Study Guide@lith
 

Linköping Institute of Technology

 
 
Valid for year : 2017
 
TSEK37 Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, 6 ECTS credits.
/Analoga CMOS integrerade kretsar/

For:   D   ELE   IT   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 54
Rec. self-study hours: 106

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Electrical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course is intended to give knowledge and experience in design of analog integrated circuits for system-on-chip in nano-scale CMOS technologies. In addition, the course gives a detailed introduction to interconnect design as well as circuit techniques for on-chip timing, synchronization, and clock generation. After the course, students should have the following knowledge and skills:
  • Understand CMOS circuit design challenges and possibilities.
  • Be able to make small and large signal models for analysis of analog integrated circuits.
  • Have indebt knowledge and skill in analysis, design, and evaluation of analog integrated circuits such as amplifiers and other versatile analog building blocks.
  • Have skill and experience in using professional circuit simulators for design and evaluation of integrated circuits in presence of noise as well as process, voltage, and temperature variations.
  • Understand on/off-chip interconnect modeling and design.
  • Understand on-chip clock generation and clock synchronization methods and related circuits such as: oscillators, phase-locked-loops, and delay-locked-loops.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Digital Integrated Circuits

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Supplementary courses:
VLSI Design Project

Organisation:
This course comprises lectures, tutorials, and laboratory exercises. The tutorials support the course by detailed analysis of some problem examples, and the laboratory exercises allows students to learn circuit design, simulations, and evaluation techniques utilizing professional CAD tools and standard CMOS process technology models and parameters.

Course contents:
The course will focus on the following topics:
  • Small and large signal models for analysis of analog integrated circuits.
  • Design, analysis, and evaluation of analog CMOS integrated circuits. As a representative benchmark, various types of amplifiers, current sources, voltage controlled oscillators, and other versatile circuit building blocks will be studied. The circuit analyses will take into account non-ideal effects such as noise and variations in process parameters, supply voltages, and operating temperature.
  • Use of professional circuit simulators for design, analysis, and evaluation of integrated circuits.
  • Modeling and design of interconnects. Particularly, studies on transmission lines for high-speed on-chip and off-chip communications.
  • On-chip timing and synchronization techniques, including studies on clock- and data-recovery circuits and systems such as phase- and delay-locked-loops.


Course literature:
Behzad Razavi, "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits", 1st Edition McGraw-Hill Higher Education, ISBN 0-07-238032-2
Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits", Prentice Hall, Second Edition (International edition), ISBN 0-13-120764-4


Examination:
Written exam
Laboratory work
4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: ISY.
Director of Studies: Tomas Svensson
Examiner: Atila Alvandpour
Link to the course homepage at the department


Course Syllabus in Swedish

Linköping Institute of Technology

 


Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 04/09/2015