ECE 740
Special Topics in Electronic Circuits
Spring 2025 · Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits
Topics
- Signal processing for mixed-signal ICs
- ADC fundamentals and architectures
- DAC fundamentals and architectures
- Data-converter enhancement techniques
- Anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters
- Digital phase-locked loops or digital low-dropout regulators
- Circuit design and implementation using EDA tools
Readings
- Analysis and Design of Data Converters2025; supplementary text.
- Principles of Data Conversion System Design1995; supplementary text.
- CMOS Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters2003.
- Analog-to-Digital Conversion2010.
- Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation1996.
- Electronic Filter Design Handbook1995.
- Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits2016.
- Microelectronic Circuits2004.
- Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits2001.
- No main textbook. Course material primarily draws on IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Fall 2015 · Topic 4 - Fall 2015
Topics
- Overview of radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design.
- Circuit specifications derived for 2G (GSM) and 3G (W-CDMA) standards.
- Transceiver link performance analysis.
- Characterization of silicon MOSFETs and SiGe-HBTs, and CMOS/BiCMOS technologies for RF and high-speed applications.
- Feedback and wideband preamplifiers.
- On-chip passive components: capacitors, varactors, resistors, interconnect and transmission lines, inductors, transformers.
- Oscillators.
- L-C oscillator topologies.
- Resonant tanks and oscillator tuning.
- VCO/DCO design for RF transceivers up to mm-wave frequencies.
- Up and down conversion mixers.
- Linear multipliers.
- Mixer input and commutation stages.
- RFIC approaches for low voltage/low power and high linearity mixing.
- I/Q mixers and quadrature up/downconversion.
- LNA/mixer interfacing.
Readings
- B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2011.
- D. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 4th edition, Wiley, 2011.
- S.P. Voinigescu, High-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- IEEE RFIC-VJ
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Spring 2025
- course_outline ↗Fall 2015
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list.
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes.