Office Hours: Tuesdays 2pm to 3pm and Wednesdays 1.30pm to 2.30pm or make an appointment by email.

Teaching Assistant: Anuranjan Jha, CEPSR 422, 212-854-4685, anu AT cisl.columbia.edu

Prerequisite:

• ELEN E4312 (4305).
• Qualified student must have a very good understanding of circuit analysis, electronics, electronic devices and models, and analog circuit design.
• Students need to be familiar with circuit simulation (Hspice) and CAD tools (Cadence design environment).
• This class will cover advanced topics in analog integrated circuit design. This class should not be your fist analog design class.
• A detailed list of topics is available here. Please read. If you are in doubt that you have the necessary preparation for this course, please contact me!

Course Topics

Please take a look at the Book Reading section for a detailed topic list.

• Main focus will be on CMOS design.
• MOS operation (weak, moderate, strong inversion),
• Basic transistor stages with low voltage supplies.
• IC single ended and fully differential operational amplifier analysis and design: telescopic, folded cascode, two-stage OTA, common-mode feedback),
• Switched capacitor 2x amplifier: time-domain settling; switch design and non-idealities.
• Stability and frequency compensation techniques (differential & common mode),
• Noise in circuits; low-noise design,
• Device Mismatch and its impact on circuit performance,
• Temperature- and supply-independent biasing.

Design tools

Design Tools Computer-aided analysis techniques are extensively used. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

Remote Students

Remote students need the ability to remotely run the design tools on our VLSI/CISL Teaching machines in Mudd 12th floor. This involves setting up an ssh connection to the machines and running an Xserver on your system. Instructions are at http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/x11.html

Make sure your are confident you have a sufficiently fast internet connection (broadband). Make sure you understand the use of ssh & X11 before you register for this course as a remote student.

We will not be able to help you setting up that connection since it is too specific to your particular computing setup and internet connection.

Textbook:

There will be no formal textbook but a combination of instructor's notes and technical papers.

Reference Texts on the subject:

Several copies of these books will be on reserve in the Engineering Library (Mudd 4th floor).

• Y. Tsividis: "Mixed Analog Digital VLSI Devices and Technology (An introduction)", World Scientific, New Jersey, 2002.
• Gray, Hurst, Lewis, and Meyer: "Analysis and design of Analog Integrated Circuits", 4th Edition, John Wiley and Sons.
• K. R. Laker, W.M.C. Sansen, "Design of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems", McGraw-Hill, January 1994
• Behzad Razavi, "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits", McGraw-Hill,August 2000.
• David Johns, Ken Martin, "Analog Integrated Circuit Design", John Wiley & Sons, November 1996.

Grading:
 Homework   10%
 Design Project  35%
 Midterm (written) 20%
 Final (written) 35%