James Buckwalter

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireline communication. 

James Buckwalter's research focus is broadband circuit design for high-speed electrical and optical communication systems, including the design of transmitter, receiver, equalizer, and clock and data recovery circuits. His research weighs speed, power, and signal integrity tradeoffs in computer communication, chip-to-chip interconnection, and on-chip clock and signal distribution. This research spans the understanding of fundamental limitations of signal propagation, modulation and equalization techniques, and the development and implementation of analog and mixed-signal circuit techniques to mitigate non-ideal channel effects. New mixed signal circuit techniques are needed to maintain signal integrity as transistors approach nanometer scales. Novel circuits are demonstrated in Silicon CMOS and BiCMOS technologies. Additionally, his research has studied the integrated implementation of coupled oscillator arrays for microwave phased-array radios. 

Capsule Bio:
James Buckwalter is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. His research focus is broadband circuit design for high-speed electrical and optical communication systems, including the design of transmitter, receiver, equalizer, and clock and data recovery circuits. Dr. Buckwalter earned his MS degree from UC Santa Barbara in 2001, and his PhD from The California Institute of Technology in 2006. Between his undergraduate and graduate work, Dr. Buckwalter worked as a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore).