Analogue and mixed-signal design techniques, circuit and system models; frontends, programmable analog architectures, DNA microarrays, micro and nanofluidic chips, medical, energy scavenging, advanced ADCs and DACs, smart antennas, software defined radio, image sensors, signal and power transmission circuits (RFIDs), robust analog design, emerging design technologies, e.g. electrical/non-electrical design, nanotechnologies, biologically inspired systems, AMS circuit models.