Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits

Preface

‘Exact Calculation: The Gateway to Everything.’

Ahmes

‘An Egyptian Mathematical Papyrus¹, 1850 BC’

 

In 2006, Austria was celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. While enjoying the festivities, I gave two graduate-level courses at the Technical University of Vienna (TUW). One course was on Digital Signal Processing and the other dealt with Analog Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing with application to the design of Switched-capacitor Filters and Sigma-Delta Data Converters. The two courses complemented each other to such an extent that the idea of writing a book combining the material of both courses was quite attractive. As the idea became more compelling, the material was updated and the result is this book.

The objective of this book is to provide a coherent and harmonious account of both analog and digital signal processing. In the case of digital systems, the design is at the relatively high level of adders, multipliers and delays. In the case of analog systems, the emphasis is laid on integrated circuit implementations of both continuous-time and sampled-data (discrete) circuits and systems, reaching all the way to the transistor level. This provides a comprehensive treatment of analog MOS integrated circuits for signal processing, with application to the design of microelectronic switched-capacitor circuits and extension to the design of mixed-mode processors in the form of integrated sigma-delta data converters. In this context, integrated circuit ...