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EE 210A: Microelectronics I
L17: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10-10:50 am.

Tutorial: Tuesday 10-10:50 am (T103-T108)


Grading Scheme
▪ End Sem: 30%; Midsem: 25%; Major Quiz: 20%; MiniQuizes (in groups of two): 25%
Practice Problems
Problem Sets
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2a , Problem Set 2b

Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4
Problem Set 5
Problem Set 6
Problem Set 7
Problem Set 8
Problem Set 9


Lecture videos
▪ Lecture 1: Use of Taylor series to deal with devices having non-linear I-V characteristics (video)
▪ Lecture 2: Relating incremental model of a diode with its operating point. (video)
▪ Lecture 3: Relating the small signal equivalent to the tangent of the I-V characteristics. (video)
▪ Lecture 4: Can an LTI network generate power gain? Why is a diode voltage pinned at certain voltage? (video)
▪ Lecture 5: Requirement of non-linearity for power amplification (video)
▪ Lecture 6: Network theory; revisiting KCL, KVL, substitution theorem. (video)
▪ Lecture 7: Network theory; Thevenin's theorem, source substitution, Tellegen's theorem (video)
▪ Lecture 8: Proof of reciprocity theorem; introduction to two-port network (video)
▪ Lecture 9: Necessary incremental y-parameter conditions for amplification (video)
▪ Lecture 10: An elementary introduction to physics of semiconductor devices; PN junction diode (video)
▪ Lecture 11: Introduction to MOS structure (video)
▪ Lecture 12: Introduction to MOSFET structure (video)
▪ Lecture 13: Introduction to I-V characteristics of in a MOSFET, and its relation with y-parameters (video)
▪ Lecture 14: Use of MOSFET in saturation region for amplification (video)
▪ Lecture 15: Synthesis of an amplifier while taking biasing into account (video)
▪ Lecture 16: Swing limits in a common source amplifier (video)
▪ Lecture 17: Biasing a common source amplifier for maximum input swing (video)
▪ Lecture 18: Replacing a battery with a capacitor to bias a common source amplifier (video)
▪ Lecture 19: Finding the component values to bias a the input of a common source amplifier (video)
▪ Lecture 20: Using coupling capacitor to drive a load without affecting bias points (video)
▪ Lecture 21: Bode plot for common source amplifier; Introduction to constant current biasing. (video)
▪ Lecture 22: Constant current biasing; diode connected transistor (video)
▪ Lecture 23: Constant current bias, by applying current at the source; evolution of a voltage buffer (video)
▪ Lecture 24: Source follower architecture (video)
▪ Lecture 25: Introduction to current mirrors to bias a transistor with constant current (video)
▪ Lecture 26: Biasing a transistor by pushing current into the drain tweaking the source (video)
▪ Lecture 27: Biasing a transistor with current sources contd.. (video)
▪ Lecture 28: Synthesis of current controlled current source- Common Gate configuration (video)
▪ Lecture 29: Channel length modulation in MOSFET (video)
▪ Lecture 30: Use of a current buffer to improve voltage gain; Introduction to body effect (video)
▪ Lecture 31: Effect of channel length modulation on current mirrors (video)
▪ Lecture 32: Synthesis of a stable gain network using negative feedback (video)
▪ Lecture 33: Synthesis of a differential amplifier to realize an error amplifier in a feedback loop (video)
▪ Lecture 34: Relating a differential amplifier in feedback to a classical negative feedback topology (video)
▪ Lecture 35: Introducing a PMOSFET to realize a gain stage (video)
▪ Lecture 36: Common source amplifier with active load (video)
▪ Lecture 37: Differential amplifier with current mirror load (video)
▪ Lecture 38: Introducing two stage amplifiers and parasitic capacitances (video)
▪ Lecture 39a: Differential amplifier contd.. (video)
▪ Lecture 39b: Role of parasitic impedances in stability of a two stage differential amplifier (video)
▪ Lecture 40: Compensating a two stage amplifier by making one pole dominant. (video)
▪ Lecture 41: Frequency compensation of two stage opamp (video)
▪ Lecture 42: Miller Compensated opamp contd.. (video)
▪ Lecture 43: Critical differences of BJTs with MOSFETs and analog circuit design using BJTs (video)

Plagiarism policy: An F grade or deregistration from the course.

REFERENCES

The course will not follow any particular text book. The students are expected to understand the concepts from the lectures. The classroom lectures will be recorded and uploaded for revision purposes, but with a delay of one week. Practice problems will be furnished in the course itself. For more practice problems some chapters of the following references will help. The details of the same will be conveyed in due course.
▪ "Engineering Circuit Analysis": Hayt, Kemmerly, Durbin
▪ "Microelectronic Circuits": A.S. Sedra and K.C. Smith.
▪ "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits": Behzad Razavi.
▪ Some overlap with previous year's lectures on EE610A (video)