Analog Integrated Circuits 97.477 Winter 2000


Instructor: Calvin Plett

Office: 5146 ME,

TAs: Bill Toole, Neric Fong, Chris DeVries

Emails: toole@doe.carleton.ca, nfong@doe.carleton.ca, cdevries@doe.carleton.ca

Exam Marking Status, Comments, May 1, 2000

Exam Help Session, Tuesday April 25, 2:30, Me3190

Exam Help, Responses to Emailed Questions, etc, updated April 24, 2000

Term Marks As of April 16, 2000 If you see any errors, please let me know immediately.

Official Summary for Exam 2000

Midterm Soln. 2000, page 1

Midterm Soln. 2000, page 2

Midterm Soln. 2000, page 3

Midterm Soln. 1999

Midterm Soln. 1997

Example Exam 1999

Example Exam 1997

Exam 99 answers

Exam 97 answers

Noise Analysis Details and copy of lab Some definitions of SNR, Dynamic Range, Noise Floor, etc.

Switched Capacitor Lab, Rough Marking Scheme

Pages 0,1,2 of Filter Summary, start of Switched-Capacitors including resistor equivalents, stray insensitive, analysis, 3 pages (pdf)

Pages 3,4,5,6 of Switched Capacitor Summary, including SC analysis examples, time domain, frequency domain. 4 pages (pdf)

Lab 4 Switched-Capacitor Hardware Lab (pdf) Note, error in lab notes, page 3 Design Procedure step ii), "Choose R1=R2=R" should have been "Choose R4=R2=R"

Sampling Theory, replication, aliasing sinx/x, 4 pages (pdf)

Midterm Comments

Midterm Date: Thursday March 2, 2000, 1:30-2:30. Rooms ME3190, ME3174. Note this is the week after break week which is February 21-25.

Folded Cascode Examples, both NMOS and PMOS inputs

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)

Lab 3, and Marking Scheme (will be handed out in class Monday Feb 14) (pdf)

Course Outline pages 9-16 (pdf)

Course Information

Lectures: 12:30 Monday, 11:30 Wednesday, 13:30 Thursday

Room 3190 ME

Marks: 20% Midterm 25% Labs 55% Final


Labs: 8:30 Wednesday, Even weeks. Marks include demos to TAs.

  1. Opamp: Design of Building Blocks (simulation), Jan 19, Feb 2.

  2. Opamp: Completed, applications (simulation), Feb 16.

  3. Switched-Capacitor Filter Design (hardware) March 8.

  4. Noise Analysis (simulation) March 22, April 5..

  5. Sampled Data Analysis (simulation, problems) March 22, April 5.

References:

  1. Johns, Martin, "Analog Integrated Circuit Design", John Wiley & Sons, 1997, TK7874.J65

    - Covers all of the course and contains a lot of other circuits. Very new. A good reference.

  2. 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. "

  3. Snelgrove, VLSI Circuits, To be published.

  4. 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.

  5. Allen & Holberg, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Holt, Rinehard and Winston, 1987

    - Good reference on opamp design, many examples and discusses practical problems.

  6. Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 1997 TK7867.S39

    Good introduction to all topics of this course but generally not enough detail.

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  1. Devices: Transistor parameters, regions of operation (linear, saturation). Body effect, gamma, output impedance, lambda, input impedance, transconductance, transistor curves, small-signal model.

  2. Small circuits and building blocks: diode-connected transistors, current mirrors, source follower, common-source amplifier, differential pairs.

  3. 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.

  4. Specialty opamps: high-frequency amplifiers, folded-cascode and buffer amplifiers.

  5. Simple opamp circuits:, feedback, gain, gain error.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Aliasing: Clocked and continuous-time anti-alias filters.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

Last update December 21, 1999.

Info from 1999

Sample Midterm 1999 page 1

Sample Midterm 1999 page 2

Sample Midterm 1999 page 3

Sample Midterm 1999 (pdf)

Sample Midterm Fall 1997 page 1

Sample Midterm Fall 1997 page 2

Sample Midterm Fall 1997 page 3

Sample Midterm 1997 (pdf)

Official Formula Sheet Page 1

Official Formula Sheet Page 2

Official Formula Sheet Page 3

Official Formula Sheet Page 4

2000 Official Formula Sheet (For Midterm, half of exam)(PDF)

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