Joao Marques

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Joao Marques is the Director and Engineering Design Centre Manager of Adesto’s Portuguese site, where he leads the development of high-performance, low-power mixed-signal circuits design, with focus on data converters. He has been involved in a large number of successful designs, including IP and ASIC products. He has over twenty years’ experience in the semiconductor industry and he has held various technical and management positions. He holds one U.S. patent on data converters. Before Adesto Technologies, he worked in companies including Chipidea Microelectronics (now Synopsys), Integration Associates Inc., Silicon Laboratories Inc. and S3 Group. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

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SAR ADCs For Machine-To-Machine Connections

By Joao Marques - 16 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

In our previous blog about the importance of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), we focused on the various architectures that are in common usage for the Industrial Internet of Things. In particular, we looked at which architecture was best for low-latency, low-power and high-precision applications, with each option having various advantages and disadvantages. When we looked at the applicati... » read more

The Industrial Internet Of Things Relies On ADCs

By Joao Marques - 10 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

We have all heard the news stories and read the market reports—the Industrial Internet of Things is changing industry as we know it. The move towards industrial systems becoming connected intelligent devices is happening all around us. In connected factories, there are three critical requirements: Large bandwidth communication channels Fast data processing Accurate decision inte... » read more