Bob Adams (engineer)
American engineer
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Robert Whitlock Adams is a Technical Fellow at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in Wilmington, Massachusetts.[1][2] His focus is on signal processing and analog-to-digital conversion for professional audio.[3] He is a leader in the development of sigma-delta converters, introducing architectural advances including mismatch shaping, multi-bit quantization, and continuous-time architectures.[4]
Bob Adams | |
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| Born | Robert Whitlock Adams |
| Alma mater | Tufts University (BS, 1976) |
| Known for | Sigma-delta modulation, Monolithic asynchronous sample rate converters, SigmaDSP |
| Title | Technical Fellow |
| Awards | National Academy of Engineering (2018) IEEE Pederson Award (2015) AES Silver Medal (1995) Electronic Design Hall of Fame (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering, Signal processing, Audio engineering |
| Institutions | Analog Devices dbx |
Adams graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 1976.[4] From 1977 to 1988 he worked for DBX, a professional audio recording company. There, he helped develop the industry's first audio converter with greater than 16-bit resolution, as well as one of the earliest digital audio recorders.[3] In 1988, he joined the Converter Group of Analog Devices as a Senior Staff Designer, and went on to develop ADI's first sigma-delta converters in partnership with Paul Ferguson. He produced the world's first monolithic asynchronous sample rate converters (the AD1890 family),[4] and he created ADI's sigmaDSP line of audio-specific digital signal processing cores.[3][4]
As of 1998, Adams had received 15 patents related to audio signal processing.[5]
Awards and honors
- Elected Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), 1991[6]
- Received AES Silver Medal Award, 1995[6]
- Included in Electronic Design magazine's Engineering Hall of Fame, 2011[7]
- Became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012 "for contributions to analog and digital signal processing"[8][9]
- Received the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award, 2015 "for contributions to noise-shaping data converter circuits, digital signal processing, and log-domain analog filters"[1]
- Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2018[10] for contributions to digital storage and reproduction of high-fidelity audio.