ECE 581 - Advanced Analog IC Design

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
B LEC 1500 - 1620 T R   241 Everitt Lab  Yun Chiu

Web Page http://courses.ece.illinois.edu/ece581
Official Description Advanced topics in modern analog IC design. Emphasis on CMOS building blocks and circuit techniques as a result of fabrication technology advancement. Major topics include: noise in linear analog circuits; linear feedback theory and stability; harmonic distortion in weakly nonlinear circuits; switched-capacitor circuit technique and realization; Nyquist-rate and oversampled data converters. Extensive computer simulations required in both homework and final project. Prerequisite: ECE 410 and ECE 483.
Hours 4 hours.
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 410
Credit in ECE 483
Course Directors
Notes Grading: Homework, 15%; Midterm, 20%; Term Project, 30%; Project Presentation, 5%; Final Exam,30%
Topics

Noise in linear analog circuits                                                               
Linear feedback theory and stability                                                     
Harmonic distortion in weakly nonlinear circuits                                    
Nyquist-rate data converters                                                                

  • Flash A/D                                                                                
  • Integrating A/D                                                                        
  • Algorithmic A/D                                                                      
  • Successive-approximation A/D                                    
  • Folding-and-interpolating A/D                                                  
  • Subranging A/D                                                           

Pipeline A/D                                                                

  • Interleaved A/D arrays                                     

Oversampled data converters                                                               

  • First-order sigma-delta modulator                                
  • Digital decimation filter                                     
  • Higher-order modulator                                               
  • Multi-bit sigma-delta A/D                                            
  • Continuous-time sigma-delta A/D                                 

Bandpass sigma-delta A/D                                           
Precision techniques
Lab Software Matlab and Spectre RF simulators are required for the homework and project.
Texts Y. Chiu, Analysis and Design of Pipeline Analog-to-digital Converters, Springer, 2007.

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

The text will be supplemented with notes, slides, and research papers from the instructor.