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Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1950. 8.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design and implementation of analog circuits, particularly in CMOS technology, for biomedical applications. The topics covered include low-power neural recording systems, SAR ADCs, voltage references, low-noise amplifiers, and temperature sensors.

  • CMOS
  • Low-Power
  • Neural Recording
  • ADC
  • Voltage Reference
  • Low-Noise Amplifier
  • Biomedical Sensor
  • Delta-Sigma Modulator
  • Temperature Sensor
  • Current-Mode Circuits
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
8.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-10%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.3k and 925 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 India 925 works
  3. 3 United States 405 works
  4. 4 South Korea 232 works
  5. 5 Italy 157 works
  6. 6 Taiwan 134 works
  7. 7 Germany 132 works
  8. 8 Japan 115 works
  9. 9 Iran 109 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 70 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 35.6%India: 26.1%United States: 11.4%South Korea: 6.6%6 others listed: 20.3%36%largest
China1,261 · 35.6%India925 · 26.1%United States405 · 11.4%South Korea232 · 6.6%6 others listed718 · 20.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Xidian University publishes the most Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research, followed by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Xidian UniversityChina 79 works
  2. 2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 63 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 50 works
  4. 4 Fudan UniversityChina 50 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 46 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 33 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 33 works
  8. 8 Peking UniversityChina 30 works
  9. 9 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 27 works
  10. 10 University of MacauMacau 27 works

Where is Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research done?

The largest centres of Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Eindhoven.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 280 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 142 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 141 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 124 works
  5. 5 New Delhi India 95 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 94 works
  7. 7 Nanjing China 78 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou China 74 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 67 works
  10. 10 Chennai India 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. EindhovenNL · 20.7 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design?

Among universities, judged by research, National Technical University of Athens, Xidian University and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 7.49%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →National Technical University of Athens: 11, 15.2%Xidian University: 79, 6.5%Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham: 15, 18.3%Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation: 14, 8.4%University of Macau: 27, 4.9%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 63, 3.0%Fudan University: 50, 4.7%Delhi Technological University: 26, 3.3%Tsinghua University: 50, 10.0%Jaypee Institute of Information Technology: 14, 0.6%Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…National Technical U…Koneru Lakshmaiah Ed…Xidian University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 National Technical University of AthensGreece 70.015.2%9.7×11 +468.1%
2 Xidian UniversityChina 64.86.5%23.9×79 +76.2%
3 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 62.018.3%6.1×15 +148.4%
4 Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia 60.78.4%10.8×14 +269.2%
5 University of MacauMacau 59.24.9%18.6×27 +42.1%
6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.73.0%12.4×63 +13.5%
7 Fudan UniversityChina 52.24.7%9.9×50 -26.7%
8 Delhi Technological UniversityIndia 48.53.3%21.3×26 +75.6%
9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 48.310.0%5.6×50 -29.3%
10 Jaypee Institute of Information TechnologyIndia 47.00.6%26.6×14 +208.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.