The “Analog Journal” celebrates its 20th Anniversary!

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With this issue, we celebrate our 20th Anniversary! We started our first issue back in 1991. The journal appeared quarterly for a couple of years then bi-monthly for a while and since 1997 it appears monthly and on-line since 1999. Our journal is the only publication devoted exclusively to analog Integrated circuits (ICs) and signal processing research. It is becoming the premiere publication in the fields of analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed signal IC design and applications. Many of us call it ‘‘the Analog Journal’’ or ‘‘the red and yellow’’! Indeed, the material we publish reflects a very significant portion of analog research conducted in industry, academia and research Labs worldwide. On behalf of the Editorial Board, I would like to thank our authors and reviewers who made the journal what it is today. Special thanks go to the Springer staff for their very dedicated work over the years with the journal or ‘‘ALOG’’ as they call it. Happy 20th Anniversary to ‘‘ALOG’’! and Happy New Year 2011 to you, our readers! We look forward to hearing from you with any suggestions or feedback you may have so we can serve you even better. Mohammed Ismail is a Professor and Founding Director of the Analog VLSI Lab at the Ohio State University, USA and of the RaMSiS Group at KTH, Sweden. He is also affiliated with the ElectroScience Lab at Ohio State. Currently, he conducts research on robust low power RF and mmwave ICs for wireless, bio and multimedia applications with a focus on manufacturable low cost high volume CMOS solutions for mobile and wearable embedded devices. He served as a Corporate Consultant to over 30 companies and is a Co-Founder of Firstpass Technologies, Inc. a developer of RF and mixed signal IPs. He Cofounded ANACAD-Egypt (now part of Mentor Graphics). He advised the work of 49 Ph.D. students and of over 90 M.S. students. He authored or co-authored a dozen books and over 250 journal publications. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer and the Founder of the IEEE ICECS, the flagship Region 8 conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He received the US Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Ohio State Lumley Research Award four times, in 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007 and the US Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Inventor Recognition Award twice. He is a Fellow of IEEE.