Analog Circuit Design: Sensors, Actuators and Power Drivers; Integrated Power Amplifiers from Wireline to Rf; Very High Frequency Front Ends

Preface Part I: Sensors, Actuators and Power Drivers for the Automotive and Industrial Environment 1. Heterogeneous integration of passive components for the realization of RF-System-in-Packages by E.Beyne, W.DeRaedt, G.Carchon, P.Soussan 2. The eye-RIS CMOS vision system by S.Espejo, R.Domínguez-Castro, F.Jiménez-Garrido, S.Morillas, J.Listán, L.Alba, C.Utrera, R.Romay, A.Rodíguez-Vázquez 3. An inductive position sensor ASIC by P.Kamenicky, P.Horsky 4. CMOS single-chip electronic compass with microcontroller by C.Schott, R.Racz, S.Huber, A.Manco, M.Gloor, N.Simonne 5. Protection and diagnosis of smart power high-side switches in automotive applications by A.Kucher Part II: Integrated PA's: from Wireline to RF 6. Integrated CMOS power amplifiers for highly linear broadband communication by K.Mertens, M.Unterweissacher, M.Tiebout, C.Sandner 7. Power combining techniques for RF and MM-wave CMOS power amplifiers by P.Reynaert, M.Bohsali, D.Chowdhury, A.M.Niknejad 8. Switched RF transmitters by W.Laflere, M.Steyaert, J.Craninckx 9. High-speed serial wired interface for mobile applications by G.W.denBesten 10. High voltage xDSL line drivers in nanometer technologies by B.Serneels, M.Steyaert, W.Dehaene 11. VoIP SLIC open platform by L.D'Haeze, J.Sevenhans, H.Casier, D.Macq, S.vanRoeyen, S.Servaes, G.DePril, K.Geirnaert, H.Hakim Part III: Very High Frequency Front Ends 12. Systems and architectures for very high frequency radio links by P.Baltus, P.Smulders, Y.Yu 13. Key building blocks for millimeter-wave IC design in baseline CMOS by M.Sanduleanu,E.Alarcon, H.M.Cheema, M.Vidojkovic, R.Hahmoudi, A.vanRoermund 14. Analog/RF design concepts for high-power silicon based mmWave and THz applications by U.Pfeiffer 15. SiGe BiCMOS and CMOS transceiver blocks for automotive radar and imaging applications in the 80-160 GHz range by S.P.Voinigescu, S.Nicolson, E.Laskin, K.Tang, P.Chevalier 16. A comparison of CMOS and BiCMOS mm-Wave receiver circuits for applications at 60GHz and

Prof. Arthur van Roermund and Prof. Michiel Steyaert have been editing the best papers from the yearly Advances in Analog Circuit Design workshop into a book for the past 5 years. Dr. Herman Casier is new to the editing trio, he brings excellent input from industry