F2: Pushing the Frontiers in Accuracy for Data Converters and Analog Circuits

The advances in high-precision analog front-end and data conversion circuits have opened up new opportunities in diverse application spaces. To keep fueling the evolution of emerging applications, such as health monitoring, industry 4.0, and internet of things, advanced sensing technology is required to further improve resolution, speed, as well as power and area efficiency of the system. This forum highlights the fundamental challenges with an emphasis on techniques to achieve the ultimate accuracy in analog circuits and data converters. Following an overview of analog-circuit challenges, a series of discussions start with essential high-accuracy voltage and frequency references along with the compensation techniques for their long-term drift, and then move on to the systemlevel functions of high-precision amplifiers, digital-to-analog converters, as well as overasampling and Nyquist-rate analog-to-digital converters, which are required to construct the overall signal chain.