analog circuit design for process variation-resilient systems-on-a-chip - marvin onabajo jose silva-martinez

this book describes several techniques to address variation-related design challenges for analog blocks in mixed-signal systems-on-chip. the methods presented are results from recent research works involving receiver front-end circuits, baseband filter linearization, and data conversion. these circuit-level techniques are described, with their relationships to emerging system-level calibration approaches, to tune the performances of analog circuits with digital assistance or control. coverage also includes a strategy to utilize on-chip temperature sensors to measure the signal power and linearity characteristics of analog/rf circuits, as demonstrated by test chip measurements.