Analog circuit design II (for MNIS)
Summary
The course provides a comprehensive treatment of analog IC design, emphasizing new solutions and paradigms used in today's low-power electronic systems. The analysis and design are first introduced from an intuitive perspective before the rigorous treatment and practical application in EDA-Lab.
Content
- Introduction: Low-Power AMS design and applications (IoT, Wearable, Sensors, Healthcare ect.)
- MOS Transistor: Modelling, Operation, and trade-offs
- Noise in analog circuits
- Voltage references and regulators
- Supply and temperature-independent biasing
- Low-Voltage solution
- Operational-Amplifiers:
- Applications (Amplification, Filtering, and Regulation)
- Frequency analysis and Stability
- Noise, Offset, and Mismatch
- Filly Differential and common mode feedback
- LV solutions: Rail to Rail Amp.
- Mixed-signal design examples:
- Digital calibration of analog circuits
- Comparators
- Practical aspects in MS-SOC
- EDA project (cadence-labs):
- Technology parameters extraction
- OTA and its biasing: Structural Design based on gm/ID Methodology
- Folded cascode OTA and its CMFB
- Comparator
Keywords
- MOS transistor, Modelling, Analog Design, Current Mirrors, Voltage references, Regulators, Amplifiers, Stability, low-power, Low-noise, Low Voltage, digital calibration
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Students must be familiar with the fundamentals of microelectronics (Bachelor-level), including OpAmp application in linear and nonlinear circuits, Bipolar and/or MOS transistor physics, operation of basic circuits (inverter, simple amplifier, differential amplifier, current mirrors, basic OTA etc.).
Required courses: Electronics I, II, Analog IC Design 1
Recommended courses
- Analog Design Essentials / Sansen
- CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation / Baker
- Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits / Razavi
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Identify the different circuits used in analog processing
- Explain the functionality of the different circuits used in analog processing
- Choose an an appropriate design methodology for creating amplifiers based on a set of specifications and for a specific application.
- Quantify the effects of noise, process and temperature variations on the performances of analog circuits used for biasing, amplification and filtering
- Analyze the trade-offs between "linearity, noise, power consumption and speed" in analog design.
- Assess / Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different analog and mixed-signal circuit architectures with respect to these trade-offs
- Manipulate state-of-the-art industrial EDA tools (Cadence "Virtuoso, Assura, Spectre", and design kits (e.g. UMC 65 nm CMOS technology).
- Carry out basic analog design flows (Schematic and layout editing, circuit simulation "DC, transient, small-signal AC, Monte-Carlo," back-end verification (DRC/LVS), parasitics extraction, virtual testbench development).
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures
Exercice sessions
Computer labs using industry-standard IC design tools
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Analog circuit design II (for MNIS)
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory