ECE 598YC: Advanced Topics IN Analog IC Design

Fall 2006

 

Announcement  |  Course Info  |  CAD Tools  |  Homework  |  Exams  |  Term Project  |  Lecture Notes

 

 

Announcement

 

 

 

 

▪   Final exam solution is posted. Please stop by TA’s office to pick up your exam sheet and your project report. Happy winter holiday.

▪  Sample final exam and its solution are posted. Good luck on the final exams.

▪  For all the resistors used in the Flash ADC, please add the parasitic capacitors.

▪  The spectre model equivalent to the hspice model is posted. If you need in the project, you may use it.

▪  PS5 and PS6 are posted.

▪  Solutions for PS3 are posted.

▪  Final project is posted.

▪  Please stop by Wenbo’s office to pick up your midterm exam sheet. The grade statistics is posted.

▪  PS4 is posted and due on Nov. 9th.

▪  PS3 is posted and due on Nov. 2nd.

▪  The solutions for sample exams are posted.

▪  The solution for PS2 is posted.

▪  The solution for PS1 is posted.

▪  Sample exams are posted.

▪  PS2 is assigned. Due date is Oct. 26th 2006.

▪  Return ratio slides and SPICE files are posted.

▪  Reading assignments are posted.

▪  PS1 is assigned. Due date is Sep. 28th 2006.

▪  The textbooks are reserved at Grainger Engineering Library.

▪  The TA’s OH is changed to Mon. 3-5pm.

▪  (8/28) Our new mtg time and classroom for 598 YC are 3:30-4:50pm TR, 1105 Siebel Center.

▪  (8/28) Starting 8/29, Tue., the class will meet at 3:30-4:50pm, 1105 Siebel Center.

▪  (8/28) Course website is up and running. All course-related materials will be posted here.

 

 

 

Course Info

 

 

 

 

This course covers the advanced analog-digital interface circuits in modern VLSI digital communication systems. The course will investigate noise in linear circuits, linear feedback, harmonic distortion in weakly nonlinear circuits, switched-capacitor circuits, Nyquist-rate data converters, and over-sampled data converters.

As the major advancement in this field was developed using CMOS technology in the past decade, the course

will focus on CMOS building blocks and circuit techniques that implement these interface functions. Extensive computer simulations are required in both the homework and the final project. Course syllabus

Instructor: Yun Chiu, CSL 412, chiu@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu. OH: Wed. 2-3pm in CSL-412.

TA: Wenbo Liu, CSL 422, wliu8@uiuc.edu. OH: Mon. 3-5pm in CSL-422.

Prerequisites: ECE483 (G&M), ECE410 (O&S).

Grading:

 

·         UIUC

·         ECE

·         EWS

·         CSL

·         Library

·         Google

·         IE3Xplore

 

 

 

▪  Homework:

15%

Biweekly, no credit for late homework

 

 

 

▪  Midterm:

20%

In class, Oct. 19th, Thru.

 

▪  Term Project:

30%

 

 

▪  Term Project: 

 5%

 

 

▪  Final Exam:

30%

7:00-10:00 PM, Wednesday, December 13

 

Grading Policy: No similar homework, design projects, or exams will be given credit.

 

 

 

Textbook

 

 

 

 

No textbook required. But the following reference texts will be reserved in the Grainger Engineering library.

 

 

 

▪  Gregorian et al., Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing, Wiley, 1986.

 

 

▪  Razavi, Principles of Data Conversion System Design, IEEE Press, 1995.

▪  van de Plassche, CMOS Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters, Kluwer, 2003.

▪  Norsworthy et al., Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation, Wiley, 1996.

▪  Gray, et al., Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits (4th Ed.), Wiley, 2001.

 

CAD Tools

 

 

 

 

▪  MATLAB, Simulink

Mixed-domain behavioral modeling, analog/digital filter synthesis, and etc.

▪  Spectre RF

SPICE-type analyses: .dc, .ac, .xf, .noise, .tran, and etc.

Additional capabilities: pss, pac, pxf, pnoise, pdisto to analyze large-signal nonlinear circuits (e.g., switched-apacitor circuits, RF circuits).

▪  awd, ocean, icfb, msfb, icde, icms, and etc.

Cadence GUI suite for design entry, layout, waveform display, and etc.

Helpful Links

▪  Affirma Spectre RF Simulator User Guide (v446)

▪  Affirma Spectre RF Simulator Theory (v446)

▪  HSPICE Manual

▪  Berkeley SPICE User's Guide

Class account

EWS class accounts available: http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/.

EWS Manager: manager@ews.uiuc.edu.

 

 

 

Homework

 

 

 

 

PS1, 0.25um model

      SOL1, hspice deck, Problem 3

PS2 (G&M 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.15, 8.25, 8.26, 8.33), models

      SOL2

PS3, models

      SOL3, hspice deck

PS4

      SOL4

PS5

      SOL5

PS6

      SOL6

 

 

 

Exams

 

 

 

 

 
Midterm is scheduled for 10/19, Th. (in two weeks), in class. Midterm is open-book, open-notes, calculators
allowed. Midterm coverage is up to the last lecture before midterm. 
598 Midterm              Solution
 
483 Final                    Solution
 
Grade Statistics        Solution
 
Sample Final Exam   Solution
 
Final Exam Solution

 

 

 

Term Project

 

 

 

 

    Project Description    Model File    Spectre Model    Parasitic capacitance

 

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

 

 

 

Lecture1                  Return Ratio (SPICE)    Switch Capacitor        ADC Review     

ADC Architecture   Flash_ADC                    Comparator                Flash Techniques

Sample/Hold           Algorithmic                     SAR                             Integrating

Subranging            Sigma_Delta                   DAC

 

 

           

Reading Assignments

 

 

 

 

    Thermal Noise of Two-Stage Miller OTA

Thermal Noise of Cascode OTA

    Single-loop Feedback Analysis (Part I): Return Ratio (RR)

    Single-loop Feedback Analysis (Part II): Loopgain

    A Comparison of Two Approaches to Feedback Circuits Analysis

    Exact Simulation of Feedback Circuit Parameters

Determination of Stability Using Return Ratios in Balanced Fully Differential Feedback Circuits

Single Tone, Two Tone and Three Tone Test