This text details how to improve the electromagnetic immunity of considered analog integrated circuits. Through design cases, it explains how to identify and solve EMC problems in output stages, input stages and power supply terminals.

Environmental electromagnetic pollution has drastically increased over the last decades. The omnipresence of communication systems, various electronic appliances and the use of ever increasing frequencies, all contribute to a noisy electromagnetic environment which acts detrimentally on sensitive electronic equipment. Integrated circuits must be able to operate satisfactorily while cohabiting harmoniously in the same appliance, and not generate intolerable levels of electromagnetic emission, while maintaining a sound immunity to potential electromagnetic disturbances: analog integrated circuits are in particular more easily disturbed than their digital counterparts, since they don't have the benefit of dealing with predefined levels ensuring an innate immunity to disturbances. The objective of the research domain presented in EMC of Analog Integrated Circuits is to improve the electromagnetic immunity of considered analog integrated circuits, so that they start to fail at relevantly higher conduction levels than before.

EMC-aware analog integrated circuit design is domain which is continuously gaining in importance Paradoxically, literature describing and solving EMC problems in integrated circuits is not widely spread: most EMC-related works describe what should be done outside the integrated circuit (like shielding, etc.). Conversely, this research looks at how EMC incompatibilities can be tackled on-chip The structure of the book explains how to identify and solve EMC problems in output stages, input stages and power supply terminals by means of practical design cases The design cases described in this work have been validated with measurements and/or simulations Last but not least, stressing the first point in this list, the authors strongly believe that EMC problems will keep on increasing in the future Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Seyed Hossein Daneshvar received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include the field of energy harvesting, ultra-low power sensor interface circuits, and miniature generators for powering bio-implantable devices, and sensor networks. Mehmet Rasit Yuce is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC in December 2004. In July 2011, he joined Monash University. His research interests include wearable devices, Internet-of-Things (IoT) for healthcare, wireless implantable telemetry, wireless body area network (WBAN), bio-sensors, integrated circuit technology dealing with digital, analog and radio frequency circuit designs for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications. Dr. Yuce has published more than 170 technical articles in the above areas and received a NASA group achievement award in 2007 for developing an SOI transceiver. He received a best journal paper award in 2014 from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS). He is a senior member of IEEE. He is a topical editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, an editor-in-chief for Sensors, and a guest editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in 2015. Jean-Michel Redouté (M'09-SM'12) received the degree of M. S. in electronics at the University College in Antwerp (1998), and the degree of M. Eng. in electrical engineering at the University of Brussels (2001). In August 2001, he started working at Alcatel Bell in Antwerp, where he was involved in the design of analog microelectronic circuits for telecommunications systems. In January 2005, he joined the University of Leuven as a Ph. D. research assistant. In May 2009, he presented his Ph. D. entitled "Design of EMI resisting analog integrated circuits". In September 2009, he started working at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center at the University of California, at Berkeley: this research was funded by the Belgian American Educational Foundation BAEF). In September 2010, he joined Monash University, Melbourne, as a senior lecturer. In July 2018, he started working at the University of Liège as an Associate Professor. His research is concentrated on miniaturized and low-power sensor interfaces, robust mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design with a high immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI), biomedical (integrated and non-integrated) circuit design, energy harvesting and integrated imagers. Dr. Redouté is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal.

Inhalt
Basic EMC Concepts at IC Level.- EMC of Integrated Circuits versus Distortion.- EMI Resisting Analog Output Circuits.- EMI Resisting Analog Input Circuits.- EMI Resisting Bandgap References and Low Dropout Voltage Regulators.- Epilogue.