Today's demands on circuits for analogue signal processing in telecommunication, measurement, signal sensing, control, and other areas, are extreme in some cases. The well-known design compromises, for example between attainable precision and speed or between bandwidth and stability, are ever harder to assure. The type of active circuit components used plays a key role here. The still popular OTAs (Operational Transconductance Amplifier) are a desirable alternative to conventional operational amplifiers, particularly for high-frequency applications. There is a comeback of the current conveyors today. It is evident that some modifications of the conventional conveyor structures can result in functional blocks with interesting application potentials. In addition, hundreds of studies of various applications of circuit elements of more recent origin such as CDBA, CCCDBA, OTRA, CDTA, and CCCDTA have been appearing in technical literature every year. The set of unconventional active components with potential utilization in various fields of electronic industry is, thus, continuously expanding.

The aim of this issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research papers that address various aspects of modern active components for voltage, current, and mixed signal processing. Papers with focus on the area of concrete design and manufacture of integrated circuits are particularly welcome. We seek original and still unpublished works that are currently not under review for any other events. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Qualitative new principles of circuits for voltage-, current-, and mixed-mode signal processing

• Novel transistor-level structures of active circuit components

• IC implementations of circuit components such as CDBA, CDTA, CTTA, OTRA, and others

• OTA-C and CDTA-C filters

• All-pass sections based on the unconventional circuit components

• Universal filters for cascade design

• Simulation of ladder structures using modern circuit components

• Utilization of modern active components in measuring and signal sensing

• Non-linear applications

• Methods for the analysis of circuits employing modern active components

• Software tools for the design and simulation of circuits with unconventional active components.

Authors should submit a complete manuscript in PDF, DOC or RTF format via email to dalibor.biolek@unob.cz 

and respect the following time schedule:

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