Analog Circuit Design RF Analog-to-Digital Converters; Sensor and Actuator Interfaces; Low-Noise Oscillators, PLLs and Synthesizers

This volume of Analog Circuit Design concentrates on three topics: RF Analog-to-Digital Converters; Sensor and Actuator Interfaces; Low-Noise Oscillators, PLLs and Synthesizers. The book comprises six papers on each topic written by internationally recognised experts. These papers are tutorial in nature and together make a substantial contribution to improving the design of analog circuits. The book is divided into three parts: Part I, RF Analog-to-Digital Converters, the application of digital techniques to process analog modulated rf signals in radio receivers requires high linearity and high-resolution analog-to-digital converters. In portable applications these converters must have an extremely low-power consumption to allow a long standby time. In low-cost signal processing applications these converters are combined with a digital signal processing system onto a single chip. Today digital signal processing systems use advanced CMOS technologies requiring the analog-to-digital converter to be implemented in the same (digital) technology. Such an implementation requires special circuit techniques. Furthermore the susceptibility of converters to ground bounce or digital noise is an important design criterion. In this part different converters and conversion techniques are described that are optimized for receiver applications.Part II, Sensor and Actuator Interfaces, interfaces for sensors and actuators shape the gates through which information is acquired from the real world into digital information systems, and vice versa. The interfaces should include analog signal conditioning, analog-to-digital conversion, digital bus interfaces and data-acquisition networks. To simplify the use ofdata-acquisition systems additional features should be incorporated, like self-test, and calibration. To make these goals economically feasible, these functions should be integrated, preferably with the sensor, on a single chip. This part describes the latest techniques i

Part I: RF Analog-to-Digital Converters. Introduction. Design of a Silicon Bipolar Track&Hold IC for 1gsample/s and 10 bit Linearity over the Full Nyquist Band; T. Baumheinrich, et al. Power and Scaling Rules of CMOS High-Speed A/D Converters; A.G.W. Venes, R. van de Plassche. An Embedded 170-mW 10-Bit 50-MS/s CMOS ADC IN 1-mm2; K. Bult, A. Buchwald. Architectures and Circuits for A/D and D/A Conversion in CMOS Integrated Systems for Telecom Applications; J. Sevenhans, Z.-Y. Chang. A 12 bit, 50 Msample/s Cascaded Folding & Interpolating ADC; P. Vorenkamp, R. Roovers. Linearizing a 128 Msample/s ADC; R. Jewett, et al. Part II: Sensor and Actuator Interfaces. Introduction. Advances in State-of-the-Art in Smart Sensor Signal Conditioning; J. Bryzek, A. Rastgar. Low-Power Sensor Interfaces; T. Smith, et al. Capacitive Interfaces for Monolithic Integrated Sensors; B. Boser. Low-Cost Interfaces for Sensors and Sensor Systems; F. van der Goes, G. Meijer. Integrated Sensor Systems in CMOS Technology; B. Hosticka. Compensation and Calibration of IC Microsensors; A. Häberli, H. Baltes. Part III: Low-Noise oscillators, PLL¿s and Synthesizers. Introduction. How Phase Noise Appears in Oscillators; A. Abidi. Synthesizer Architectures; C. Vaucher. Fully Integrated Low Phase-Noise VCOs: from Post-Processing to Standard CMOS; M. Steyaert, J. Craninckx. Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in Phase-Locked Loops; K. Kundert. Phase Noise, Signal Power and Current Consumption in CMOS Colpitts Oscillators; Q. Huang. Noise in Fully Integrated PLL¿s; G. Palmisano, et al.