CoE 197U

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  • Introduction to Analog and Digital Integrated Circuit Design
  • Semester Offered: 2nd semester
  • Course Credit: Lecture: 3 units (2 units lecture, 1 unit lab)

Catalog Description

IC Fabrication. CMOS gates. Logical Effort. Interconnect. Memory Elements. MOS Amplifiers. Current Sources. Differential Amplifiers. Operational Transconductance Amplifiers. Pre-req: EEE 41 or EEE 131. 5h (2 lec, 3 lab) 3 u.

Syllabus

Module Topics Outcomes Resources Activities
Part I: Digital Integrated Circuits
1
  • 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.
2
3
  • Static CMOS Gates
  • Logical Effort
4
  • Power, Energy and Delay
  • Interconnect
5
  • Memory Elements
  • Timing
Part II: Analog Integrated Circuits
6
  • MOS Amplifiers: DC and AC Analysis
  • Determine the DC operating point of MOS amplifiers.
  • Extract the MOS small-signal parameters depending on the DC operating point.
  • Analyze MOS amplifiers in the AC and DC domain.
  • Derive the two-port network representation of MOS amplifiers.
  • Identify the appropriate application of a MOS amplifier topology based on its two-port parameters.
7
  • MOS Amplifiers: Frequency Response
  • Analyze MOS amplifiers in the frequency domain.
  • Sketch the Bode plots of the transfer function.
  • Estimate the dominant pole using ZVTCA.
8
  • Current Sources
  • High-Swing Current Sources
9
  • MOS Differential Pairs
10
  • Two-Stage MOS Operational Transconductance Amplifiers
11
  • Folded Cascode Operational Transconductance Amplifiers
  • Identify the different stages in a folded cascode OTA.
  • Determine the components and/or parameters that affect the DC operating point of a folded cascode OTA.
  • Explain how to design a folded cascode OTA.
12

References

  • Rabaey, Chandrakasan, Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits, 2ed., Pearson 2002.
  • 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.