ECE 4530

Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Overview of devices available to analog integrated-circuit designers in modern CMOS and BiCMOS processes: resistors, capacitors, MOS transistors, and bipolar transistors. Basic building blocks for linear analog integrated circuits: single-stage amplifiers, current mirrors, and differential pairs. Transistor-level design of linear analog integrated circuits, such as operational amplifiers and operational transconductance amplifiers. Layout techniques for analog integrated circuits. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on design-oriented analysis techniques.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECE 3150.

Comments Culminating design experience (CDE) course.

• Develop an understanding of device and circuit theory sufficient to estimate the low and high frequency behavior of linear circuits, including noise.
• Develop an intuition for analog circuit behavior in both linear and nonlinear operation.
• Be able to calculate transfer functions and Bode plots and use them to estimate the stability of an electronic system.
• Develop an ability to parse large circuits and systems into smaller, analyzable subunits, analyze them, and then apply the understanding gained from that process to analyze the system as a whole, including for noise and variation.
• Implement a circuit or subsystem at the transistor level to solve an open-ended problem and effectively communicate the constraints and critical aspects of that system.

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