Timings & Venue: T201; Mon,Wed: 10AM; Fri: 12PM;

Lectures

Course contents

• Recap of single-stage MOS-based amplifiers; frequency response of single-stage amplifiers

• Multi-stage amplifiers & stability in negative feedback loops; Miller-compensation, feed-forward compensation, nested Miller and feed-forward compensation

• Noise & mismatch in resistors and MOSFETs; Calculating the input-referred noise in amplifiers

• Introduction to analog layout, and some layout techniques 

• Fully differential amplifiers, common-mode feedback (CMFB), stabilizing CMFB loops

• Systematic analog design using the "gm/Id" technique

• Useful circuits using negative feedback

References

• "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits" by Behzad Razavi

• "Analog Integrated Circuit Design", by Tony Chan Carusone, David A. Johns, Kenneth W. Martin

• NPTEL lectures on "Analog IC design" by Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura