Advanced Integrated Circuits

Aim

This course is intended to provide knowledge and experience in designing advanced integrated circuits for system-on-chip applications using microscale CMOS technologies. Additionally, it covers the challenges and effects that arise due to mismatch, noise and other non-idealities. After the course, students should have the following knowledge and skills:

• Understand advanced CMOS integrated circuit design challenges and possibilities.
• Be able to analyze advanced integrated circuits
• Have in-depth knowledge and skill in analysis, design, and evaluation of integrated circuits such as advanced operational amplifiers, reference generators, switched-capacitor circuits, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters and other versatile CMOS building blocks.
• Have skill and experience in using professional circuit simulators for design and evaluation of integrated circuits in presence of noise as well as process, voltage, and temperature variations.

Content

The course will focus on these topics:

• Advanced Operational Amplifiers (OpAmps): Exploring different types of single-ended and fully differential OpAmps, common-mode feedback techniques, output stages, and the design flow of advanced operational amplifiers.
• Switched-Capacitor Circuits: Introducing switched-capacitor (SC) circuits, focusing on their fundamental principles and applications in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs), covering sampling switches, SC amplifiers with various topologies, and SC integrators.
• Digital–Analog and Analog–Digital Converters (DACs and ADCs): Exploring the fundamentals of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, their components, design, performance enhancements, and classification, focusing on CMOS-compatible implementations.
• Reference Generators: Covering the design of reference generators in CMOS technology, including supply- and temperature-independent references, offset voltage effects, and constant-Gm biasing.