Courses

EE610A: Analog VLSI Design
▪ Tutorial for setting up basic simulations using LT-spice (courtesy S. Narayana Rao) (BeginnersGuide.pdf)

Lecture videos and notes
▪ Lecture 1: Introduction
▪ Lecture 2: Linearizing a non-linear network; two port parameters. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 3: Introduction to MOSFET as the amplifying device. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 4: Amplifer design using MOSFET. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 5: Gain limitations; Introduction to biasing with a single voltage source. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 6: Input and output biasing of a common source amplifier. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 7: Max gain in a CS amplifier; Swing limits. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 8: Biasing a transistor using a current or a voltage source. (part1) (part2) (part3) (part4) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 9: Constant current biasing using negative feedback. (Link to previous year's lecture) (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 10: Controlled sources; VCCS, CCVS. (Link to previous year's lecture) (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 11: VCVS; Intro to diffamp. (Link to previous year's lecture) (part1) (part2) (part3) (part4) (part5) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 12: Output conductance of a MOSFET; Introduction to cascode architecture. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 13: Resistances of different configurations. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 14: Body effect; PMOS as active load. (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 15: Biasing a PMOS amplifier ckt; Output resistance of differential amplifier. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 16: CMRR in Diffamp. (part1) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 17: Differential gain, contd..; ICMR. (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 18: Use of diffamp as an opamp; (part1) (part2) (part3) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 19: Differential amplifier in negative feedback; Introduction to MOS capacitance (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 20: Frequency response of CS amplifier (part1) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 21: Poles in a CS amp; (part1) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 22: Poles splitting intuition; RHP zero in CS amplifier; (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 23: Loop gain; relationship between open and closed loop systems (part1) (part2) (pdf)
▪ Lecture 24-25: Loop gain; Higher order systems (part1) (part2) (part3) (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 previous year's courses available at the top of the page.
▪ Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits"
▪ NPTEL video lectures by Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura(video lectures)