1. Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on ICECS 2001

   • Joseph Micallef
   • Ivan Grech

   Editorial Board Pages: 5 - 5

2. Digital Technique for Instability Detection and Saturation Recovery in High-Order SC ΣΔ Modulators

   • P. Cusinato
   • F. Pasolini
   • A. Baschirotto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 19

3. Adaptive Correction of Errors in Residue Coupled MASH ΔΣ Modulators

   • Monica Finsrud
   • Mats E. Høvin
   • Tor S. Lande

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 29

4. Design of Down-Sampling Processors for Radio Communications

   • Adel Ghazel
   • Lirida Naviner
   • Khaled Grati

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 38

5. A CMOS A/D Converter with Piecewise Linear Characteristic and Its Application to Sensor Linearization

   • Antonio J. López-Martín
   • Mikel Zuza
   • Alfonso Carlosena

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 46

6. On the Stability Analysis of High Order Sigma-Delta Modulators

   • Valeri Mladenov
   • Hans Hegt
   • Arthur van Roermund

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 55

7. Integrated Front-End Receiver for a Portable Ultrasonic System

   • M. Sawan
   • R. Chebli
   • A. Kassem

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 67

8. Class AB Output Stages for Low Voltage CMOS Opamps with Accurate Quiescent Current Control by Means of Dynamic Biasing

   • A. Torralba
   • R. G. Carvajal
   • J. A. Galan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 77

9. CMOS Power-Efficient Buffers and Amplifiers

   • Giuseppe Ferri
   • Nicola C. Guerrini
   • Manolo Sperini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 90

10. A Fully Integrated CMOS Phase-Locked Loop with 30 MHz to 2 GHz Locking Range and ±35 ps Jitter

    • Chao Xu
    • Winslow Sargeant
    • Jan Van der Spiegel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 97

11. Low-Power Log-Domain CMOS Filter Bank for 2-D Sound Source Localization

    • Ivan Grech
    • Joseph Micallef
    • Tanya Vladimirova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 117

12. Low Power Programmable Current Mode Circuits

    • Krzysztof Wawryn
    • Andrzej Mazurek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 136

13. A 1.5 V Current-Mode CMOS RMS-to-DC Converter

    • Antonio J. López-Martín
    • Alfonso Carlosena

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 143

14. The Real Frequency Technique Applied to the Synthesis of MMIC Active Filters with Attenuation Poles at Finite Frequencies

    • Eric Kerhervé
    • Pierre Jarry

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 152

15. An Implantable CMOS Amplifier for Nerve Signals

    • Jannik Hammel Nielsen
    • Torsten Lehmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 164

16. CMOS Microsystem Front-End for MicroTesla Resolution Magnetic Field Measurement

    • V. Frick
    • L. Hebrard
    • F. Braun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 174

17. A Dynamic Thermal Management Circuit for System-On-Chip Designs

    • Herming Chiueh
    • Jeffrey Draper
    • John Choma Jr.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 181