Session abstract
Nowadays, electronics industry has been remarkably developed especially in terms of parts and devices. The demand for high-performance analog circuits with emphasis on low power consumption and high speed (bandwidth) with a low overall component count is ever increasing. In terms of analog circuit design, new and distinguished techniques and methods have continuously been introduced to create up-to-date circuits to meet the stringent specifications of the overall circuit solutions. The choice of active building blocks (ABBs) plays an important role in designing the overall circuit solution to achieve performance while still employing minimum number of devices. Many analog active building blocks (ABBs) have been proposed to realize the electronic circuits, for example, operational amplifier (OTA), second-generation current conveyor (CCII), second-generation current-controlled current conveyor (CCCII), current-feedback amplifier (CFA), current differencing buffered amplifier (CDBA), current differencing transconductance amplifier (CDTA), current follower transconductance amplifier (CFTA) and second-generation voltage conveyor (VCII). The use of these ABBs greatly simplifies the design, and several ingenious, reduced component count circuits have been reported in the literature in recent times which are very suitable for integration in CMOS technology. Many of these analog ABBs are commercially available and/or can be assembled using off-the-shelf components, thereby also allowing breadboard implementations.
Tentative titles, abstracts, and authors of invited papers
The aim of this special issue is to bring together original research and review papers that address different aspects of current-mode ABBs and design of new current-mode circuits using these ABBs. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
• New circuit principles for analog circuit design
• Low-power, low component count analog circuit and system techniques
• New principles and theory of analog active building blocks
• New circuit techniques for low transistor count, reduced area analog circuits
Contact information of organizer, including affiliation, address, and email
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Montree Siripruchyanun, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand; montree.s@fte.kmutnb.ac.th
