Special Section on Analog Technologies in Submicron Era ======================================================= . FOREWORD ........................................................ 143 Minoru NAGATA PAPERS ====== . A Concept of Analog-Digital Merged Circuit Architecture for Future VLSI's .......................................................... 145 Atsushi IWATA and Makoto NAGATA . A Realization of a High-Frequency Monolithic Integrator with Low Power Dissipation and Its Application to an Active RC Filter .... 158 Fujihiko MATSUMOTO and Yukio ISHIBASHI . Current-Mode Continuous-Time Filters Using Complementary Current Mirror Pairs .................................................... 168 Joung-Chul AHN and Nobuo FUJII . Topology-Independent Predistortion for Integrator-Based Filters . 176 Kazuyuki WADA, Shigetaka TAKAGI, Zdzislaw CZARNUL, and Nobuo FUJII . A Linear CMOS Transconductance Element of an Adaptively Biased Source-Coupled Differential Pair Using a Quadritail Cell ........ 184 Katsuji KIMURA . The Super-Multi-Tanh Technique for Bipolar Linear Transconductance Amplifiers ...................................................... 190 Katsuji KIMURA . A Current-Mode Bit-Block Cicruit Applicable to Low-Voltage, Low-Power Pipeline Video-Speed A/D Converters ................... 199 Yasuhiro SUGIMOTO, Shunsaku TOKITO, Hisao KAKITANI, and Eitaro SETA . Static Linearity Error Analysis of Subranging A/D Converters .... 210 Takashi OKUDA, Toshio KUMAMOTO, Masao ITO, Takahiro MIKI, Keisuke OKADA,and Tadashi SUMI . A Charge-Domain D/A Conversion System ........................... 217 Yasuo NAGAZUMI LETTER ====== . A Synthesis of a Novel Current-Mode Operational Amplifier ....... 224 Toshiyuki NAGASAKU, Akira HYOGO, and Keitaro SEKINE Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Nonlinear Problems] . Multimode Chaos in Two Coupled Chaotic Oscillators with Hard Nonlinearities .................................................. 227 Yoshifumi NISHIO and Akio USHIDA [Information Theory and Coding Theory] . Coding Gain in Non-Paraunitary Subband Coding Systems ........... 233 S.A.Asghar BEHESHTI SHIRAZI, Yoshitaka MORIKAWA, and Hiroshi HAMADA [Human Communications and Ergonomics] . A Proposal of Five-Degree-of-Freedom 3D Nonverbal Voice Interface ........................................................ 242 Tatsuhiro YONEKURA, Rikako NARISAWA, and Yoshiki WATANABE LETTERS ======= [Systems and Control] . Design of Approximate Inverse Systems Using All-Pass Networks ... 248 Md.Kamrul HASAN, Satoru SHIMIZU, and Takashi YAHAGI [Neural Networks] . A Non-uniform Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Network and Its Stability Analysis .............................................. 252 Chen HE and Akio USHIDE . Hopfield Neural Network Learning Using Direct Gradient Descent of Energy Function ................................................. 258 Zheng TANG, Koichi TASHIMA, Hirofumi HEBISHIMA, Okihiko ISHIZUKA, and Koichi TANNO . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J79-A, No.2 in Japanese) ........... 262