NEEI-6332 Advanced Analog Integrated
Circuits (IC 771)
Note: The following provides a suggested course description,
objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with
the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum reviewers.
Course Description: This course is an advanced analog
integrated circuits class. While basic theory is covered/reviewed during
the class, emphasis is placed on practical design issues that face today's
analog design engineers. The Gray & Meyer text forms the nucleus of
the course content, with additional material added, drawn primarily from
journal papers, to demonstrate advanced and innovative design techniques.
While both bipolar and MOS circuits are covered, the emphasis is on MOS,
which thus reflects the needs of the majority of today's mixed-signal
integrated circuits. Starting with the characteristics of active and
passive devices available in modern integrated circuit technologies, the
course covers the basic building blocks used in mixed-signal chips:
current sources and references, operational transconductance amplifiers,
switches, and switched-capacitor gain stages and integrators. The course
ends with advanced topics such as correlated double sampling and chopper
stabilization. Emphasis is placed on a design methodology that takes into
consideration device non-idealities, including MOS short-channel effects
and mismatch, thermal and flicker noise, as well as substrate and power
supply noise coupling.
The goal of this course is to provide the student with a working
repertoire of dynamic design techniques. In the process, the student is
helped to hone and develop the fundamental analyses skills so necessary
for engineering design success.
Course Outline by Topical Areas:
- Bipolar and MOS transistor models, short channel effects,
subthreshold conduction, matching, layout considerations.
- Transistor amplifiers, emitter and source coupled pairs, active
loads, temperature and supply independent biasing.
- Operational transconductance amplifiers.
- Frequency response, feedback concepts, feedback amplifier theory and
design, root locus, noise in integrated circuits.
- Sampling and amplitude quantization.
- MOS sample/hold, dynamic circuit techniques, switched capacitor gain
stages.
