EE 220

• Analog Integrated Circuits
• Semester Offered: 1st semester
• 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.

Content

Module	Topics	Outcomes	Resources	Activities
1	CMOS Technology and Fabrication Deep submicron issues Process variations	Identify the key characteristics and non-idealities of a CMOS fabrication process. Analyze how these key characteristics and non-idealities change the characteristics of the devices that will be built on it. Perform simple circuit simulations using a ngspice.	ngspice Tutorial
2	CMOS Technology Overview		Video: Silicon Run I (1996) (Youtube link)
3	CMOS Passive Devices
4	MOS Transistors
5	Model-Based Design
6	Electronic Noise
7	Noise and Feedback
8	Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTA)
9	Differential Amplifiers
10	The Folded-Cascode OTA
11	Feedback and Stability
12	Amplifier Settling
13	Common-Mode Feedback
14	Multi-Stage Amplifiers
15	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.