Publications by Hanspeter Schmid

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Table of Contents
Technical Publications Journal papers
Journal Comments
Dissertation
Conference tutorials
Conference papers
Magazine articles
Books
Other publications
Philosophical Publications Journal Papers
Newsletter Articles
Technical Publications
Journal Papers Analysis of switched-capacitor circuits using driving-point signal-flow graphs
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Online, March 2018. Print information will follow.
Paper (open access)
  A tutorial to switched-capacitor noise analysis by hand
Hanspeter Schmid, Lothar Eichelberger and Alex Huber, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 249-261, October 2016.
Paper (online reader)
  Two curious integrals and a graphic proof
Hanspeter Schmid, Elemente der Mathematik, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 11–17, January 2014.
Paper (pdf)
  Why 'Current Mode' Does Not Guarantee Good Performance
Hanspeter Schmid, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 79–90, April 2003.
Paper (pdf)
  An 8.25-MHz 7th-Order Bessel Filter Built with Single-Amplifier Biquadratic MOSFET C Filters
Hanspeter Schmid, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 69–81, January 2002.
Paper (pdf)
  Approximating the Universal Active Element
Hanspeter Schmid, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1160–1169, November 2000.
Paper (pdf)
  Active MOSFET–C single-amplifier biquadratic filters for video frequencies
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices, and Systems, (Special issue on High-Frequency Analogue Filters), vol. 147, no. 1, pp. 35–41, February 2000.
Paper (pdf)
Journal Comments Comments on “A CMOS Fully Balanced Four-Terminal Floating Nullor”
Hanspeter Schmid, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I, vol. 50, no. 12, p. 1601, December 2003.
Paper (pdf)
Dissertation Single-Amplifier Biquadratic MOSFET–C Filters
Hanspeter Schmid, Dissertation ETH Zürich, No 13878, Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz, Series in Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 1, ISBN 3-89649-616-6, ISSN 1616-671X, November 2000.
Contents (pdf)
Book (pdf)
Conference Tutorials Analog Circuit Design on Digital CMOS: Why it is difficult, and which ideas help.
Hanspeter Schmid, ISCAS Tutorial, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009. Updated version of the 2007 tutorial.


Analog Circuit Design on Digital CMOS: Why it is difficult, and which ideas help.
Hanspeter Schmid, ISCAS Tutorial, New Orleans, U.S.A., May 2007.

Conference Papers A highly sensitive frontend IC for very robust capacitive vortex flowmeter sensors
Hanspeter Schmid, Alex Huber, Dirk Sütterlin, Werner Tanner, Proceedings of the ESSCIRC, Venice, September 2014.
Paper (pdf)


Electrical and Human Feedback (Invited Paper)
Hanspeter Schmid, Proceedings of the NORCHIP, Copenhagen, November 2012.
Paper (pdf)


A Navigation-Grade MEMS Accelerometer based on a Versatile Front End
Marc Pastre, Maher Kayal, Hanspeter Schmid, Pascal Zwahlen, Yufeng Dong, Anne-Marie Nguyen; Proceedings of the IECON, Melbourne, November 2011.
Paper (pdf)

An internally non-linear ADC for a Sigma-Delta accelerometer loop
Hanspeter Schmid, Sven Sigel, Marc Pastre, Maher Kayal, Pascal Zwahlen, Anne-Marie Nguyen; Proceedings of the ISCAS, Paris, May 2010.
Paper (pdf)

Navigation grade MEMS accelerometer
Zwahlen, P.; Nguyen, A.-M.; Dong, Y.; Rudolf, F.; Pastre, M.; Schmid, H.; Proceedings of the International Conf. on MEMS, Wanchai, Hong Kong, January 2010.
Paper (pdf)

A 300Hz 19b DR Capacitive Accelerometer based on a Versatile Front End in a 5th-order Delta-Sigma Loop
M. Pastre, M. Kayal, H. Schmid, A. Huber, P. Zwahlen, A.-M. Nguyen, Y. Dong Proceedings of the ESSCIRC, Athens, Greece, September 2009.
Paper (pdf)


Efficient simulation of harmonic distortion in discrete-time circuits
Hanspeter Schmid, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 2757–2760, May 2009.
Paper (pdf)

Why the terms `current mode' and `voltage mode' neither divide nor qualify circuits
Hanspeter Schmid, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Phoenix, Arizona, vol. 2, pp. 29–32, May 2002.
Paper (pdf)
  Circuit transposition using signal-flow graphs
Hanspeter Schmid, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2002, vol. 2, pp. 25–28, May 2002.
Paper (pdf)

The Current-Feedback OTA
Hanspeter Schmid, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Sydney, Australia, May 2001, vol. 1, pp. 655–658, May 2001.
Paper (pdf)

  A 8.25 MHz 7th-order Bessel filter built with MOSFET-C single-amplifier biquads
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the NORCHIP, Turku, Finland, November 6–7 2000, pp. 217–224.
Paper (pdf)
  A Charge-Pump-Controlled MOSFET–C Single-Amplifier Biquad
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Geneva, Switzerland, May 28–31, vol. 2, pp. 677–680, May 2000.
Paper (pdf)
  Minimum-Sensitivity Single-Amplifier Biquadratic Filters
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ECCTD, Stresa, Italy, August 29–September 2, vol. 2, pp. 1027–1030, 1999.
Paper (pdf)
Talk (pdf)
  A Continuously Adjustable Video-Frequency Current Amplifier for Filter Applications
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ECCTD, Stresa, Italy, August 29–September 2, vol. 1, pp. 305–308, 1999.
Paper (pdf)
  A Video-Frequency, Low-Power, Single-Amplifier Biquadratic Filter in CMOS
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Orlando, Florida, May 30–June 2, vol. 2, pp. 128–131, 1999.
Paper (pdf)
  Fundamental Frequency Limitations in Current-Mode Sallen-Key Filters
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ISCAS, Monterey, California, May 31–June 3, vol. 1, pp. 57–60, 1998.
Paper (pdf)
  Tunable CCII-MOSFET-C Filter Biquads for Video Frequencies
Hanspeter Schmid and George S. Moschytz, Proceedings of the ECCTD, Budapest, Hungary, August 30–September 3, vol. 1, pp. 82–87, 1997.
Paper (pdf)
Magazine articles The 3σ Fallacy: Measuring a Small Number of Samples
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 68-74, 2014.
Article (pdf)
 Measuring a Small Number of Samples and the 3σ Fallacy
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 52-58, 2014.
Article (pdf)
 Rosa Rauschen in der Welt und in der Elektronik (Fokus Mikroelektronik 8/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 17, 2012, pp. 41-43.
Article (pdf, German)
 Sigma-Delta-Wandler und ihre Macken (Fokus Mikroelektronik 7/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 7, 2012, pp. 30-31.
Article (pdf, German)
  Sigma-Delta-Wandler: nicht lineare gemischt analog/digitale Filter (Fokus Mikroelektronik 6/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 1-2, 2012, pp. 44-45.
Article (pdf, German)
  Switched-Capacitor-Schaltungen – elektronische Eimerketten (Fokus Mikroelektronik 5/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 21, 2011, pp. 36-38.
Article (pdf, German)
  Wie stelle ich meine Signale elektronisch dar? (Fokus Mikroelektronik 4/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 14, 2011, pp. 26-27.
Article (pdf, German)
  Kreisverstärkung und Faustregeln (Fokus Mikroelektronik 3/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 11, 2011, pp. 36-37.
Article (pdf, German)
  Feedback – ganz einfach (Fokus Mikroelektronik 2/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Alex Huber, Polyscope, no 8, 2011, pp. 42-43.
Article (pdf, German)
  Das Tor zum Hightech-Markt (Fokus Mikroelektronik 1/12)
Hanspeter Schmid and Karl Schenk, Polyscope, no 5, 2011, pp. 24-25.
Article (pdf, German)
  Aaargh! I Just Loooove Flicker Noise
Hanspeter Schmid, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, First Quarter 2007, pp. 32-35.
Article (pdf)
Books and book chapters Circuits at the Nanoscale: Communications, Imaging, and Sensing
edited by Kris Iniewski, Chapter 7 on Flicker Noise by Hanspeter Schmid. CRC Press LLC, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4200-7062-0.
The preliminary version of the chapter's full text is provided here because the annotated literature list unfortunately was omitted in the published book.
Chapter 7, preliminary version (pdf)

Analoge Schaltungstechnik für integrierte Schaltungen (zweite überarbeitete Auflage)
Hanspeter Schmid, Alex Huber, IME Windisch 2008, ISBN 3-9523090-1-X, German only.
Book excerpt (pdf)

Analoge Schaltungstechnik für integrierte Schaltungen
Hanspeter Schmid, Alex Huber, Guido Keel, IME Windisch 2006, ISBN 3-9523090-1-X, German only.
Book excerpt (pdf)
Other publications Wie kann ich das lösen? (How to solve it)
My translation of a text by Polya. Current version: September 2020.
Document (pdf)

How to use the FFT and Matlab’s pwelch function for signal and noise simulations and measurements
Current version: August 2012.
Paper (pdf)

Two-Port Tables
Hanspeter Schmid. This short text is nothing more than a helpful collection of tables for two-port matrices. Current version: May 25, 2000.
Paper (pdf)
Philosophical Publications
Journal Papers Theory and Practice - Thinking Styles in Engineering and Science
Hanspeter Schmid, Australian Journal on Information Systems, special issue on knowledge management, pp. 106–115, December 2001.
I was invited to submit this paper after I gave a Talk at Monash University, Melbourne, May 14 2001 (html/jpg, 741kB).
Paper (html)
Paper (PDF)
Abstract
Other publications Black Tools
Hanspeter Schmid. Appeared in seven parts, «The Art of Misinterpretation,» «Salami Tactics,» «To Mock a Mockingbird,» «Making Conclusions,» «Common Nonsense,» «This May Work in Theory,» «End of the Debate,» in the Newsletter of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, 1999–2000.
Black Tools Web Site
  The Dumbing of the Intellectuals
Hanspeter Schmid, Newsletter of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, vol. 41, no. 4, 1997.
Article (html)


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