‘Ever see an ADC that doesn’t need a reference in any of the back-end stages? ‘Ever thought about a pipeline that has gain, but no amps? ‘Ever wonder what happens if seniors are left unsupervised? Well, that’s what this presentation is about. The message is much bigger than that, though. It’s really about failure. And how astonishing success can be found even in the ashes of disaster.
Chris (Christopher) Mangelsdorf received a B.S. in physics, magna cum laude, from Davidson College, Davidson, NC in 1977. In 1980 and 1984, he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at M.I.T. where he held the first Analog Devices Fellowship. He has been associated with Analog Devices since summer employment in 1980 and has been a Fellow of Analog Devices since 1998.
From 1996 to 2013, Dr. Mangelsdorf worked in Tokyo, running the Analog Devices Tokyo Design Center and then adding responsibility for the Shanghai and Beijing Design Centers with the title of Asia Technical Director. In 2013, he moved to the Analog Devices San Diego office, where he is engaged in the development of high speed A/D converters.
Dr. Mangelsdorf is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Pi Sigma (physics), and has served on both the ISSCC Program Committee and the AdComm for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He holds 18 patents and has won the ISSCC Best Evening Session Award seven times.