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This book provides a comprehensive treatment of security in the widely adopted, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The authors present the fundamental principles of RFID cryptography in a manner accessible to a broad range of readers, enabling them to improve their RFID security design.

AC-DC conversion from the mains to a low voltage DC is discussed, enabling an efficient and compact, lower-power auxiliary power supply to take over the power delivery during the standby mode of mains-connected appliances, allowing the main power converter of these devices to be shut down fully.

This book introduces readers to the potential of charge-sharing (CS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), while providing extensive analysis of the factors that limit the performance of the CS topology.

This new edition includes a variety of useful updates, including coverage of power efficiency and comprehensive optimization methodologies for DC-DC voltage multipliers, modeling of extremely low voltage Dickson charge pumps, and modeling and optimum design of AC-DC switched-capacitor multipliers for energy harvesting and power transfer for RFID.

This book addresses the challenges of designing high performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) based on the "smart data converters" concept, which implies context awareness, on-chip intelligence and adaptation.

This book describes the system-level design of an application-optimized signal conditioner together with its control algorithm and a mixed-signal AGC loop combining RMS and peak detection.

This book explores the design of ultra-low power radios and shows how they can form networks to facilitate a applications in healthcare and environmental monitoring, since they can operate for years off a small battery or harvest energy from the environment.

This book focuses on increasing the energy-efficiency of electronic devices so that portable applications can have a longer stand-alone time on the same battery. The authors explain the energy-efficiency benefits that ultra-low-voltage circuits provide and provide answers to tackle the challenges which ultra-low-voltage operation poses.

The authors show the recent development of millimeter-wave design techniques, especially of power amplifiers and transmitters, and presents novel design concepts, such as "power transistor layout" and "4-way parallel-series power combiner", that can enhance the output power and efficiency of power amplifiers in a compact silicon area.

This book describes the life cycle process of IP cores, from specification to production, including IP modeling, verification, optimization, and protection.

These three techniques enable respectively, cascading of radio frequency (RF) and baseband (BB) circuits under an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) supply, cascading of RF and BB circuits in current domain for current reuse and a novel function-reuse receiver architecture, suitable for ULV and multi-band ULP applications such as the sub-GHz ZigBee.

This book illustrates a variety of circuit designs on plastic foils and provides all the information needed to undertake successful designs in large-area electronics.

This book presents the cross-layer design and optimization of wake-up receivers for wireless body area networks (WBAN), with an emphasis on low-power circuit design.

This book describes the design of fully digital multistandard transmitter front-ends which can directly drive one or more switching power amplifiers, eliminating all other analog components. Describes two chips designed using nanometer CMOS technologies.

This book provides analysis and discusses the design of various MOSFET technologies. Coverage includes comparison of Single-gate MOSFET and Double-gate MOSFET switching parameters as well as testing of MOSFETs parameters using image acquisition.

This book describes the various tradeoffs systems designers face when designing embedded memory. It uses real product examples to demonstrate embedded memory design flow from architecture, to circuit design, design for test and yield analysis.

This book offers a novel approach to the analysis and design of all-digital phase-locked loops (ADPLLs), covering time-to-digital converters, noise shaping and more. Includes advice on analysis and simulation techniques, and reusable Matlab code.

This book covers architecture and circuit design for cognitive radio receiver front-ends, offering a holistic explanation of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems and in-depth exploration of existing and novel circuit design techniques and architectures.

This book covers modeling, simulation and analysis of analog circuit aging, nanometer CMOS physical effects resulting in unreliability, transistor aging compact models for circuit simulation, methods for efficient circuit reliability simulation and more.

This book develops voltage-to-frequency converter (VFC) solutions integrated in standard CMOS technology to be used as a part of a microcontroller-based, multisensor interface in the environment of portable applications, particularly within a WSN node.

This book describes design techniques that can be used to mitigate crosstalk in high-speed I/O circuits. It examines the problem of crosstalk and ISI mitigation encountered as data rates have continued beyond 10Gb/s.

This book helps circuit designers reduce errors introduced by the fundamental limitations and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in negative-feedback amplifiers. It details a systematic design approach for application specific negative-feedback amplifiers.

This book presents concepts and architectures for power use, wireless links, and circuit design for Wireless Body Area Networks, which will allow new applications for the ambulatory health monitoring of chronic disease patients and the elderly population.

This book describes a unique approach to smart receiver system design. It starts with the analysis of a very basic, single-path receiver structure, then using similar methods, extends the analysis to a more complicated multi-path receiver.

Providing detailed design techniques that enable readers to create more efficient switch-capacitor on-chip generators, this guide features comprehensive exemplar circuits and covers all the component circuit blocks including level-shifters and oscillators.

This book analyzes automatic gain control (AGC) loop circuits and demonstrates AGC solutions in wireless receivers, mainly in wireless receivers with stringent constraints in settling-time and wide dynamic range, such as WLAN and Bluetooth receivers.

This volume demystifies Digital Delta-Sigma Modulator (DDSM) architectures, covering multi stage noise shaping (MASH), error feedback modulators (EFM) and single quantizer (SQ)-DDSM modulators. Chapters also include Simulink and MATLAB models, allowing readers to reproduce results.

This book presents design techniques, analysis and implementation of high performance and power efficient, variation tolerant on-chip interconnects. It is for anyone concerned with the design of next generation, high-performance electronics systems.

This book describes the design of Software Radio (SWR). Rather than providing an overview of digital signal processing and communications, it focuses on topics which are crucial in the design and development of a SWR, explaining them simply, yet precisely.