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This book describes advanced flows and methodologies for the design and implementation of system-on-chip (SoC). It is written by a mixture of industrial experts and key academic professors and researchers. The intended audience is not only students but also engineers with system-on-chip and semiconductor background currently working in the semiconductor industry.

Integrated Circuits are available in every electronic product, especially in emerging market segments such as 5G mobile communications, autonomous driving, fully electrified vehicles, and artificial intelligence. These product types require real-time processing at billions of operations per second. The development design cycle time is driving costs and time to market more than ever before. The traditional design methodologies have reached their limits and innovative solutions are essential to serve the emerging SoC design challenges. In the framework of the Circuit and System Society (CASS) Outreach Initiative 2022 call, the SMART Integrated Circuits design methodology – named SMARTIC – Seasonal School was performed in November 2022, in Thessaloniki (Greece).

Features

Core analog circuits of any system of chip, such as high-performance rectifiers and filters, are addressed in detail, together with their respective design methodology. New advanced methodologies towards design cycle speed up based on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Advanced analog design methodology based on gm/Id and lock up tables. A powerful flow for enabling fast time to market analog circuit design focusing on baseband circuits More exotic methodologies and applications with focus on digital-based analog processing in nanoscale CMOS ICs and the design and development of depleted monolithic active pixel sensors for high-radiation applications, together with all the respective challenges of this application.

This book describes advanced flows and methodologies for the design and implementation of system-on-chip (SoC). It is written by a mixture of industrial experts and key academic professors and researchers. The intended audience is not only students but also engineers with system-on-chip and semiconductor background currently working in the semiconductor industry.

Integrated Circuits are available in every electronic product, especially in emerging market segments such as 5G mobile communications, autonomous driving, fully electrified vehicles, and artificial intelligence. These product types require real-time processing at billions of operations per second. The development design cycle time is driving costs and time to market more than ever before. The traditional design methodologies have reached their limits and innovative solutions are essential to serve the emerging SoC design challenges. In the framework of the Circuit and System Society (CASS) Outreach Initiative 2022 call, the SMART Integrated Circuits design methodology – named SMARTIC – Seasonal School was performed in November 2022, in Thessaloniki (Greece).

Features

Core analog circuits of any system of chip, such as high-performance rectifiers and filters, are addressed in detail, together with their respective design methodology. New advanced methodologies towards design cycle speed up based on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Advanced analog design methodology based on gm/Id and lock up tables. A powerful flow for enabling fast time to market analog circuit design focusing on baseband circuits More exotic methodologies and applications with focus on digital-based analog processing in nanoscale CMOS ICs and the design and development of depleted monolithic active pixel sensors for high-radiation applications, together with all the respective challenges of this application.

This book describes the design of low-voltage analog integrated filters using current mirrors, one of the most common building blocks both in analog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits, offering the advantages of low-voltage operation, derivation of resistorless topologies and electronic adjustment capability of their frequency characteristics.  Several design examples are described, using current mirrors that fulfill the requirements of modern low-power wireless and biomedical applications, such as universal biquadratic filter topologies, complex filters for Bluetooth/ZigBee low-IF receivers and Wavelet filters for cardiac signal detection. The experimental results from the fabricated chips will also be presented, showing their utility in modern low-voltage low-power portable devices.

This book describes the design of low-voltage analog integrated filters using current mirrors, one of the most common building blocks both in analog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits, offering the advantages of low-voltage operation, derivation of resistorless topologies and electronic adjustment capability of their frequency characteristics.  Several design examples are described, using current mirrors that fulfill the requirements of modern low-power wireless and biomedical applications, such as universal biquadratic filter topologies, complex filters for Bluetooth/ZigBee low-IF receivers and Wavelet filters for cardiac signal detection. The experimental results from the fabricated chips will also be presented, showing their utility in modern low-voltage low-power portable devices.

This book describes the design and realization of analog fractional-order circuits, which are suitable for on-chip implementation, capable of low-voltage operation and electronic adjustment of their characteristics. The authors provide a brief introduction to fractional-order calculus, followed by design issues for fractional-order circuits of various orders and types. The benefits of this approach are demonstrated with current-mode and voltage-mode filter designs. Electronically tunable emulators of fractional-order capacitors and inductors are presented, where the behavior of the corresponding chips fabricated using the AMS 0.35um CMOS process has been experimentally verified. Applications of fractional-order circuits are demonstrated, including a pre-processing stage suitable for the implementation of the Pan-Tompkins algorithm for detecting the QRS complexes of an electrocardiogram (ECG), a fully tunable implementation of the Cole-Cole model used for the modeling of biological tissues, and a simple, non-impedance based measuring technique for super-capacitors.

This book describes the design and realization of analog fractional-order circuits, which are suitable for on-chip implementation, capable of low-voltage operation and electronic adjustment of their characteristics. The authors provide a brief introduction to fractional-order calculus, followed by design issues for fractional-order circuits of various orders and types. The benefits of this approach are demonstrated with current-mode and voltage-mode filter designs. Electronically tunable emulators of fractional-order capacitors and inductors are presented, where the behavior of the corresponding chips fabricated using the AMS 0.35um CMOS process has been experimentally verified. Applications of fractional-order circuits are demonstrated, including a pre-processing stage suitable for the implementation of the Pan-Tompkins algorithm for detecting the QRS complexes of an electrocardiogram (ECG), a fully tunable implementation of the Cole-Cole model used for the modeling of biological tissues, and a simple, non-impedance based measuring technique for super-capacitors.  

Circuit design is not only relevant for electrical engineering. It can also be applied to interdisciplinary projects that require electrical input, output, or control, such as robotics, biomedical devices, renewable energy, and smart systems. Through interdisciplinary projects, the designer must understand the project goals and requirements, as well as the roles of other team members. Therefore, communication with collaborators is essential, as is the use of common standards and tools to ensure compatibility. In the framework of this CASS Seasonal School call, a 2-day school on "e;Interdisciplinary Applications of Circuits and Systems"e; was organized during October 16-17, in the Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Greece. At this educational event, basic and advanced issues on design methodologies targeting on interdisciplinary applications were presented, including the following: circuits and systems in biology/biomedicine, in agriculture, in cryptography, in control systems, in chaos, in RF applications, in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, in quantum computing, as well as the employment of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for designing circuits.In this book the following are introduced: Chaotic oscillators and their real-world applications, the basic principles of the PID controllers followed by application design examples Applications of circuits in agriculture, the employment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques for design The design challenges and innovative solutions for energy harvesting for wearable and implantable devices Medical and health applications of biosensing circuits and systems Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems Computer vision and deep learning techniques for electronic circuit inspection Cryo-CMOS integrated circuits for scalable quantum computing Energy-efficient analog circuits and systems for emerging RF applications.

Circuit design is not only relevant for electrical engineering. It can also be applied to interdisciplinary projects that require electrical input, output, or control, such as robotics, biomedical devices, renewable energy, and smart systems. Through interdisciplinary projects, the designer must understand the project goals and requirements, as well as the roles of other team members. Therefore, communication with collaborators is essential, as is the use of common standards and tools to ensure compatibility. In the framework of this CASS Seasonal School call, a 2-day school on "e;Interdisciplinary Applications of Circuits and Systems"e; was organized during October 16-17, in the Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Greece. At this educational event, basic and advanced issues on design methodologies targeting on interdisciplinary applications were presented, including the following: circuits and systems in biology/biomedicine, in agriculture, in cryptography, in control systems, in chaos, in RF applications, in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, in quantum computing, as well as the employment of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for designing circuits.In this book the following are introduced: Chaotic oscillators and their real-world applications, the basic principles of the PID controllers followed by application design examples Applications of circuits in agriculture, the employment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques for design The design challenges and innovative solutions for energy harvesting for wearable and implantable devices Medical and health applications of biosensing circuits and systems Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems Computer vision and deep learning techniques for electronic circuit inspection Cryo-CMOS integrated circuits for scalable quantum computing Energy-efficient analog circuits and systems for emerging RF applications.