Increasing demands on high-data-rate and low-latency cellular communications are
accelerating the developments of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) systems for 5G NR in 28 and …

This article presents a new analog circuit optimization system for automated sizing of analog
integrated circuits. It consists of a genetic algorithm (GA)-based global optimization engine …

Since operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) form the basic building blocks of
many analog systems, the compensation of three-stage OTAs has attracted a lot of attention …

This paper presents a continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ modulator using a VCO-based internal
quantizer. It incorporates a nonlinear VCO as the second stage in a two-stage residue …

Due to the rising demand for low-power portable battery-operated electronic devices, there
is an increasing need for low-voltage low-power low-drop-out (LDO) regulators. This …

A sixth-order dc-to-1 GHz tunable continuous-time lowpass/bandpass ΔΣ ADC in 65-nm
CMOS targeting RF and IF digitizing applications is presented. The ADC achieves 150-MHz …

Subthreshold amplifiers suffer from the limited voltage headroom which leaves little space
for conventional analog techniques to enhance performance and efficiency. This paper …

The develo** optimization algorithms provide promising solutions for speeding up analog
integrated circuit sizing. However, the optimization of complicated circuits whose solution …

A new power-efficient frequency compensation scheme is proposed, called the AC Boosting
Compensation (ACBC) scheme. An ac path is added to the internal stage of the …

A new performance-boosting frequency compensation technique is presented, named
Transconductance with Capacitances Feedback Compensation (TCFC). A …