Volume 43, Number 1, January 2012

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  B. S. Sreeja, S. Radha: Optimized 2.4 GHz voltage controlled oscillator with a high-Q MWCNT network-based pulse-shaped inductor. 1-12
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  Shlomo Katz, Igor Brouk, Sara Stolyarova, Shye Shapira, Yael Nemirovsky: High performance MEMS 0.18 μm RF-CMOS transformers. 13-16
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  Pujarini Ghosh, Subhasis Haldar, R. S. Gupta, Mridula Gupta: An analytical drain current model for dual material engineered cylindrical/surrounded gate MOSFET. 17-24
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  Anupama R. Subramaniam, Ritu Singhal, Chi-Chao Wang, Yu Cao: Leakage reduction through optimization of regular layout parameters. 25-33
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  Leila Safari, Seyed Javad Azhari: A novel low voltage very low power CMOS class AB current output stage with ultra high output current drive capability. 34-42
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  Paulo César Crepaldi, Tales Cleber Pimenta, Robson L. Moreno, Leonardo Breseghello Zoccal, Luis Henrique de Carvalho Ferreira: Low-voltage, low-power V_t independent voltage reference for bio-implants. 43-49
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  P. Fernández-Martínez, F. R. Palomo, S. Díez, Salvador Hidalgo, M. Ullán, D. Flores, Roland Sorge: Simulation methodology for dose effects in lateral DMOS transistors. 50-56
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  Ling-feng Shi, Xiang-yu Mao, Hui-sen He, Fu-bo Liu, Xin-Quan Lai: Design of a hiccup mode over-current protection circuit for DC-DC switching converters. 57-62
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  Baojun Liu, Li Cai, Xiaokuo Yang, Hongtu Huang, Peng Bai, Weidong Peng: The impact of Miller and coupling effects on single event transient in logical circuits. 63-68
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  Tamer Farouk, Ahmed Nader Mohieldin, Ahmed Hussien Khalil: A low-voltage low-power CMOS fully differential linear transconductor with mobility reduction compensation. 69-76
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  Mahroo Zandrahimi, Hamid R. Zarandi, Mohammad H. Mottaghi: Two effective methods to detect anomalies in embedded systems. 77-87

Volume 43, Number 2, February 2012

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  Marshnil Vipin Dave, Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Dinesh Kumar Sharma: A process and temperature compensated current reference circuit in CMOS process. 89-97
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  Lucas Alves Da Silva, Eric Dekneuvel, Alexandre Lewicki, Benjamin Nicolle, Gilles Jacquemod: Virtual RF system platform dedicated to heterogeneous complex SoC design. 98-109
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  Baker Mohammad, Jacob A. Abraham: A reduced voltage swing circuit using a single supply to enable lower voltage operation for SRAM-based memory. 110-118
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  Emre Salman, Eby G. Friedman: Utilizing interdependent timing constraints to enhance robustness in synchronous circuits. 119-127
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  Libo Qian, Zhangming Zhu, Yintang Yang: Through-silicon-via insertion for performance optimization in three-dimensional integrated circuits. 128-133
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  Weizheng Wang, Jishun Kuang, Zhiqiang You: Achieving low capture and shift power in linear decompressor-based test compression environment. 134-140
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  J. W. Luo, C. C. Jong: Scalable linear array architectures for matrix inversion using Bi-z CORDIC. 141-153
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  Peihong Wang, Huiting Liu, Xuhan Dai, Zhuoqing Yang, Zhongzhu Wang, Xiaolin Zhao: Design, simulation, fabrication and characterization of a micro electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with sandwiched structure and air channel. 154-159
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  Terrence S. T. Mak: Truncation error analysis of MTBF computation for multi-latch synchronizers. 160-163
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  Albin Szalai, Vladimir Székely: Possible acception criteria for structure functions. 164-168

Volume 43, Number 3, March 2012

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  A. Talukdar, Ahmed Gomaa Radwan, Khaled N. Salama: Non linear dynamics of memristor based 3rd order oscillatory system. 169-175
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  Cong Wang, Nam-Young Kim: Analytical optimization of high-performance and high-yield spiral inductor in integrated passive device technology. 176-181
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  Xian Tang, Chi-Tung Ko, Kong-Pang Pun: A charge-pump and comparator based power-efficient pipelined ADC technique. 182-188
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  Kian Haghdad, Javid Jaffari, Mohab Anis: Power grid analysis and verification considering temperature variations. 189-197
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  Xavier Trulls, Diego Mateo, Adria Bofill: A small-area inductorless configurable wideband LNA with high dynamic range. 198-204
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  Sameh Ebrahim Rehan: Design and simulation of a universal N-bit binary encoder using single electron linear threshold gates. 205-215
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  Juan F. Osorio, Xavier Aragonès: Prediction of the impact of substrate coupled switching noise on frequency synthesizers. 216-224
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  Nikos Petrellis, George Adam, Dimitrios Ventzas: A real-time self-calibrated current mirror for wide range current reference generation, signal reproduction and delaying. 225-234

Volume 43, Number 4, April 2012

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  Victoria Vishnyakov, Eby G. Friedman, Avinoam Kolodny: Multi-aggressor capacitive and inductive coupling noise modeling and mitigation. 235-243
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  Nazrul Anuar Nayan, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Toshikazu Sekine: LSI implementation of a low-power 4×4-bit array two-phase clocked adiabatic static CMOS logic multiplier. 244-249
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  Shang-Hsien Yang, Chua-Chin Wang: Feed-forward Output Swing Prediction AGC design with Parallel-Detect Singular-Store Peak Detector. 250-256
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  Hung-Wei Wu, Yu-Fu Chen: Ultra wideband bandpass filter with dual-notched bands using stub-loaded rectangular ring multi-mode resonator. 257-262
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  Zeqin Wu, Philippe Maurine, Nadine Azémard, Gilles R. Ducharme: Delay-correlation-aware SSTA based on conditional moments. 263-273
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  Shang-Hsien Yang, Chua-Chin Wang: A low power 48-dB/stage linear-in-dB variable gain amplifier for direct-conversion receivers. 274-279
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  Hsueh-Han Wu, Kuan-Hong Lin, Shun-Tian Lin: A study on the heat dissipation of high power multi-chip COB LEDs. 280-287
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  Jokin Segundo, Jesús Arias, Luis Quintanilla, Lourdes Enríquez, Jesús M. Hernández-Mangas, José Vicente: A 1.2 V, 130 nm CMOS parallel continuous-time ΣΔ ADC for OFDM UWB receivers. 288-297

Volume 43, Number 5, May 2012

Editorial

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  Bernard Courtois: Special section NANOTECH 2011. 299

Special Issue Articles

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  Yi-Bo Liao, Meng-Hsueh Chiang, Keunwoo Kim, Wei-Chou Hsu: Assessment of structure variation in silicon nanowire FETs and impact on SRAM. 300-304
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  Yuanzhong (Paul) Zhou, Javier A. Salcedo, Jean-Jacques Hajjar: Modeling of high voltage devices for ESD event simulation in SPICE. 305-311
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  Mariusz Zubert, L. Starzak, Grzegorz Jablonski, Malgorzata Napieralska, Marcin Janicki, T. Pozniak, Andrzej Napieralski: An accurate electro-thermal model for merged SiC PiN Schottky diodes. 312-320
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  Ganesh C. Patil, S. Qureshi: Underlap channel metal source/drain SOI MOSFET for thermally efficient low-power mixed-signal circuits. 321-328
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  Osmar Franca Siebel, Márcio C. Schneider, Carlos Galup-Montoro: MOSFET threshold voltage: Definition, extraction, and some applications. 329-336

Volume 43, Number 6, June 2012

Research Articles

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  Yi Zhao, Shenjie Wang, Zhiliang Hong: A sub-sampling 4.25 GS/s 3-bit flash ADC with asymmetric spatial filter response. 337-344
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  J. Antonios, Nicolas Ginot, Christophe Batard, Y. Scudeller, Mohamed Machmoum: A model reduction approach for constructing compact dynamic thermal models of IGBT-modules of inverters. 345-352
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  Yi Wei, Jizhong Shen: Design of nanopipelined adder based on resonant tunneling diode. 353-357
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  Dheeraj Sharma, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma: Analytical modeling for 3D potential distribution of rectangular gate (RecG) gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET in subthreshold and strong inversion regions. 358-363
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  Yongqian Du, Xiaoming Li, Li Dai, Xin Jing, Zhenrong Li, Hualian Tang, Yiqi Zhuang: A new type of low power read circuit in EEPROM for UHF RFID. 364-369
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  Haikun Jia, Baoyong Chi, Lixue Kuang, Zhihua Wang: A 1 V, 69-73 GHz CMOS power amplifier based on improved Wilkinson power combiner. 370-376
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  Mariam Zomorodi Moghadam, Keivan Navi: Ultra-area-efficient reversible multiplier. 377-385
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  Xiaokuo Yang, Li Cai, Qiang Kang, Xiaohui Zhao: Clocking misalignment tolerance of pipelined magnetic QCA architectures. 386-392
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  Al-Hussein A. El-Shafie, S. E.-D. Habib: An all-digital DLL using novel harmonic-free and multi-bit SAR techniques. 393-400
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  Vitor Costa, Pedro Mendonça dos Santos, Beatriz Borges: A design methodology for integrated inductor-based DC-DC converters. 401-409
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  P. B. Shah, H. A. Hung: Critical design issues for high-power GaN/AlGaN anti-serial Schottky varactor frequency triplers. 410-415
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  Kaijun Song, Tao Pan, Quan Xue: Asymmetric dual-line coupling strip for multiple notched bands: Theory and implementation. 416-422
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  Felipe Frantz, Lioula Labrak, Ian O'Connor: 3D IC floorplanning: Automating optimization settings and exploring new thermal-aware management techniques. 423-432
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  Davide De Caro, Marino Coppola, Nicola Petra: A high-speed differential resistor ladder. 433-438

Volume 43, Number 7, July 2012

Research Articles

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  Rockey Gupta, Susheel Sharma: Quasi-floating gate MOSFET based low voltage current mirror. 439-443
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  Amir Nakhlestani, Ahmad Hakimi, Masoud Movahhedi: A novel configuration for UWB LNA suitable for low-power and low-voltage applications. 444-451
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  Javad Beheshtian, Mohammad T. Baei, Zargham Bagheri, Ali Ahmadi Peyghan: AlN nanotube as a potential electronic sensor for nitrogen dioxide. 452-455
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  Mohammad Reza Kakoee, Ashoka Visweswara Sathanur, Antonio Pullini, Luca Benini: Row-based FBB: A design-time optimization for post-silicon tunable circuits. 456-465
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  Hossein Elahipanah, Ali A. Orouji: Gain improvement and microwave operation of 4H-SiC MESFET with a new recessed metal ring structure. 466-472
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  Abeer I. Ammar, Sameh Ebrahim Rehan, Abdel-Fattah I. Abdel-Fattah: Design and simulation of single-source single-electron complementary 4-bit multiplexing nano-circuits. 473-483
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  Jedol Dayou, W. Y. H. Liew, Man-Sang Chow: Increasing the bandwidth of the width-split piezoelectric energy harvester. 484-491
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  Roshanak Alavi Fard, Mohammad Pooyan: A low voltage and low power parallel electronically tunable resistor with linear and nonlinear characteristics. 492-500
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  Miha Janez, Primoz Pecar, Miha Mraz: Layout design of manufacturable quantum-dot cellular automata. 501-513

Volume 43, Number 8, August 2012

Research Articles

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  Cosmin Popa: Low-voltage improved accuracy Gaussian function generator with fourth-order approximation. 515-520
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  Nasser Masoumi, Mohammad Moghaddam Tabrizi: CMOS linear high performance push amplifier for WiMAX power amplifier. 521-529
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  Hamid Moeenfard, Mohammad Taghi Ahmadian: The influence of vertical deflection of the supports in modeling squeeze film damping in torsional micromirrors. 530-536
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  M. M. Abutaleb: Design and simulation of novel TLG-SET based configurable logic cells. 537-545
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  Jiun-Wei Horng: Analytical synthesis of general high-order voltage/current transfer functions using CCIIs. 546-554
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  Orapin Channumsin, Tattaya Pukkalanun, Worapong Tangsrirat: Voltage-mode universal filter with one input and five outputs using DDCCTAs and all-grounded passive components. 555-561
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  Y. Campos-Roca, Hermann Massler, Arnulf Leuther: Multibias scalable HEMT small-signal modeling based on a hybrid direct extraction/particle swarm optimization approach. 562-568
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  W. J. Luo, X. J. Chen, L. Pang, T. T. Yuan, X. Y. Liu: A 24 W Ku band GaN based power amplifier with 9.1 dB linear gain. 569-572
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  H. Fatih Ugurdag, Onur Baskirt: Fast parallel prefix logic circuits for n2n round-robin arbitration. 573-581
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  José Luis González, Baudouin Martineau, Didier Belot: On the electrical properties of slotted metallic planes in CMOS processes for RF and millimeter-wave applications. 582-591
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  Hong-Yi Huang, Chun-Chieh Wu, Ching-Hsing Luo: An MICS band frequency synthesizer using active inductor and auto-calibration scheme. 592-599

Volume 43, Number 9, September 2012

Editorial

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  Márta Rencz: Thermal investigations of integrated circuits and systems, THERMINIC'10. 601

Special Issue Articles

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  Daniel Kearney, Thierry Hilt, Pascale Pham: A liquid cooling solution for temperature redistribution in 3D IC architectures. 602-610
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  R. Sommet, G. Mouginot, R. Quere, Z. Ouarch, M. Camiade: Thermal modeling and measurements of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs including thermal boundary resistance. 611-617
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  J. Rhayem, B. Besbes, R. Blecic, Sergey Bychikhin, G. Haberfehlner, Dionyz Pogany, B. Desoete, Renaud Gillon, A. Wieers, Marnix Tack: Electro-thermal characterization and simulation of integrated multi-trenched XtreMOS^TM power devices. 618-623
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  László Pohl, Erno Kollár, András Poppe, Zsolt Kohári: Nonlinear electro-thermal modeling and field-simulation of OLEDs for lighting applications I: Algorithmic fundamentals. 624-632
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  Didac Gómez, Cédric Dufis, Josep Altet, Diego Mateo, José Luis González: Electro-thermal coupling analysis methodology for RF circuits. 633-641
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  Toufik Azoui, Patrick Tounsi, Jean-Marie Dorkel: Innovative methodology to extract dynamic compact thermal models: Application to power devices. 642-648
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  Mateusz Kosikowski, Zbigniew Suszynski: A computationally efficient TLM thermal model in the beam displacement modulation regime. 649-655
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  Wlodzimierz Janke, Aneta Hapka: The thermally induced limitations of SiC SBDs operation conditions. 656-660
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  András Vass-Várnai, Zoltán Sárkány, Márta Rencz: Characterization method for thermal interface materials imitating an in-situ environment. 661-668

Volume 43, Number 10, October 2012

Preface

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  Saeid Nooshabadi: Editorial. 669

Special Issue Articles

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  Robert Chebli, Md. Hasanuzzaman, Ali Haidar, Mohamad Sawan: Successive-divider-line ADC dedicated to low-power medical devices. 670-679
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  Taimur Gibran Rabuske, Cesar Ramos Rodrigues, Saeid Nooshabadi: A 5 MSps 13.25µW 8-bit SAR ADC with single-ended or differential input. 680-686
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  Byungho Min, Keytaek Lee, Samuel Palermo: A 20 Gb/s triple-mode (PAM-2, PAM-4, and duobinary) transmitter. 687-696
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  Tina Marie Rookmaaker, Moon Seok Kim, Yong-Bin Kim: Design and analysis of the quadfferential amplifier. 697-707
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  E. Fernández, A. Beriain, Héctor Solar, I. Rebollo, Andrés Garcia-Alonso, Javier Sosa, J. M. Monzón, S. García-Alonso, Juan A. Montiel-Nelson, Roc Berenguer: A low power voltage limiter for a full passive UHF RFID sensor on a 0.35 μm CMOS process. 708-713
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  José M. Dores, Edwin C. Becerra-Alvarez, Miguel A. Martins, José Manuel de la Rosa, Jorge R. Fernandes: Efficient biasing circuit strategies for inductorless wideband low noise amplifiers with feedback. 714-720

Volume 43, Number 11, November 2012

Research Articles

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  Mondher Chaoui, Richard Perdriau, Hamadi Ghariani, Mongi Lahiani: Electrical modeling of the sensitivity to misalignments of a class-E based inductive transcutaneous link. 721-729
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  Ying Zhang, Christine Hu-Guo, Daniel Husson, Stephane Higueret, The-Duc Lê, Yann Hu: Design of a monolithic CMOS sensor for high efficiency neutron counting. 730-736
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  Mariano Ercoli, Daniela Dragomirescu, Robert Plana: Reduced size high performance transformer balun at 60 GHz in CMOS 65 nm technology. 737-744
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  Agustin Laprovitta, Gabriela Peretti, Eduardo Romero, Samiha Mourad: A low-cost configurability test strategy for an embedded analog circuit. 745-755
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  Yu-Lung Lo, Wei-Jen Chen: A 0.7 V input output-capacitor-free digitally controlled low-dropout regulator with high current efficiency in 0.35 μm CMOS technology. 756-765
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  Arash Azizi Mazreah, Mohammad T. Manzuri Shalmani: Low-leakage soft error tolerant dual-port SRAM cells for cache memory applications. 766-792
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  Muhammad Faiz Bukhori, Noor Ain Kamsani, Asen Asenov, Nazrul Anuar Nayan: Accurate capturing of the statistical aspect of NBTI/PBTI variability into statistical compact models. 793-801
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  Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti, Abdullah M. T. Abuelmaatti: A new current-mode CMOS analog programmable arbitrary nonlinear function synthesizer. 802-808
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  Med Lassaad Kaddachi, Adel Soudani, Vincent Lecuire, Leila Makkaoui, Jean-Marie Moureaux, Kholdoun Torki: Design and performance analysis of a zonal DCT-based image encoder for Wireless Camera Sensor Networks. 809-817
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  A. Soltan, Ahmed G. Radwan, Ahmed M. Soliman: Fractional order filter with two fractional elements of dependant orders. 818-827
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  Sanjay Joshi, Viral Thaker, Anvesha Amaravati, Maryam Shojaei Baghini: Low-power low-noise analog signal conditioning chip with on-chip drivers for healthcare applications. 828-837
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  Song Jin, Yinhe Han: M-IVC: Applying multiple input vectors to co-optimize aging and leakage. 838-847
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  Mehdi Lotfi Navaii, Mohsen Jalali, Hamed Sadjedi: An ultra-low power RF interface for wireless-implantable microsystems. 848-856
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  Hung-Wei Wu, Yung-Wei Chen, Yu-Fu Chen: New ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter using triangle-ring multi-mode stub-loaded resonator. 857-862
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  Ze-kun Zhou, Xue-Chun Ou, Yue Shi, Pei-Sheng Zhu, Ying-qian Ma, Shi Qiu, Xin Ming, Bo Zhang: A 3.2 ppm/°C curvature-compensated bandgap reference with wide supply voltage range. 863-868
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  Zhang Ling, Kuang Ji-Shun, You Zhi-Qiang: Virtual scan chains reordering using a RAM-based module for high test compression. 869-872
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  Angsuman Sarkar, Aloke Kumar Das, Swapnadip De, Chandan Kumar Sarkar: Effect of gate engineering in double-gate MOSFETs for analog/RF applications. 873-882
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  Ashutosh Nandi, Ashok K. Saxena, Sudeb Dasgupta: Impact of dual-k spacer on analog performance of underlap FinFET. 883-887
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  V. N. Ramakrishnan, R. Srinivasan: Soft error study in double gated FinFET-based SRAM cells with simultaneous and independent driven gates. 888-893
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  Guanghui Mei, Peicheng Li, Guangxi Hu, Ran Liu, Lingli Wang, Tingao Tang: Quantum mechanical effects on the threshold voltage of surrounding-gate MOSFETs. 894-897
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  Chi-Chao Wang, Yun Ye, Yu Cao: The potential of Fe-FET for robust design under variations: A compact modeling study. 898-903
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  Vladimir Székely, Albin Szalai: Measurement of the time-constant spectrum: Systematic errors, correction. 904-907
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  Ali Jafari, Ehsan Bijami, Hasan Rekabi Bana, Saeed Sadri: A design automation system for CMOS analog integrated circuits using New Hybrid Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm. 908-915
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  P. Deepa, C. Vasanthanayaki: FPGA based efficient on-chip memory for image processing algorithms. 916-928

Volume 43, Number 12, December 2012

Research Articles

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  Sara Hashemi, Keivan Navi: New robust QCA D flip flop and memory structures. 929-940
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  Guanzhong Huang, Pingfen Lin: A 15fJ/conversion-step 8-bit 50 MS/s asynchronous SAR ADC with efficient charge recycling technique. 941-948
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  Doo-Hwan Kim, Beom-Dae Kim, Kyoung-Rok Cho: Design of D-PHY chip for mobile display interface supporting MIPI standard. 949-955
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  Kian Haghdad, Mohab Anis: Timing yield analysis considering process-induced temperature and supply voltage variations. 956-961
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  Hung-Chun Chien: Voltage-controlled dual slope operation square/triangular wave generator and its application as a dual mode operation pulse width modulator employing differential voltage current conveyors. 962-974
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  Kurt Schweiger, Horst Zimmermann: Passive mixer with OPA filter for DVB-H front-end in 65 nm digital CMOS technology. 975-979
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  Beatriz Blanco-Filgueira, Paula López, J. B. Roldan: A Verilog-AMS photodiode model including lateral effects. 980-984
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  Poornima Mittal, Brijesh Kumar, Y. S. Negi, B. K. Kaushik, R. K. Singh: Channel length variation effect on performance parameters of organic field effect transistors. 985-994
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  Samir Labiod, Saida Latreche, Christian Gontrand: Numerical modeling of MOS transistor with interconnections using lumped element-FDTD method. 995-1002
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  Bao-Lin Wei, Yu-jie Dai: Analysis and design of a 1.0-V CMOS mixer based on variable load technique. 1003-1009
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  Ruey-Lue Wang, Yan-Kuin Su, Hung-Hsi Chien, Chung-Chin Chuang, Hsu-Feng Hsiao, Chih-Ho Tu, Ying-Zong Juang: A concurrent dual-band folded-cascode mixer using a LC-tank biasing circuit. 1010-1015
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  Juan Xie, Manthena Vamshi Krishna, Manh Anh Do, Chirn Chye Boon, Kiat Seng Yeo: A low power low phase noise dual-band multiphase VCO. 1016-1022
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  Ding-Lan Shen, Yu-Jung Chu, Hong-Wen Chen: A linearized technique in an All-MOS transconductance amplifier. 1023-1028
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  Pedram Payandehnia, Samad Sheikhaei, Aliazam Abbasfar, Behjat Forouzandeh: A 12.5 Gb/s 6.6 mW receiver with analog equalizer and 1-tap DFE. 1029-1037
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  Anahita Bagheri, Nasser Masoumi: Reducing expected delay and power in FPGAs using buffer insertion in single-driver wires. 1038-1045