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227-0166-AAL 6 Credits MSC D-ITET
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Analog Integrated Circuits

Lecturers & Examiners: Prof. Dr. Taekwang Jang
Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. Course offered only in the autumn semester with an examination only in winter.
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Abstract

This course provides a foundation in analog integrated circuit design based on CMOS technologies.

Objective

Integrated circuits are responsible for much of the progress in electronics in the last 50 years, particularly the revolutions in the Information and Communications Technologies we witnessed in recent years. Analog integrated circuits play a crucial part in the highly integrated systems that power the popular electronic devices we use daily. Understanding their design is beneficial to both future designers and users of such systems. The basic elements, design issues and techniques for analog integrated circuits will be taught in this course.

Content

Review of bipolar and MOS devices and their small-signal equivalent circuit models; Building blocks in analog circuits such as current sources, active load, current mirrors, supply independent biasing etc; Amplifiers: differential amplifiers, cascode amplifier, high gain structures, output stages, gain bandwidth product of op-amps; stability; comparators; second-order effects in analog circuits such as mismatch, noise and offset; data converters; frequency synthesizers; switched capacitors.

Resources

Lecture Notes

Handouts of slides. No script but an accompanying textbook is recommended.

Literature

Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits (Irwin Electronics & Computer Engineering) 1st or 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Education.

General Information

Language
English
Levels
MSC
Frequency
Semesterly recurring

Examination

Type
session examination
Mode
written 180 minutes
Aids
Student's own, hand-written summary on 1 front-back A4 paper. Calculator with basic calculation, without communication capability.
The exercises are an important part of the course. The bi-weekly exercises are offered as a "continuous performance assessment": if you complete 4 exercises and hand them in in time for review, the grade earned in the session exam will be increased by 0.25 grade points.

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
revision course / private study Analog Integrated Circuits
Self-study course. No presence required. The underlying lecture and exercise are offered in autumn semester (Friday 10-12h and 14-16h).
No time listed 112 h semesterly

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