf. on Audio in Digital Times, Toronto, paper 6A, May 1989.

Books and Chapters in Same

James A. Cherry, W. Martin Snelgrove, “Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators for High-Speed A/D Conversion : Theory, Practice and Fundamental Performance Limits,” Kluwer October 1999 ISBN 0-7923-8625-6

S. Jantzi, R. Schreier and M. Snelgrove, “The Design of Bandpass Delta-Sigma ADCs,” chapter in Delta-Sigma Data Converters, IEEE Press, editors. S.R. Norsworthy, R. Schreier and G.C. Temes.

Martin Snelgrove, “Push-Pull Amplifiers”, article in McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 8th Ed., to appear.

Martin Snelgrove, “Oscillators” and “Negative Resistance Circuits”, articles in McGraw- Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 7th Ed.

A.S. Sedra and Martin Snelgrove, “Switched Capacitor Filter Synthesis”, chapter in Design of MOS VLSI Circuits for Telecommunications, 2nd Ed., editors Y. Tsividis and J. Franca, Prentice-Hall 1993.

W. Martin Snelgrove, “Silicon Compiler Technology for SC Filters”, chapter in Introduc­tion to Analog VLSI Design Automation, edited by M. Ismail and J. Franca, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 151-162, 1990.

Acronyms:

AES	Audio Engineering Society;

ASICON	International Conference on Application-Specific Integrated Circuits;

BCTM	Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting;

CCECE	Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering;

CCVLSI	Canadian Conference on Very Large Scale Integration;

CICC	Custom Integrated Circuits Conference;

CMC	Canadian Microelectronics Corporation;

CSDA	Canadian Semiconductor Design Association;

ESSDERC	European Solid-State Device Research Conference;

ICASSP	International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing;

ICCAD	International Conference on Computer-Aided Design;

ICCD	International Conference on Computer Design;

ICIAM	International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics;

ICMC	International Computer Music Conference;

ICPP	International Conference on Parallel Processing;

ICSPAT	International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology;

IFIP	International Federation for Information Processing;

ISCAS	International Symposium on Circuits and Systems;

JSSC	Journal of Solid-State Circuits;

MJ	Elsevier Microelectronics Journal;

MWSCAS	Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems;

SLPE	Symposium on Low-Power Electronics;

T-CAD	Transactions on Computer-Aided Design;

T-CAS	Transactions on Circuits and Systems (T-CAS-I and -II since 1992);

T-SP	Transactions on Signal Processing.

Graduate Theses Supervised and Co-supervised

Doctoral

James A. Cherry, “Theory, Practice and Fundamental Performance Limits of High-Speed Data Conversion Using Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators”, Ph.D. Carleton, 1998

S. Bazarjani, “Mixed Analog-Digital Design Considerations in Deep Submicron CMOS Technologies,” Ph.D., Carleton, 1996

O. Shoaei, “Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma A/D Converters for High Speed Applica­tions”, Ph.D., Carleton 1995

A. Shoval, “Analog Adaptive Filtering Techniques for High-Speed Data Communica­tions”, Ph.D., Toronto 1995

X.Y. Gao, “Adaptive Linear and Nonlinear Filters”, Ph.D., Toronto 1992

R. Schreier, “Noise-Shaped Coding”, Ph.D., Toronto 1991

D.A. Johns, “Analog and Digital State-Space Adaptive IIR Filters”, Ph.D., Toronto 1989.

T.H. Szymanski, “Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks”, Ph.D., Toronto 1988.

J.S. Rose “Fast, High Quality VLSI Placement on an MIMD Multiprocessor”, Ph.D., Tor­onto 1986.

Doctoral students: summary data

In Progress: 5	Last three years: 3	Lifetime:

Masters

Dan Zupcau, Carleton 1998

Stelian Mocanita, Carleton 1998

Yu Li. Carleton 1998

Ashok Swaminathan, “A Single-IF Receiver Architecture using a Complex Sigma-Delta Modulator,” Carleton 1997

J.M. Patenaude, “A Methodology for Analog Circuit Design and Knowledge Transfer”, M.Eng., Carleton, 1996

B. Korst Fagundes, “Acoustical Equalization at Multiple Listening Positions”, M.Eng., Carleton, 1996

C. D. Cojocaru, “Computational RAM: Implementation and Bit-Parallel Architecture”, M.Eng., Carleton, 1995

J. A. Cherry, “Distortion Analysis of Weakly Nonlinear Filters using Volterra Series”, M.Eng., Carleton, 1994

F. W. Singor, “High-Frequency Bandpass Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Conversion”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1994

Z. Gu, “Self-Calibrated High-Speed A/D Converters: Analysis and Design”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1993

W. Gao, “Analog Trimming Using Floating Gate Devices”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1992

E. Distefano, “A Synchronization Mechanism for Audio Digital Signal Processing Appli­cations”, M.A.Sc. Toronto 1992

S. Jantzi, “Bandpass Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Conversion”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1992

A. Shoval, “Median-Based Offset Cancellation Circuits for Integrated Analog Filters”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1991.

S. Jundler, “An Electronic Pacemaker for the Electrical Control Activity of the Stom­ach”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1991.

R. Lansdale, “Texture Mapping and Resampling for Computer Graphics”, M.A.Sc., Tor­onto, 1991.

C. Sommerfeldt, “Optimal Hypertorus Configurations for Wafer Scale Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1990.

M. Moraes, “A Hierarchical VLSI Design Rule Checker on an MIMD Multiprocessor”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1990.

A. Munshi, “Multi-Loudspeaker Multi-Point Room Equalization”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1990.

M. Mukhopadhyay, “Design & Implementation of a Global Ring for Hector”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1990.

A. Eivin, “Synchronous Circuit Verifier (SCV) - an Artificial Intelligence Approach to Interactive Incremental Verification of Sequential Circuits”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1989.

I.M. Osman, “Application of Transconductance -C Technology in Ultrasound Imaging Systems”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1989.

Wenyi Song, “Test Generation for Static Combination Logic Circuits: Analyses Algo­rithms”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1988

D.G. Elliott, “Circuit Routing with Iterative Refinement”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1988.

Frederick Gohh, “CMOS Current Conveyors”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1988.

Jeffrey Culbert, “On Transconductance-C Filters”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1988.

E.P. Nowicki, “Matrix Switched-Capacitor Filters”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1987.

R. Bicevskis, “Complex-Valued Phase Locked Loops”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1986.

L.J. McNaughton, “Fault Simulation on Multiprocessors”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1986.

J. Kitamura, “A General Purpose Signal Processor for Music Synthesis”, M.A.Sc., Toron­to, 1986.

G.W. Roberts, “Switched-Capacitor State Space Filters”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1985.

R. Schreier, “Transfer Function Design”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1985.

Qingli Liu, “Switched-Capacitor Complex Filters”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1985.

R.H. Allen, “Complex Analog Filters Obtained From Shifted Lowpass Prototypes”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1985.

W.H. Lo, “VASTOR Controller and its Programming Environment”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1984.

T.H. Yeap, “Design of a VASTOR Processing Element Suitable for VLSI Layout”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1984.

C.H. McQueen, “A Data Structure for VLSI Layout”, M.A.Sc., Toronto, 1984.

Masters students: summary data

Professional Activities

95-96	Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems part II
93-96	IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Awards Committee member
92-93	Programme committee member (area co-chair) for ISCAS-93
92	Programme committee member for CCVLSI-92
89-92	University of Toronto representative, Canadian Microelectronics Corpo­ration Technical Advisory Committee. (chair 91/92)
86-89	Director, Electrical Engineering Consociates Limited.
86-88	Director, Designing Aids for Disabled Adults.
83-88	Student Counsellor, IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch

Teaching

Subject	Level	Last taught	Notes
Circuit Theory	Second-year Un dergraduate	1995	Course Coordinator for 3 sec tions
Analog electronics	Second-year under graduate	1989	
Analog electronics	Third-year under graduate	1990	Developed new labs
Analog electronics	Fourth-year under graduate	1996	From text in development. De veloped new labs.
Analog electronics	First-level graduate	1990	
Analog electronics	Second-level grad uate	1993/4	From text in development. Also taught in Oulu, Finland
Analog electronics	Continuing educa tion	1984	
Filter theory and design	Fourth-year under graduate/ first-level graduate	1985	
VLSI	First-level graduate	1996	Layout expertise from Dan Clein of MOSAID
Filter theory and design	Second-level grad uate	1983	
Switched-capaci tor circuits	Second-level grad uate	1987	Taught in Beijing, China
Semiconductor Memory Design	Second-level grad uate	1996	Supported by MOSAID
Computer-aided design	First-level graduate	1990	
Digital signal pro cessing	continuing educa tion	1988	Two-day intensive format, for IEEE and for Ford Motor Co.
B.A.Sc./ B.Eng. theses	fourth year under graduate	1993	Approximately six per year.

Honours and Awards

1993	Honourable Mention, CSDA award at the 1993 CMC Workshop
1986	Guillemin-Cauer Award for best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Cir­cuits and Systems.
1985	CCVLSI Best Paper award (joint)
1989/90, 1990/91	University of Toronto Electrical Club award “for exceptional teaching”. Selected by third-year class
1988/89	University of Toronto Electrical Engineering Teaching Award, from the Electrical Engineering Club, for “devotion to and distinction in excellent undergraduate teaching”. Selected by third-year class.

Administration

1996	Academic Planning and Core committees, Carleton Engineering
1991	Three-year performance review, for two assistant professors, Toronto
1990	Three-year performance review, for three assistant professors, Toronto
1988	Group Chair, Electronics Group, Toronto
1986	Computer Engineering Task Force, Toronto
1986-87	Member, search committee for new Electronics Group staff, Toronto
1985	Committee to set up Centre for Computer Integrated Engineering, Tor­onto
1984-	Member, Electrical Engineering Advisory Committee on Computing, Toronto
1982-85	Member, Engineering Computer Facility Advisory Committee, Toronto

Sabbatical and Other Leaves taken

January 1 - June 30, 1991, 1992	Partial research leave: working on textbook for analog VLSI. Based at BNR Ottawa in ‘92.
January 1 - June 30, 1990 and 1989	Sabbatical, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA. Working with T.R. Viswanathan’s group in analog CMOS design.

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