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

  1. Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill Education, 2002.
  2. Grey, Hurst, Lewis and Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Wiley, 2009.
  3. Journal and conference papers, patents.

Prerequisites: None

Grading:

  • Homeworks 30%
  • Midterm 30%
  • Final exam 40%.