Analog IC Design (August 2022)

• Analog Integrated Circuits
• First Semester AY 2022-2023
  • Classes will be held 05 Sep 2022 - 21 Dec 2022
  • Refer to the UP Diliman Academic Calendar for relevant dates and holidays.
• 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	video
2	06 Sep 2022	CMOS Technology Overview	video
3	11 Sep 2022	CMOS Passive Devices: Integrated Resistors	video
4	12 Sep 2022	CMOS Passive Devices: Integrated Capacitors	video
5	19 Sep 2022	MOS Transistors – Part 1	video
6	20 Sep 2022	MOS Transistors – Part 2	video
	26 Sep 2022	-- Lecture cancelled due to weather --
7	27 Sep 2022	Model-Based Design – Part 1	video
8	03 Oct 2022	Model-Based Design – Part 2	video
9	04 Oct 2022	Model-Based Design - Part 3	video
10	10 Oct 2022	Electronic Noise	video
11	11 Oct 2022	Noise Analysis - Part 1	video
12	17 Oct 2022	Noise Analysis - Part 2	video
13	18 Oct 2022	Input-Referred Noise, Noise and Feedback	video
Reading Break (24-29 Oct 2022)
14	07 Nov 2022	Current Mirrors - Part 1	video
15	08 Nov 2022	Current Mirrors - Part 2	video
16	14 Nov 2022	Current Mirrors - Part 3 Operational Transconductance Amplifiers - Part 1	video
17	15 Nov 2022	Operational Transconductance Amplifiers - Part 2	video
18	21 Nov 2022	Operational Transconductance Amplifiers - Part 3	video
19	22 Nov 2022	Differential Amplifiers - Part 1	video
20	28 Nov 2022	Differential Amplifiers - Part 2 The Folded Cascode OTA
21	29 Nov 2022	Feedback and Stability
22	05 Dec 2022	Amplifier Settling
23	06 Dec 2022	Folded Cascode OTA Design Example
24	12 Dec 2022	Common-Mode Feedback
25	13 Dec 2022	Multi-Stage Amplifiers
26	19 Dec 2022	Biasing and Reference Circuits
27	20 Dec 2022	-- To Be Announced --

Activities

1. Activity: IC Fabrication and Scaling
2. Activity: A Wideband Voltage Divider Circuit
3. Activity: Integrated Resistors and Capacitors
4. Activity: MOS Transistor Characteristics
5. Activity: MOS Transition Frequency
6. Activity: MOS Design Parameters
7. Design: A Simple Common-Source Amplifier
8. Activity: Noise Analysis
9. Activity: Current Mirrors
10. Activity: Capacitive Feedback
11. Activity: Differential Circuit Design Parameters
12. Design: A Folded-Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA)
13. Design: A Switched-Capacitor Feedback OTA
14. 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)
  • Introduction to the SkyWater PDK by Tim Edwards (efabless)
  • 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
• Using Python with NGSPICE

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.