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.

Syllabus

Module Topics Outcomes External 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.
  • 220-A1.1: IC Fabrication video reaction
  • 220-A1.2: Simulating simple RLC circuits
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.
  • 220-A2.1: RLC Monte Carlo 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.
  • 220-A3.1: MOS characteristic curves simulation
  • 220-A3.2: MOS Frequency response simulation
  • 220-A3.3: Extracting MOS small-signal parameters
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

Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs)

  • Op-Amps vs. OTAs
  • Switched-Capacitor Feedback
  • Differentiate between operational amplifiers (Op-Amps) and operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs).
  • Analyze OTA circuits with capacitive feedback.
  • Verify the behavior of these circuits via simulation.
7

Differential Circuits

  • Differential-Mode
  • Common-Mode
  • CMRR, PSRR
  • Baluns
  • Differentiate and identify the advantages/disadvantages and cost-benefit trade-offs between fully-differential circuits vis-a-vis single-ended circuits.
  • Model and analyze the behavior of fully-differential circuits.
  • Verify the behavior of these circuits via simulation.
8

Current Mirrors

  • Cascoding
  • Common-Mode Feedback
  • Model, analyze, and design current mirror circuits for biasing fully-differential and single-ended OTAs.
  • Model, analyze, and design common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuits in differential OTAs.
  • Verify the behavior of these circuits via simulation.
9

The Folded-Cascode OTA

  • DC Characteristics
  • Small-signal Characteristics
  • Noise
  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of a folded-cascode OTA.
  • Model and analyze the DC and small-signal characteristics of a folded-cascode OTA.
  • Verify the behavior of these characteristics via simulation.
10

Feedback and Stability

  • Loop Gain
  • Phase and Gain Margins
  • Compensation
  • Model and analyze the DC and small-signal characteristics of a folded-cascode OTA with feedback.
  • Verify the behavior of these characteristics via simulation.
11

Amplifier Settling

  • Linear settling
  • Slewing
  • Model and analyze the noise and settling characteristics of a folded-cascode OTA with feedback.
  • Verify the behavior of these characteristics via simulation.
12

An Amplifier Design Example

  • Design a fully-differential OTA with capacitive feedback.
  • Verify the OTA characteristics via simulation.
13

EE 220 Project

  • Halfway Consultations
  • Design a fully-differential OTA with capacitive feedback.
  • Verify the OTA characteristics via simulation.
14

EE 220 Project

  • Submissions
  • Design a fully-differential OTA with capacitive feedback.
  • Verify the OTA characteristics via simulation.

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.