ECE 5/411 CMOS Analog IC Design

Spring 2014, Boise State University

Previous year’s course page is here: s11 (with videos), s12, s13

Lecture notes are here, and the Course Handouts are posted here.

Homework assignments, project information, and due dates are located here.

Current grades are here.

Cadence Wiki with FAQs is here.

 

Instructor       : Vishal Saxena

Time               : Tue/Thu 6:00-7:15 PM

Course dates  : Jan 21 – May 8, 2014

Location         : MEC 307

Office Hours   : Tue/Thu 4-5 p.m. or by appointment

Holidays         : March 25 & 27

Final Exam time: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Course TA     : Xinyu (Tomas) Wu (xinyuwu AT u.boisestate.edu)

 

 

Textbooks

·         Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2002 (Chap. 3-6, 9-11).

·         CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation – R. J. Baker, 3nd Edition, Wiley-IEEE, 2010 (Chap. 9, 20-25).

For detailed references and handouts see this page.

       

Course content – Current mirrors, voltage references, negative feedback systems and stability, amplifiers, frequency compensation, opamps.  PREREQ: ECE 5/410.

For Graduate credit (ECE 511): A more complex design project will be assigned and additional homework and exam problems may be given.

 

CAD software information

The course will require extensive use of Cadence Design System in Linux environment. Set up your account to remotely use Cadence using the wiki.

 

The course Google group is (http://groups.google.com/group/ams-bsu) and the email address is ams-bsu@googlegroups.com  

 

Workload (Grading) 

20% Midterm1

20% Midterm2

20% Homeworks

20% Project

20% Final

 

Policies

No late work accepted. All assigned work is due at the beginning of class. No exceptions.

Neither the final exam nor final project will be returned at the end of the semester.

Cheating or plagiarism will result in an automatic F grade in the course (so do your own homework and projects!). Students should review Section 18/18A/18B of the Boise State University Student Code of Conduct (http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/2020_studentcodeofconduct.pdf) for more detailed information regarding academic dishonesty.

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