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55 articles for “Analog circuits”
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A Comprehensive Review of CMOS Analog Circuit Design Techniques for Low-Power VLSI Systems
Abstract: CMOS analog circuit design plays a significant role in the development of modern low-power Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) systems used in wireless communication, biomedical devices, portable electronics, embedded systems, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Research on low-power CMOS analogue design methodologies has intensified because to the growing need for high-performance, small, and energy-efficient electronic products. However, reducing power consumption while maintaining signal accuracy, noise performance, stability, bandwidth, and overall …
Published in International Journal of VLSI Circuit Design & Technology · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2026 Read article
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CMOS-Based Process-Scalable Analog Circuits for Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions.
Abstract: Analog computing techniques are gaining attention for machine learning (ML) applications due to their ability to reduce computational complexity. Continuous operations such as addition and subtraction offer a simpler and more efficient approach compared to probabilistic product decoding, which can be sensitive to noise and inconsistent measurements. This paper presents a simulated VLSI implementation of a broadcast edge connection, independent of the MOS component model, along with experimental results. The …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2025 · pp. 8–17 Read article
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3D Simulation of Multi-Gate Mosfet Analysis for Analog Circuit Design Parameters
Abstract: Chip density and performance improvements of semiconductor devices have been driven by their aggressive scaling. The performance of multi-gate FET for analog applications is explored in this paper. Analog operation of CMOS devices and its parameters are very important for future cutting edge technologies. The multi-gate technology shows excellent scalability and better immunity to short channel effects in MOSFETs. They are being easily assessed for CMOS applications beyond the 45 …
Published in Journal of Semiconductor Devices and Circuits · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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Solving Non-Linear Equations for Thevenin and Norton Circuits using Analog Behavioural Modelling with PSPICE Software
Abstract: A new approach useful for circuit designers for implementing circuit parameters described by non-linear equations and Thevenin and Norton network equivalent parameters represented by equations is given. The content is divided into two parts, (a)Solving Non-linear equations using analog behavioral modelling using Pspice software (b) Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuit parameter determination for pure resistance DC circuits using SPICE simulator. The non-linear equations are solved using network elements/models described by …
Published in Journal of Semiconductor Devices and Circuits · Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 28–36 Read article
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Comparative Study of (Operational Transconductance Amplifier) OTA to Design Low Pass Filter
Abstract: Basic building block to design an analog circuit is amplifier and it is used for such applications like analog to digital and digital to analog converter, sensor network and many more. Amplifier with lofty gain and high bandwidth will increase the efficiency of design. Present time is talking about development of VLSI technology and everything is related to size of transistor and decreasing power supply in a circuit. Operational transconductance …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 11–15 Read article
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Development of a Self-Cleaning Mechanism for Solar Panels to Enhance Efficiency
Abstract: On Earth, solar energy is the most plentiful source of energy. As it happens, the heat generated by the fusion of helium on the outermost part of the Sun additionally happens to be renewable. This energy is becoming popular because of natural advantages. In digital circuit design, AI can aid in logic synthesis and analog circuit design, AI can help in sizing transistors. The tools used to transform daylight into …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2024 · pp. 1–10 Read article
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Design and Implementation of Low Power 8-bit Level Crossing ADC
Abstract: Implantable medical devices, electronic gadgets, wireless communication elements and many other such applications require low power electronic circuits. Analog to digital converters are essential part of most of such circuits. This paper presents a design of the level crossing analog to digital converter (LC-ADC) architecture. The proposed circuit and layout has been implemented in semi-conductor laboratory (SCL) 180 nm technology and its performance was evaluated using cadence virtuoso at supply …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 33–43 Read article
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Implementation and Analysis of Linear Electrical Networks using Interval Arithmetic on FPGA’s
Abstract: Interval arithmetic provides better method for monitoring and controlling errors in scientific calculations. Interval arithmetic can be used to obtain an analysis of linear electrical networks using hardware description language (HDL). In this paper the mean value theorem is used to analyze the circuits and implemented on hardware. The mean value theorem is applied for three different circuits i.e., for first order, second order and third order analog circuits. The …
Published in Current Trends in Signal Processing · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2014 · pp. 14–21 Read article
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Evaluation of OTA Amplifier Using EEG Signals
Abstract: AbstractOver the last few years, there has been a tremendous exploration in VLSI industries in response to scaling trends towards deep submicron technology. Demand for low power and efficient amplification are rising in day-to-day life. In the process of scaling the CMOS nanometer demand low supply, which is helped to design digital circuit realization at very low power consumption. But it is not valid for analog circuit realization. The related …
Published in Trends in Opto-electro & Optical Communication · Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 5–14 Read article
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Design of Low Noise Transimpedance Amplifier using Multiple Feedback filter Topology
Abstract: This study presents the highly linear and low noise transimpedance amplifier (TIA) based on CMOS inverter as an amplifier within multiple feedback (MPFB) filter topology. Absence of complex analog circuitry and compatibility with widespread digital CMOS processes highlight this TIA topology asthe best choice in signal conditioning chains approaching analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Special attention has been given to the TIA stability and compensation networks. Using dedicated low-dropout (LDO) regulator, the …
Published in Journal of Electronic Design Technology · Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2022 · pp. 25–30 Read article
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SU-8 Polymer as an Optical Waveguide for Integrated Optics
Abstract: Abstract: Optical integrated circuits analogous to electronic integration have many advantages over the latter technology. As information carriers are photons (bosons) in optical circuits rather than electrons (fermions), which maximize the speed as well as due to minimum mutual interaction between photons, losses are reduced whereas the band-width increases. Silicon is most dominant material in fabrication of Electronic Integrated Circits (EICs), Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) exploits the suitable optical properties …
Published in Journal of Electronic Design Technology · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 20–26 Read article
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Simulation and Analysis of Three Phase VSI using THIPWM and SVPWM Techniques
Abstract: AbstractPWM methods is the most active topic for controlling the power electronic circuit. Several PWM approaches are more and more applied in various innovative applications of power electronics in industries that need greater performance of the system. These days the most relevant PWM method for 3 - phase VSI are SPWM, THIPWM and SVPWM. Out of these three methods SPWM is one of the naivest modulation schemes that can gather …
Published in Journal of Instrumentation Technology & Innovations · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 16–30 Read article
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MATLAB/Simulink Based Modelling of Solar Photovoltaic Cell
Abstract: AbstractThis paper focuses on a Matlab/SIMULINK model of a 36 cell/72 cell solar photovoltaic cell. This comprehensive Solar Photovoltaic model has been built on mathematical equations and improved through an analogical circuit connecting a photocurrent source and a diode, connecting through a series resistor and a shunt resistor. The developed model assists in the predicting and analyzing the behaviour and properties of PV cell/PV module under different physical and environmental …
Published in Journal of Microcontroller Engineering and Applications · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 21–28 Read article
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Computer Modeling of Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs) using Verilog-A
Abstract: AbstractOrganic electronics has drawn considerable attention of the researchers with organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) as key components for various applications. Compared to the silicon industry where public models are well defined and commonly used to provide designers with a relative good description of any process, organic devices are still lacking for their complete device models that can fully describe their electrical characteristics. Therefore, compact model development for OTFTs is …
Published in Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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A Comparative Analysis of Various Flipped Voltage Follower Cells
Abstract: Flipped voltage follower (FVF) cell is used for designing low-voltage/low-power analog circuits. It can operate with a single supply voltage, less than the sum of the threshold voltages of a PMOS and NMOS transistor. The three different configurations of the FVF cell namely conventional FVF, FVF using level shifter (FVFLS) and FVF using bulk driven technique (FVFBD) are presented. Various parameters such as input/output swing, gain, bandwidth and power dissipation …
Published in Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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A Low Power Low Voltage High Performance CMOS Current Mirror with Improved Output Impedance
Abstract: The current mirrors are very useful in the designing of mixed mode and analog circuits. A high performance CMOS current mirror with high output impedance and a small power supply close to the threshold voltage of the transistor are presented in this paper. For achieving the high output impedance, an additional transistor is used at the output section of the current mirror. This additional transistor will improve the output impedance …
Published in Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 14–19 Read article
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Study of Self Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract: Recent advances in low-cost and low-power wireless communication coupled with progress in ad-hoc networking routing and protocols, have made “wireless sensor networks” a topic of active interest. Typically, hardware components in a wireless sensor network include sensor circuits, analog-todigital converters, microprocessors, and wireless communications transceivers. These hardware components need to be programmed using software tools to work cooperatively toward accomplishing a user-defined task. The main objectives of such a network …
Published in Current Trends in Information Technology · Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2021 · pp. 12–16 Read article
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Automatic Gain Control Amplifier for Analog Front End in Biomedical Applications
Abstract: This paper presents the design review of feed-forward automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier to be used in analog front end of biomedical applications such as hearing aid. To make system low-power, the design of each block is optimized and all elements are realized using MOS. The whole design is simulated in LT spice IV using 0.18 µm CMOS technology and the results are presented. Keywords: Automatic gain control (AGC), biomedical …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Medical Science and Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 22–26 Read article
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Low Power RF QPSK MODEM Design
Abstract: System-level simulation including design of CMOS circuits for radio frequency QPSK MODEM targeting applications in 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band has been presented in this paper. Based on the QPSK architecture, the MODEM consists of an analog mixer using a voltage multiplier, a 90 °phase shifter, delay circuits, a voltage adder and a filter to detect the information. A code reuse subsystem block consisting of Chebyshev filter …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 2, Issue 1-2-3, 2012 · pp. 75–86 Read article
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Triangular Waveform Generation using Mixed Signal Modeling
Abstract: The development of modeling languages such as Verilog-HDL and Verilog-AMS allows the behavior of analogue and mixed signal circuits to be described with a more lucid way as compared to the conventional circuit-level simulators. Mixed-signal simulators are thus providing a new platform for more efficient modeling of mixed signal that contains both the analogue and discrete features which was not previously possible. The non-linear characteristics of many circuits are still …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 8–17 Read article