Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor | Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES

Dr. Timothy Johnson is a 30 year industry veteran with expertise in integrated circuit design, embedded systems and computer architecture.

Education, Licensure and Certification (4)

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology 1997

M.B.A.: Business, Florida Institute of Technology 1987

M.S.: Electrical Engineering, Purdue University 1983

B.S.: Electrical Engineering, Purdue University 1981

Biography

Dr. Timothy Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering department and has been a faculty member at MSOE since 2016. Prior to joining the academic ranks, Dr. Johnson enjoyed a thirty year career in the advanced technology industry spanning the military, industrial, commercial and consumer markets. He was involved in basic and applied research, product development, engineering management, and business management. He has designed or been responsible for the design of over 250 integrated circuits and was responsible for more than $2B of integrated circuits on an annual basis. He worked for Motorola, Harris Corporation, IBM and RCA and indirectly with every major semiconductor company around the world.

Areas of Expertise (8)

Basic and Applied Research

Product Development

Engineering Management

Strategy Development

Business Management

IP Management and Licensing

Integrated Circuit Design

Analog, Digital, Mixed Signal Circuit Design

Affiliations (3)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Member
Eta Kappa Nu
Tau Beta Pi

Patents (4)

Internally synchronous matrix structure for use in externally asynchronous programmable devices

US4658253A

The speed of operation of a programmable logic device which contains internally synchronous circuit structure is increased by an improved architecture which does not require a power-up transition cycle. Synchronous operation is carried out only for one transition. In each column of the matrix of programmable cells, the rows of which are coupled to receive the logic signals upon which the device is to operate, the programmable cells of that column are coupled via a respective inverter feedback pair to a column output link of the matrix. The connection between the programmable cells of the matrix and the inverter feedback pairs are coupled to pull-down switch devices control inputs of which are coupled to the output of an OR tie, inputs or which depend upon a prescribed transition on row input links. This transition is detected by respective transition detectors which trigger only on a particular transition edge. When the row inputs to the matrix change state, the column outputs follow the transitions asynchronously, with the only delay being that imparted by the inherent delay through the inverter feedback pairs. When the row inputs switch or transition to the opposite state, the transition detector of each row provides an output which, through the OR tie, triggers the pull-down switches. These pull-down switches are capable of overriding the feedback inverter pair to force the column low if it had previously been high and if no other row is holding the column high. For this transition, the matrix operates synchronously.

Fuse programmable DC level generator

US4686384A

A high reliability, low power fuse programmable DC level generator is implemented by providing at least one fuse in each branch of a resistive bridge such that programming of the level generator results in providing a blown fuse in the current path and as a consequence results in low current and low power under all operating conditions.

Sampled data-biasing of continuous time integrated circuit

US5621355A

Process-dependent characteristics of a continuous time circuit, e.g., particular the sensitivity of the corner frequency of a continuous time filter to variations in absolute capacitance, is obviated by modifying a resistance-based transconductance tuning circuit, so that the tuning resistor is replaced with a switched capacitor circuit. The effect of this switched sampled data resistor replacement is such that, if each of the resistor-simulating switched capacitor of the transconductance stage and one or more load capacitors of the filter is established in the same processing sequence, what would otherwise be process-sensitive terms in the corner frequency-establishing ratio (gm /C) effectively cancel each other, so that the corner frequency fhi becomes proportional to a readily controlled frequency parameter for the sampled data resistor.

High speed A/D converter and slew controlled pulse detector

US5808489A

A pulse detecting system 1 has a high speed A/D converter 10 and a slew controlled pulse detector 110. The A/D converter 10 has large hysteresis for holding the converted digital value of an input signal VPULSE until the A/D converter 10 is reset. The slew controlled pulse detector 110 limits the slew rate of large amplitude pulse to correct arrival errors and provide an output signal VAT that more accurately represents the arrival time of the input pulse signal, VPULSE.

Selected Publications (5)

Design Considerations for BiMOS Mixed Signal

Publication

Wiles, W., Myers, B., Johnson, T.

1992

An Analog Network for Gamma Induced Impulse Noise Suppression