CprE / EE 501

Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Fall 2006

Lecture Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 am  

Lecture Place: Howe 1246

 

Lecture Notes will be posted here: Intro; technology; CMOS devices; Layout; Device Models; sub-circuits; references; CMOS Amp; OpAmp; PFAmp; Diff Amp & CMFB; high performance

Homework assignments will be posted here:

Final project requirements will be posted here:

Instructor Contact Information:

Degang Chen, 329 Durham Center

Office Hour: 12:00 - 2:00 pm MWF, or any other time that I am available

294-6277,  294-4657(fax), djchen@iastate.edu

Please include "EE501" in the subject line in all email communications to avoid auto-deleting or junk-filtering

Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Instructor:

To be announced

Course Description:

Design techniques for analog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits. Amplifiers: operational amplifiers, transconductance amplifiers, finite gain amplifiers and current amplifiers. Linear building block: differential amplifiers, current mirrors, references, cascoding and buffering. Performance characterization of linear integrated circuits: offset, noise, sensitivity and stability. Layout considerations, simulation, yield and modeling for high-performance linear integrated circuits. CAD tools: Cadence.

Grading:

Laboratory: 25%

Final project: 20%

Homework: 20%

Midterm Exams: 15%

Final exam: 20%

Required Text Book

Allen and Holberg, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, 2nd Edition, Oxford, 2002

References:

Gray, et al, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits,  4th Ed., Wiley, 2001

Hastings, The Art of Analog Layout, Prentice Hall, 2001

William Liu, Mosfet Models for Spice Simulation, Including BSIM3v3 and BSIM4, Wiley-IEEE, 2001

Daniel P. Foty, MOSFET Modeling With SPICE: Principles and Practice, Prentice Hall, 1996

Yannis Tsividis, Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (May 1, 2003)

Laker and Sansen, Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill, 1994

David Johns & Ken Martin , Analog Integrated Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997
Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated, CircuitsMcGraw-Hill, 1999

Geiger, et al, VLSI Design Techniques for Analog and Digital Circuit, McGraw Hill, 1990

 

Baker, CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation, IEEE Press, 1997

Alan B. Grebene, Bipolar and MOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design (Wiley Classics Library), 2001

 

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