Patrick Satarzadeh

I have joined Texas Instruments as a part of the Digitally Enhanced Analog
Systems group in the DSP R&D Center

I recently graduated with my Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UC Davis
My general interests lie in implementations of signal processing
systems where in particular I am interested in developing DSP
based methods to calibrate analog/RF circuits.

My advisor was Professor Bernard C. Levy.
My intestest in circuits also allowed me to interact with Professor Paul J. Hurst.
My interest in modeling the HRTF allowed me to work with Professor Ralph V. Algazi.

You can find my old resume here [pdf].

Research Projects

I have worked on:

Papers

  • A parametric polyphase domain approach to blind calibration of timing mismatches for M-channel time-interleaved ADCs
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Bernard C. Levy, and Paul J. Hurst
    submitted to the 2010 IEEE Internat. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '10), Paris, France, May 2010
  • Digital Calibration of a Nonlinear Sample and Hold (S/H)
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Bernard C. Levy, and Paul J. Hurst
    IEEE J. Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on DSP
    techniques for RF/analog circuits impairments, vol. 3, no. 3, June 2009 . [pdf]
  • Adaptive Semi-Blind Calibration of a two channel time-interleaved A/D Converter
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Bernard C. Levy, and Paul J. Hurst
    IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 56, pp. 2075--2088, September 2009. [pdf]
  • Bandwidth Mismatch Correction of a two channel time-interleaved A/D Converter
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Bernard C. Levy, and Paul J. Hurst
    ISCAS 2007, New Orleans, LA May 2007.   [pdf]
  • Physical and Filter Pinna Models Based on Anthropometry
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Ralph V. Algazi, and Richard O. Duda
    122nd Audio Engineering Society(AES) Convention, Vienna, Austria May 2007.   [pdf]
  • A Study of Physical and Circuit Models of the Human Pinnae
    Patrick Satarzadeh, Master's Thesis [pdf].
  • Talks

  • A Recipe for Background ADC Calibration via DSP.
    Stanford University, Rethinking Analog Design Initiative, May 2009 (Invited)
  • A Recipe for Background ADC Calibration via DSP.
    Rambus, May 2009 (Invited)
  • Bandwidth Mismatch Correction of a two channel time-interleaved A/D Converter. slides
    ISCAS, New Orleans, May 2007
  • Contact Information

    Department of Elec/Comp Eng.
    One Shields Ave.
    Davis, CA 95616
    psatarzadeh at ucdavis dot edu