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
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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
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