BJB's Background Summary:
Benjamin J. Blalock was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1968.
He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1991 and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees, also in electrical engineering, from the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
While at Georgia Tech, his research activities included
noise characterization of GaAs MESFETs, BiCMOS operational
amplifier design, CMOS current-feedback amplifier design, and
ultralow-voltage CMOS analog circuit design for signal processing
and power management applications. Dr. P. E. Allen was his
Ph.D. advisor. He twice served as the analog/mixed-signal lecturer
in Georgia Tech's VLSI Design and Test short course.
Benjamin joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University in
November 1996. His teaching responsibilities there included digital
VLSI and analog IC design. As part of his research effort at MSU,
Benjamin led the mixed-signal group effort within the
Information Sensing Systems Laboratory. His research
focus included partially-depleted and fully-depleted SOI CMOS
mixed-signal library development (references, comparators,
opamps, and ADCs), an active substrate driver for mixed-voltage
systems-on-a-chip in SOI technology, CMOS low-voltage analog
IC design, single-poly EEPROM structures and applications,
MOSFET flicker-noise mechanisms, and Silicon-Carbide analog
IC design.
August 2001, Benjamin joined the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. His
teaching emphasis at UT is analog/mixed-signal microelectronics. Benjamin's
research focus at UT is analog IC design for extreme environments (wide
temperature and radiation) on CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS,
mixed-signal/mixed-voltage circuit design for systems-on-a-chip in SOI
technology, multi-gate transistors and circuits on SOI, and body-driven circuit
techniques for ultra low-voltage CMOS analog. He is currently an Associate
Professor at UT and directs the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory
(ICASL). Benjamin has co-authored 100 refereed papers in the field of
analog/mixed-signal IC design and semiconductor devices. He has also
contributed to The Circuits and Filters Handbook. Benjamin was a
short course lecturer for the 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science and Radiation Effects
Conference (NSREC) program, his talk focusing on Radiation Effects on Analog
Integrated Circuits and Extreme Environment Design.
Benjamin has also worked as an analog IC design consultant
for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Concorde Microsystems Inc.
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