Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Very fast advances in IC technologies have brought new challenges into the physical design of integrated systems. The emphasis on system performance, in lately developed applications, requires timing and power constraints to be considered at each stage of physical design. The size of ICs is decreasing continuously, and the density of power dissipated in the circuits is growing rapidly. The first challenge is the Information Technology where new materials, devices, telecommunication and multimedia facilities are developed. The second one is the Biomedical Science and Biotechnology. The utilisation of bloodless surgery is possible now because of wide micro-sensors and micro-actuators application. Nowadays, the modern micro systems can be implanted directly into the human body and the medicine can be applied right in the proper time and place in the patient body. The low-power devices are being developed particularly for medical and space applications. This has created for designers in all scientific domains new possibilities which must be handed down to the future generations of designers. In this spirit, we organised the Fourth International Workshop "MIXED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS" in order to provide an international forum for discussion and the exchange of information on education, teaching experiences, training and technology transfer in the area of microelectronics and microsystems.

Table of Contents:
I. Analog Circuits Design.- 1. Multichannel Low Noise, Low Power Analogue Readout Chip for Silicon Strip Detectors.- 2. Design Methodology for Current Conveyor Based Continuous-Time Field-Programmable Analog Array.- 3. RF AMP IC for Optical Disc Player.- 4. CMOS Current Conveyor Design and Macromode.- 5. Behavioural Noise Modelling of Cross-Coupled Ring Oscillators.- 6. A 27MHz Fully-Balanced OTA-C Filter In?m CMOS Technology.- 7. Programming Analog Non-Volatile Memories.- 8. Four-Quadrant CMOS Amplifier for Low-Voltage Current-Mode Analog Signal Processing.- II. Power Devices and Thermal Aspects.- 9. Application of Inverse Problems to IC Temperature Estimation.- 10. Thermal Model for MCM’s.- 11. Contribution of Radiation in Heat Dissipation in Electronic Devices.- 12. Modelling and Synthesis of Electro-Thermal Microdevices.- III. Microsystems and Neural Networks.- 13. Layout Optimization of CMOS Phototransistors.- 14. Multilayer Piezoelectric Sensors on the Basis of the PZT Type Ceramics.- 15. Artificial Neural Network Mixed-Signal Prototype System for Model Parameter Identification.- 16. Mixed A/D VLSI Architecture for The Emulation of Neuro-Fuzzy Models.- 17. A New Approach for Finding Optimum Design of Electrostatic Micromotors.- 18. One-Cycle Controlled Boost Converter for Microsystems.- IV. Design Methodologies.- 19. Design for Reuse: HDL Based Graphic Design Entry for Parametrizable and Configurable Modules (A Case Study).- 20. Hierarchical Test Generation for Digital Systems.- 21. Path Selection Based On Incremental Technique.- 22. Chip Area Estimation for SC FIR Filter Structures in CMOS Technology.- 23. Simplified Models of IC’S for The Acceleration of Circuit Design.- 24. Low Power Methodologies for GaAs Asynchronous Systems.- 25. Translation of C andVHDL Specifications Into Interpreted Petri Nets for Hardware/Software Codesign.- 26. Fipsoc. A Novel Mixed FPGA for System Prototyping.- 27. A Nordic Project on High Speed Low Power Design in Sub-Micron CMOS Technology for Mobile Phones.- 28. A Reuse Concept for an I2C-Bus Interface.- 29. Dynamic Analysis of Digital Circuits With-Valued Simulation.- V. Advanced Trends in Microelectronics Education.- 30. A Finite State Description of the Earliest Logical Computer: The Jevons’ Machine.- 31. Educational Computer Use In the MOS Training Fab.- 32. Teaching of Analog IC Design With Modern CAD Tools and CMOS Processes.- 33. Teaching Power Electronics with Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Devices Models.- 34. VLSI Top-Down Design for Students of Computer Science — A Practical Course.