Douglas Garrity

Douglas Garrity is a Visiting Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. (2007), M.S. (1993), and B.S. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, University of Idaho, and Portland State University, respectively. His career spans industry and academia, including roles at American Microsystems, Inc., Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola), and NXP, where he specialized in high-performance data converters and analog VLSI circuits. He holds 40 U.S. patents with more pending. Awards include IEEE Fellow (2012), Motorola Distinguished Innovator Award, and the Mahboob Khan Mentor of the Year Award (2001, 2013).

He served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (1994–2004) and as a guest editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. His teaching includes courses on analog-to-digital converters and oversampling sigma-delta data systems.

• Research Focus: Data converter architectures, mixed-signal IC design, embedded systems.
• Industry Contributions: Pioneered advancements in analog VLSI and high-performance data converters at Motorola/Freescale.