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Company Andesic is a privately owned company, which provides analog integrated circuit design services. For more details, please visit the Services page. Christian Kromer, Founder and analog IC Consultant     Dr. Kromer received the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) in 1996 and 2006, respectively.     Before starting the Andesic consulting business in 2010, he was director of integrated circuit design at Aprius Inc., in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, from 2007 to 2009, where he was responsible for the 4x10Gb/s optical transceiver IC development for QSFP, and PCIe active optical cable applications. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design group at the Electronics Laboratory (IfE), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In 2001, he started a Ph.D. program at the Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, as a Research Assistant, where he worked on receiver circuits for high-density optical interconnects in collaboration with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rueschlikon (ZRL). During this work a 4x10Gb/s optical transceiver link with the lowest power consumption per data rate, reported to date, was demonstrated. In 2006 he received the ETH Medal Award for his outstanding PhD thesis. Before that, he worked for LSI Logic Corporation in Milpitas, CA, USA from 1997 to 2001, where he was engaged in printed circuit board design for a quadrature phase shift key (QPSK) receiver system, integrated circuit (IC) design for an 8-PSK demodulator, and discrete radio frequency (RF) circuit design.     Dr. Kromer published, or contributed to, over 20 leading journal and conference papers. His research interest is in the design of low-power, high-speed CMOS analog integrated circuits for electrical and optical communication links. He has served as a reviewer for several IEEE journals, including the SOLID-STATE CIRCUIT, TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, and MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS.
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