Analog Design for CMOS VLSI Systems

Analog Design for CMOS VLSI Systems is a comprehensive text that offers a detailed study of the background principles and the analog design techniques for CMOS-VLSI implementation. The book covers the physical operation and the modelling of MOS transistors. Discusses the key features of integrated passive components and studies basic building blocks and voltage and current references before considering in great details the design of op-amps and comparators.

The book is primarily intended for use as a graduate-level textbook and for practising engineers. It is expected that the reader should be familiar with the concepts taught in basic introductory courses in analog circuits. Relying on that proper background knowledge the book presents the material on an intuitive basis with a minimum use of mathematical quantitative analysis. Therefore, the insight induced by the book will favour that kind of knowledge gathering required for the design of high-performance analog circuits. The book favours this important process with a number of inserts providing hints or advises on key features of the topic studied.

An interesting peculiarity of the book is the use of numbers. The equations describing the circuit operation are guidelines for the designer. It is important to assess performances in a quantitative way. To achieve this target the book provides a number of examples on computer simulations using Spice. Moreover, in order to acquire the feeling of the technological progress, three different hypothetical technologies are addressed and used.

Detailed examples and the many problems make Analog Design for CMOS VLSI Systems a comprehensive textbook for a graduate-level course on analog circuit design. Moreover, the book will efficiently serve the practical needs of a wide range of circuit design and system design engineers.

Kerim Türe received his B.S. degrees in both Electrical and Electronics Engineering & Physics from Böaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2012, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2014. He received his Ph.D. degree on wireless power transmission and radio frequency communication in RFIC Research Group at EPFL in 2019. His research interests include low-power analog and RF CMOS integrated circuit design for wireless sensor systems and biomedical applications. Catherine Dehollain (M'93) received the Master's degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1982 and 1995, respectively. From 1982 to 1984, she was a Research Assistant at the Electronics Laboratories (LEG), EPFL. In 1984, she joined the Motorola European Center for Research and Development, Geneva, Switzerland, where she designed integrated circuits applied to telecommunications. In 1990, she joined EPFL as a Senior Assistant at the "Chaire des Circuits et Systemes," where she was involved in impedance broadband matching. Since 1995, she has been responsible for the EPFL-RFIC Group for RF activities. She has been the technical project manager of the European projects, Swiss CTI projects, and the Swiss National Science Foundation projects dedicated to mobile phones, RF wireless micropower sensor networks, and biomedical applications. Since 1998, she has been a Lecturer at EPFL in the area of RF circuits, electric filters, and CMOS analog circuits. From 2006 to 2014, she was a Maitre d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) at EPFL. Since 2014, she has been Adjunct Professor at EPFL. She is an author or coauthor of six scientific books and 180 scientific publications. Her research interests include low-power analog circuits, biomedical remotely powered sensors, and electric filters. Franco Maloberti (A'84-SM'87-F'96-LF'15) received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in physics from the University of Parma, Italy. He was a Visiting Professor with ETH-PEL, Zürich and at EPFL-LEG, Lausanne. He was the TI/J.Kilby Analog Engineering Chair Professor with Texas A&M University and the Distinguished Microelectronic Chair Professor with The University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently an Emeritus Professor with the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also an Honorary Professor with the University of Macau, China. His professional expertise is in the design, analysis and characterization of integrated circuits and analogue digital applications, mainly in the areas of switched capacitor circuits, data converters, interfaces for telecommunication and sensor systems, and CAD for analogue and mixed A-D design. He has written more than 600 published papers, seven books and holds 38 patents. He received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 CAS Society Golden Jubilee Medal,the IEEE Millenium Medal, the 1996 IEE Fleming Premium, the ESSCIRC 2007 Best Paper Award, the IEEJ Workshop 2007, the 2010 Best Paper Award, and the IEEE CAS Society 2013 Mac Van Valkenburg Award. He received the Dr. Honoris Causa degree in electronics from Inaoe, Puebla, Mexico. He is the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the AMSV State Key Laboratory, Macau, China. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE-TCAS-II, the President of the IEEE Sensor Council from 2002 to 2003, IEEE CAS BoG Member from 2003 to 2005, the Vice President (VP) of Publications IEEE CAS from 2007 to 2008. He was a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) IEEE SSC Society from 2009 to 2010 and the IEEE CAS Society from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2013. He is the Past President of the IEEE CAS Society from 2017 to 2018 and the President from 2015 to 2016. He was the VP of Region 8 of IEEE CAS from 1995 to 1997.