University of California,
Santa Barbara
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
VLSI Project
Testing
ECE224B - Spring
2007
Instructor: Professor Patrick
Yue
Schedule:MW 3:00-4:30 PM (ESB 1003)
Course Information:
This class will utilize commercially available mixed-signal
ICs to elucidate how to perform bench testing to validate the performance specifications
listed in the datasheet provided by the manufacturer. In particular, the class
will focus on testing several analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.
If time permits, a fully integrated radio-frequency phase-locked
loop (PLL) IC will also be tested.
To provide the essential background for the testing assignments, the lectures
will cover the following topics in details:
(1) understanding the datasheet of a data converter IC,
(2) fundamental of sampled systems,
(3) data converter specifications,
(4) data converter architectures,
(5) testing techniques for data converters, and
(6) test board design issues and interface circuit requirements.
From this course, the students will acquire in-depth knowledge for data
converter performance specifications, design trade-off of different converter
architectures, and hands-on experience of testing off-the-shelf data converters.
- Chapter 2 - Foundamentals of Sampled Data Systems: Text, Slides
- Chapter 5 - Testing Data Conerters: Text, Slides
- Chapter 3 - Data Converter Architectures: Text, Slides
- Chapter 6 - Interfacing to Data Converters: Text, Slides
- Chapter 9 - Hardware Design Techniques: Text, Slides
Homeworks
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