AACD Workshop Brings 150 to Italy: Three Days on Analog Circuit Design [Conference Reports]

Systems theory approach to analog circuit design

Analog circuits and and their interconnections, broadly called analog systems, are indispensable components of modern communication and electronic systems as well as electronic converters used in power systems. Almost all such circuits are built using active devices which require an external excitation for their operation. Active devices exhibit large sensitivity of performance to variations of...

Evolutionary analog circuit design on a programmable analog multiplexer array

This work discusses an Evolvable Hardware (EHW) platform for the synthesis of analog electronic circuits. The EHW analog platform, named PAMA (Programmable Analog Multiplexer Array), is a reconfigurable platform that consists of integrated circuits whose internal connections can be programmed by Evolutionary Computation techniques, such as Genetic Algorithms, to synthesize circuits. The PAMA is...

Korea- Italy Workshop on Membranes: A Long Relationship and Friendship between Korea and Italy

Design of a Single-Layer Circuit Analog Absorber Using Double-Circular-Loop Array via the Equivalent Circuit Model

A broadband Circuit Analogue (CA) absorber using double-circular-loop array is investigated in this paper. A simple equivalent circuit model is presented to accurately analyze this CA absorber. The circuit simulation of the proposed model agrees well with full-wave simulations. Optimization based the equivalent circuit model, is applied to design a single-layer circuit analogue absorber using d...

CMOS Low-Power Analog Circuit Design

This chapter covers device and circuit aspects of low-power analog CMOS circuit design. The fundamental limits constraining the design of low-power circuits are first recalled with an emphasis on the implications of supply voltage reduction. Biasing MOS transistors at very low current provides new features but requires dedicated models valid in all regions of operation including weak, moderate ...