Provides the only resource available that covers circuits for emerging technologies beyond standard CMOS circuitry
Includes coverage on CMOS process technology and circuits for communications, imaging, and sensing applications
Contains contributions from top industrial experts and key academics
Presents the potential behind new materials that may carry circuit performance beyond standard bulk CMOS technology
Circuits for Emerging Technologies Beyond CMOS
New exciting opportunities are abounding in the field of body area networks, wireless communications, data networking, and optical imaging. In response to these developments, top-notch international experts in industry and academia present Circuits at the Nanoscale: Communications, Imaging, and Sensing. This volume, unique in both its scope and its focus, addresses the state-of-the-art in integrated circuit design in the context of emerging systems.
A must for anyone serious about circuit design for future technologies, this book discusses emerging materials that can take system performance beyond standard CMOS. These include Silicon on Insulator (SOI), Silicon Germanium (SiGe), and Indium Phosphide (InP). Three-dimensional CMOS integration and co-integration with Microelectromechanical (MEMS) technology and radiation sensors are described as well. Topics in the book are divided into comprehensive sections on emerging design techniques, mixed-signal CMOS circuits, circuits for communications, and circuits for imaging and sensing.
Dr. Krzysztof Iniewski is a director at CMOS Emerging Technologies, Inc., a consulting company in Vancouver, British Columbia. His current research interests are in VLSI ciruits for medical applications. He has published over 100 research papers in international journals and conferences, and he holds 18 international patents granted in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. In this volume, he has assembled the contributions of over 60 world-reknown experts who are at the top of their field in the world of circuit design, advancing the bank of knowledge for all who work in this exciting and burgeoning area.

Contents of the book :

CMOS Technology at the Nanoscale
CMOS: An Emerging Technology System Driver, Paul Rousseau
CMOS Manufacturability, Artur Balasinski
Variability in Deeply Scaled CMOS, Liang-Teck Pang and Borivoje Nikoli´c
Wafer-Level Three-Dimensional Integration for Advanced CMOS Systems,         
Ronald J Gutmann and Jian-Qiang Lu
CMOS SOI Memory Design Technology, Kazutami Arimoto and Fukashi Morishita
SiGe Technology, Marco Racanelli
Emerging Design Techniques
Offset, Flicker Noise, and Ways to Deal with Them, Hanspeter Schmid
Design of Wideband Amplifiers in CMOS, David J Allstot, Sudip Shekhar, and Jeffrey S Walling
CMOS Active Transformers and Their Applications, Fei Yuan
High-Performance Leakage/Variation-Tolerant Circuit Technologies
for 45 nm and Below, Amit Agarwal and Ram Krishnamurthy
Soliton and Nonlinear Wave Electronics, David S Ricketts, Xiaofeng Li, and Donhee Ham
Mixed-Signal CMOS Circuits
Current Steering Digital-to-Analog Converters, Douglas A Mercer
High-Speed, Low-Power CMOS A/D Converter for Software Radio, James W Haslett and Abdel-Fattah S Yousif
Energy-Efficient ADC Topology Enabled with Asynchronous Techniques, Shuo-Wei Mike Chen
High-Frequency Filters for Data Communication Applications, Manisha Gambhir, Vijay Dhanasekaran, Jose Silva-Martinez, and Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio
Continuous Time S?Modulators, Robert Sobot
Circuits for Communications
Low-Voltage Nanometer-Scale CMOS RF Front-End Block Design
Employing Magnetic Feedback Techniques, Yannis Papananos, Georgios Vitzilaios, and Gerasimos Theodoratos
InGaP-HBT Power Amplifiers, Kazuya Yamamoto
?SDigital-RF Modulation for Adaptive Wideband Systems, Albert Jerng and Charles G Sodini
Deep-Submicron CMOS Design Challenges When Integrating the RF
Front-End and Digital Baseband in a Single-Chip Receiver SOC, Adrian Maxim
Mitigation of CMOS Device Variability in Digital RF Processor, Khurram Waheed and Robert Bogdan Staszewski
Front-End Circuits for Multi-Gb/s Chip-to-Chip Links, Anthony Chan Carusone
Clock and Data Recovery Circuits, Jafar Savoj
Circuits for Imaging and Sensing
Low Power CMOS Imager Circuits, Alexander Fish and Orly Yadid-Pecht
CMOS Imager Array Design, Operation, and Trends, Mark Jaffe, John Ellis-Monaghan, and Jim Adkisson
Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Cameras, Steve Collins, Bhaskar Choubey, Hsiu-Yu Cheng, and Stephen Otim
CMOS Focal Plane Spatially Oversampling Computational Image Sensor, Ashkan Olyaei and Roman Genov
Unified Computer Arithmetic for Handheld GPUs, Byeong-Gyu Nam, Hyejung Kim, and Hoi-Jun Yoo
Sense Circuits for Integrated Sensors, Sitaraman V Iyer and Hasnain Lakdawala
Detector Interface Circuits for X-Ray Imaging, Pawel Grybos
CMOS Systems and Interfaces for Microgyroscopes, Ajit Sharma, Mohammad F Zaman, and Farrokh Ayazi
Analog Front End for a Micromachined Probe Storage Device, Christoph Hagleitner, Tony Bonaccio, Hugo Rothuizen, Jan Lienemann, Dorothea Wiesmann, Giovanni Cherubini, Jan G Korvink, and Evangelos Eleftheriou
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