Lecture notes
for ECE 614 Advanced Analog IC Design, Fall 2011
December
8 – help with projects
December
6 – lec27_ece614.pdf and lec27_ece614_video –
continue op-amp design from Ch. 26 in nanometer CMOS
December
4 – lec26_ece614.pdf and lec26_ece614_video –
op-amp design for mixed-signal circuits, switched-capacitor CMFB
November
29 – lec25_ece614.pdf and lec25_ece614_video –
begin Ch. 26, Op-Amps II, biasing for power and speed, diff-amps and
CMFB
November
17 – lec24_ece614.pdf and lec24_ece614_video –
capacitor error averaging, multi-phase non-overlapping clock generation
November
15 – lec23_ece614.pdf and lec23_ece614_video –
the pipeline ADC, using 1.5 bits/stage
November
10 – lec22_ece614.pdf and lec22_ece614_video –
bottom-plate sampling, start Sec. 30.3 implementing ADCs, the S/H and
Cyclic
(algorithmic) converter
November
8 – lec21_ece614.pdf and lec21_ece614_video –
segmentation, calibrating DAC offsets and gains, topologies without an
op-amp,
op-amps in data converters
November
1 – lec20_ece614.pdf and lec20_ece614_video –
start Ch. 30, implementing data converters; discuss implementing R-2R
converters
October
27 – lec19_ece614.pdf and lec19_ece614_video –
pipeline, integrating, successive approximation (charge redistribution)
ADCs
October
25 – lec18_ece614.pdf and lec18_ece614_video –
cyclic and pipeline DACs, ADC architectures including flash and two step
October
20 – lec17_ece614.pdf and lec17_ece614_video –
DAC architectures: resistor string, R-2R, and current steering
topologies
October
18 – Midterm exam covering Chs.
31, 8, and 28
October
13 – lec16_ece614.pdf and lec16_ece614_video –
review for the exam
October
11 – lec15_ece614.pdf and lec15_ece614_video –
finish-up data converter fundamentals
October
6 – lec14_ece614.pdf and lec14_ece614_video –
data converter fundamentals, Ch. 28
October
4 – lec13_ece614.pdf and lec13_ece614_video –
wrap-up noise
September
29 – lec12_ece614.pdf and lec12_ece614_video –
flicker noise, random telegraph signal noise (RTS), noise and feedback,
op-amp
noise modeling
September
27 – lec11_ece614.pdf and lec11_ece614_video –
do examples from homework assignment
September
22 – lec10_ece614.pdf and lec10_ece614_video –
averaging white noise, shot noise, introduction to flicker noise
September
20 – lec9_ece614.pdf and lec9_ece614_video –
noise equivalent bandwidth, kT/C
noise, signal-to-noise
ratio (SNR), noise figure (NF)
September
15 – lec8_ece614.pdf and lec8_ece614_video –
introduction to electrical noise, noise measurements, thermal noise,
simulating
MOSFET noise
September
13 – lec7_ece614.pdf and lec7_ece614_video –
stability, return ratio, design examples, finish-up Ch. 31
September
6 – lec6_ece614.pdf and lec6_ece614_video –
finish up feedback amp topologies by covering transconductance
(series-series)
and current (shunt-series) amplifiers
September
2 – lec5_ece614.pdf and lec5_ece614_video –
analysis of shunt-shunt amplifiers, using a simple gate-drain feedback
resistor
and common-source amplifier
September
1 – lec4_ece614.pdf and lec4_ece614_video –
finish series-shunt amplifiers, start transimpedance amplifiers (aka
TIAs, transresistance,
or shunt-shunt amplifiers)
August
30 – lec3_ece614.pdf and lec3_ece614_video –
feedback topologies, calculating open- and closed-loop parameters,
series-shunt
feedback amplifiers
August
25 – lec2_ece614.pdf and lec2_ece614_video –
bandwidth extension, input and output impedance control, input/output
mixing
August
23 – lec1_ece614.pdf and lec1_ece614_video –
course introduction, feedback basics (Ch. 31), op-amps used in series-
and
shunt-shunt configurations