Peter Pupalaikis is a distinguished Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) alumni and currently serves on the ECE Industry Advisory Board. We are very proud of him! He is a great role model for all engineering students.
The following is the summary of his achievements:
My main achievements were in pioneering digital signal processing techniques for the correction of hardware impairments in high-speed digital oscilloscopes, such as magnitude response, phase response, time-interleaving, as well as bandwidth extension. This culminated in my main set of inventions that combine a microwave front-end and a DSP back-end to double and/or triple the state-of-the-art bandwidth possible in oscilloscopes, which led to LeCroy making the highest bandwidth real-time oscilloscopes for over a decade. This technique was used to produce a 100 GHz bandwidth, 240 GS/s scope in 2015. I also pioneered the design and development of time-domain reflectometry (TDR) based network analyzers.
The one sentence summary would be that I pioneered DSP and microwave techniques as applied to high-bandwidth real-time digital oscilloscopes.
Read Peter's technical paper here: Technologies for Very High Bandwidth Real-time Oscilloscopes
