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This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 23rd workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design. Expert designers present readers with information about a variety of topics at the frontier of analog circuit design, serving as a valuable reference to the state-of-the-art, for anyone involved in analog circuit research and development. • Includes coverage of high-performance analog-to-digital and digital to analog converters, integrated circuit design in scaled technologies, and time-domain signal processing; • Provides a state-of-the-art reference in analog circuit design, written by experts from industry and academia; • Presents material in a tutorial-based format.

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This book focuses on the development of design techniques and methodologies for 60-GHz and E-band power amplifiers and transmitters at device, circuit and layout levels. The authors show the recent development of millimeter-wave design techniques, especially of power amplifiers and transmitters, and presents novel design concepts, such as “power transistor layout” and “4-way parallel-series power combiner”, that can enhance the output power and efficiency of power amplifiers in a compact silicon area. Five state-of-the-art 60-GHz and E-band designs with measured results are demonstrated to prove the effectiveness of the design concepts and hands-on methodologies presented. This book serves as a valuable reference for circuit designers to develop millimeter-wave building blocks for future 5G applications.

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This book provides readers with a variety of tools to address the challenges posed by hot carrier degradation, one of today’s most complicated reliability issues in semiconductor devices. Coverage includes an explanation of carrier transport within devices and book-keeping of how they acquire energy (“become hot”), interaction of an ensemble of colder and hotter carriers with defect precursors, which eventually leads to the creation of a defect, and a description of how these defects interact with the device, degrading its performance. • Describes the intricacies of hot carrier degradation in modern semiconductor technologies; • Covers the entire hot carrier degradation phenomenon, including topics such as characterization, carrier transport, carrier-defect interaction, technological impact, circuit impact, etc.; • Enables detailed understanding of carrier transport, interaction of the carrier ensemble with the defect precursors, and an accurate assessment of how the newly created defects impact the device performance. • Covers modeling issues starting from detailed physics-based TCAD approaches up to efficient SPICE-compatible compact models. “Tibor Grasser and the authors of Hot Carrier Degradation in Semiconductor Devices have made a major contribution to the field of hot-carrier degradation. I am emeritus since 2006 and believe that, after reading these great chapters, I could work again at the cutting edge of hot-carrier transport, from the basic physics to modern device function and from compact modeling to detailed Monte Carlo simulations. This is a must read for anyone interested in the reliability of semiconductor devices.” Karl Hess Swanlund Professor Emeritus University of Illinois, USA “Very few books can be found with special focus on microelectronics reliability. Written by noted experts in the field, this book offers a revealing look at various aspects of the hot carrier effect and associated device degradations. It provides a valuable reference on hot carrier related physics, experimental measurements, modeling, and practical demonstration on state-of-the-art devices. Engineering professionals, researchers, and students can use this book to save time and learn from the experts, with a quick overview of an important class of semiconductor devices and focus on device reliability physics.” Steve Chung Chair Professor National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

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This book serves as a single-source reference to Current Conveyors and their use in modern Analog Circuit Design. The authors describe the various types of current conveyors discovered over the past 45 years, details of all currently available, off-the-shelf integrated circuit current conveyors, and implementations of current conveyors using other, off-the-shelf IC building blocks. Coverage includes prominent bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, as well as all varieties of starting from third generation current conveyors to universal current conveyors, their implementations and applications. •Describes all commercially available off-the-shelf IC current conveyors, as well as hardware implementations of current conveyors using other off-the-shelf ICs; • Describes numerous variants of current conveyors evolved over the past forty five years; • Describes a number of Bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, along with their characteristic features; • Includes a comprehensive collection of over 400 application circuits using current conveyors; • Provides an exhaustive catalogue of current conveyor-based circuits for a variety of applications, including instrumentation amplifiers, precision rectifiers, simulated inductors, filters, sinusoidal oscillators, waveform generators, chaos generators, analog multipliers/dividers, memristive emulators and numerous others.

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This book describes design techniques for wideband quadrature LO generation for software defined radio transceivers, with frequencies spanning 4GHz to around 80GHz. The authors discuss several techniques that can be used to reduce the cost and/or power consumption of one of the key components of the RF front-end, the quadrature local oscillator. The discussion includes simple and useful insights into quadrature VCOs, along with numerous examples of practical techniques. · Provides a thorough survey of quadrature LO generation; · Offers an intuitive explanation of the different quadrature VCO architectures, and categorization of these architectures based on the intuitive explanations; · Describes a new technique for simultaneous quadrature LO generation for channelized receivers; · Includes simple and detailed explanation of two new quadrature VCO techniques that improve phase-noise performance of QVCOs, while providing a large tuning range.

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