Teaching
Spring 2024
ECEN 3314: Electronic Devices and Applications
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:
Razavi (2021). Fundamentals of Microelectronics. 3rd Edition. Wiley.
Sedra, Smith, Carusone, Gaudet (2019). Microelectronic Circuits. 8th Edition. Oxford University Press.
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Other courses taught
ECEN 4313: Linear Electronics Circuit Design
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:
Razavi (2021). Fundamentals of Microelectronics. 3rd Edition. Wiley.
Razavi (2017). Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit. 2nd Edition. McGraw Hill.
ECEN 5313: Analog Integrated Circuit Design
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:
Carusone, Johns, Martin (2011). Analog Integrated Circuit Design. 2nd Edition. Wiley.
Erickson, Maksimovic (2020). Fundamentals of Power Electronics. 3rd Edition. Springer Nature.
ECEN 5363: Mixed-Signal IC Design
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.
ECEN 3714: Network Analysis (Fall 2021)
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