David Nairn, PhD, PEng

Associate Professor
Email: nairn@uwaterloo.ca
Location: E5 4007,E2 1778C
Phone: 519-888-4567 x37294,519-888-4567 x43754
Biography
Dr. David Nairn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.
His research is mainly in the field of electronic circuits, including analog and mixed signal circuit design, with an emphasis on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and digital-to-analog converters (DACs).
His research is mainly in the field of electronic circuits, including analog and mixed signal circuit design, with an emphasis on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and digital-to-analog converters (DACs).
Research Interests
- Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), Circuit Design & VLSI
Teaching*
- ECE 240 - Electronic Circuits 1
- Taught in 2024, 2025
- ECE 444 - Integrated Analog Electronics
- Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022
- GENE 123 - Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation
- Taught in 2023
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
- Nairn, David G, Cascode loads and amplifier settling behavior, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 44, 2012
- Hai, N and Nairn, DG, A capacitor scaling and capacitor sharing technique for reducing power dissipation in algorithmic ADCs, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 333, 2012
- Nairn, David G, Time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters, 2008 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2008 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, , 2008