Lab 1 Due nominally 12:30 Monday March 6, however,
because of printer problems, can hand in Thursday 1:30 March 9. Students
who hand in Monday will get a few bonus marks (about 5/100)
- Covers all of the course and contains a lot of
other circuits. Very new. A good reference.
R. Jacob Baker et. al., CMOS Circuit Design, Layout & Simulation, IEEE Press
1997,
"This book covers the fundamental design of both analog and digital
CMOS integrated circuits. "
Snelgrove, VLSI Circuits, To be published.
Gregorian & Temes,
Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing,
John Wiley & Sons, 1986, TK7868.S88G74
- Covers all of the course but contains a lot of
%additional detail. A good reference.
Allen & Holberg,
CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Holt, Rinehard and Winston, 1987
- Good reference on opamp design, many examples and
discusses practical problems.
Good introduction to all topics of this course
but generally not enough detail.
Schaumann, Ghausi & Laker,
Design of Analog Filters : Passive, Active RC and Switched
Capacitor,
Prentice-Hall Inc., 1990.
TK7872.F5S3
- Chapter 4 Opamp as a building block. Chapter 8
Switched-Capacitor filters.
Gray & Meyer,
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, second
edition
John Wiley & Sons, 1984, TK7874.G688
- Good analog book but with emphasis on bipolar. Section
1.7, 1.8 and Chapter 12 are specific to MOS.
97.477 Course Outline
Devices: Transistor parameters, regions
of operation
(linear, saturation). Body effect, gamma, output impedance, lambda,
input impedance, transconductance, transistor curves, small-signal
model.
Small circuits and building blocks: diode-connected
transistors, current mirrors, source follower, common-source
amplifier, differential pairs.
Opamp design: opamp stages,
dc conditions, offset, slew rates, gains and frequency response,
Opamp design: opamp stages,
dc conditions, offset, slew rates, gains and frequency response,
effects of parasitics, compensation techniques.
Specialty opamps: high-frequency amplifiers,
folded-cascode and buffer amplifiers.
Simple opamp circuits:, feedback, gain,
gain error.
Filter Design: filter types such as Butterworth,
Chebychev,
Elliptic, Gaussian. Filter topology: Ladder filters and cascaded
second order sections (biquads). Implementations: GIC, leap
frog, switched capacitor, N path.
Switched capacitor circuits: SC as a resistor
at low frequencies,
clocking schemes, series, parallel, inverting and non-inverting forms.
Simple circuits such as sample and hold, opamp circuits, filters.
Sampled data analysis: difference equations
using charge
balance, Z transforms, interpretations and applications to SC
circuits. Filter design including frequency warping, bilinear
transform. Different domains: pure sampled, sample and held
(sinx/x), continuous.
Aliasing: Clocked and continuous-time anti-alias filters.
Noise analysis: Types of noise: thermal, 1/f, power supply noise.
Noise in resistors, capacitors, MOSFETS, simple circuits, - noise in
filters, noise in SC circuits.
Other possible topics: A/D converters, D/A converters,
Sigma-Delta modulators, continuous-time filters, multipliers
(phase detectors), oscillators, phase-locked loops, sense amplifiers,
comparators, temperature stabilization, voltage reference, BiCMOS
applications.