ESE 517 : Integrated Electronic Devices and Circuits II

Spring 2008

 


 

This is an advance, project oriented, integrated circuit design class. The various practical aspects of analog and mixed-signal circuit design, like structured design, scalability, parallelism, low-power consumption, and robustness to process variations, will be covered. Topics considered will include design of digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital data converters, delta-sigma modulation, filters, imagers, bioinstrumentation and adaptive neural computation.


Classes: TuTh, 5:20-6:40pm, in Light Eng. 258.

Office hours: TuTh 11:00am-1:00pm, or by appointment.

Course Syllabus

Lecture Notes:

  1. Data converters
  2. Nyquist rate analog-to-digital converters
  3. Nyquist rate digital-to-analog converters
  4. Smart sensors
  5. VLSI imagers
  6. Analog arithmetic, subthreshold

Reference Papers:

Data converters:

Flash ADC

Pipeline ADC

Algorithmic ADC

Successive approximation ADC

Pipeline ADC 2

Project:

Useful Links:

Cadence Tutorial

NCSU Toolkit Cadence tutorial

MOSIS Scalable CMOS design rules


Last updated 02/15/2007