[ect-announce] [CFP]IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals : Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics (Feb, 2016)

[Nicodimus Retdian]

Call for Papers:  Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics

  The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Transactions on Fundamentals announces a special section on "Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics" to be published in February 2016. 
  Today’s development of LSI technology has brought drastic improvement in wireline & wireless network communication, and its scope is still expanding including living, medical and green technologies. For more evolutional advances, it is essential to combine digital and analog parts, where digital parts operate at high speed and efficiency, and analog parts realize high performance sensing and various communication functions with both compact area and low power consumption. The key factors of these technologies are to compensate analog mismatch with digital correction system or to control digital circuit performance with analog circuit techniques. 
  In addition, power management blocks are increasing its presence along with recent ground swell of ecological awareness. Sensing LSIs operating with nano-watt power dissipation make it much more important to control leakage current. System level optimization under various constrains such as power dissipation, operating speed and occupied area is also important with circuit level techniques.
  It is amazing that millimeter wave & terahertz circuits have been fabricated by CMOS technology. This fact is a result of development of device modeling and characterization, and its importance is still increasing more and more today.  Furthermore, for the reliable analog circuit design, we have to find the method for utilization of the knowhow database.
  As described above, a wide range of topics are related to the analog circuit design. It is the aim of this Special Section to present and discuss the latest research results of analog/mixed signal circuit techniques and to study future directions for analog/mixed signal circuits. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

•Low-voltage/low-power analog circuits, analog circuits for MEMS
•Mixed analog and digital systems, circuits, and LSI technologies, circuits compensation techniques, noise analysis techniques
•MMW-band and RF-Band analog circuits, analog circuits for telecommunication, analog circuits for intelligent systems
•Analog signal processing circuits (opamps, amplifiers, comparators, filter circuits, oscillators, multipliers)
•Reference voltage/current sources
•Sensor circuits, A-D converters, D-A converters, PLLs, modulators 
•Power management circuits, DC-DC converters, AC-DC converters, energy harvesting circuits, wireless power supply
•Analog circuit techniques in digital circuits (memories, micro-processors, DSPs, etc.)
•Nonlinear electronic circuits, chaotic circuits, neural network circuits
•Device modeling and simulation techniques for analog circuits
•CAD for analog circuits design
•Analog layout CAD
•Behavior modeling and system-level simulation techniques
•Analog circuits utilizing beyond CMOS devices
•Other related analog circuits techniques


Note for Authors:
Manuscript should be prepared according to the style described in the Information for Authors ( http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_ess.html ). It is recommended that the lengths of the paper and the letter for this special section are within 8 and 2 printed pages, respectively.
This special section strongly recommends electronic submission. Prospective authors are requested to follow carefully the submission process described bellow.  If it is difficult to make an electronic version of a manuscript or to use our web paper submission system, please contact our secretary.
1. Submit a paper using the IEICE Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx. Authors should choose the [Special-GC] Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular-EA]. 
2. Submit your “Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement” via electronic submission by May 22, 2015 (JST). Please do not forget to submit "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement". We cannot start the review process without them, even if we receive the manuscript. 

Contact person: 
Prof. Kazuyuki Wada(*), Dr. Nicodimus Retdian
(*)Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, 
   School of Science and Technology, Meiji University
   1-1-1 Higashi-Mita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 214-8571
   Tel: +81 44-934-7171(Ext.7319), Fax: +81 44-934-7909, 
   E-Mail: ea_feb2016-sec at ieice.org

Special Section Editorial Committee:
Guest Editor-in-Chief:  Kawori Sekine(Meiji Univ.)
Guest Editors:  Kazuyuki Wada(Meiji Univ.), Nicodimus Retdian(Kanagawa Univ.)
Guest Associate Editors:
Hideki Asai (Shizuoka Univ.), Hiroki Ishikuro(Keio Univ.), Nobuyuki Itoh(Okayama Prefectural Univ.), Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Technology), Masanori Ohtsuka(Renesas Corp.), Takashi Sato(Kyoto Univ.), Takahide Sato(Yamanashi Univ.), Hao San(Tokyo City Univ.), Takeshi Shima(Kanagawa Univ.), Hiroo Sekiya(Chiba Univ.), Akira Hyogo(Tokyo Univ. of Science), Tetsuya Hirose(Kobe Univ.), Masanori Furuta(Toshiba Corp.), Yasuyuki Matsuya(Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), Cosy Muto(Nagasaki Univ.), Akira Yasuda(Hosei Univ.), Taizo Yamawaki (Hitachi Corp.), Takeshi Yoshida(Hiroshima Univ.) 

*Authors must agree to the "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement" via electronic submission. 
*Please note that if the submitted paper is accepted, all authors are requested to pay for the page charges covering partial cost of publications. Authors will receive 50 reprints. 
* At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the manuscript is submitted for review. We recommend that authors unaffiliated with IEICE apply for membership. For membership applications, please visit
http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.html
*Note that some papers may appear in the following transactions, if the number of accepted papers exceeds the limit.