Analog Circuit Design

• I: RF Analog-to-Digital Converters.- Design of a Silicon Bipolar Track&Hold IC for 1gsample/s and 10 bit Linearity over the full Nyquist Band.- Power and Scaling Rules of CMOS High-Speed A/D Converters.- An Embedded 170-mW 10-BIT 50-MS/s CMOS ADC IN 1-mm2.- Architectures and Circuits for A/D and D/A Conversion in CMOS Integrated Systems for Telecom Applications.- A 12 bit, 50 Msample/s Cascaded Folding & Interpolating ADC.- Linearizing a 128 Msample/s ADC.- II: Sensor and Actuator Interfaces.- Advances in State-of-the-Art in Smart Sensor Signal Conditioning.- Low-Power Sensor Interfaces.- Capacitive Interfaces for Monolithic Integrated Sensors.- Low-Cost Interfaces for Sensors and Sensor Systems.- Integrated Sensor Systems in CMOS Technology.- Compensation and Calibration of IC Microsensors.- III — Low-noise oscillators, PLL’s and Synthesizers.- How Phase Noise Appears in Oscillators.- Synthesizer Architectures.- Fully Integrated Low Phase-Noise VCOs: from Post-Processing to Standard CMOS.- Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in Phase-Locked Loops.- Phase Noise, Signal Power and Current Consumption in CMOS Colpitts Oscillators.- Noise in Fully Integrated PLL’s.

'The authors are to be complimented for collecting, into a single reference, a lot of interesting information related to the above mentioned topics, particularly useful for data-acquisition system designers, RF engineers, and others.' Microelectronics Journal 29 (1998) 1039-1046