This paper discusses modern applications for high performance analog and hybrid computer. In the first part, we do a theoretical prediction concerning the properties of these machines. In the second part, we compare such a computer against a standard laptop CPU. We find that the even a rather simple analog computer is actually on a par. In the third part, we give an outlook how future highly integrated analog computers could be used to tackle very large computational problems.

Analog environmental signals must be converted to digital for processing and transmitting. This analog to digital conversion is usually done with a constant rate. To save energy during conversion and transmission this conversion rate can be made adaptable to the signal form, which is called asynchronous A-to-D conversion. Before digital processing the asynchronous sampled data must be interpolated to a constant rate. This interpolation is subject of the article. The work was funded by the DFG.

This paper presents two high-voltage circuits used in power management, a switching driver for buck converter with optimized on-resistance and a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator with 2-stacked pMOS pass devices. The circuit design is based on stacked MOSFETs, thus the circuits are technology independent.