ECE 615 Mixed Signal IC Design: Lecture Notes

 

·         The zip files contain MATLAB code and schematics used (if any) during the lecture. Make sure that you have DeltaSigma Toolbox installed and linked in your PATH to run these scripts.

 

Aug 27: lec1_ece615.pdf, lec1_ece615_slides and lec1_ece615_video – Course introduction, Ideal sampling, Nyquist Sampling Theorem, Anti-Alias Filtering (AAF), Oversampling.

Aug 29: lec2_ece615.pdf and lec2_ece615_video – Sample-and-Hold (S/H), Track-and-Hold, Reconstruction filter. DSP basics: Overview of DTFT and DFT (FFT).

Sep 3: lec3_ece615.pdf, lec3_ece615_slides and lec3_ece615_video – Spectral Estimation: FFT, windowing. lec3_ece615_code.zip

Sep 5: lec4_ece615.pdf, lec4_ece615_slides and lec4_ece615_video – Quantizers, quantization noise modeling, ADC measurements. lec4_ece615_code.zip

Sep 17: lec5_ece615.pdf, lec5_ece615_slides and lec5_ece615_video – Quantizer review, Oversampling data converters. lec5_ece615_code.zip

Sep 19: lec6_ece615.pdf, lec6_ece615_slides and lec6_ece615_video – First-order delta-sigma modulator (DSM).

Sep 24: lec7_ece615.pdf, lec7_ece615_slides and lec7_ece615_video – Second-order delta-sigma modulator, realizability conditions on NTF.

Sep 26: lec8_ece615.pdf, lec8_ece615_slides and lec8_ece615_video – Boser-Wooley and Silva-Steensgaard modulator topologies,

Oct 1: Lecture 9 –   No video –  NTF-zero optimization [notes], Generalized loop filter representation. Stability analysis of delta-sigma modulators using describing function method [notes].

Oct 3: lec10_ece615.pdf, lec10_ece615_slides and lec10_ece615_video – Multi-bit modulators, Maximum stable amplitude (MSA), Systematic NTF synthesis procedure for higher-order DSM.

Oct 8: lec11_ece615.pdf, lec11_ece615_slides and lec11_ece615_video – Systematic NTF synthesis, NTF-zero and pole optimization, Toolbox functions for NTF synthesis and optimization.

Oct 10: No Lecture

Oct 15: lec12_ece615.pdf, lec12_ece615_slides and lec12_ece615_video – Bode’s Sensitivity Integral and NTF performance trade-offs, Delta-Sigma Loop filter architectures. Resonators for introducing complex zeros.

Oct 17: lec13_ece615.pdf, lec13_ece615_slides and lec13_ece615_video – Delta-Sigma Loop filter architectures contd.: CIFB, CRFB. Comparison of FB and FF architectures.

Oct 22: lec14_ece615.pdf, lec14_ece615_slides and lec14_ece615_video – Multi-stage Modulators (L-0 cascade).

Oct 24: lec15_ece615.pdf, lec15_ece615_slides and lec15_ece615_video – MASHing of Modulators, Noise leakage in cascades, analysis of circuit non-idealities in MASH.

Oct 29: lec16_ece615.pdf, lec16_ece615_slides and lec16_ece615_video – Discrete-time DSM implementation, Dynamic Range Scaling

Oct 31: lec17_ece615_slides and lec17_ece615_video – Switched Capacitor DSM implementation, Switched Capacitor Design

Nov 5: lec18_ece615.pdf, lec18_ece615_slides and lec18_ece615_video – Introduction to Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Modulators (CT-DSMs), Impulse-invariance transformation (IIT).

Nov 7: lec19_ece615.pdf, lec19_ece615_slides and lec19_ece615_video – IIT contd., Time-scaling of CT-DSM, Synthesis of higher-order CT DSMs.

Nov 12: lec20_ece615.pdf, lec20_ece615_slides and lec20_ece615_video – Synthesis of higher-order CT DSMs: IIT Tables method and numerical fitting of scaling coefficients.

Nov 14: lec21_ece615.pdf, lec21_ece615_slides and lec21_ece615_video – Numerical fitting method, 3rd-order example, inherent anti-alias filtering (AAF) in CT-DSMs.

Nov 19: lec22_ece615.pdf, lec22_ece615_slides and lec22_ece615_video – Excess loop-delay (ELD) in CT-DSMs, ELD Compensation techniques.

Nov 21: lec23_ece615.pdf, lec23_ece615_slides and lec23_ece615_video – Active-RC and Gm-C implementations. RC time-constant variation and CT-DSM tuning.

Nov 21:  Project 1 due

Dec 3 (Tuesday):  Midterm Exam Open Book, open notes, open computer. Sample exam problems.

Dec 5: lec24_ece615.pdf, lec24_ece615_slides and lec24_ece615_video – DAC design, mismatch and noise shaping. DWA and Calibration techniques.

Dec 10: lec25_ece615.pdf, lec25_ece615_slides and lec25_ece615_video – Bandpass and Quadrature Delta-Sigma ADCs. Advanced Techniques and Recent Trends in CT ADCs.

Dec 12: Project Review

Dec 19:  Project 2 due. We’re done!

 

Return