Special section on analysis, design and optimization of nonlinear circuits

Stage specialization for design and analysis of flotation circuits

This paper presents a new approach for flotation circuit design. Initially, it was proven numerically and analytically that in order to achieve the highest recovery in different circuit configurations, the best equipment must be placed at the beginning stage of the flotation circuits. The size of the entering particles and the types of streams including pulp and froth were considered as the bas...

Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies

System-on-a-Chip LSIs (SoCs) have been widely used for many applications which include not only the field related to electronics but also new fields like architecture, agriculture, medicine and so on. Scale of such the LSIs has been more increasing for realizing multi-function and complex systems. Although the progress of the process technologies offers a lot of advantages over digital circuits...

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems

T HE SPECIAL Section in this issue covers different aspects of asynchronous design. This is an area of increasing interest in the last few years triggered by the new challenges dictated by the continuous miniaturization of integrated circuits. Variability, power, noise, and electromagnetic interference are some of the aspects that designers have to face today to make their circuits efficient, r...

Multiobjective Optimization of Nonlinear Circuits

This paper suggests an enhancement of an existing method for the multiobjective optimization known as GAM (goal attainment method). In our proposal, the GAM algorithm is combined with a mechanism that automatically provides a set of parameters (weights, coordinates of the reference point) for which the method generates noninferior solutions uniformly spread over a suitably selected part of the ...

Analysis, Simulation and Design of Nonlinear RF Circuits