Power Optimizer IP

Michael Hopkins, Founder & CEO, CurrentRF, USA

Biography :

Michael Hopkins is the CEO and founder of CurrentRF, A California based research company, founded in 2002. Through activities with CurrentRF, Michael developed the RFDAC methodology and Current Reuse Mixer(the CRF2101) in 2002, and more recently, the PowerOptimizer (PowerOp) methodologies and technologies (subsystems, chips, IP) the company is currently marketing.
The CC_100 technologies not only reduce dynamic power in electronic systems, but increase effective capacitance on system supply lines, enabling reduced emissions from electronic systems.
Michael is also an RF/Analog IC design engineer with 20 years of RFIC and Mixed Signal/Analog design experience with companies such as Analog Devices, Northrop Grumman, Intersil, Teledyne Scientific, and Cypress Semiconductor(Amplifiers,DACs, ADCs, Mixers, Switch Mode Regulators, High Efficiency Charge Pumps, DLLs/PLLs, Energy Harvesting Circuits, etc.).
His unique and wide experience across the Communications, Analog/Mixed Signal, RF, Power Management, and Energy Harvesting disciplines in the semiconductor industry has enabled the latest CurrentRF development, the CC-100 IC and IP PowerOptimizer (PowerOp) and it’s derivative products.