模拟集成电路设计大师——Phillip Allen

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Phillip Allen在国内被大家所知的是他所著的《CMOS模拟集成电路设计》，这本书是模拟集成电路设计课的一本经典教材。
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8 ^9 b9 t) N4 @. o+ ^+ @+ l5 jPhillip Allen received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1970.  He retired from the School of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as Professor Emeritus in 2005.  He has worked for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Pacific Missile Range,  Texas Instruments and consulted with numerous companies.  He has taught at the University of Nevada at Reno, University of Kansas, University of California at Santa  Barbara, and Texas  A&M University. His technical interest include analog integrated circuit and systems design with focus on implementing low voltage and high frequency circuits and systems in standard CMOS technology.  He has conducted research in frequency synthesizers, RF, IF, and baseband filters compatible with standard IC technology. He has over 60 refereed publications in the area of analog circuits and has coauthored Theory and Design of Active Filters (1980), Switched Capacitor Filters (1984), CMOS Analog Circuit Design (1987), and VLSI Design Techniques for Analog and Digital Circuits (1990). He is presently active in teaching short courses on analog IC design to professionals worldwide. He is on the editorial boards of Integration-The VLSI Journal, and Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Research Interests:

Professor Allen's current research interests include the areas of analog CMOS integrated circuit design. In particular, Dr. Allen is focused on RF and low voltage applications using standard digital CMOS technology. Dr. Allen has also done research in analog behavioral modeling and the understanding of analog IC design.

Present research topics include :
1.) design of a CMOS low-phase noise VCO (Vector-Controlled Oscillator) .
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4.) low voltage, wide-dynamic range CMOS op amps.
5.) on chip RF filters.
; C7 h% n2 ]! O- v  A! V: VProfessor Allen's current research interests include the areas of analog CAD methodology, simulation and modeling, and GaAs precision analog signal processing circuits. These interests include the specific projects of application- specific analog silicon compilers, analog testing, multilevel simulators for analog circuits, mixed-mode multilevel simulators, precision analog small signal models for CMOS devices, artificial intelligence applied to automated analog circuit design, cell compilers for the AIDE2 program (analog simulator), and high speed analog signal processing using feedback in GaAs technology.
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Publications:
8 a+ B# a9 ]) O6 `- e( _Phillip E. Allen, B.J. Blalock, W.S. Milam: &quotositive Gain Active Filters," Section 15.1 in The Circuits and Filters Handbook, W.K. Chen, Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, 1995.
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) N% B0 u; r/ A% ~) mPhillip E. Allen, A.L. Coban: "A New Low-Voltage CMOS Transconductance Cell Based on Parallel Operation of Triode and Saturation Transconductors," Electronic Letters, vol. 31, no. 22, pp. 1886-1887, 1995.
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Phillip E. Allen, A.L. Coban: "Low-Voltage Analog IC Design in CMOS Technology," IEEE Transactions on CAS-I, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 955-958, 1995.
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% v7 Q" \! @. k: G9 UPhillip E. Allen: Keynote speaker at the Eighth Annual Electrical Engineering Symposium in Bangkok, Thailand, 1995.
   
! i6 b9 ^4 A( }6 W+ t2 Q* E  ?Phillip E. Allen, C.M. Breevort: "A/D and D/A Converters," Chapter 12 of High Frequency Analog Integrated Circuit Design, John Wiley, Somerset, NJ, 1996, 1996.
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: R" s. O- R! j; a4 {0 \Phillip E. Allen, G.A. Rincon-Mora: "A Low-voltage, Low Quiescent Current, Low Drop-out Regulator," IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 36-44, 1998.