Abstract :
The following topics were dealt with: CAD-simulation and symbolic analysis, datapath synthesis, layout, statistical design, placement, synthesis and DSP CAD, synthesis and test, modelling and simulation, analog CAD, routing, digital signal processing, adaptive fillers; DSP hardware; nonlinear and 2D filters; DSP algorithms; DSP architectures; finite precision effects; FIR, IIR and sub-band filter design; multidimensional filters; statistical DSP; image filtering and processing communication and visual signal processing; image and video coding; motion estimation; VLSI circuit techniques; VLSI design; analog VLSI; VLSI architecture; computational theory; linear circuits and analog signal processing; matching and passive circuits; amplifiers and filters; mathematical techniques; nonlinear techniques and graph theory; circuit theory and analysis; continuous-time filters; switched-current filters; data converters; current-mode circuits; sigma-delta and oversampling; low voltage analogue amplifiers; high-frequency amplifiers; switched capacitor circuits; nonlinear circuits; nonlinear systems; and neural systems; power systems and power electronics; chaos; piecewise linear methods; oscillators; neural network design; neural network hardware; neural network algorithms
Keywords :
VLSI; amplifiers; analogue circuits; circuit CAD; circuit analysis computing; circuit layout CAD; filters; image processing; linear network analysis; linear systems; logic CAD; networks (circuits); neural chips; neural nets; nonlinear network analysis; nonlinear systems; oscillators; power electronics; power systems; signal processing; system theory; telecommunication; circuit simulation; circuit synthesis; circuit test; nonlin;