When: MWF 8:30-9:20 am

Office hours: M 1:30-4:30 pm

Description: Fundamentals of Microelectronics (the "Sedra & Smith" course)

• Opamp as a black box

• Semiconductor physics and p-n junction, diode circuits

• Bipolar junction transistors (BJT) and its circuits

• Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) circuits

• Analysis and Design of single-stage amplifiers (CS/CD/CG, CE/CC/CB)

Textbook:

1. Razavi (2021). Fundamentals of Microelectronics. 3rd Edition. Wiley.

2. Sedra, Smith, Carusone, Gaudet (2019). Microelectronic Circuits. 8th Edition. Oxford University Press.

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Description: Follow-up of Sedra & Smith, the first course on analog integrated circuit design

• Two-transistor circuits: cascading, current mirror, and the differential pair

• Frequency response of single-stage amplifiers (CS, CG, CD)

• Feedback topologies

• Stability and Frequency Compensation

• Operational Amplifiers

Textbook:

1. Razavi (2021). Fundamentals of Microelectronics. 3rd Edition. Wiley.

2. Razavi (2017). Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit. 2nd Edition. McGraw Hill.

Description: Analysis and design of analog and power management IC

• Review of Feedback, first-order, and second-order system

• Bandgap reference circuits

• Low-dropout regulator (LDO) design 

• Voltage-mode and current-mode DC-DC converter design

• Transistor design, simulation, layout, and parasitic extraction in 65 nm CMOS

Textbook:

1. Carusone, Johns, Martin (2011). Analog Integrated Circuit Design. 2nd Edition. Wiley.

2. Erickson, Maksimovic (2020). Fundamentals of Power Electronics. 3rd Edition. Springer Nature.

Description:  Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) designs

• Basic Concepts: Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), quantization noise, sampling, reconstruction

• ADC/DAC specification: static (INL, DNL, gain, offset errors), dynamic (SFDR, SNDR, ENOB), and figure-of-merits (FOMs, FOMw)

• DAC design: RDAC, CDAC, segmented-DAC

• Nyquist ADCs: SAR, Flash, two-step, interpolating, folding, and pipeline ADCs 

• Oversampling ADCs: 1st-order/2nd-order Sigma-Delta modulation, MASH, continuous-time Sigma-Delta ADCs

• Calibration techniques: dynamic element matching (DEM)

Textbook: Maloberti, F. (2007). Data converters. Springer Science & Business Media.

Time: MWF 10:30 - 11:18 am.  Location CLBN 101 & Virtually.  (4 credit hours)

Description:  Advanced Mathematical analysis techniques used in circuit analysis, including

• Laplace Transform, Fourier Transform

• Bode Plots

• Passive and Active Filter Designs

• Theory of Linear Circuits

Textbook: Nilsson, Riedel (2018). Electric Circuits. 11th Edition. Pearson

Activity:  2021 Kicker Design Competition (ECEN 3714 & 5363)