Bücher der Reihe Analog Circuits and Signal Processing

This book offers innovations in the theory, design and realization of low-noise, low-drift interface electronics for bridge transducers and thermocouples. The focus is on power efficient dynamic offset cancellation techniques to mitigate low frequency errors.

Informed by the authors' long experience in the subject, this step-by-step presentation of the topic provides a coherent and seamless framework that encompasses passive and active filters and includes the most modern and up-to-date design methodologies.

CMOS DC-DC Converters provides a comprehensive overview of monolithic inductive Direct-Current to Direct-Current (DC-DC) converters. Readers will gain specific knowledge on the design and implementation of monolithic inductive DC-DC converters, starting from the very basics.

Aiming to expand our existing knowledge of discrete-time 1-bit look-ahead modulation, this volume analyzes potential improvements to digital noise-shaping look-ahead solutions. The results are expressed through the SA-CD lossless data compression algorithm.

This book describes new circuits and systems for implantable biomedical applications and explains the design of a batteryless, remotely-powered implantable micro-system, designed for long-term patient monitoring.

This book describes a new way to design and utilize Instrumentation Amplifiers (IAs) by taking advantages of the current-mode (CM) approach. Coverage also includes various CM signal processing techniques employed in CMIAs, and applications of the CMIAs in biomedical and data acquisition are demonstrated.

This book describes the design and implementation of energy-efficient smart (digital output) temperature sensors in CMOS technology. It is shown that DTMOSTs are capable of achieving low inaccuracy (+/-0.4 DegreesC over the military temperature range) as well as sub-1V operation, making them well suited for use in modern CMOS processes.

This book describes the system-level design of an application-optimized signal conditioner together with its control algorithm and a mixed-signal AGC loop combining RMS and peak detection.

This book presents state-of-the-art analog and power management IC design techniques for various wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. This book addresses WPT design issues at both system- and circuit-level, and serves as a handbook offering design insights for research students and engineers in the integrated power electronics area.

This book describes new approaches to fabricate complementary organic electronics and focuses on the design of circuits and practical systems created using these manufacturing approaches.

This book presents the cross-layer design and optimization of wake-up receivers for wireless body area networks (WBAN), with an emphasis on low-power circuit design.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of security in the widely adopted, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The authors present the fundamental principles of RFID cryptography in a manner accessible to a broad range of readers, enabling them to improve their RFID security design.

This book introduces a completely novel architecture that can relax the trade-off existing today between noise, power and area consumption in a very suitable solution for advanced wireless communication systems.

This book describes a new type of passive electronic components, called fractal elements, from a theoretical and practical point of view. The concepts of fractals and fractal signals are explained, as well as the fundamentals of fractional calculus.

This book investigates the possible circuit solutions to overcome the temperature and supply voltage-sensitivity of fully-integrated time references for ultra-low-power communication in wireless sensor networks.

This book presents a wide-band and technology independent, SPICE-compatible RLC model for through-silicon vias (TSVs) in 3D integrated circuits.

This book illustrates a variety of circuit designs on plastic foils and provides all the information needed to undertake successful designs in large-area electronics.

This book introduces readers to the design of adaptive equalization solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology for high-speed serial links.

These three techniques enable respectively, cascading of radio frequency (RF) and baseband (BB) circuits under an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) supply, cascading of RF and BB circuits in current domain for current reuse and a novel function-reuse receiver architecture, suitable for ULV and multi-band ULP applications such as the sub-GHz ZigBee.

This book focuses on the development of circuit and system design techniques for millimeter wave wireless communication systems above 90GHz and fabricated in nanometer scale CMOS technologies. This book serves as a valuable reference for millimeter wave designers, working at both the transistor level and system level.

This book addresses the challenges of designing high performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) based on the "smart data converters" concept, which implies context awareness, on-chip intelligence and adaptation.

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node.

This book discusses wireless receiver design challenges, given the shrinking of circuitry into ever-smaller sizes and resulting complications on manufacturability, production yield and end price of the products. Includes countermeasures for RF designers.

This book describes the design of Software Radio (SWR). Rather than providing an overview of digital signal processing and communications, it focuses on topics which are crucial in the design and development of a SWR, explaining them simply, yet precisely.

This book describes a novel digital calibration technique called dynamic-mismatch mapping (DMM) to improve the performance of digital to analog converters (DACs).

This book investigates solutions, benefits, limitations, and costs associated with multi-standard operation of RF front-ends and their ability to adapt to variable radio environments. Next, it highlights the optimization of RF front-ends to allow maximum performance within a certain power budget, while targeting full integration.

This book presents architectural and circuit techniques for wireless transceivers to achieve multistandard and low-voltage compliance. The book includes comprehensive analysis and design of multimode reconfigurable receivers and transmitters for an efficient multistandard compliance.

This book proposes alternative switched capacitor techniques which allow the achievement of higher intrinsic analogue functional accuracy than previously possible in such application areas as analogue filter and ADC design.

This book describes ultra low power capacitive sensor interfaces, and presents the realization of a very low power generic sensor interface chip that is adaptable to a broad range of capacitive sensors.