Trends in Circuit Design for Analog Signal Processing

This book discusses new possibilities and trends in analog circuit design, including applications in communication, measurement and RF systems. The authors combine the main features for circuit design with actual circuit realizations and demonstrate several performance limitations with example circuits.

Presents the analyses and illustrations of recent advances in analog building blocks and their applications Provides design examples for specific application areas, enabling readers to follow recent advances and trends Includes mathematical modelling techniques, circuit realizations as well as real measurements

Autorentext

H. Hakan KUNTMAN received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul Technical University in 1974, 1977 and 1982, respectively. In 1974 he joined the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. Since 1993 he is a professor of electronics in the same department (retired, 2016). His research interest includes design of electronic circuits, modeling of electron devices and electronic systems, active filters, design of analog IC topologies. Dr. Kuntman has authored many publications on modelling and simulation of electron devices and electronic circuits for computer-aided design, analog VLSI design and active circuit design. He is the author or the co-author of 129 journal papers published or accepted for publishing in international journals, 179 conference papers presented or accepted for presentation in international conferences, 161 Turkish conference papers presented in national conferences and 10 books related to the above mentioned areas. (h-index 37). He advised and completed the work of 16 Ph.D. students and 44 M.Sc students. Dr. Kuntman is a member of the Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineers (EMO). From 2001 to 2004 he acted as the Head of the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, from 2004 to 2010 he was the Dean of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Faculty of Istanbul Technical University, furthermore, Dr. Kuntman is one of the founders of the ELECO conferences and acted as the Conference Chairman several times.

Inhalt

1. Basic Concept: New Possibilities and Trends in Circuit Design for Analog Signal Processing.- 2. Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs) and Their Applications.- 3. Current Conveyors, Variants and Applications.- 4. The operational transresistance amplier (OTRA).- 5. FTFN: Four Terminal Floating Nullor.- 6. Current Operational Amplifiers.- 7. Current Feedback Operational Ampliers, CFOA and Applications.- 8. Active Only Circuits: Realizations of Current-Mode and Voltage-Mode Multifunction Filters without External Passive Elements.- 9. MOS-Only and MOS-C Circuits: Fundamentals of MOS-Only and MOS-C Circuits.- 10. Versatile active elements, structure and applications.- 11. DTMOS-Based Ultra Low-Voltage Low-Power Circuit Design.- 12. High-precision current-mode circuits based on the MOS-translinear principle.