The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Transactions on Fundamentals announces a special section on "Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics" to be published in February 2016. Today's development of LSI technology has brought drastic improvement in wireline & wireless network communication, and its scope is still expanding including living, medical and ...

An approach to test optimization in switched-capacitor systems based on fault simulation at switch-level is presented in this paper. The advantage of fault simulation at this granularity level is that it facilitates test integration as early as possible in the design of these systems. Due to their mixed-signal nature, both catastrophic and parametric faults must indeed be considered for test op...

SystemC supports a wide range of Models of Computation (MoC) and is very well suited for the design and refinement of HW/SW-systems from functional downto register transfer level. However, for a broad range of applications the digital parts and algorithms interact with analog parts and the continuous-time environment. Due to the complexity of this interactions and the dominance of the analog pa...