ECE 483: Analog IC Design (Spring-2024)

 

Course notes:

  Date Topic Reading Notes Homework
1 01/17/24 Introduction   HO1  
2 01/22/24 Resistors 2.10.1 HO2  
3 01/24/24 Capacitors 2.10.2 HO3 HW1
4 01/29/24 MOS operation 1.5 HO4  
5 01/31/24 MOS secondary effects 1.6, 1.7 HO4 HW2
6 02/05/24 Elementary amplifier stages (I) 3.3 HO5a, HO5b  
7 02/07/24 Elementary amplifier stages (II) 3.4 HO5aHO5b HW3
8 02/12/24 Elementary amplifier stages (III) 3.5 HO5aHO5b  
9 02/14/24 Differential amplifiers (I) 3.6 HO6 HW4
10 02/19/24 Differential amplifiers (SP23) II, III, Office Hours 3.6 HO7  
11 02/21/24 Current mirrors (SP23)Office Hours 4.2 HO8 HW5
12 02/26/24 Differential amplifiers; Biasing 4.3 HO9  
13 02/28/24 Amplifiers with active loads 4.3 HO9 HW6
14 03/04/24 Review/Catch-up      
  03/06/24 Midterm I     HW7
    Break      
    Break      
15 03/18/24 OTA/OpAmp metrics 6.2 HO10  
16 03/20/24 Telescopic/Folded cascode OTAs 6.3, 6.5, 6.6 HO10  
17 03/25/24 Amplifier frequency response 7.2, 7.3 HO11  
18 03/27/24 Feedback amplifiers 8.1-8.4   HW8
19 04/01/24 Feedback amplifier stability 9.1-9.3 HO12  
20 04/03/24 Frequency compensation I 9.4   HW9
21 04/08/24 Frequency compensation II 9.4 HO13  
  04/10/24 Midterm II      
22 04/15/24 LDO I   HO14 Project
23 04/17/24 LDO II   HO15  
24 04/22/24 Device sizing methodology      
25 04/24/24 Mismatch 3.5    
26 05/01/24 Review