ECE 636
Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
Fall 2024
Topics
- (Tentative)
- MOSFET physical characteristics, operating regions, and performance limits
- Systematic design of single-stage and two-stage amplifiers
- Biasing and reference circuits
- Feedback, stability, and settling
- Distortion
- Fully-differential amplifiers and common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuits
- Noise modeling and analysis
- Mismatch analysis
- Introduction to switched-capacitor (SC) circuits
- Additional Course Topics (as time permits):
- Layout (physical design) of analog circuits
- Design of three-stage amplifiers
- Amplifier output stages (power amplifiers)
- Introduction to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
- Background and Pre-requisites:
- Required: One of ECE 242, ECE 340, NE 344, BME 489, or equivalent. These undergraduate courses cover cascode amplifiers, current mirrors, MOS/BJT differential and multi-stage amplifiers, frequency response, feedback, etc. See chapters 8–11 of Sedra and Smith, 8th ed. for a complete list of topics.
- Required: An undergraduate-level course in (1) signals and systems and (2) linear control systems.
Readings
- P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
- B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001 (1st ed.) or 2016 (2nd ed.).
- T. Chan Carusone, D. A. Johns, and K. W. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
- R. J. Baker, CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. (Second
- W. M. C. Sansen, Analog Design Essentials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006 (Available online
- A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed. or later, New York: Oxford University Press.
Fall 2023
Topics
- (Tentative) C ourse Content:
Readings
- P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
- B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001 (1st ed.) or 2016 (2nd ed.).
- T. Chan Carusone, D. A. Johns, and K. W. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
- R. J. Baker, CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. (Second
- W. M. C. Sansen, Analog Design Essentials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006 (Available online
- A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed. or later, New York: Oxford University Press.
Fall 2022
Topics
- (Tentative)
- (may not be presented in the order shown):
- MOSFET physical characteristics, operating regions, and performance limits
- Systematic design of single-stage and two-stage amplifiers
- Biasing and reference circuits
- Feedback, stability, and settling
- Distortion
- Fully-differential amplifiers and common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuits
- Noise modeling and analysis
- Mismatch analysis
- Introduction to switched-capacitor (SC) circuits
- Additional Course Topics (as time permits):
- Layout (physical design) of analog circuits
- Design of three-stage amplifiers
- Amplifier output stages (power amplifiers)
- Introduction to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
- Background and Pre-requisites:
- Required: One of ECE 242, ECE 340, NE 344, BME 489, or equivalent. These undergraduate courses cover cascode amplifiers, current mirrors, MOS/BJT differential and multi-stage amplifiers, frequency response, feedback, etc. See chapters 8–11 of Sedra and Smith, 8th ed. for a complete list of topics.
- Required: An undergraduate-level course in (1) signals and systems and (2) linear control systems.
Readings
- P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
- B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001 (1st ed.) or 2016 (2nd ed.).
- T. Chan Carusone, D. A. Johns, and K. W. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
- R. J. Baker, CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. (Second
- W. M. C. Sansen, Analog Design Essentials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006 (Available online
- A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed. or later, New York: Oxford University Press.
Fall 2020
Topics
- MOSFET physical characteristics, operating regions, and performance limits
- Systematic design of single-stage, two-stage, and three-stage amplifiers
- Current mirrors and amplifier biasing circuits
- Feedback, stability, and settling
- Distortion
- Fully-differential amplifiers and common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuits
- Noise modeling and analysis
- Mismatch analysis
- Introduction to switched-capacitor (SC) circuits
- Bandgap references
- Background and Pre-requisites:
- Required: One of ECE 242, ECE 340, NE 344, BME 489, or equivalent. These undergraduate courses cover cascode amplifiers, current mirrors, MOS/BJT differential and multi-stage amplifiers, frequency response, feedback, etc. See chapters 7 to 11 of Sedra and Smith, 7th ed. for a full list of topics.
- Required: An undergraduate-level course in (1) signals and systems and (2) linear control systems.
Readings
- P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
- B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001 (1st ed.) or 2016 (2nd ed.).
- T. Chan Carusone, D. A. Johns , and K. W. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
- R. J. Baker, CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. (Second
- W. M. C. Sansen, Analog Design Essentials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006 (Available online
- A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 7th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Y. Tsividis, Mixed Analog-Digital VLSI Devices and Technology, Singapore: World Scientific, 2002.
Fall 2016
Topics
- Feedback basics and settling.
- MOSFET physical characteristics, operating regions, and performance limits.
- Systematic design of single-stage amplifiers.
- Current mirrors and amplifier biasing circuits.
- Additional feedback analysis, stability, and settling behaviour.
- Fully-differential amplifiers and common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuits.
- Noise modeling and analysis.
- Introduction to switched-capacitor (SC) circuits.
- Output stages.
- Bandgap references.
- Mismatch analysis.
Readings
- P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
- B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- T. Chan Carusone, D. A. Johns, and K. W. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012.
- R. J. Baker, CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. (Second edition available online through University of Waterloo Libraries website).
- W. M. C. Sansen, Analog Design Essentials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006 (Available online through University of Waterloo Libraries website).
- A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Y. Tsividis, Mixed Analog-Digital VLSI Devices and Technology, Singapore: World Scientific, 2002.
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- course_outline ↗Fall 2023
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- course_outline ↗Fall 2020
- course_outline ↗Fall 2016
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