Awards:

Fellow of the IEEE, Jan 2012,
for contributions to high-speed analog-to-digital conversion

2011 Agilent Research Labs Barney Oliver Prize Barney Oliver Prize
for innovations in analog circuits and digital signal processing in an ultra-fast digital-to-analog converter that enables performance leadership in a wide array of Agilent instruments.

Test & Measurement World's 2012 Best In test Award for Signal Sources
to the Agilent M8190A Arbitrary Waveform Generator

2011 Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology (article)
for the Agilent M8190A Arbitrary Waveform Generator.

2005 Agilent Technologies Bill Hewlett Award
for products resulting from US Patent 6707411 "High-speed analog to digital converter with on-chip memory".

Electronic Products Magazine's 2004 Product of the Year
for the second generation of scopes based on the 20-GSa/s 8-bit ADC.

Chipcenter.com's Product of the Week (March 19, 2003)
for the three scopes based on Agilent Labs' 20 GSa/s 8-bit CMOS ADC.

2002 Agilent Labs Barney Oliver Prize (alt link)
for work on massively-parallel analog-to-digital converters.

Achievement Award, Usenix Association, 1996
for major contributions to the Software Tools Users Group

Best Paper of Conference and Best Presentation of Session
at Agilent Design Technology Conference 2000
for "A 4 GSa/s 8-bit ADC in CMOS10"

Best Paper of Session at HP Design Technology Conference, May 91
for "Hot Chips: Tools for Thermal Design of ICs"

Best JSSC Paper of 1987/1988 (awarded Feb 1989)
for "A 1 GHz 6-bit ADC System"

Professional Activities:

Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, December 2003 Special Issue on the 20003 ISSCC

Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, 1998-2003

Technical Program Committee, Agilent/HP Design Technology Conference, 1994-1999

HP Journal Advisory Board, 1992-1998

Published papers:

Note that IEEE holds the copyright to all papers published in IEEE publications.

"Interleaved ADCs Through the Ages", (slides)
Poulton, Ken
2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference

"A 14b 2.5GS/s 8-Way-Interleaved Pipelined ADC with Background Calibration and Digital Dynamic Linearity Correction", (published paper)
Setterberg, B.; Poulton, K.; Ray, S.; Huber, D.J.; Abramzon, V.; Steinbach, G.; Keane, J.P.; Wupperman,B.; Clayson, M.; Martin, M.; Pasha, R.; Peeters, E.; Jacobs, A.; Demarsin, F.; Al-Adnani, A.; Brandt, P.
2013 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Digest of Technical Papers

"A 7.2 GSa/s, 14 bit or 12 GSa/s, 12 bit Signal Generator on a Chip in a 165 GHz fT BiCMOS Process", (published paper)
Frank Van de Sande, Nico Lugil, Filip Demarsin, Zeger Hendrix, Alvin Andries, Peter Brandt, Bill Anklam, Jeff Patterson, Brian Miller, Mike Whaley, Bob Jewett, Jacky Liu, Jake Wegman and Ken Poulton
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, April 2012, Volume 47, Issue 4, pp 1003-1012

"A 7.2-GSa/s, 14-bit or 12-GSa/s, 12-bit DAC in a 165-GHz fT BiCMOS Process", (published paper) (unpublished slides)
Ken Poulton, Bob Jewett, Jacky Liu
VLSI Circuits Symposium, June 2011

"GHz ADCs: From Exotic to Mainstream", tutorial session, (slides)
Ken Poulton & Michael Flynn
IEEE Custom IC Conference, Sep 19, 2009

"Time-Interleaved ADCs, Past and Future" (slides)
Ken Poulton
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, Feb 10, 2009

"Analog-to-Digital Converters - 20 Years of Progress in Agilent Oscilloscopes" (paper) (whole issue)
John Corcoran and Ken Poulton
Agilent Measurement Journal, vol. 1, pp 34-40, Q1 2007

Chapter "Architectures and Issues for Gigasample/second ADCs" (paper)
Ken Poulton, Robert Neff, Brian Setterberg, Bernd Wuppermann, Tom Kopley
in Analog Circuit Design, Roermund, Casier + Steyaert, pp 17-32, Springer, 2007

"Architectures and Issues for Gigasample/second ADCs" (invited paper)
Ken Poulton, Robert Neff, Brian Setterberg, Bernd Wuppermann, Tom Kopley
15th Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design, April 2006

"Building the Worlds Fastest 8-bit ADC - In CMOS" (invited paper)
Ken Poulton
IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2005

"A 1.2 GS/s 15b DAC for Precision Signal Generation" (paper) (slides)
Bob Jewett, Jacky Liu, Ken Poulton
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, pp 110-111, Feb 2005

"Bandwidth AND Bits: New AWG Design Achieves Both" (paper)
Paul Corredoura, Vamsi Srikantam, Roger Jungerman, Jim Taber, Bob Jewett, Jacky Liu, Ken Poulton
AutoTestCon 2004 Proceedings, pp448-452 Sep 2004

"A 20-GSample/s 8b ADC with a 1-MByte Memory in 0.18-um CMOS", (paper) (slides)
Ken Poulton, Robert Neff, Brian Setterberg, Bernd Wuppermann, Tom Kopley, Robert Jewett, Jorge Pernillo, Charles Tan, Allen Montijo
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, pp 318-319, Feb 2003

"A 4-GSample/s 8b ADC in 0.35-um CMOS", (paper) (slides)
Ken Poulton, Robert Neff, Art Muto, Wei Liu, Andy Burstein, Mehrdad Heshami
IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, pp 166-167, Feb 2002

"The Palo Alto Fiber to the Home Trial" (invited paper) (HTML)
Ken Poulton
1999 Advanced Networks Workshop

"An 8-GSa/s 8-bit ADC System", (PDF file) (PCL file)
Ken Poulton, Knud L. Knudsen, John Kerley, James Kang, Jon Tani, Eldon Cornish and Michael VanGrouw
IEEE VLSI Symposium on Circuits, 1997

"Linearizing a 128MSample/s ADC",
Robert Jewett, Ken Poulton, Kuo-Chiang Hsieh and Joey Doernberg,
6th Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design, Apr 1997

"A 12b 128MSample/s ADC with 0.05 LSB DNL",
Robert Jewett, Ken Poulton, Kuo-Chiang Hsieh and Joey Doernberg,
IEEE ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, pp 138-139, Feb 1997

"AlGaAs/GaAs HBT's for Analog and Digital Applications",
Keh-Chung Wang, Randall Nubling, Ken Pedrotti, N-H Sheng,
Ken Poulton, John J. Corcoran, Knud L. Knudsen,
Peter Asbeck, Han-Tzong Yuan and Christopher Chang
Current Trends in Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, Chapter 2,
M.F. Chang, editor, World Scientific, 1996

"A 6-bit, 4 GSa/s GaAs HBT ADC",
Ken Poulton, Knud L. Knudsen, John J. Corcoran, Keh-Chung Wang, Randy
Nubling, Richard Pierson, Mau-Chung F. Chang, Peter Asbeck and R.T. Huang
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Oct 1995

"AlGaAs/GaAs HBT's for Analog and Digital Applications",
Keh-Chung Wang, Randall Nubling, Ken Pedrotti, N-H Sheng,
Ken Poulton, John J. Corcoran, Knud L. Knudsen,
Peter Asbeck, Han-Tzong Yuan and Christopher Chang
International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems,
Vol 5, No. 3, May 1995

"Really Hot Chips: A 6-bit, 4 GSa/s GaAs HBT ADC",
Ken Poulton,
Stanford University, EE Seminar, 7 Mar 95

"AlGaAs/GaAs HBT Technology and Multi-GHz 6-bit ADCs",
Randall Nubling, Keh-Chung Wang, Richard Pierson, Mau-Chung F. Chang
and R.T. Huang, Ken Poulton, Knud L. Knudsen and John J. Corcoran
GOMAC, Nov 1994

"A 6-bit, 4 GSa/s ADC Fabricated in a GaAs HBT Process",
Ken Poulton, Knud L. Knudsen and John J. Corcoran Keh-Chung Wang,
Randall Nubling, Richard Pierson, Mau-Chung F. Chang and R.T. Huang.
1994 GaAs IC Symposium, Oct 1994

"Dynamic Thermal Modeling of Active Devices in Circuits",
Jeff Meyer, David Root and Ken Poulton,
IEEE MTT Thermal Modeling Workshop, May 1993

"Thermal Coupling of Active Devices and Multi Finger Power Devices",
Jeff Meyer, David Root and Ken Poulton,
IEEE MTT Thermal Modeling Workshop, May 1993

"Thermal Design and Simulation of Bipolar Integrated Circuits", (PDF file) (PCL file)
Ken Poulton, Knud L. Knudsen, John J. Corcoran,
Keh-Chung Wang, Richard Pierson, Randall Nubling, Mau-Chung F. Chang,
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Oct 1992 pp 1379-1387

"Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Analog to Digital Conversion"
K.C. Wang, P.M. Asbeck, M.F. Chang, R.B. Nubling, R.L. Pierson,
D.M. Chen, J.J. Corcoran, K. Poulton, K.L. Knudsen
1991 Government Microcircuits Applications Conf. (GOMAC), Nov 1991

"Thermal Design of an HBT Sample and Hold Circuit" (PDF file) (PCL file)
Ken Poulton, John Corcoran + Knud Knudsen, Keh_Chung Wang, Mau-Chung Chang
1991 IEEE GaAs IC Symposium, Oct 91, pp 129-132

"GaAs HBTs: An Analog Circuit Design Perspective"
John Corcoran, Ken Poulton + Knud Knudsen
Invited paper, 1991 Bipolar Circuits Technology Meeting

"A 2 Gs/s HBT S/H",
Ken Poulton, James Kang + John Corcoran,
Keh_Chung Wang, Peter M. Asbeck, Mau-Chung F. Chang + Gerard Sullivan
IEEE GaAs IC Symposium, Nov 1988

"A 1 GHz 6-bit ADC System",
Ken Poulton, John J. Corcoran, Thomas Hornak
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Dec 1987

"A 1 GHz 6b ADC System",
John J. Corcoran, Ken Poulton, Thomas Hornak
IEEE Int'l Solid State Circuits Conference, Feb 1987

"Software Tools for the HP 3000",
Ken Poulton
Usenix/Software Tools Users Group Meeting 1982