Methods applicable to teaching microelectronics at the undergraduate and graduate level in conjunction with an industrial fabrication capability are presented. Results of three semesters of teaching microelectronics at the graduate level with emphasis on both digital and analog circuits are summarized. Plans for teaching an undergraduate course utilizing the fabrication of integrated circuits a...

The second generation current conveyor CCII is introduced in this paper as a most versatile analog building block for realization of many other active circuits and applications. Short overview of interesting connections, using modular approach of design, with CCII are presented here, as well as two topologies of the conveyor, realized in CMOS technology, including their measured parameters.

This paper presents the current tendency in automotive industry, analyses the influence into the Integrated Circuit (IC) design, and proposing project and process transferable solutions for overcoming some of the common problems.

The aim of this work is to assist designing of robust circuits to minimize the amount of defective circuits and therefore to increase the yield of production. The Fraunhofer ITWM considers electronic circuits at system level using its EDA software Analog Insydes, which allows analysis and symbolic approx ima tion of nominal analog circuits. The software now has been extended to handle parameter...

A two-dimensional network for motion detection constructed of simple analog circuits was proposed and designed based on the frog visual system. In the frog visual system, the two-dimensional motion of a moving object can be detected by performing simple information processing in the tectum and thalamus of the frog brain. The measured results of the test chip fabricated by a 1.2 μm complementary...

A network for the detection of an approaching object with simple-shape recognition is proposed based on lower animal vision. The locust can detect an approaching object through a simple process in the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD) in the locust brain, by which the approach velocity and direction of the object is determined. The frog can recognize simple shapes through a simp...

In almost all of the currently working circuits, especially in analog circuits implementing signal processing applications, basic arithmetic operations such as multiplication, addition, subtraction and division are performed on values which are represented by voltages or currents. However, in this paper, we propose a new and simple method for performing analog arithmetic operations which in thi...

The presented tool “Plantage+” significantly speeds up the layout process of analog circuits. Integrated in an industrial IC design environment, the tool recognizes basic building blocks in the circuit. It automatically sets up constraints and generates layouts using a deterministic algorithm.