Special Issue on Low-power Analog, Digital LSIs and ASICs for Multimedia ======================================================================== . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1653 Tadayoshi ENOMOTO INVITED PAPERS ============== . Low-power LSI Circuit Technologies for Portable Terminal Equipment ....................................................... 1655 Shoji HORIGUCHI, Tsuneo TSUKAHARA, and Hideki FUKUDA . ULSI Realization of MPEG2 Realtime Video Encoder and Decoder --An Overview ....................................................... 1668 Masahiko YOSHIMOTO, Shin-ichi NAKAGAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMURA, Kazuya ISHIHARA,and Shin-ichi URAMOTO PAPERS ====== . A Bidirectional Motion Compensation LSI with a Compact Motion Estimator ...................................................... 1682 Naoya HAYASHI, Toshiaki KITSUKI, Ichiro TAMITANI, Hideki HONMA, Yasushi OOI,Takashi MIYAZAKI, and Katsunari OOBUCHI . A 600 mW Single Chip MPEG2 Video Decoder ....................... 1691 Kiyoshi MIURA, Hideki KOYANAGI, Hiroshi SUMIHIRO, Seiichi EMOTO, Nozomu OZAKI,and Toshiro ISHIKAWA . An MPEG2 Video Decoder LSI with Hierarchical Control Mechanism . 1697 Shin-ichi URAMOTO, Akihiko TAKABATAKE, Takashi HASHIMOTO, Jun TAKEDA,Gen-ichi TANAKA, Tsuyoshi YAMADA, Yukio KODAMA, Atsushi MAEDA, Toshiaki SHIMADA,Shun-ichi SEKIGUCHI, Tokumichi MURAKAMI, and Masahiko YOSHIMOTO . A 16-bit Digital Signal Processor with Specially Arranged Multiply-Accumulator for Low Power Consumption ................. 1709 Katsuhiko UEDA, Toshio SUGIMURA, Toshihiro ISHIKAWA, Minoru OKAMOTO,Mikio SAKAKIHARA, and Shinichi MARUI . A Circuit Library for Low Power and High Speed Digital Signal Processor ...................................................... 1717 Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Shigeshi ABIKO, Shintaro MIZUSHIMA, and Yuji OZAWA . 622 Mbps 8 mW CMOS Low-Voltage Interface Circuit ............... 1726 Takashi TOMITA, Koichi YOKOMIZO, Takao HIRAKOSO, Kazukiyo HAGA, and Kuniharu HIROSE . A Low-Power and High-Speed Impulse-Transmission CMOS Interface Circuit ........................................................ 1733 Masafumi NOGAWA, Yusuke OHTOMO, and Masayuki INO . An ATM Chip Set for High Performance Computer Interfaces, Affording over 100 Mbps Sustained Throughput ............................. 1738 Yasuharu TOMIMITSU, Satoru KAWANAGO, Hirotaka YAMANE, Hideki KOBUNAYA,Shoji OHGANE, Nobuyuki MIZUKOSHI, and Hiroshi SUZUKI . 3-Gb/s CMOS1:4 MUX and DEMUX ICs ............................... 1746 Sadayuki YASUDA, Yusuke OHTOMO, Masayuki INO, Yuichi KADO, and Toshiaki TSUCHIYA . An Oversampling ADC with Non-linear Quantizer for PCM CODEC .... 1754 Shiro SAKIYAMA, George HAYASHI, Shiro DOSHO, Masakatsu MARUYAMA, Seizo INAGAKI, Masatoshi MATSUSHITA, and Kouji MOCHIZUKI Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Integrated Electronics] . Thermal Noise in Silicon Bipolar Transistors and Circuits for Low-Current Operation --Part I: Compact Device Model-- ......... 1761 Yevgeny V.MAMONTOV and Magnus WILLANDER [Electronic Circuits] . Threshold Voltage Control Using Floating Back Gate for Ultra-Thin-Film SOI CMOS ....................................... 1773 Seiji FUJINO, Kazuhiro TSURUTA, Akiyoshi ASAI, Tadashi HATTORI,and Yoshihiro HAMAKAWA [Opto-Electronics] . Relative Intensity Noise of DFB LD's with Near and Far End Reflections .................................................... 1779 Takeshi KAWAI, Adi RAHWANTO, Katsuya KITAJIMA, Masakazu MORI, Toshio GOTO,and Akira MIYAUCHI . High-Resolution Penumbral Imaging of 14-MeV Neutrons ........... 1787 Yen-Wei CHEN, Noriaki MIYANAGA, Minoru UNEMOTO, Masanobu YAMANAKA,Tatsuhiko YAMANAKA, Sadao NAKAI, Tetsuo IGUCHI, Masaharu NAKAZAWA, Toshiyuki IIDA,and Shinichi TAMURA LETTER ====== [Integrated Electronics] . Partial Product Generator with Embedded Booth-Encoding ......... 1793 Alberto Palacios PAWLOVSKY, Makoto HANAWA, and Kenji KANEKO . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-C-I, J78-C-II, No.12 in Japanese) ....................................................... 1796 . 1995 INDEX ..................................................... 1802