Preface
This book is part of the Analog Circuit Design series and contains the revised
contributions of all speakers of the 17th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit
Design (AACD), which was organized by Andrea Baschirotto and Piero Malcaovati
of the University of Pavia. This year it was held at the University of Pavia in the
magnificent auditoria “Aula Volta”.
The book contains the contribution of 18 tutorials, divided in three chapters, each
discussing a specific to-date topic on new and valuable design ideas in the area of
analog circuit design. Each part is presented by six experts in that field and state-of-
the-art information is shared and overviewed. The topics of 2008 are:
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High-speed Clock and Data Recovery
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High-performance Amplifiers
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Power Management
The aim of the AACD workshop is to bring together a group of expert designers
to study and discuss new possible and future developments in the area of analog
circuit design. Each AACD workshop has given rise to the publication of a book by
Springer in their successful series of Analog Circuit Design. This book is number
17 in this series. These books can be seen as a reference to those people involved in
analog and mixed signal design. The full list of the previous books and topics in the
series is enclosed below.
We sincerely hope that this 17th book is an added value in this series and provides
a valuable contributions to our Analog Circuit Design community.
Michiel Steyaert
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