Wireless sensor nodes are autonomous devices incorporating sensing, power, computation,
and communication into one system. Applications for large scale networks of these nodes …

A CMOS RF digitally programmable gain amplifier (RF PGA), covering various terrestrial
mobile digital TV standards (DMB, ISDB-T, and DVB-H) is implemented as a part of a low-IF …

Issues related to substrate noise in system-on-chip design are described including the
physical phenomena responsible for its creation, coupling transmission mechanisms and …

This dissertation concerns the design of circuits and systems for an emerging technology
known as three-dimensional integration. By stacking individual components, dice, or whole …

A flow is presented for the automatic synthesis of an analog circuit layout based on a
schematic and a list of circuit design parameter values. The flow is driven by design …

This introductory embedded tutorial gives an overview of the design problems at hand when
designing integrated electronic systems in nanometer-scale CMOS technologies. First, some …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of a passivation layer on the performance of a
commercial high-resistivity (HR) SOI CMOS technology. The passivation layer consists of a …

The paper gives an overview of methods and tools that are needed to design and embed
analogue and RF blocks in mixed-signal integrated systems on chip (SoC). The design of …

A 4-Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit is realized in a 0.25-μm standard CMOS
technology. The CDR circuit exploits 1/8-rate clock technique to facilitate the design of a …

Addresses the problems and solutions that are posed by the design of mixed-signal
integrated systems on chip (SoC). These include problems in mixed-signal design …