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Mixed-mode switching circuits disTInguish themselves from other circuitsby including switches that are either clocked externally or controlledinternally. These circuits have found broad applicaTIons in telecommunicaTIonnetworks, instrumentaTIon, and power electronic systems, toname a few. It is the emergence of switched capacitor networks in theearly 1970s and switched current circuits in late 1980s that sparkeda broad interest in and the rapid development of computer methodsand numerical algorithms for analysis and design of mixed-mode switchingcircuits. Recent advance in mixed analog-digital circuits and thesystems-on-chip realization of complex electronic systems have furtherstimulated the enthusiasm of both the academia and industry in mixedmodeswitching circuits as these circuits provide a viable and yet economicalmeans to realize both analog and digital systems on a siliconsubstrate using low-cost digitally-oriented CMOS technologies.As compared with time-invariant circuits, the time-varying characteristics,incomplete charge transfer, inconsistent initial conditions, andth under-sampling of broadband noise of mixed-mode switching circuitssignificantly complicate the analysis of these circuits, both in the timedomain and frequency domain. Since the early 1970s, a significant efforthas been made on the development of computer methods for theanalysis and design of mixed-mode switching circuits. Many novel computermethods and numerical algorithms have emerged. A systematicpresentation of these methods and an in-depth assessment of their advantagesand limitations, however, are not available presently. This book is an attempt to summarize the recent advance in computer methods for mixed-mode switching circuits and to provide an in-depth and comprehensiveassessment on the pros and cons of these methods.
