ECE315 / ECE515: Analog CMOS Circuit Design

Instructor: Mohammad Hashmi
Teaching Assistants: Vijay Sharma, Anuradha Ahlawat, Pooja Chaudhary

Lecture: Monday & Thursday @ 14:30-16:00 in C02

Office Hour: Wednesday 15:30-16:30
TA Office Hour: TBD



Course Outline and Policy

Description

This course introduces the basic analog building blocks and quantifies their performance parameters. More advanced circuits are derived from these basic building blocks. Concepts of feedback and stability are introduced to enable analysis of complex circuits. The course also includes a self-learning lab component in which the students are expected to learn circuit simulation and design tools such as LTSpice, Eldo, Cadence Analog Suite etc. A design project is an essential component of this course.
Postcondition On the completion of this course the students will be able to:
1. Have a basic knowledge of the fundamental concepts of active circuits and their analysis techniques.
2. Particularly understand the theory and operation of circuit components and circuits such as Current Mirror, Linear Amplifier, Differential Amplifier, OPAMPs etc.
3. Acquire the ability to solve, analyze, design, and simulate moderately complex MOS based circuits.

Evaluation Following components are part of the overall evaluation:
Home Assignment
15%
Surprise Quizzes 15%
Mid-semester Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
Project 30%

Home assignments are to be demonstrated and submitted by the due date.

Plagiarism is forbidden and will be seriously dealt with as per institute policy.
Attandance and Class Room Behavior 1. Students will be responsible for all course materials, announcements, notes etc. made during the regular class times.
2. Prompt arrival to the class is requested.
3. Smoking, drinking, and eating are prohibited in the class.
4. You need to switch off your Laptops, Phones, PDAs etc. in the class.

Resources

The text books for the course are:
1. Design of Analog CMOS Intergated Circuits by Behzad Razavi
2. CMOS Analog Circuit Design by Philips E. Allen & Douglas R. Holberg

In addition following books may also be referred:
1. Microelectronic Circuit Design 4th Edition by Richard C. Jaeger & Travis N. Blalock
2. Analog Integrated Circuit Design by David Johns & Ken Martin




Lecture Schedule and Assignment Calendar

Week
 Date Lecture Topic Reading Assignment /
Homework
 Additional Resource
1
 Aug-1

Aug-4

 Introduction, NMOS - FET, NMOS Qualitative Analysis, PMOS ( Lect_1_2016)

NMOS I/V Characteristics, Discussion on IV Characteristics, MOSFET-second Order Effects (Lect_2_2016)

Razavi Chapter-2


Practice Cadence and Spice Tools
Course Syllabus
2
 Aug-8


Aug-11

 Steps for DC Analysis of MOSFET Circuits, MOSFET as a Switch and Amplifier, MOSFET Small Signal Operation (Lect_3_2016)

MOSFET Small Signal Models and Analysis, Small Signal Amplifiers(Lect_4_2016)

Home Assignment # 0 [due 8th Aug]
Potential Projects
3
 Aug-18


 Steps for DC Analysis of MOSFET Circuits, MOSFET as a Switch and Amplifier, MOSFET Small Signal Operation (Lect_5_2016)



Home Assignment # 0 [due 8th Aug]
Potential Projects
4
 Aug-22

 Class Test -I
Home Assignment # 1 [due 21.08.2016]
5
 Aug-29

Sept-1

 CS Amplifier with Constant Source, CD Amplifier(Lect_6_2016)

CG Amplifier, Biasing in MOS Amplifier Circuits (Lect_7_2016)


Home Assignment # 2 [due 08.09.2016]
6
 Sept-5

Sept-8

 Current Mirror, Current Steering Circuits(Lect_8_2016)

Nonlinearities in Current Mirror, Current Mirror Configurations (Lect_9_2016)


Home Assignment # 3 [due 15.09.2016]
7
 Sept-12

Sept-15

 Differential Amplifier, Differential Signalling, MOS Differential Amplifier(Lect_10_2016)

MOS Differential Amplifier (Large and Small Signal Analysis) (Lect_11_2016)


8
9
 Sept-26

Sept-29

 Differential Amplifier with CM Input, CMRR(Lect_12_2016)

CMRR, Differential Amp, Difference Amp and Instrumentation Amp (Lect_13_2016)


Home Assignment # 4 [due 07.10.2016]
10
 Oct-3

 Gilbert Cell, Intro to Freq Response(Lect_14_2016)


12
 Oct-17

 General Frequency Response, Determination of 3dB Frequency, CS-, CD- and CG- Stages(Lect_15_2016)


13
 Oct-24

Oct-27 		Intro to Noise (Lect - 16)

Feedback Topologies and Stability(Lect_17_2016)


14
 Project Presentation