ECE 614 Advanced Analog IC Design
Fall 2014, Boise State University
Previous year’s course page is here: f12 (with videos).
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 : Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30 to 8:45 PM
Course dates : August 26 to Dec 12
Location :
MEC 309
Office Hours : Tue/Thu 4:00-5:00 PM
Holidays : Nov 25 & 27, Thanksgiving break from instruction.
Final Exam time: Project instead of a Final Exam.
Textbook – Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2002 (Chaps. 7, 9, 12, 13), and class notes.
For detailed references and handouts see this page.
Course content – Noise
analysis, Feedback, Fully-differential Opamp design and simulation, Behavioral
modeling, Switched Capacitor Circuits design and simulation, Sample-and-hold
circuits, Offset-cancellation, Autozeroing, Chopping,
etc; Comparators, Nyquist-rate
ADCs (Flash, pipelined, SAR, folding) and DACs.
PREREQ: ECE 511.
ECE614
will be a project driven course, with an end goal of transistor level design of
a high-speed ADC in 130n CMOS. High-level of student participation is expected.
Note: 600-level courses are designed for PhD students and involve certain
amount of research, simulation tools and literature-review component. Before
signing up for these courses, please ensure that you have sufficient
background and time for the course work and are confident with the material
covered in the pre-requisites.
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)
25% Homeworks
25% Midterm
25% Project1
25% Project2
Policies
No late work accepted. All assigned work is due at the beginning of class.
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.