ECE 422- CMOS Integrated Circuits - I
Catalog Description: Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits
in CMOS technology; current mirrors, gain stages, single-ended operational amplifier,
frequency response, and compensation.
Prerequisites:
By course: ECE 323
By topic: Elementary electronics, pn junction and transistor characteristics,
large and small-signal analyses, amplifiers, frequency response, feedback,
SPICE usage.
Courses that require this as a prerequisite: ECE 423
Credits: 4 Terms Offered: Fall annually
Instructors:
Primary: K. Mayaram
Secondary: U. Moon
Textbook: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray and
Meyer, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-57495-3, 2001.
References:
- Microelectronic Circuits, A. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Oxford University Press,
Fourth Edition, 1998, ISBN 0-19-511663-1.
- Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 1999,
ISBN 0-07-237371-0.
Course Learning Objectives:
Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to:
- State some of the current and future applications of mixed-signal microelectronics.
(ABET Outcomes h, i, j)
- Describe the basic operation of MOSFETs. (ABET Outcome a)
- Analyze and design basic MOSFET amplifier configurations and current mirrors.
(ABET Outcomes a, c)
- Analyze and design single-ended MOSFET operational amplifiers. (ABET Outcomes
a, c)
- Design amplifier circuits that meet certain performance specifications.
(ABET Outcomes a ,b ,c, k)
- Proficiently use the circuit simulator SPICE for design and analysis of
electronic circuits. (ABET Outcomes a, b, k)
Topics
- Introduction to mixed analog/digital microelectronics.
- Operation of MOS transistors including large- and small-signal modeling.
- Design of basic analog circuit building blocks using MOS transistors: simple
amplifiers, differential pairs, current sources.
- Design of MOS operational amplifiers with emphasis on large-signal characteristics,
analysis of open loop gain, frequency response.
- Frequency response of amplifiers.
- Feedback amplifiers, stability, and compensation.
Structure: Two 110-minute lectures per week.
Original: 9/00
Revised: 9/01