Company: Okika Technologies
Okika Technologies Intro and FPAA Technology Overview (pdf)
Topic: An Introduction to Field Programmable Analog Array with Practical Applications
Speaker: Doug Moran, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Okika Technologies
Summary: This presentation will briefly describe FPAA technology and product offerings from Okika Technologies with specific attention to tool flow and examples to highlight the relative simplicity of using Okika FPAA's compared to other options requiring low frequency dynamically reconfigurable or adaptive analog front ends. The discussion will also touch on next generation devices currently being designed.
Like its cousin digital technology FPGA, Filed Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) technology has been in the marketplace for many years. Unlike FPGA's, adoption of FPAA's into mainstream applications has been slower, hindered primarily by lack of a sophisticated software tool chain that eases development and integration into embedded systems. Over the past decade, many developments have been made in FPAA tool flow that have enabled ease of use and most importantly the implementation of adaptive signal conditioning systems for embedded applications such as sensor systems, sonar/ultrasound devices, and industrial test & measurement in which software control of analog systems is advantageous. In such systems, FPAA's can be used to modify and control component parameters (gain, frequency, etc) or perform complete reconfiguration in which the entire analog system functionality is re-implemented under software control (changing a transmitter to a receiver and back, for example). FPAAs are also being considered for education in electrical and system engineering programs and are routinely used for quick-prototyping and system refinement under software control.
About the Speaker: Doug Moran is Okika Technology's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to starting Okika, Doug was Vice President Worldwide R&D for Ramtron International Corporation (now a part of Infineon Technologies), participated in several startup ventures in the high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor space, and held engineering and management positions in a number of semiconductor companies including Conexant Systems, Fairchild Semiconductor, Microchip Corporation, and Brooktree Corporation. He started his career in semiconductor engineering & design at UCLA and extended his business acumen through executive development training at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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