introduction, course structure

E3 238 Analog VLSI Circuits

Gaurab BanerjeeDepartment of Electrical Communication Engineering,

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalorebanerjee@ece.iisc.ernet.in

Lecture 1: Introduction

Course Web Page and Email Address:

http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/~banerjee/course_E3238/index.htm

courses.banerjee@gmail.com

Please fill out the student information form under the “announcements” link.

Class Timings:

Wednesdays and Fridays (Mondays Reserved)

1100-1200 IST, Room 1.08 , ECE Bldg.Please be on Time!

Office hours:

By appointment. Email to check availability!

Course Announcements:

Please join the class Google group. Information to be provided under the class “Announcements” link. You will receive class emails after your membership request is approved.

Administrative Matters

Grading and Course Structure:

2:1, 2 lectures per week, Approx. 3 hours in lab per week.Homework assignments (30% of course grade)Midterm Examination (30% of course grade)Final Examination (40% of course grade)

TAs: Shravan Kumar, Pushtivardhan Soni

Text: No textbook: Please take notes in class, or make backup arrangements.

Supplementary resources (slides/papers/additional material) will be frequently uploaded on the class web site.

Recommended references:

1) Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits by Behzad Razavi (Tata McGraw Hill).2) Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits by Gray, Hurst, Lewis and Meyer.

Laboratory: First meeting date/time to be announced by Class TAs.

Calendar: On Class Website, will be updated from time to time.

Class Pace: Regular Feedback Solicited. “Bridge course”, so, need to take

everyone along.

Administrative Matters

Course ContentsDevices:

Review of Device Characteristics, DC and Small Signal MOS I/V

Characteristics, Bipolar Transistors.

Circuits:

CE/CS and CB/CG Amplifiers, Emitter/Source followers, Cascodes,

Active cascodes, Emitter coupled pairs, Current Mirrors, Differential Pairs, Voltage and Current References.

Important Concepts:

Frequency Response, Noise, Feedback, Nonlinearity and

Mismatches, Short-channel effects and device modeling for analog design, CMOS Processing and Layout.

Larger Circuits and Sub-systems:

Basic operational amplifier design, Stability and Compensation,

Fully differential op-amps, Common Mode Feedback, Switched-capacitor circuits, CMOS OTAs

Connection to Other Courses

E3 238: Analog VLSI Circuits

E3 237: ICs for Wireless Communication

E3 xxx: Phase Locked Loops and I/Os

E3 yyy: Data Conversion Systems

E8 242: RF ICs and Systems

• This course will be a prerequisite for three advanced VLSI courses on, ICs for Wireless Communication, Phase Locked Loops/IOs and Data Conversion Systems.

• It is recommended that students take the Digital VLSI Circuits course (Prof. Thakur) and the RF Systems Course (Prof. Vinoy) before signing up for the relevant advanced courses.

E3 284: Digital VLSI Circuits

Why Analog ?

• Real-world signals are analog: continuous in amplitude, and continuous in time.

• Modern signal processing has evolved to be digital or discrete-time. Most signal processing is performed in the digital domain.

• Most analog systems perform the sensing, amplification, transmission and reception of real-world signals, before they can be processed by

digital systems.

DigitalADC DAC

Analog is everywhere!

Teardown of a Low-Cost Cellphone

http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800498758_1800001_TA_a9767cb6.HTM

Teardown of a Car Radar Detector

http://www.embeddeddesignindia.co.in/ART_8800606478_2800004_TA_503eb147_2.HTM

Roche Accu-chek Blood Glucose Monitor

http://www.semineedle.com/posting/28390?snc=0

It’s amazing what SOCs can do!

Apple iPad Teardown

Teardown of an iPod nano clone

http://www.embeddeddesignindia.co.in/ART_8800565986_2800003_TA_9c126f39.HTM