EP2: Lost art? Analog tricks and techniques from the masters

Author

Lin, Tsung-Hsien ; Samori, Carlo ; Schreier, Richard ; Schreier, Richard

Author_Institution

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2015

fDate

22-26 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Analog design has sunk into a local minimum characterized by tired old topologies and well-worn design techniques. This panel will shake things up with a combination of circuit gems and design methodologies mined from the brains of some of our community´s most creative individuals. Prof. Asad Abidi will explain the operation of a common yet often inadequately understood circuit containing just a single FET. Barrie Gilbert will then amaze you with a collection of translinear circuits exploiting the mighty BJT. Jan Craninckx will take a different tack, showing that true magic is possible nowadays with digitally-assisted analog design, in which calibration blocks form the basic units of creativity. Professors Shoji Kawahito and Rinaldo Castello will return to straight circuits, showing gems used in imaging ICs and power-efficient rail-to-rail amplifiers. Lastly, Prof. Huei Wang will bring the discussion back to design techniques by asking if traditional RF design is a Lost Art, perhaps deservedly so.

Keywords

Art; Circuit synthesis; Microwave circuits; Microwave transistors; Switches; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6223-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2015.7063151

Filename

7063151