Course Content
Part I - The first part of the course will cover the area of analog IC design with scopes covering the design of transconductance amplifiers, two-stage amplifiers, cascode structures, current sources, band-gap references, and low-dropout regulators. Concepts required to design from the control systems aspect will be detailed with examples. Assignments and course projects will provide the design hands-on experience. Part II - Precision Analog IC Design Precision analog circuits are essential blocks for a variety of sensor interface circuits. The motivation behind the design of precision circuits from the offset, noise, and interference point-of-view will be covered. Concepts on trade-offs associated with offset, area, noise, power and gain error (precision) will be studied along with the top-level fab line-test-cost structure. Techniques like chopping, auto-zeroing, capacitively coupled instrumentation amplifiers and their design tradeoffs along with layout considerations will be explored. Assignments and course projects will help students perform system level modelling to post-layout verification of a precision analog front-end circuit design.
Text / References
- 1 1. Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Behzad Razavi, McGraw Hill Education, Second edition, 2017, McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited. 2. Precision Instrumentation Amplifiers and Read-Out Integrated Circuits, Springer-Analog Circuits and Signal Processing, Rong Wu, Johan H. Huijsing, Kofi A. A. Makinwa, Springer-Verlag New York (2013) 3. Selected reference articles and papers from IEEE CAS and IEEE SSCS magazines and journals