Next-Generation ADCs, High-Performance Power Management, and Technology Considerations for Advanced Integrated Circuits, 1st ed. 2020 Advances in Analog Circuit Design 2019

This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 28th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.  Expert designers present readers with information about a variety of topics at the frontier of analog circuit design, including next-generation analog-to-digital converters , high-performance power management systems and technology considerations for advanced IC design. For anyone involved in analog circuit research and development, this book will be a valuable summary of the state-of-the-art in these areas.

• Provides a summary of the state-of-the-art in analog circuit design, written by experts from industry and academia;
• Presents material in a tutorial-based format;
• Includes coverage of next-generation analog-to-digital converters, high-performance power management systems, and technology considerations for advanced IC design.

Part I. Next-Generation ADCs.- Chapter 1. Emerging ADCs.- Chapter 2. Noise-Shaping SAR ADCs.- Chapter 3. Efficient High-Resolution Nyquist ADCs.- Chapter 4. Continous-Time ADCs for Automative Applications.- Chapter 5. Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Converters With Finite-Impulse-Response (FIR) Feedback.- Chapter 6. High-speed ADCs for Wireless Base-Stations.- Part II. High-Performance Power Management.- Chapter 7. Advanced Multiphasing: Pushing the Limits of Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor Converters.- Chapter 8. Highly-Efficient Power Management in Wearables and IoT Devices.- Chapter 9. Current Sensing Techniques: Principles and Readouts.- Chapter 10. Wide Bandgap Integrated Circuits for High Power Management in Extreme Environments.- Chapter 11. On the Limits of Driving Wide-Bandgap Transistors.- Chapter 12. Challenges in Driving New Generations of Power Switches for Motor Drive: A dV/dt Self-Adjusting Architecture for Superjunction Power Devices.- Part III. Technology Considerations for Advanced IC.- Chapter 13. Silicon Technologies for the Next Age of Wireless Connectivity.- Chapter 14. IC Technologies for mm-Wave Applications.- Chapter 15. Accuracy: The Next Opportunity for MEMS.- Chapter 16. Robustness, Reliability and Diagnostic Aspects in Sensors for Automotive Applications: The Magnetic Sensors Case.- Chapter 17. Rad-Hard Mixed-Signal IC Design, Theory and Implementation.- Chapter 18.1-GRad-TID Effects in 28-nm Device Study for Rad-Hard Analog Design.

Andrea Baschirotto graduated in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Pavia in 1989. In 1994, he received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Pavia. In 1994, he joined the Department of Electronics, University of Pavia, as a Researcher (Assistant Professor). In 1998, he joined the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Italy, as an Associate Professor. In 2007, he joined the Department of Physics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, as an Associate Professor, where he is the Director of the Microelectronics Research Group. Andrea Baschirotto is an IEEE Fellow.

Pieter Harpe received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2008, he started as researcher at Holst Centre / imec, The Netherlands. Since then, he has been working on ultra-low-power wireless transceivers, with a main focus on ADC research and design. In April 2011, hejoined Eindhoven University of Technology, where he is currently an associate professor on low-power mixed-signal circuits. He is co-organizer of the yearly workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) and Technical Program Committee member for ESSCIRC. He also served as International Technical Program Committee member for the ISSCC and as IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a recipient of the ISSCC 2015 Distinguished Technical Paper Award.

Kofi Makinwa holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (B.Sc., M.Sc.), the Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E.), and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.). From 1989 to 1999, he was a Research Scientist with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he worked on interactive displays and digital recording systems. In 1999, he joined the Delft University of Technology, where he is an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor and Head of the Microelectroni