UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ECE CS 5720 6720 Analog Integrated Circuit Design Spring 2008 Tuesday Thursday 9 10 10 30 am WEB 105 Instructor Prof Cameron Charles Office 4108 MEB Office Hours Wednesday 2 00 3 00 pm Thursday 10 30 am 12 00 noon or by appointment Phone 587 9497 Email ccharles at ece utah edu Prerequisites ECE 3110 or equivalent see below Texts David A Johns and Ken Martin Analog Integrated Circuit Design Wiley 1997 Supplemental notes at Copy Center in Union Building Web Page http www ece utah edu ccharles ece5720 TA Ondrej Novak Email onovak at eng utah edu Office MEB 2270 Office hours Tuesday 1 00 pm 2 30 pm Friday 10 00 am 11 30 am General Description This class will cover the design and implementation of modern analog integrated circuits VLSI in CMOS technology We will cover aspects of circuit design from single transistor operation to complex amplifiers and data converters The Cadence CAD tool suite will be used for mask level layout schematic entry verification and simulation While CAD tools will be used extensively the course will emphasize a basic understanding of circuit operation through analytical means The course will follow chapters from the textbook Analog Integrated Circuit Design and many homework problems will be assigned from this book However much supplementary material will be presented in lectures so it is essential that you attend class regularly Prerequisite Knowledge It is assumed that students taking this class understand basic time domain and frequencydomain linear circuit analysis It is assumed that they are somewhat familiar with the basic structure of a MOSFET and have analyzed circuits involving transistors at some point in their education It is assumed that each student has some experience with circuit simulation Some homework problems will require the use of MATLAB If you have never used MATLAB before there are introductory tutorials available on the web If you are an undergraduate taking this class you must have taken ECE 3110 or its equivalent Homework CAD Assignments There will be a number of homework assignments in this course involving written problems MATLAB assignments and or CAD assignments CAD work will be performed in the CADE lab All problem sets will be collected and graded Homework assignments are due by 6 00 PM on the specified date in the class locker on the 3rd floor of MEB Homework assignments turned in up to 24 hours late will be penalized 10 i e multiply your score by 0 9 Assignments turned in more than 24 hours late will not be accepted Your lowest homework grade will be dropped Solutions will be posted after the problems are due Homework problems will be graded on a five point scale from 0 5 with credit being assigned as follows Answer right wrong Method right right arithmetic mistake close not close no attempt Score 5 4 3 1 0 Collaboration policy While you are allowed to work with other students on the homework assignments everything you turn in should be your own work Dividing up the work between classmates and then sharing answers is considered cheating Discussing possible solutions to problems together is not cheating Copying answers from a solutions manual is considered cheating Sharing files in CAD assignments is not permitted but discussing assignments together in the CADE lab is encouraged Exams There will be one 1 5 hour midterm exam given during class in March No exam will be given during finals week The exam will count 30 towards your final grade The exam will cover material discussed in lectures as well as material from the sections of the book covered in reading assignments and homework assignments The exam may also cover questions related to the CAD tools used in layout and simulation assignments Design Projects After students have reached a basic proficiency with the CAD tools and have a good understanding of circuit design techniques several 2 3 mini design projects will be assigned Each miniproject will involve circuit design and simulation and some layout and verification The final design project will require students to design simulate layout and verify an analog or mixed signal integrated circuit of moderate complexity Projects may be submitted for fabrication at the end of the class if desired If a design is submitted it may be tested in the fall semester for one credit ECE 6722 Analog IC Testing Additional Assignments for 6720 Those students enrolled in the 6000 level course will have two additional assignments two written reports on journal articles Journal articles from the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits and other journals will be assigned to each student A short written report summarizing the article will be turned in This will expose students to current research in analog VLSI design Also the final design project must be larger in scope than the 5720 projects Grading Final class grades will be curved That is there is no numerical cutoff for various letter grades From experience with previous years 90 100 usually corresponds to a grade of A or A and 8089 usually corresponds to a grade between B and B etc Grades for students enrolled in the 5000 level course will be calculated separately from students enrolled in the 6000 level course Following is a breakdown of how grades will be calculated Midterm Homework CAD Assignments Mini Design Projects Written Reports Final Design Project ECE CS 5720 30 15 15 20 not required 20 ECE CS 6720 30 15 10 20 5 20 Required Text David A Johns and Ken Martin Analog Integrated Circuit Design Wiley 1997 Required text for this class Reading assignments and many homework assignments will come from this book Also purchase the Supplemental Notes at the Copy Center in the Union Building Optional Reading Behzad Razavi Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits McGraw Hill 2001 Another good textbook with emphasis on CMOS circuits Phillip E Allen and Douglas R Holberg CMOS Analog Circuit Design 2nd edition Oxford University Press 2002 Another good textbook with emphasis on CMOS circuits in depth circuit analysis Paul R Gray and Robert G Meyer Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits 3rd edition Wiley 1993 Older book emphasis is on bipolar transistor circuits but also contains CMOS circuits A 4th edition has just been released Yannis Tsividis Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor 2nd edition McGraw Hill 1999 Detailed explanation of MOS transistor behavior links physics to device models