EE 220

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  • 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.
2 Passive CMOS Devices
  • Resistors
  • Capacitors
  • Inductors
  • Identify, model, and analyze the effects of CMOS process parameters on the characteristics of integrated resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
  • Verify these effects via circuit simulation.
3

MOS Transistors

  • Analog vs. Digital
  • Transistor Models
  • Identify, model, and analyze the effects of CMOS process parameters on the characteristics of MOS transistors.
  • Verify these effects via circuit simulation.
  • Arizona State University Predictive Technology Models (PTM) website.
4

Model-Based Design

  • Design simple single-transistor amplifiers using SPICE models as a replacement for closed-form models.
  • Verify these designs via circuit simulation.
5

Electronic Noise

  • Thermal Noise
  • Shot Noise
  • Flicker Noise
  • Noise Analysis
  • Identify the fundamental types of electronic noise and differentiate one noise type from another.
  • Model and analyze the effects and implications of electronic noise in semiconductor devices and circuits.
  • Model and analyze the effects and implications of electronic noise in feedback circuits.
  • Verify these effects via circuit simulation.
6 Noise and Feedback
7 Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTA)
8 Differential Amplifiers
9 The Folded-Cascode OTA
10 Feedback and Stability
11 Amplifier Settling
12 Common-Mode Feedback
13 Multi-Stage Amplifiers
14 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.