Brendan Mullane

Brendan Mullane is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Limerick, affiliated with the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering.

• Research Focus: Advanced analog/digital converter design, dynamic element matching, and biomedical signal processing.
• Key Contributions: Development of high-order noise shaping techniques for DACs, hardware implementations for brain injury detection, and optimization of ADC/DAC architectures.
• Contact: brendan.mullane@ul.ie

Research Interests: Brendan's work centers on precision semiconductor design, with a focus on error correction in digital-to-analog converters and bandpass filtering techniques. His research bridges VLSI optimization and biomedical diagnostics, particularly in applying qEEG analysis for clinical applications. He has extensively explored mismatch shaping, inter-symbol interference mitigation, and switched-capacitor filter performance, contributing to the field of embedded systems for signal processing.

Scientific Contributions: His publications demonstrate a strong emphasis on high-speed, low-noise analog circuits and on-chip testing methodologies. Key trends include programmable error shaping, real-time FFT processing, and IEEE 1500 standard optimization for ADC/DAC testability.