Fall 2007: High Speed Bipolar Mixed Signal
and Communication IC design 

(this web page is at http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/rodwell/Classes/ECE594A/ECE594A.htm)

Co: listed as ECE145C (undergrad) and ECE218c (graduate)

NOTE: 145C does not require 145AB as prerequisites.

 

 

Note: upload site for design project files: Submit Design Project


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Recitation sessions with the TAs are on Fridays 4-6 PM each week. In some weeks Rodwell will give a makep lecture or design review in this time. As of Wed. Oct 10, the room is to be determined. Please check back.

 

Instructor.. 1

Lectures & Discussion Sections. 1

Extra Lectures (makeup for travel): 2

Lab Hours and Design Projects. 2

Syllabus (click here). 2

Exams & other important dates. 2

Teaching Assistants. 2

Textbook.. 2

Notes. 3

CAD Resources. 3

Problem sets: class year 2007. 4

Homework solutions. 4

Exam Solutions. 4

Crib Sheets (from undergrad circuits classes). 4

Technical References. 5

 

Instructor

Prof. Mark Rodwell

Office hours: Mondays 10-11 AM, Thursdays 10-11 AM, ESB 2205F.

Lectures & Discussion Sections

Main Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays 1200Noon-150 PM, PHELPS 1431
Weekly discussion session with TAs: Recitation sessions with the TAs are on Fridays 4-6 PM each week. In some weeks Rodwell will give a makeup lecture or design review in this time. As of Wed. Oct 10, the room is to be determined. Please check back.

Extra Lectures (makeup for travel):

There will be dates during the term which I must travel. There will always be a substitute lecturer on those days, but I will also schedule make-up lectures to re-cover the material to ensure consistent coverage.  

Date

Time

Location

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lab Hours and Design Projects

The class design content will be in the form of large design projects (circuit simulation and mask layout) with a series of incremental due dates. You do not need to attend the lab hours posted in the Schedule of Classes. We will use some of these hours to schedule a weekly review session with the teaching assistants.

Syllabus (click here)

Exams & other important dates

Mid-term Exam: Monday November 5,  1200Noon-150 PM, PHELPS 1431
Dead week: December 2-7
Last Lecture: December 5
Final Exam: Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 12 - 3 p.m.
(from http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2008.htm , http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/finals-fall-2007.htm )

 

Teaching Assistants

Name

Email address

Office Hours

Ashfaque Uddin

ashfaque@ece.ucsb.edu

Friday 11AM-noon Phelps 1435

 Jefy Jayamon

jefy@ece.ucsb.edu

Weds. 11AM-noon Phelps 1435

 

 

Textbook

The main text for the class is the online lecture notes- these are available via the links below. Printed copies of the notes will be available at the Alternative Copy Shop

 

You will also need to have a quality analog IC design text. If you don't have one, recommended texts would include:

Grey and Meyer: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Any edition

or Microelectronic Circuit Design, 2nd edition or 3rd edition, R.C. Jaeger and T.N. Blalock

These can be purchased online from many vendors. 

 

I will be also posting citations to key IEEE Journal Papers.

 

Notes

Notes set one: Transistor Models

Notes set two: Transmission-Line Models

Notes set three: review of baseband and high frequency circuit analysis 

Notes set 4: Amplifiers

Notes set 5: More amplifiers

Notes set 6: ECL and CML logic

Notes Set 7: Math of Noise

Notes Set 8: Device Noise Models

Notes Set 9: Circuit Noise Calculations

Notes sets 9-13 (Noise, optical fiber receivers, op-amps, ADCs & DACs) are in revision. They will be posted on-line (and subsequently made available via the Alterative copy shop) later in the term.

CAD Resources

Downloadable (zapped) ADS design directory: ADS_for_class.zap
Please use these HBT model parameters: 120_nm_model_parameters.pdf
Downloadable (zapped) ADS mask layout directory: ECE218C_divider.zap

These resources are to be used with the Agilent ADS microwave IC design environment. Access to ADS can be either through accounts in the ECI lab, or via the microwave teaching lab on the 5th Floor of Harold Frank Hall. If you are member of a research group in the ECE dept, you may well also have access to ADS via your group's PCs or Workstations---ask your Professor.

 

Problem sets: class year 2007

HW#1: Basic high frequency transistor circuit: due October 8: 5PM, in HW box. :
 assignment1.pdf.  

HW#2:  Introductory exercise in running ADS:  due October 15: 5PM, in HW box. :
assignment2.pdf

HW#3: Exercises on High Frequency Analysis and MOTC.  due October 22, 5 PM, in HW box
assignment3.pdf

HW#4: Exercises on high frequency amplifier analysis by MOTC. due October 29, 5 PM, in HW box
assignment4.pdf

HW#5  Problem set on digital gate delay due November 12, 5 PM, in HW box(to be posted)
assignment5.pdf

HW#7 Design project
(to be posted) 
Final full simulations and mask layouts. Due Dec 7.
Please use these HBT model parameters: 120_nm_model_parameters.pdf
Some background material on optical fiber receivers: fiber_optic_systems.pdf
Submit Design Project

 

Homework solutions

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/courses/ECE145/145C_F07Rodwell/145C_F07soln.html

Exam Solutions

Midterm2002.pdf  midterm2003.pdf final_2002.pdf

 

Crib Sheets (from undergrad circuits classes)

amplifiers.pdf

HF crib sheet.pdf

Technical References

Paper on Cherry Hooper Amplifiers cherry_hooper_paper.pdf

Papers on distributed (traveling wave) amplifiers: agarwal_mmt_twa_99.pdf  Pusl_.PPT

reference on gate delay for ms latches: rodwell_ijhses_final.pdf