Courses
Ongoing
EE613A: High Frequency Analog Circuit Design
Discussion hour: Wednesdays: 5:15 pm.
TAs: Kunal Paradkar (kunalp20@), Vibhor Sharma (vibhor20@), Harshit Rathore (harshml@), Sushil Bishnoi (sushilb@)
Grading Scheme
▪ End Sem: 25%; Midsem: 15%; Assignments: 35%; MiniQuizes 25% (Liable to change depending on the connectivity situation of the class)Above 85%: (A or above); between 85%-35%, Relative grading (A-D); Less than 35%: D and below;
Assignmments
▪ PDK to be used in the course 45nm PDK
▪ Tutorial for setting up basic simulations using LT-spice (courtesy S. Narayana Rao) (BeginnersGuide.pdf)
Lecture videos and notes
▪ Lecture 1: Introduction▪ Lecture 2: Wishlist of an ideal amplifier; Introduction to properties of resistors in an IC. (part1) (part2)
▪ Lecture 3: Mismatch in resistors. (part1) (part2) (part3)
▪ Lecture 4: Noise in resistors. (part1) (part2) (part3) (part4)
▪ Lecture 5: Noise - power tradeoff; Noise in MOSFETs (part1) (part2) (part3)
▪ Lecture 6: Noise in RLC network; Capacitors in integrated circuits (part1) (part2) (part3)
▪ Lecture 7: Introduction to negative feedback with integrator as the central element (part1) (part2)
▪ Lecture 8: Negative feedback loop with dc and sinusoidal steady state inputs. (part1) (part2)
▪ Lecture 9: Negative feedback with non-ideal integrator. (part1)
▪ Lecture 10:Effect of delay in the loop. Connection of poles and zeros to time-delay and advance. (part1)
▪ Lecture 11: Nyquist criterion, Bode plots and its relation to stability. (Review) (part1) (part2)
▪ Lecture 12: Two stage Miller Compensated Opamp - intuitive design, and locations of poles. (Review) (part1) (part2) (part3)
▪ Lecture 13: Understanding Miller-effect with VCCS and VCVS. ▪ Lecture 14: Loop gain analysis for Miller opamp. (video)
▪ Lecture 15: Pole locations for multi-loop opamps; Intuition behind zero in Miller opamp. (video)
▪ Lecture 16: Tailoring zero location in Miller opamp; Impedances in negative feedback loop. (video)
▪ Lecture 17: Differential amplifier; Noise, ICMR, frequency response. (video)
▪ Lecture 18: Differential amplifier; Swing limits, slew rate; mismatch in transistors (video)
▪ Lecture 19: Telescopic opamp (video)
▪ Lecture 20: Folded cascode opamp (video)
▪ Lecture 21: Slew rate of folded cascode opamp; Introduction to fully differential architecture. (video)
▪ Lecture 22: Common mode feedback in single stage opamp. (video)
▪ Lecture 23: Two stage fully differential opamp (video)
▪ Lecture 24: Slew rate rate for two stage Miller compensated opamp; Introduction to distortion. (video)
▪ Lecture 25: Distortion calculation in negative feedback loop; Introduction to active filters; Gyrator. (video)
▪ Lecture 26: Gm-C Biquadratic filter. (video)
▪ Lecture 27: Node scaling in Gm-C flter; Common mode stabilization in a gyrator. (video)
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 are available here .
▪ 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