Analog IC Design (August 2022)

• Analog Integrated Circuits
• First Semester AY 2022-2023
• Course Credit: Lecture: 4 units (3 units lecture, 1 unit lab)
• Lectures: Mondays and Tuesdays, 7:00am - 8:30am

Catalog Description

Integrated circuit devices and modeling. Noise analysis and modeling. Review of basic operational amplifier design and compensation. Advanced current mirrors and operational amplifiers. Operational transconductance amplifiers. Common-mode feedback circuits. Comparators. Sample and holds. Voltage references and translinear circuits. Discrete-time signals. Switched-capacitor circuits. Co-req: CoE 143 or equiv. 6h (3 lec, 3 lab) 4 u.

• A review of the concepts in EEE 51 is also a good way to prepare for this class.

Course Outline

	Date	Topic	Resources
1	05 Sep 2022	Introduction
2	06 Sep 2022	CMOS Technology Overview
3	11 Sep 2022	CMOS Passive Devices: Resistors and Capacitors
4	12 Sep 2022	CMOS Passive Devices: Variations
5	19 Sep 2022	MOS Transistors – Part 1
6	20 Sep 2022	MOS Transistors – Part 2
7	26 Sep 2022	Model-Based Design – Part 1
8	03 Oct 2022	Model-Based Design – Part 2
9	04 Oct 2022	Electronic Noise
10	10 Oct 2022	Noise Analysis - Part 1
11	11 Oct 2022	Noise Analysis - Part 2
12	17 Oct 2022	Noise and Feedback
13	18 Oct 2022	Current Mirrors
Reading Break (24-29 Oct 2022)
14	31 Oct 2022	Operational Transconductance Amplifiers - Part 1
15	07 Nov 2022	Operational Transconductance Amplifiers - Part 2
16	08 Nov 2022	Differential Amplifiers
17	14 Nov 2022	The Folded Cascode OTA - Part 1
18	15 Nov 2022	The Folded Cascode OTA - Part 2
19	21 Nov 2022	Feedback and Stability
20	22 Nov 2022	Amplifier Settling
21	28 Nov 2022	Folded Cascode OTA Design Example
22	29 Nov 2022	Common-Mode Feedback
23	05 Dec 2022	Multi-Stage Amplifiers
24	06 Dec 2022	Biasing and Reference Circuits
25	12 Dec 2022	To Be Announced
26	13 Dec 2022	To Be Announced
27	19 Dec 2022	To Be Announced
28	20 Dec 2022	To Be Announced

Activities

1. Integrated Resistors and Capacitors
2. MOS Transistor Characteristics
3. MOS Design Parameters
4. Design: A Simple Common-Source Amplifier
5. Noise Analysis
6. Capacitive Feedback
7. Differential Circuit Design Parameters
8. Design: A Folded-Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA)
9. Design: A Switched-Capacitor Feedback OTA
10. Design Project

Resources

• Installing NGSPICE
  • The NGSPICE online user's manual
• Installing the SkyWater 130nm Design Kit
  • The SKY130 design kit documentation (still a work in progress)
  • The MAGIC user guide
• Installing XSCHEM
  • The XSCHEM online manual
• An alternative and step-by-step installation of NGSPICE, MAGIC, XSCHEM, and the SkyWater 130nm Design Kit onto a dedicated Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine using virtualization software such as VirtualBox or QEMU.
  • Installing Open-Source EDA Tools on a Virtual Machine

References

• Analysis & Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray, Hurst, Lewis, Meyer, Wiley 2001.
• Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Johns, Martin, Wiley 1997.
• Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Behzad Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Thomas H. Lee, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• The Designers Guide to SPICE & SPECTRE, K. S. Kundert, Kluwer Academic Press, 1995.
• Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, Y. Tsividis, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, 1999.
• Art of Analog Layout, A. Hastings, 2nd Edition, Pearson, 2005.