Books in the Analog Circuits and Signal Processing series

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of security in the widely adopted, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The authors present the fundamental principles of RFID cryptography in a manner accessible to a broad range of readers, enabling them to improve their RFID security design.

This book describes new circuits and systems for implantable wireless neural monitoring systems and explains the design of a batteryless, remotely-powered implantable micro-system, designed for continuous neural monitoring.

This book introduces readers to the potential of charge-sharing (CS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), while providing extensive analysis of the factors that limit the performance of the CS topology.

AC-DC conversion from the mains to a low voltage DC is discussed, enabling an efficient and compact, lower-power auxiliary power supply to take over the power delivery during the standby mode of mains-connected appliances, allowing the main power converter of these devices to be shut down fully.

This new edition includes a variety of useful updates, including coverage of power efficiency and comprehensive optimization methodologies for DC-DC voltage multipliers, modeling of extremely low voltage Dickson charge pumps, and modeling and optimum design of AC-DC switched-capacitor multipliers for energy harvesting and power transfer for RFID.

This book describes the life cycle process of IP cores, from specification to production, including IP modeling, verification, optimization, and protection.

Readers will be enabled to implement ADCs as continuous-time delta-sigma (CT ) modulators, offering simple resistive inputs, which do not require the use of power-hungry input buffers, as well as offering inherent anti-aliasing, which simplifies system integration.

This book offers a novel approach to the analysis and design of all-digital phase-locked loops (ADPLLs), covering time-to-digital converters, noise shaping and more. Includes advice on analysis and simulation techniques, and reusable Matlab code.

In this book, the authors outline detailed design methodology for fast frequency hopping synthesizers for RF and wireless communications applications. The developed techniques in the book can help in designing very low noise, high speed fractional-N frequency synthesizers.

In the world of optical data communications this book will be an absolute must-read. It focuses on optical communications for short and very short distance applications and discusses the monolithic integration of optical receivers with processing elements in standard CMOS technologies.

The RF front-end - antenna combination is a vital part of a mobile phone. This book offers a unique account of adaptive RF front-ends. It includes an analysis on the impact of fluctuating environmental parameters, and a generic protection concept is presented.

This book describes the design of a high performance time-interleaved ADC, with much attention given to practical design aspects aimed at both industry and research. There is focus on low-power design techniques including successive approximation ADCs.

Nanometer CMOS RFICs for Mobile TV Applications focuses on how to break the trade-off between power consumption and performance (linearity and noise figure) by optimizing the mobile TV front-end dynamic range in three hierarchical levels: the intrinsic MOSFET level, the circuit level, and the architectural level.

In this book, the authors outline detailed design methodology for fast frequency hopping synthesizers for RF and wireless communications applications. The developed techniques in the book can help in designing very low noise, high speed fractional-N frequency synthesizers.

This book describes a unique approach to smart receiver system design. It starts with the analysis of a very basic, single-path receiver structure, then using similar methods, extends the analysis to a more complicated multi-path receiver.

This book presents the cross-layer design and optimization of wake-up receivers for wireless body area networks (WBAN), with an emphasis on low-power circuit design.

This book focuses on the development of circuit and system design techniques for millimeter wave wireless communication systems above 90GHz and fabricated in nanometer scale CMOS technologies. This book serves as a valuable reference for millimeter wave designers, working at both the transistor level and system level.

This book describes the concept and design of the capacitively-coupled chopper technique, which can be used in precision analog amplifiers.

This book introduces a completely novel architecture that can relax the trade-off existing today between noise, power and area consumption in a very suitable solution for advanced wireless communication systems.

This book describes a new type of passive electronic components, called fractal elements, from a theoretical and practical point of view. The concepts of fractals and fractal signals are explained, as well as the fundamentals of fractional calculus.

These three techniques enable respectively, cascading of radio frequency (RF) and baseband (BB) circuits under an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) supply, cascading of RF and BB circuits in current domain for current reuse and a novel function-reuse receiver architecture, suitable for ULV and multi-band ULP applications such as the sub-GHz ZigBee.

This book describes new approaches to fabricate complementary organic electronics and focuses on the design of circuits and practical systems created using these manufacturing approaches.

Following this trend of system integration, this eventually leads to the integration of analog and d- ital components in one chip, resulting in mixed-signal ICs: digital components are required because signal processing is preferably done in the digital - main;

Informed by the authors' long experience in the subject, this step-by-step presentation of the topic provides a coherent and seamless framework that encompasses passive and active filters and includes the most modern and up-to-date design methodologies.

In the world of optical data communications this book will be an absolute must-read. It focuses on optical communications for short and very short distance applications and discusses the monolithic integration of optical receivers with processing elements in standard CMOS technologies.

This book describes new circuits and systems for implantable biomedical applications and explains the design of a batteryless, remotely-powered implantable micro-system, designed for long-term patient monitoring.

This book describes a new way to design and utilize Instrumentation Amplifiers (IAs) by taking advantages of the current-mode (CM) approach. Coverage also includes various CM signal processing techniques employed in CMIAs, and applications of the CMIAs in biomedical and data acquisition are demonstrated.

This book describes the design and implementation of energy-efficient smart (digital output) temperature sensors in CMOS technology. It is shown that DTMOSTs are capable of achieving low inaccuracy (+/-0.4 DegreesC over the military temperature range) as well as sub-1V operation, making them well suited for use in modern CMOS processes.

This book presents new circuits and systems for implantable biomedical applications targeting neural recording. The authors describe a system design adapted to conform to the requirements of an epilepsy monitoring system.