High Speed Bipolar Mixed Signal and Communication IC design

Fall quarter, 4 hrs

Instructor: Rodwell

Secondary Reading Text :
Grey and Meyer: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Any edition
or Microelectronic Circuit Design, Any edition, R.C. Jaeger and T.N. Blalock
These texts are for your general background reading regarding transistor-level circuit design. Any high-quality transistor design text is likely to suffice for this purpose; the material specific to the course is covered in adequate detail in the online course notes. Texts can be purchased online from Amazon and other similar services.

Level: both Graduate and Senior-level Undergraduate

Description: Transistor and passive component models. High frequency broadband amplifier design. High speed digital IC design at the transistor level. Circuit noise, signal/noise rations, digital communication receiver sensitivity. Latched comparator design. Nyquist and oversampled analog-digital and digital-analog converters. Direct digital frequency synthesis. Fiber optic and microwave digital transceivers.

Topics:

Transistor models, characteristics, figures of merit

transmission-lines, terminations, reflections

High speed broadband amplifier design:

Transfer functions, time constants methods
gain bandwidth limits

tuning networks for gain peaking / broadbanding

Darlington and ft-doubler gain stages

transimpedance-transconductance ("Cherry Hooper") stages

gain control

distributed amplifiers

High speed digital IC design at the transistor level

ECL and CML gate designs, DC design

circuit structures for and / or / xor / latches …

large-signal delay analysis, design for high speed

transmission line interconnects, signal distribution

power-delay relationships

Amplifier noise / sensitivity

review of probability, random variables, physics of random processes

noise models of transistors and passive elements

input referred noise voltage, noise current, noise power, noise temperature…
signal/noise ratio relationships in analog and digital communications

Mixed-Signal ICs:

latched comparator design, metastability, hysteresis

Flash ADCs, pipelined and folding ADCs

delta sigma ADCs at architecture, system, circuit levels

oversampled and parallel DACs

brief overview of direct digital frequency synthesis

Fiber optic transceivers

transmitter and receiver architectures

circuit blocks: front-end, linear channel, AGC loop, timing recovery

design at the circuit and system level.

sensitivity analysis at the level of Smith and Personik