General Information
The aim of the Workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) is to bring together a large group of people working at the frontiers of analog circuit design, to study and discuss possibilities and future developments.
The workshop lasts three days and runs yearly since 1992, covering every year covers three specific topics in the field on analog design (one topic per day). The latest editions were held in:
- Grenoble, France in 2013 (Topics: Frequency References, Power management for SoC, Smart Wireless Interfaces).
- Valkenburg, The Netherlands in 2012 (Topics: Nyquist A/D Converters, Capacitive Sensor Interfaces, Beyond Analog Circuit Design).
- Leuven, Belgium in 2011 (Topics: Low Voltage Low Power Data Converters, Short Range Wireless Front-Ends, Power Management and DC-DC).
- Graz, Austria in 2010 (Topics: Robust Design, Sigma-Delta Converters, RFID).
- Lund, Sweden in 2009 (Topics: Smart Data Converters, Filters on Chip, Multimode Transmitters).
- Pavia, Italy in 2008 (Topics: High-Speed Clock and Data Recovery, High-Performance Amplifiers, Power Management).
This year the 23rd edition of the AACD workshop will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from April 8th to April 10th, 2014 at IST-TU and will cover the following topics:
- High-Performance AD and DA Converters
Chairman: Pieter Harpe - IC Design in Scaled Technologies
Chairman: Andrea Baschirotto - Time-Domain Signal Processing
Chairman: Kofi Makinwa
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