E3 238-O Analog VLSI Circuits 3:1 (August 2022)
Course Instructor: Gaurab Banerjee, ECE
Course description: This is a first level graduate course in analog circuit design. The course comprises three hours of teaching per week and 1 lab credit equivalent to 3 hours of online lab per week. The lab component requires the solution of homework (circuit design) problems on industry standard CAD tools such as Cadence or Synopsys.
Syllabus
Devices: Review of Device Characteristics, DC and Small Signal MOS I/V Characteristics, Bipolar Transistors. Small signal models of MOS and Bipolar transistors.
CMOS Processing and Layout.
Circuits: CE/CS and CB/CG Amplifiers, Emitter/Source followers, Cascodes, Active cascodes, Emitter coupled pairs, Current Mirrors, Differential Pairs,
Voltage and Current References.
Important Concepts: Frequency Response, Noise, Feedback, Nonlinearity and Mismatches, Short-channel effects and device modeling for analog design.
Larger Circuits and Sub-systems: Basic operational amplifier design, Stability and Compensation, Fully differential op-amps, Common Mode Feedback,
Internally compensated 2-stage CMOS operational amplifier design.
Several design examples for single-stage CMOS amplifiers and a complete CMOS operational amplifier. These design problems will be integrated with homework and laboratory exercises using industry-standard computer-aided design (CAD) tools.
Textbooks / References
- Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill Education, 2002.
- Grey, Hurst, Lewis and Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Wiley, 2009.
- Journal and conference papers, patents.
Prerequisites: None
Grading:
- Homeworks 30%
- Midterm 30%
- Final exam 40%.