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EE 476: Analog Integrated Circuits

Catalog Information
Course Number: 
476
Credits: 
3
Offered: 
Fall
Pre-Requisites
EE 311: Electronics
EE 351: Distributed Parameter Systems
EE 489: Introduction to Control Systems

(or corequisite)
Basic circuit analysis, elementary electronics, pn junction and transistor characteristics, large- and small-signal analyses, SPICE usage.

Dependent Courses: 
Class Information
Structure: 

Three 50-minute lectures per week. No labs. Three one-hour exams, and a two hour final. An operational amplifier design project and frequent homework assignments.

Topics: 
  • Introduction to mixed analog/digital microelectronics. (1 hour)
  • Operation of MOS transistors including large- and small-signal modeling. (7 hours)
  • Design of basic analog circuit building blocks using MOS transistors: simple amplifiers, differential pairs, current sources. (11 hours)
  • Design of MOS operational amplifiers with emphasis on large-signal characteristics, analysis of open loop gain, frequency response. (6 hours)
  • Frequency response of amplifiers. (5 hours)
  • Feedback amplifiers, stability, and compensation. (10 hours)
Requirements
Textbooks/References: 

CMOS Analog Circuit Design, P. E. Allen and D. R. Holberg, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2002, ISBN 0-19-511644-5.

Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 1999, ISBN 0-07-237371-0.

Microelectronic Circuits, A. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Oxford University Press, Fifth Edition, 2004, ISBN 0-19-514251-9.

Professor/Coordinator: 
George LaRue
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