Course Content
Part I - Main Nyquist-rate Data Converter Architectures - With the increased demand for single-chip analog and digital signal processing, and design at nano-scale technologies design of data converters with various combinations of resolution, area, energy and speed requirements are a required expertise for many IC design engineers in the industry. In this course, Nyquist-rate ADC and DAC designs spanning key architectures and trade-offs associated with the conversion rate, offset, resolution, area and power aspects will be taught and studied in the presence of practical technology constraints including PVT variations. The design of core blocks such as comparators and the characterization of them through simulations will also be performed. Additionally, the design of discrete-time circuits including switched capacitor filters will be studied. Part II - On-chip Custom Power Management - The Charge pump circuits, on-chip DC-DC converters, Digital LDOs, Modular power management design, Control Circuit Synthesis
Text / References
- 1 1 - Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Marcel J.M. Pelgrom, Edition 4, Springer, 2022. 2 - Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Behzad Razavi, McGraw Hill Education; Second edition (2017); McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited. 3 - Power Management Techniques for Integrated Circuit Design, Ke-Horng Chen, 2016, Wiley-IEEE. 4 - Selected reference articles and papers from IEEE CAS and IEEE SSCS magazines and journals