Special issue on IEEE LASCAS2010

Abstract

This special issue of the Springer Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (ALOG) is devoted to selected topics from the First IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS2010) that was held in Iguacu Falls, Brazil, 24th–26th February 2010. LASCAS is intended to be the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society flagship and international conference in Latin America. The selected papers reflect continuing trends toward higher levels of analog and digital circuit techniques covering a wide variety of subjects within the Analog and RF Integrated Circuits, Signal Processing, Digital Integrated Circuits and EDA fields, ranging from basic analog building blocks to system applications on several related domains. The major areas of Electronics, Circuits and Systems covered by LASCAS2010, drew 125 submissions from 30 countries spanning the globe (52% of submitted papers were from out of Latin America) and 53 contributions were selected by more than 75 reviewers for oral presentations and 21 for poster presentation. Among the published contributions in the LASCAS2010 proceedings, a pre-selection of 11 papers has been completed and corresponding Authors were invited for contributions to this Special issue. After receiving the full manuscripts and the assessment of reviewers, eight of them have been accepted for publication in this Special issue. The presented contributions in this Special issue deal with arithmetic circuits, IC architectures, power amplifiers, switching, FFT and variability and defects monitoring circuits dedicated for numerous building blocks of several applications. These contributions includes: (1) FPGA realization of high performance large size computational functions: multipliers and applications; (2) Design challenges of a fully integrated 65 nm CMOS half cascode SFDS PA; (3) An efficient parallel architecture for raytracing; (4) A linear 60 GHz 65 nm-CMOS power amplifier realization and characterization for OFDM signal; (5) Automatic adjustment of a medical imaging data acquisition system to unknown delays in the input communication channels; (6) Analysis of the conditions for the worst case switching activity in integrated circuits; (7) FPGA implementation and testing of a 128 FFT for a MB-OFDM receiver; (8) Delay sensing for long-term variations and defects monitoring in safety–critical applications. Selecting only 8 papers out of 125 contributions of the conference presentations is a difficult and critical task. We are aware that we probably missed many excellent contributions, but we do know that we did our best to put together a special issue as complete as possible. The Technical Program of LASCAS2010 is the result of a truly international cooperation of experts. We feel very much indebted to Technical Program Committee for their invaluable help to start LASCAS at the high standard that our scientific community has grown accustomed to expect from an CASS symposium. We wish to thank our coresearchers from all around the world, for choosing to submit their contributions to LASCAS for review. Due to their many and important contributions, we managed to create a Technical Program of high scientific quality. E. Kerherve IMS Laboratory, Universite Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France e-mail: eric.kerherve@ims-bordeaux.fr