R. S. Ashwin Kumar


R. S. Ashwin Kumar

Assistant Professor,
EE department,
IIT Kanpur.
Office: WL 120
Solid-state circuit design lab

Courses taught (and learnt more in that process!)

ESC201: Introduction to electronics

ESC201: Introduction to electronics

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A foundational course on electronics that covers the basics in design and analysis of electronic circuits: both analog and digital.

Recorded lectures:
ESC201: Jul-Nov 2026     

Practice problem sets:
ESC201 (2026)

EE610 and EE613: Analog IC design

EE610: Analog IC design - 1 &
EE613: High-frequency analog circuit design
 

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These courses focus on the design of fully-differential multi-stage operational amplifiers, stabilizing negative feedback loops, frequency compensation techniques.

EE610 starts from non-linear networks, MOSFET & biasing techniques and finally covers multi-stage fully-differential amplifiers.

EE613 doesn't cover biasing, but instead the tail-end of the course focuses on non-linearity, and useful circuits employing opamp in negative feedback such as bandgap reference, constant-gm bias, etc.,

Recorded lectures:
EE610: Jul-Nov 2025     
EE613: Jan-May 2025   
EE613: Jan-May 2024   
EE613: Jan-May 2023


Practice problem sets:
EE610 (2025)
EE613 (2025)

EE698I: Mixed-signal IC design

EE698I: Mixed-signal IC design

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This course mainly focuses on switched-capacitor circuits, system-level and circuit design aspects of various data converter topologies.

Recorded lectures:
EE698I: Jul-Nov 2024
EE698I: Jul-Nov 2023
EE698I: Jan-May 2022

Practice problem sets:
EE698I (2024)




EE698W: Analog circuits for signal processing

EE698W: Analog circuits for signal processing

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This course focuses on linear periodically time-varying (LPTV) networks, especially practically relevant analog circuits that are LPTV in nature and are extensively used in signal processing.

Recorded lectures:
EE698W: Jul-Nov (2022)