View of Technical Committee on Electronic Circuits on the Progress of Electronic Circuit Technologies in the Past Decade and the Future Prospects

摘要

Electronic circuit technologies constitute an essential part of the social infrastructure these days. The Electronic Circuits Technical Committee has been implementing a variety of investigations on electronic circuits and related technologies. First, one of the significant advances in the past decade is the dramatic increase in the available scale of system integration. This has contributed to an increasingly growing demand for analog circuit design. In practice, however, analog circuitry design often requires sophisticated knowledge and know-how, and therefore shortage of competent designers and other problems have become increasingly urgent. In order to provide a solution to these problems, an attempt was to be made to adopt the concept of Virtual Socket Interface (VSI) in analog design to reuse the existing circuit designs as component parts. However, analog circuits involve some problems such as requirements in changes for parts of circuits to meet individual operating requirements and possible deterioration in characteristics. Even today, advanced design technologies are in demand for increasing productivity.