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EDITOR'S NOTE
R. Jacob Baker
Welcome to the Summer 2017 Issue of
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine!
I
In this third issue of the ninth year
of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
we are pleased to publish feature
articles of interest to the magazine's
readers ranging from tutorials to
technology overviews. These include
the always well-received columns
from Marcel Pelgrom, A li Sheikholeslami, and Behzad Razavi. Marcel's always entertaining article this
month is "Back to Basics" and provides
an engineer's view of various aspects
of life. Ali's consistently informative
"Circuit Intuitions" column discusses
the "Capacitor as a Resistor" and is the
inspiration behind this issue's cover.
Behzad's article, about the flash analog-to-digial converter (ADC), provides both an excellent introduction
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and tutorial to one of the most useful
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society memADC topologies.
ber up to date with changes in techIn addition, we have the following
nology while, at the same time,
feature articles in this issue of interest
providing reviews of circuit design
to our readers:
concepts. This in■ "Fundamentals of
cludes contributions
Audio Class D Amfrom experts describAli's always
plifier Design," by
ing the current state of
informative
Xicheng Jiang
affairs and evolution
"Circuit Intuitions"
■ "Nanoscale MOSFET
of a particular IC techcolumn discusses
Modeling," by Chrisnology. We will also
the "Capacitor as
tian Enz, Francesco
continue to feature ara Resistor" and
Chicco, and Alesticles focused on the
is the inspiration
sandro Pezzotta
contributions of lumibehind this
■ " To E V M o r Tw o
naries. Of course, sugissue's cover.
EVMs?" by Marco Viggestions from readers
ilante, Earl McCune,
are always welcome.
and Patrick Reynaert.
We hope you enjoy reading IEEE SolidThe goal of the magazine conState Circuits Magazine. Please send
tinues to be to provide Society news
your comments to me at rjacobbaker@
and information as well as a series of
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