Analog IC Design (August 2022)

• Analog Integrated Circuits
• First Semester AY 2022-2023
• Course Credit: Lecture: 4 units (3 units lecture, 1 unit lab)

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

1. Introduction
2. CMOS Technology Overview
3. CMOS Passive Devices: Resistors and Capacitors
4. CMOS Passive Devices: Variations
5. MOS Transistors – Part 1
6. MOS Transistors – Part 2
7. Model-Based Design – Part 1
8. Model-Based Design – Part 2
9. Electronic Noise
10. Noise Analysis
11. Noise and Feedback
12. Operational Transconductance Amplifiers
13. Differential Amplifiers
14. The Folded Cascode OTA
15. Feedback and Stability
16. Amplifier Settling
17. Folded Cascode OTA Design Example
18. Common-Mode Feedback
19. Multi-Stage Amplifiers
20. Biasing and Reference Circuits

References

• Gray, Hurst, Lewis, Meyer, Analysis & Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Wiley 2001.
• Johns, Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 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.