This book contains the extended and revised versions of the talks of all speakers presented at the sixth AACD Workshop held in Villa Olmo, April 2-4 1997 Como, Italy. The local chairman was Pietro Erratico and the organization was performed by Isabella De Quattro both of SGS­ Thomson Microelectronics Cornareda and Agrate Brianza Italy. The program consisted of six tutorials per day during three days. These tutorials were presented by experts in the field to give state of the art information. Program topics for the following workshop are selected by the audience at the end of the workshop. The program committee, consisting of 10han Huijsing of Delft University of Technology, Willy Sansen of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Rudy van de Plassche of Philips Research Labs and University of Technology Eindhoven elaborates the selected topics into a three day program and selects the experts in the field for presentation. Each AACD Workshop has given rise to the publication of a book by Kluwer entitled "Analog Circuit Design". This series of six books in a row provides a valuable overview of all analog circuit techniques concerning design, CAD, simulation and device modeling and can be seen as a reference to those involved in analog circuits.

Part I: RF Analog-to-Digital Converters. Introduction. Design of a Silicon Bipolar Track&Hold IC for 1gsample/s and 10 bit Linearity over the Full Nyquist Band; T. Baumheinrich, et al. Power and Scaling Rules of CMOS High-Speed A/D Converters; A.G.W. Venes, R. van de Plassche. An Embedded 170-mW 10-Bit 50-MS/s CMOS ADC IN 1-mm2; K. Bult, A. Buchwald. Architectures and Circuits for A/D and D/A Conversion in CMOS Integrated Systems for Telecom Applications; J. Sevenhans, Z.-Y. Chang. A 12 bit, 50 Msample/s Cascaded Folding & Interpolating ADC; P. Vorenkamp, R. Roovers. Linearizing a 128 Msample/s ADC; R. Jewett, et al. Part II: Sensor and Actuator Interfaces. Introduction. Advances in State-of-the-Art in Smart Sensor Signal Conditioning; J. Bryzek, A. Rastgar. Low-Power Sensor Interfaces; T. Smith, et al. Capacitive Interfaces for Monolithic Integrated Sensors; B. Boser. Low-Cost Interfaces for Sensors and Sensor Systems; F. van der Goes, G. Meijer. Integrated Sensor Systems in CMOS Technology; B. Hosticka. Compensation and Calibration of IC Microsensors; A. Häberli, H. Baltes. Part III: Low-Noise oscillators, PLL''s and Synthesizers. Introduction. How Phase Noise Appears in Oscillators; A. Abidi. Synthesizer Architectures; C. Vaucher. Fully Integrated Low Phase-Noise VCOs: from Post-Processing to Standard CMOS; M. Steyaert, J. Craninckx. Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in Phase-Locked Loops; K. Kundert. Phase Noise, Signal Power and Current Consumption in CMOS Colpitts Oscillators; Q. Huang. Noise in Fully Integrated PLL''s; G. Palmisano, et al.