ECE 615 Mixed Signal IC Design
Fall 2013, Boise State
University
Previous year’s course page is here: s10 (Delta-Sigma ADC
Design)
Instructor : Vishal Saxena
Time : Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30 to 5:45 PM
Course dates : Tuesday, August 27 to Thursday, Dec 12
Location : MEC 309
Office Hours : TBA
Holidays : November 26 & 28,
Thanksgiving break from instruction.
Lecture notes and accompanying
material are here.
Assignments and projects
can be found here.
Current
grades are here.
MATLAB
examples are posted here.
Course content – Data Conversion and spectral estimation
fundamentals, Delta-Sigma modulator (DSM) architectures, decimation filters,
discrete-time (switched-capacitor) as well continuous-time (CT) DSM design,
Cascaded DSMs, Bandpass and Complex DSMs, Flash ADCs and DACs employed in the
DSMs, DAC mismatch error shaping, effects of excess-loop delay and clock jitter
in CT-DSMs, tuning techniques for CT-DSMs.
Prerequisites –
Background in Analog IC Design (ECE 511) and
Digital Signal Processing. Basic knowledge of circuit simulation using Spice/Spectre and Matlab scripting.
For Switched-Capacitor and fully-differential circuits refer to advanced
Analog IC Design (ECE
614).
Textbook –
Understanding Delta-Sigma Converters – Richard Schreier
and Gabor Temes, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2005.
The course
will require the use of Matlab Delta-Sigma Toolbox by R. Schreier available for
download online.
The toolbox manual is here with a single page summary.
The
complete reference list for delta-sigma modulators is available here.
Workload (Grading)
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Homeworks (25%): Weekly assignments incorporating Matlab as well as
Spectre based design and simulation.
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Mid-Term Exam (25%)
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Project 1 (25%): Discrete-time
delta-sigma modulator design.
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Project 2 (25%):
Continuous-time delta-sigma modulator design.
Policies
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Use of laptop in the
class is encouraged for simulations while internet surfing is not.
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Late work will not be
accepted.
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While collaboration in
homeworks and projects is encouraged but blatantly
copying stuff (plagiarism) is not allowed.
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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.