Keynote Speech 4

Keynote title:

Modern Transceivers for Fiber Optic Communications in the Age of AI

Abstract

The post-Covid era has enjoyed an unprecedented rise in high bandwidth consumption activities such as remote working, streaming, VR, and AR. With the recent breakthroughs in AI and introduction of ChatGPT, data transport and interconnect fabrics of data centers are being stressed to the limits and forced to scale up even more rapidly than their traditional pace, leading to design reconsiderations on many fronts. In this talk, we revisit historical transceiver trends in the last 20 years and their challenges, as well as give some success stories on how these new frontiers are being tackled.

 

Biography

Dr. Ray Nguyen received his BS from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and his MS and PhD from Stanford University in 2008 and 2011, respectively. His dissertation focused on high-speed parametric pipeline ADCs and converter compensation techniques. He joined Clariphy Communications in 2012, later acquired by Inphi in 2016, and subsequently by Marvell Semiconductor in 2020. In the past decade, Dr. Nguyen has built and led various high-speed serdes and optical projects with state-of-the-art performance from inception to production. His research interests include high-speed analog front-ends, time-interleaved data converters, digital signal processing, converter calibration algorithms, and machine learning techniques. He authored over a dozen US patents and publications and is currently a Director of Analog Mixed-Signal & Circuits at Marvell Semiconductor.