Bob Adams (electrical engineer)
Robert Adams is Technical Fellow at Analog Devices, Inc.[1] His focus is on signal-processing and conversion for professional audio.[2] He is a leader in the development of sigma-delta converters, introducing new industry concepts including mismatch-shaping, multi-bit quantization, and continuous-time architectures.[3]
Adams graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 1976.[3] From 1977 to 1988 he worked for DBX, an audio company. There, he helped develop the industry's first audio converter with greater than 16-bit resolution, as well as one of the earliest digital-audio recorders.[2] In 1988, he joined the Converter Group of Analog Devices as a Senior Staff Designer, and went on to develop ADI's first sigma-delta converters in partnership with Paul Ferguson. He produced the world’s first monolithic asynchronous sample rate converters (the AD1890),[3] and he created ADI’s sigmaDSP line of audio-specific digital signal processing cores.[2][3]
As of 1998, Adams had received 15 patents related to audio signal processing.[4]
Awards and Honors
- Elected Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), 1991[5]
- Received AES Silver Medal Award, 1995[5]
- Inducted into Electronic Design magazine’s Engineering Hall of Fame in 2011[6]
- Became Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow in 2012 “for contributions to analog and digital signal processing”[7]
- Received the 2015 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award “for contributions to noise-shaping data converter circuits, digital signal processing, and log-domain analog filters”[8]
References
- ↑ Titus, Jon (18 March 2009). "Audio ADCs Hit the High Notes". ECN Magazine (Advantage Business Media). Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 Tuite, Don (3 December 2011). "Bob Adams: Navigating The Sigma-Delta Roadmap". Electronic Design. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Taranovich, Steve (16 July 2012). "Analog: Back to the future, part two". EDN Network (UBM Tech). Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Adams, Robert; Nguyen, Khiem Q.; Sweetland, Karl (December 1998). "A 113-dB SNR Oversampling DAC with Segmented Noise-Shaped Scrambling" (PDF). IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 33 (12): 1878. doi:10.1109/4.735526. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- 1 2 "AES Awards". Audio Engineering Society. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ↑ "Engineering Hall of Fame 2011". Electronic Design. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "IEEE Fellows Directory". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Olstein, K. (21 July 2014). "IEEE Fellow Robert Adams Wins 2015 Donald O. Pederson Award". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 26 September 2014.