Pipelined analog to digital converters (ADCs) have become the architecture of choice for high-speed and moderate- to high-resolution devices. Subsequently, different techniques of fault diagnosis by the built-in self-test (BIST) system have been developed.

An ideal reference for graduate students and researchers within electrical, electronics and computer engineering, this book provides a rigorous, theoretical and mathematical analysis for the design of pipelined ADCs, along with detailed practical aspects of implementing it in very large-scale integration (VLSI). In each chapter a unique fault diagnosis technique for pipelined ADC has been proposed.

Alok Barua is an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu. With more than 33 years of teaching experience, he has published multiple papers and books in his teaching and research areas: instrumentation, image processing, and testing and fault diagnosis of analog and mixed signal circuits. He also holds a patent for the design of the see-saw bioreactor. Barua has delivered invited lectures in many different universities in the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Far East.