Advances in Analog Circuits

Edited by Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, ISBN 978-953-307-323-1, Hard cover, 368 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: February 02, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/607

This book highlights key design issues and challenges to guarantee the development of successful applications of analog circuits. Researchers around the world share acquired experience and insights to develop advances in analog circuit design, modeling and simulation. The key contributions of the sixteen chapters focus on recent advances in analog circuits to accomplish academic or industrial target specifications.

Chapter 1 Analog CMOS Design Automation Methodologies for Low-Power Applicationsby Alessandro Girardi and Lucas C. Severo
Chapter 2 A New Approach to Biasing Design of Analog Circuitsby Reza Hashemian
Chapter 3 New Port Modeling and Local Biasing of Analog Componentsby Reza Hashemian
Chapter 4 Behavioral Modeling of Mixed-Mode Integrated Circuitsby Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, Elyoenai Martínez-Romero, Carlos Sánchez-López, Francisco V. Fernández, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Peng Li and Mourad Fakhfakh
Chapter 5 Parallel Preconditioned Hierarchical Harmonic Balance for Analog and RF Circuit Simulationby Peng Li and Wei Dong
Chapter 6 Lifetime Yield Optimization of Analog Circuits Considering Process Variations and Parameter Degradationsby Xin Pan and Helmut Graeb
Chapter 7 Linear Analog Circuits Problems by Means of Interval Analysis Techniquesby Zygmunt Garczarczyk
Chapter 8 Analog Design Issues for Mixed-Signal CMOS Integrated Circuitsby Gabriella Trucco and Valentino Liberali
Chapter 9 Tunable Analog and Reconfigurable Digital Circuits with Nanoscale DG-MOSFETsby Savas Kaya, Hesham F. A. Hamed and Soumyasanta Laha
Chapter 10 Statistical Analog Circuit Simulation: Motivation and Implementationby David C. Potts
Chapter 11 Advanced Statistical Methodologies for Tolerance Analysis in Analog Circuit Designby Bruno Apolloni, Simone Bassis, Angelo Ciccazzo, Angelo Marotta, Salvatore Rinaudo and Orazio Muscato
Chapter 12 Analog-Aware Schematic Synthesisby Yuping Wu
Chapter 13 An SQP and Branch-and-Bound Based Approach for Discrete Sizing of Analog Circuitsby Michael Pehl and Helmut Graeb
Chapter 14 Analog Circuit for Motion Detection Applied to Target Tracking Systemby Kimihiro Nishio
Chapter 15 Analog Circuits Implementing a Critical Temperature Sensor Based on Excitable Neuron Modelsby Gessyca M., Tovar Nunez
Chapter 16 Evolvable Metaheuristics on Circuit Designby Felipe Padilla, Aurora Torres, Julio Ponce, María Dolores Torres, Sylvie Ratté and Eunice Ponce-de-León

Dr. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

INAOE

Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle received a B.Sc. degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla in 1993. He then received both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), in 1995 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he was appointed as professor-researcher at INAOE. From 2009-2010, he served as a Visiting Researcher in the department of electrical engineering at the University of California Riverside, USA. He has authored seven books, fifteen book chapters, 56 journal articles and around 100 conference papers. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the National System for Researchers (SNI-México). He serves in the editorial board of Nonlinear Science Letters B: Chaos, Fractal and Synchronization; Trends in Applied Sciences Research; and Journal of Applied Sciences. He regularly serves as a reviewer in about 22 journals and 15 international conferences. His research interests include systematic synthesis and behavioral modeling and simulation of linear and nonlinear circuits and systems, chaotic oscillators, symbolic analysis, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, and analog/RF and mixed-signal design automation tools.