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

**`**The authors are to be complimented for collecting, into a single reference, a lot of interesting information related to the above mentioned topics, particularly useful for data-acquisition system designers, RF engineers, and others.**'** **Microelectronics Journal 29 (1998) 1039-1046**

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 of data-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 in sensor and actuator interface design.
Part III, Low-Noise Oscillators, PLLs and Synthesizers, the phase noise of the receiver's local oscillator limits the immunity against interfering signals. Therefore it has become the most important specification of the local oscillators of all integrated transceivers. Frequency synthesizers for digital tuning in portable radios require extremely low phase noise for the same reason. This part describes designs and architectures which give rise to very low phase noise.
Analog Circuit Design is an essential reference source for analog design engineers and researchers wishing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the field. The tutorial nature of the contributions also makes it suitable for use in an advanced course.

Front Matter....Pages i-vii Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Design of a Silicon Bipolar Track&Hold IC for 1GSample/s and 10 bit Linearity over the full Nyquist Band....Pages 3-24 Power and Scaling Rules of CMOS High-Speed A/D Converters....Pages 25-47 An Embedded 170-mW 10-Bit 50-MS/s CMOS ADC in 1-mm 2 ....Pages 49-63 Architectures and Circuits for A/D and D/A Conversion in CMOS Integrated Systems for Telecom Applications....Pages 65-88 A 12 bit, 50 MSample/s Cascaded Folding & Interpolating ADC....Pages 89-104 Linearizing a 128 Msample/S ADC....Pages 105-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Advances in State-of-the-Art in Smart Sensor Signal Conditioning....Pages 123-149 Low-Power Sensor Interfaces....Pages 151-175 Capacitive Interfaces for Monolithic Integrated Sensors....Pages 177-196 Low-Cost Interfaces for Sensors and Sensor Systems....Pages 197-217 Integrated Sensor Systems in CMOS Technology....Pages 219-241 Compensation and Calibration of IC Microsensors....Pages 243-267 Front Matter....Pages 269-270 How Phase Noise Appears in Oscillators....Pages 271-290 Synthesizer Architectures....Pages 291-329 Fully Integrated Low Phase-Noise VCOs: from Post-Processing to Standard CMOS....Pages 331-358 Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in Phase-Locked Loops....Pages 359-379 Phase Noise, Signal Power and Current Consumption in CMOS Colpitts Oscillators....Pages 381-400 Noise in Fully Integrated PLL’s....Pages 401-420 ` The authors are to be complimented for collecting, into a single reference, a lot of interesting information related to the above mentioned topics, particularly useful for data-acquisition system designers, RF engineers, and others. ' Microelectronics Journal 29 (1998) 1039-1046