ECE 614 Advanced Analog IC Design: Lecture Notes for Fall 2012

Aug 28: lec1_ece614.pdf (no video recording) – Course introduction, Differential circuits overview – half circuit analysis review, start CMFB.

Aug 30: lec2_ece614.pdf and lec2_ece614_video – Common mode feedback (CMFB) – resistive CM detector, CMFB compensation, single-stage differential opamp.

Sep 4: lec3_ece614.pdf and lec3_ece614_video – Common mode feedback (CMFB) – CMFB review, systematic offset, CMFB with buffers, dual diff-pair CM detector, start two-stage differential opamp.

Sep 6: lec4_ece614.pdf (recording failed) – Two-stage differential opamp design: CMFB configurations and analysis. Simulation of DM and CMFB loops (see Loop Stability Analysis and Spectre STB Analysis).

Sep 11: lec5_ece614.pdf and lec5_ece614_video – Two-stage differential opamp design contd., CM detector using triode devices, Class-AB output stage.

Sep 13: lec6_ece614.pdf and lec6_ece614_video (audio problem) – CMFB for Class-AB output stage, CMFB Examples. Introduction to switched capacitor circuits,

Sep 18: lec7_ece614.pdf and lec7_ece614_video – Switched-capacitor CMFB: design, analysis and simulation. (see Loop Stability Analysis SC-CMFB simulation section)

Sep 20: lec8_ece614.pdf and lec8_ece614_video – Finish SC-CMFB. Start circuit noise analysis.

Sep 25: lec9_ece614.pdf and lec9_ece614_video (audio problem) – Noise PSD, Noise in Resistors, kT/C noise.

Sep 27: lec10_ece614.pdf and lec10_ece614_video – Noise in MOSFETs, flicker noise, noise corner, CS noise analysis example, input referred noise, 2-port equivalent noise representation (V_n,in² and I_n,in²).

Oct 2: lec11_ece614.pdf and lec11_ece614_video – Noise analysis: CS, CG, SF, and Differential Amplifier. Noise Analysis and Simulation (self-study).

Oct 4: lec12_ece614.pdf and lec12_ece614_video – Noise analysis: Differential Amplifier contd., Opamp. Noise Figure (not covered).

Oct 9&11: No class. IEEE SubVt Conference.

Oct 16: lec13_ece614.pdf and lec13_ece614_video – Start Switched-Capacitor (SC) Circuits, SpectreRF Periodic Analysis (self-study).

Oct 18: lec14_ece614.pdf and lec14_ece614_video – SC Circuits: Charge-injection and clock overlap cancellation, kT/C noise, non-linearity due to charge injection, and fully-differential operation. Projects and midterm discussion.

Oct 23: lec15_ece614.pdf and lec15_ece614_video – S/H circuit with charge injection elimination (Bottom-plate sampling), clock phase generator.

Oct 25: lec16_ece614.pdf and lec16_ece614_video – S/H circuit: precision and speed considerations.

Oct 30: lec17_ece614.pdf and lec17_ece614_video – SC Amplifiers: precision and speed considerations, offset, noise.

Nov 1: lec18_ece614.pdf and lec18_ece614_video – SC resistor, SC Integrators: parasitic insensitive topology, transfer function and frequency response. Overview of SC signal processing (additional Slides.).

Nov 6 (Tuesday): Midterm Exam: Open Books, open notes.

Nov 8: lec19_ece614.pdf and lec19_ece614_video – Mismatch and Offset, mismatch analysis.

Nov 13: lec20_ece614.pdf and lec20_ece614_video – Offset cancellation techniques. Start regenerative latch.

Nov 15: lec21_ece614_video – Overview lecture: Data Converter basics, Pipelined ADCs, Final project discussion.

Nov 15, 11:59 PM: Project 1 due.

Nov 27: lec22_ece614.pdf and lec22_ece614_video – Comparators: Latch offset, preamp, autozeroing, reference subtraction, timing, background offset removal.

Nov 29: lec23_ece614.pdf and lec23_ece614_video – ADC overview, Static specifications: INL, DNL; Dynamic specifications: SNDR, DR, SFDR, linearity.

Dec 4: lec24_ece614.pdf and lec24_ece614_video – Error due to clock Jitter, Flash ADCs

Dec 6: lec25_ece614_video – Multi-Step A/D Converters: Two-Step ADCs, Pipelined ADCs

Dec 11: lec26_ece614_video – Overview of SAR, Cyclic, Integrating, Subranging, Cyclic and Folding ADCs

Dec 13: lec27_ece614.pdf and lec27_ece614_video – Overview of DAC architectures, current steering DAC design.

Dec 14 Dec 18 (Tuesday), 11:59 PM: Final project due (No Final exam).

Material for post-course self-study:

· Digital assisted techniques for Nyquist-rate ADCs

· Time-interleaved ADCs

· Mismatch analysis and modeling for data-converters (van de Plassche, Gustavson)

· Other DAC topologies, Calibration and layout techniques for DACs (van de Plassche)

· Feedback theory and distortion analysis (Razavi)

Oversampling (or ΔΣ) ADCs will be covered in ECE 615: Mixed Signal IC design course

Note regarding the lecture videos

These recordings of lectures are experimental at this point. The videos are uploaded next day after the class if they are recorded properly, otherwise they may not be posted.

Students attending the course at BSU may use these videos for review. However, it is highly recommended that students take notes in class instead of listening passively.