Book description
Starting from the fundamentals, the present book describes methods of
designing analog electronic filters and illustrates these methods by
providing numerical and circuit simulation programs. The subject matters
comprise many concepts and techniques that are not available in other
text books on the market. To name a few - principle of transposition and
its application in directly realizing current mode filters from well
known voltage mode filters; an insight into the technological aspect of
integrated circuit components used to implement an integrated circuit
filter; a careful blending of basic theory, numerical verification
(using MATLAB) and illustration of the actual circuit behaviour using
circuit simulation program (SPICE); illustration of few design cases
using CMOS and BiCMOS technological processes. Rabindranath Raut
obtained his M. Tech. degree in radiophysics and electronics from the
University of Kolkata, India, in 1968, and his Ph. D. degree in
electrical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in
1984. While in India, he worked as an electronics engineer (1968-1972)
at the Indian Space Research Organization, and as a lecturer (1972-1978)
in the Indian Institute of Technology. From 1983 to 1991, he worked as a
senior radio-frequency electronic circuit and senior radio-frequency
integrated circuit design engineer in various organizations in Canada.
In 1991, Dr. Raut joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at Concordia University, where he still teaches.
He has published numerous articles in various international journals and
conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the IEEE (USA), and a
licensed professional engineer in the provinces of Quebec (OIQ) and
Ontario (PEO), Canada. Dr. Raut?s teaching and research interests lie in
the areas of electronics and analog VLSI, with a specialization in
analog filters and radio frequency circuits and systems.
M. N.S. Swamy received his Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1963. He is presently a
Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Signal Processing
and Communications in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he served
as the Founding Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from
1970 to 1977, and Dean of Engineering and Computer Science from 1977 to
1993. Since 2001, he has been holding the Concordia Research Chair in
Signal Processing. Dr. Swamy has also taught in the Electrical
Engineering Department of the Technical University of Nova Scotia,
Halifax, and the University of Calgary, as well as in the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author or
co-author of many articles and several books, and a Fellow of many
societies including the IEEE , the IET (UK) and the EIC (Canada). He is
the recipient of many awards including the IEEE-CAS Society education
Medal, Golden Jubilee Medal, and the Guillemin-Cauer best paper award.
He was the president of the CAS-Society in 2004 and Editor-in Chief of
the IEEE transactions on Circuits and Systems during 1999-2001.
Recently, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the National
Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
