Plenary Lecture

Analytical Synthesis Method---A New Circuit Design Method for Arbitrary Requirements

Professor Chun-Ming Chang
Senior Member, IEEE
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University,
Chung-Li, Taiwan 32023, R. O. China
E-mail: chunming@dec.ee.cycu.edu.tw

Abstract: Analytical Synthesis Method (ASM) has been presented in several papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems since 2003. It is one of the powerful design methods in the field of analog circuit design. It is the method using a succession of innovative algebra manipulation operations to decompose a complicated transfer function representing the relationship between the output and the input signals of a design project into many simple equations feasible by using the corresponding simple sub-circuitries. The simple sub-circuitries can be constructed by the desired configuration of the element such as the single-ended-input operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and the grounded capacitors, both of which are used for absorbing and reducing the shunt parasitic capacitance and lead to have more precise output responses. In addition to this, the ASM can control the number of the terms in the complicated decomposition process such that the number of both active and passive components used in the circuit is the least compared to the previously reported ones. Then, the ASM is the only one method which can simultaneously achieve the three important criteria for the design of OTA-C circuits without trade-offs.

Due to the flexibility of the ASM, the simple sub-circuitries used in the circuit design can be changed and chosen according to different necessities for the target of the circuit design. For example, if the reduction of the number of the active and passive components used in the circuit is more important than the type of the element configurations like single-ended-input/differential-input OTAs and grounded/floating capacitors due to the consideration about power consumption, chip area, noise, and total parasitics……, etc., the minimum component OTA-C circuit can also be investigated and developed successfully using the ASMs. The fully flexible characteristic and the real demonstration in the literature of the ASM may make it be one of the most prospective methods in the field of analog circuit design in the near future.