ECE 5/415 Analog Integrated Circuit Design: Lecture Notes for Fall 2018

Aug 23: lec1_ece515.pdf, Slides – Course introduction, analog models.

Aug 28: lec2_ece515.pdf – Analog models contd., g_m and r_o. body transconductance (g_mb),

Aug 30: lec3_ece515.pdf  – Review small-signal analysis with an example, short-channel effects, Transition frequency (f_T).

Sep 4 : lec4_ece515.pdf  – Transition frequency (f_T), Gain-speed tradeoff, Temperature dependent behavior. CMOS Process Characterization.pdf

Sep 6 : lec5_ece515.pdf  – Short channel characterization. Start Current mirrors, Current mirror mismatch, Supply independent biasing.

Sep 11: lec6_ece515.pdf  – Beta multiplier reference (BMR), BMR start-up circuit,

Sep 13: lec7_ece515.pdf  – Short-channel BMR, Cascode current mirrors, Short-Channel Biasing.

Sep 18: lec8_ece515.pdf  – Wide-swing cascode biasing. Regulated drain current mirror.

Sep 20: lec9_ece515.pdf  – Full bias generation circuit. conclude current references. Start single-stage amplifiers.

Sep 25: lec10_ece515.pdf   – CS Amplifier, CS with source degeneration.

Sep 26: lec11_ece515.pdf – Source follower.

Oct 2:  lec12_ece515.pdf – Common gate amplifier, impedance looking into the source, amplifiers summary. Cascode amplifier, Lemma for estimating gain in amplifiers (A_v=-G_mR_out).

Oct 4:  lec13_ece515.pdf – Folded cascode. Start frequency analysis of amplifier: Miller approximation and its limitations. HF MOSFET models. Start CS frequency response with source resistance.

Oct 9:  lec14_ece515.pdf – Sample Midterm [Sample Midterm 1] review session.

Oct 11:  On Travel, watch lecture video – lec15_ece515.pdf and lec15_ece515_video – CS frequency response, RHP zero, pole-splitting, Miller compensation.

Oct 16: Midterm Exam 1–  Closed book, closed notes. Bring your calculators. [Sample Midterm 1]

Oct 18: lec16_ece5411.pdf – Conclude Pole Splitting.

Oct 23: lec17_ece5411.pdf – SF, CG, Cascode frequency response. [Amplifier Frequency Response Examples.pdf]

Oct 25:  On Travel, watch lecture videos –

lec18A_ece515.pdf and lec18A_ece515_video – Finish cascode frequency response, Push-pull output buffer. Start Differential Amplifiers.

lec18B_ece515.pdf and lec18B_ece515_video – Differential Amplifiers – Half circuit analysis.

Oct 30:  lec19_ece515.pdf –Diff-amp: Large-signal behavior, input common-mode range (ICMR), Half-circuit analysis.

Nov 1:  lec20_ece515.pdf – Diff-amp: Differential-half-circuit and common-mode equivalent circuit, CMRR and its significance.

Nov 6:  lec21_ece515.pdf – Diff-amp with current mirror load. Diff-amp frequency response. Diff-amp detailed analysis.

Nov 8:  lec22_ece5411.pdf – Start Opamps: Telescopic Opamp – replica biasing, limitations.

Nov 13: No class.

Nov 15:  lec23_ece515.pdf – Folded-Cascode Opamp: ICMR, output swing, half-circuit analysis

Nov 20 and 22: Fall Recess from instruction.

Nov 27:  Sample Midterm 2 review session.

Nov 29: Midterm Exam 2: Closed book, closed notes. Bring your calculators. 

Dec 3:  lec24_ece515.pdf – Project Help: Opamp Design and Simulation: Class-AB output stage and biasing, Miller vs Indirect Compensation, Simulation Techniques.

Dec 5: lec25_ece5411.pdf and lec25_ece5411_video – Start temperature independent references: Bipolar CTAT, PTAT, Band gap references (BGR).

Dec 6: lec26_ece5411.pdf and lec26_ece5411_video – Low-VDD BGR, speed and noise issues, overview of voltage regulators. Course conclusion.

MATLAB Files

The cumulative MATLAB files archive developed during the course is here.

Study Guide for using Reference Books

The correspondence between the topics covered in lectures and the reference textbooks is available here.

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