what is hot topics in analog design research?

[jolia]

ADC and power manager

 

[castrader]

now maybe dc-dc, ldo regulator are hot
our lab and some other university are all in this domain.

 

[m.ghafoori]

Since the devices are now reduced in size, all the fields which result in smaller dimentions are considered hot. For example, in wireless technology, it is a large attempt to decrease the power needed for a device to the lowest degree. There are also other areas for example the conversion from analog to digital or digiral to analog. But may be more than all of the above, there is a new field which works on mixed signal systems, i.e. boards or systems in which analog and digital are integrated. I think the new generation of future boards and systems will be mixed.

 

[trashbox]

low power and sub-1V supply.

 

[arghpok]

Absolutely wrong.

The hottest topics are all of them via analog design automation and optimization via geometric programming. It has been seen performance increase around 20~30% against old designs using these techniques, and with a cheaper cost because the full design time decrease from weeks to hours.

Keep going fellas.

 

[tia_design]

This is a tough question, I think low noise design is a challenging research topic

 

[naalald]

ADC, pipelined and delta-sigma, and power management of them.

 

[s_babayan]

Dear Friend

I think, Design of Low-voltage, Low-power analog blocks will be in attention due to the development of portable equipments and also RFID has become in much interest. Wish you good luck.

 

[finalvolition]

low voltage / deep-submicro AD/DA/PLL
they suffer process limits such as leakage or modeling accurace

 

[leo_o2]

If analog circuit can be optimized by EDA tools, it will be interesting.

 

[Fady Atef]

I think the challenge now is the multi-giga freq application, such as ADC, seriallizers and Deseriallizers

 

[wateror]

how about cis? Is there anybody research on this now?

 

[alpeshchokshi]

I/O design is the most challenging... at high frequency application....

 

[Cye]

what about CDR?

 

[vrs007]

Data converters,power management and RF...

 

[chitra_laya]

Area efficient low power is needed for any analog design ckts.

 

[suru]

field programmable analog array

 

[blam]

one more: digitally assisted analog of all AD/DA, RF, PLL.

 

[engrak]

mismach effect on analog circuit is for deep sub micron technology is i think a good topic.

 

[rania_hassan]

low voltage circuits
Mixed signal systems (PLL, CDR, ADC ) in nanotechnology
High speed communication circuits