7^th International Conference
Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Gdynia, 15-17 June 2000

The MIXDES 2000 Conference took place in Gdynia, Poland. The topics of the MIXDES Conference included:

1. Design problems
2. Analysis and modelling of integrated circuits and systems
3. Microelectronic technology, microsystems and micromachines
4. Thermal problems in microelectronics
5. Digital and analog filters, signal processing and telecommunication circuits
6. Testing and reliability problems
7. Practical realisations and industrial applications

The total number of 110 papers from 20 countries were accepted for publication including 10 invited papers.

The following invited papers were presented during the conference:

1. An Approach to the Analysis of Wearable Body-powered Systems, F. Moll, A. Rubio (Tech. Univ. Catalunya, SPAIN)
2. Design-for-Testability for Mixed Signal and Analogue Designs, A. Richardson, A. Lechner (Lancaster Univ., UK)
3. Desired and Parasitic Coupled-field Effects in MEMS, G. Wachutka (Tech. Univ. Munich, GERMANY)
4. Microsystems Technology in Educational Context, J.L. Noullet (AIME, FRANCE)
5. Modeling, Simulation and Design of Switchmode Circuits, J. Wojciechowski, J. Modzelewski, J. Ogrodzki, M. Bukowski, L. Opalski, K. Zamlynski (Warsaw Univ. of Techn., POLAND)
6. Pushing Sigma-Delta Modulators into the Video Band Cascade Multi-bit Sigma-Delta Modulators for XDSL, R. del Rio, F. Medeiro, B. Perez-Verdu, A. Rodriguez-Vazquez (Insitute of Microelectronics Sevilla, SPAIN)
7. Speciality of Static Induction Devices, J. Nishizawa (Semiconductor Research Institute, JAPAN)
8. Systematic Design of Nonlinear Circuits with Applications to Sinusoidal Oscillators, W. Mathis (Otto von Guericke Univ. Magdeburg, GERMANY)
9. The EUROPRACTICE IC Service Offers a New Approach to Deep Submicron Design, C. Das (IMEC, BELGIUM), J. McLean (CLRC, UK)
10. VHDL-AMS for Mixed Technology and Mixed Signal, J.-J. Charlot (ENST, FRANCE)

The following special sessions were organised during the conference:

1. Special session on behavioral modeling and synthesis of analog and mixed signal circuits. Integration of novel MEMS, analog and digital technologies
   • Analog Digital Development Board for Prototyping Mixed Signal Circuits, S. Warecki, O.A. Palusinski, S.B.K. Vrudhula (Univ. Arizona, USA), W.D. Mensch (Western Design Center, USA)
   • Behavioral Level Analog Synthesis for Field Programmable Analog Arrays, H. Wang (Univ. Arizona, USA), S.B.K. Vrudhula (Univ. Arizona and NSF Center for Low Power Electronics, USA), O.A. Palusinski (Univ. Arizona, USA)
   • Performance Optimization of Communication Digital-to-Analog Converter Through Segmentation of Current Sources, P. Hu (MOTOROLA Tempe, USA), O.A. Palusinski, S. Yan (Univ. Arizona, USA)
   • Simulation of Clock Jitter in High Performance CMOS Digital-to-Analog Converters Using Behavioral Modeling, T. Ruppel (Univ. Hannover, GERMANY), O.A. Palusinski (Univ. Arizona, USA)
   • The Switched Translinear Principle and Its Application, A. Graupner, R. Schufny (Tech. Univ. Dresden, GERMANY)
   • Track/Compute Structure for Accelerated Dynamic Reconfiguration of Mixed-signal Circuits, O.A. Palusinski (Univ. Arizona, USA), L. Znamirowski (Silesian Univ. of Techn., POLAND)
2. Special session on non-linear circuits
   • Analysis and Design of Resistive and Dynamical Networks With the Aid of Degenerated Resistive Networks, A. Reibiger (Tech. Univ. Dresden, GERMANY)
   • DC Stability of Nonlinear Systems, Z. Biolek, D. Biolek (Brno Univ. of Techn., CZECH REPUBLIC)
   • Hysteresis in Electronic Circuits Revisited, M. Ogorzalek (Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, POLAND)
   • Interleaving Techniques for High-throughput Chaotic Noise Generation in CMOS, S. Callegari, R. Rovatti (Univ. Bologna, ITALY), G. Setti (Univ. Ferrara, ITALY)
   • Method PFBS for the Analysis of Transistor Circuits: Proof of Uniqueness, L. Kronenberg, W. Mathis (Otto von Guericke Univ. Magdeburg, GERMANY), L. Trajkovic (Simon-Fraser Univ., CANADA)

The following papers has been awarded:

• Outstanding Paper Award was presented to:
  • Compact Models of Microchannels for Fluidic Microsystems, M. Turowski (CFD Research Corporation, USA and Tech. Univ. Lodz, POLAND), Z. Chen, A. Przekwas (CFD Research Corporation, USA)
  • Design and Synthesis of Inverse Trigonometric Function Generator Using Analog Computational Circuits, J.K. Seon, J.-J. Charlot (ENST, FRANCE)
  • Design of FIR SC Filter for GSM Receiver, R. Dlugosz, P. Kardys, A. Dabrowski (Poznan Univ. of Techn., POLAND)
  • Design Principles for FIR SC GSM Channel Filters, D. Cetnarowicz, A. Dabrowski (Poznan Univ. of Techn., POLAND)
  • Fully Integrated Low Frequency Continous-time RC Filters for Multielectrode Experiments in Neurobiology, P. Grybos, W. Dabrowski (Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, POLAND)
  • On Efficiency of Reversible (3,3)-gates, P. Kerntopf (Warsaw Univ. of Techn., POLAND)