Courses

EE613A (formerly EE698A): High Frequency Analog Circuit Design
▪ Tutorial for setting up basic simulations using LT-spice (courtesy S. Narayana Rao) (BeginnersGuide.pdf)

Plagiarism policy: You are obviously free to discuss among yourselves to help one another understand the concepts of the course. However, all assignments that are to be subnmitted are to be worked out individually and not in groups. If you have collaborated, you must reveal it during your submission. If N of you have collaborated, your total for that assignment will be divided by N. On the other hand, if you collaborate and do not reveal, you (regardless of the fact that you are the generator or recipient of the help) will get a zero for that assignment and one other submission. A repeat offence will lead to reporting to DoAA. Collaboration during exams will lead to strict disciplinary actions as deemed fit by the instructor.
Lecture videos and notes
▪ Lecture 1: Introduction
▪ Lecture 2: Quick recap: amplification, biasing. (part1) (part2) (part3) (part4) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 3: Constant voltage vs. constant current biasing. Example. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 4: Constant current biasing using negative feedback. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 5: Controlled sources; VCCS, CCVS. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 6: VCVS; Intro to diffamp. (part1) (part2) (part3) (part4) (part5) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 7: Diffamp output resistance; Intro to distortion. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 8: Effect of negative feedback on distortion. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 9: Formal introduction to negative feedback, loop gain and its implications. (part1) (part2) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 10: Non-ideal integrator with finite DC gain; use of diffamp as an integrator. (video) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 11: Effect of delay in the loop. Connection of poles and zeros to time-delay and advance. (video) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 12: Nyquist criterion, Bode plots and its relation to stability. (Review) (part1) (part2) (Review_pdf) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 13: Two stage Miller Compensated Opamp - intuitive design, and locations of poles. (Review) (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 14: Two stage Miller Compensated Opamp - analysis and intuition behind zeros. (part1) (part2) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 15: Design procedure of two stage Miller opamp. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 16: Fully differential architecture; common mode feedback in a two stage Miller Compensated Opamp. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2) (pdf_part3)
▪ Lecture 17: Introduction to thermal noise. (part1) (part2) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 18: Noise analysis contd.. ; Introduction to continuous-time filters. (part1) (part2) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 19: Butterworth transfer function; Introduction to filter synthesis. (part1) (part2) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2)
▪ Lecture 20: Synthesis of a singly terminated ladder; Gm-C filter; Impedance and frequency scaling. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf_part1_2) (pdf_part3)
▪ Lecture 21: Fully differential Gm-C filter; common mode stabilization. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 22: Non-idealities in a Gm-C filter; Parasitic capacitances and conductances. (part1) (addendum) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 23: Dynamic range; Node-scaling for maximizing dynamic range. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf_part1) (pdf_part2) (pdf_part3)
▪ Lecture 24: Introduction to LNAs. (part1) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 25: Broadband noise cancellation LNAs. (part1) (pdf)
REFERENCES

There is no particular reference book for this course. However, you will find overlap with the contents covered in the following.

▪ Video lectures of last year's course available at the top of the page.
▪ Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits"
▪ N. Krishnapura, “Introducing negative feedback with an integrator as the central element," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, 20-23 May 2012. paper
▪ NPTEL lecture on Analog IC Design by Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura (link)
▪ H. Zhang and E. S-Sinencio, “Linearization techniques for CMOS low noise amplifiers: a tutorial," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I: Reg. Papers, vol. 58, pp. 22-36, Jan. 2011. paper
▪ Van Valkenburg, “Analog Filter Design"
▪ Video lectures on Active Filter Design by Prof. Shanthi Pavan (link)
▪ T. Laxminidhi and S. Pavan, “Design centering high frequency integrated continuous-time filters," Proc. IEEE ISCAS, May 2007. paper
▪ Behzad Razavi, “RF Microelectronics"