Analog IC Design (August 2022)
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- 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
- Introduction
- CMOS Technology Overview
- CMOS Passive Devices: Resistors and Capacitors
- CMOS Passive Devices: Variations
- MOS Transistors – Part 1
- MOS Transistors – Part 2
- Model-Based Design – Part 1
- Model-Based Design – Part 2
- Electronic Noise
- Noise Analysis
- Noise and Feedback
- Operational Transconductance Amplifiers
- Differential Amplifiers
- The Folded Cascode OTA
- Feedback and Stability
- Amplifier Settling
- Folded Cascode OTA Design Example
- Common-Mode Feedback
- Multi-Stage Amplifiers
- Biasing and Reference Circuits
Activities
- Integrated Resistors and Capacitors
- MOS Transistor Characteristics
- MOS Design Parameters
- Design: A Simple Common-Source Amplifier
- Noise Analysis
- Capacitive Feedback
- Differential Circuit Design Parameters
- Design: A Folded-Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA)
- Design: A Switched-Capacitor Feedback OTA
- 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.
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.