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. Current Mirrors
7. Capacitive Feedback
8. Differential Circuit Design Parameters
9. Design: A Folded-Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA)
10. Design: A Switched-Capacitor Feedback OTA
11. 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.