| Abstract | Technology advances allows the integration of electronic systems in 65 nm and beyond. These nanometer technologies however pose serious challenges for the design of the analog and mixed-signal circuits. The benefits of scaling are shrinking. Power, variability and reliability are becoming increasing problems. Therefore, new design paradigms need to be developed to address these problems and fully exploit the technology capabilities. It is also requires novel design tools to be adopted by analog and mixed-signal designers. This keynote presentation will outline such future design and tool directions, and will illustrate this with some practical design results from state-of-the-art research. |