What is this class all about EE105 Spring 2007 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits Introduction to semiconductor devices and integrated circuits Circuit analysis and design techniques Time and frequency domain analysis PN junctions and bipolar transistors MOSFET physics and modeling Integrated passives Single stage amplifiers Differential amplifiers Introduction to feedback Frequency response of amplifiers Multistage Amps Prof Ming C Wu wu eecs 261M Cory Hall What will you learn Understanding designing and optimizing analog integrated circuits Understanding the operation of semiconductor devices 2 Practical Information Your EE 105 Week Instructor Prof Ming C Wu 261M Cory Hall 643 0808 wu eecs Office hours Mon 2 30 3 30 pm Thu 3 30 4 30 pm TAs Please see class website Web page http www inst eecs berkeley edu ee105 sp07 3 4 Class Organization Some Important Announcements 2 Lectures and 1 recitation per week 10 HW assignments 9 Labs Reports 2 Midterms 1 Final Please don t bring food drinks to 353 Cory Labs done in groups But each person should do his her own measurement and turn in individual report Midterm 1 Thursday February 22 6 30 8 00 pm room tba Midterm 2 Thursday April 5 6 30 8 00 pm room tba Final Friday May 11 12 30 3 30 pm Homework should be done individually Cheating will result in automatic Fail Grading policy Homeworks Labs Midterm 1 Midterm 2 Final 15 15 15 15 40 5 6 Class Materials The Web Sites http www inst eecs berkeley edu ee105 sp07 Textbook Behzad Razavi Fundamentals of Microelectronics Preliminary Edition Wiley Press May 2006 Reference on reserve at Bechtel Engineering Library R T Howe and C G Sodini Microelectronics An Integrated Approach 1997 P W Tuinenga SPICE A Guide to Circuit Simulation Analysis using PSpice Prentice Hall 1995 Lecture Notes will be posted on website but it is important that you read the corresponding sections in the textbook Announcements Lecture notes Webcast Assignments and solutions Lab manual Past exams earlier class web pages Many other goodies bSpace bspace berkeley edu will be used only for Lectures will be recorded and webcasted however it is not meant to replace attendance Posting grades of HW Lab Reports Chat Room 7 8 Software Getting Started HSPICE Assignment 1 Industry standard Online tutorials Assigned next Tuesday Due 1 30 Tuesday 5pm NO discussion sessions or labs this week There are free versions of WinSpice and PSPICE that you can use at home First discussion sessions in Week 2 First lab in Week 3 9 EECS 105 Course Overview 10 EECS 105 in the Grand Scheme Semiconductor physics 1 week PN Junction BJT Physics Model 1 5 weeks MOSFET Physics Model 1 week Integrated Passives R C L 1 week Circuit analysis techniques 2 weeks Single Stage Amplifiers 2 weeks Feedback and Diff Amps 1 week Example Cell Phone Freq Resp of Single Stage Amps 1 week Multistage Amps 2 5 weeks Freq Resp of Multistage Amps 1 week 11 12 The First Integrated Circuits 1958 Intel Pentium 4 Microprocessor R N Noyce Fairchild Semiconductor Jack Kilby Texas Instruments Co Founder of both Fairchild and Intel deceased 1990 Invented IC during his first year at TI Unitary Circuit made of Si Solid Circuit made of Ge 90nm CMOS technology Nobel Prize 2000 13 EECS 105 Emphasis in Analog 14 Transistors are Bricks Transistors are the building blocks bricks of the modern electronic world MOS Cap Analog Amp Digital Gate Variable Capacitor PN Junction Focus of course Understand device physics Build analog circuits 14 bit analog to digital converter Y Chiu IEEE Int l Solid State Circuits Conference 2004 Learn electronic prototyping and measurement 15 Learn simulations tools such as SPICE 16 Digital or Analog SPICE 3 1 2 stimulus 0 Example netlist Q1 1 2 0 npnmod R1 1 3 1k Vdd 3 0 3v tran 1u 100u SPICE netlist response SPICE Simulation Program with IC Emphasis Invented at Berkeley released in 1972 DC Find the DC operating point of a circuit X1 t is operating at 100Mb s and X2 t is operating at 1Gb s A digital signal operating at very high frequency is very analog TRAN Solve the transient response of a circuit solve a system of generally non linear ordinary differential equations via adaptive time step solver AC Find steady state response of circuit to a sinusoidal excitation 17 BSIM Transistors are complicated Accurate sim requires 2D or 3D numerical sim TCAD to solve coupled PDEs quantum effects electromagnetics etc This is slow a circuit with one transistor will take hours to simulation How do you simulate large circuits 100s 1000s of transistors Use compact models In EECS 105 we will derive the so called level 1 model for a MOSFET The BSIM family of models are the industry standard models for circuit simulation of advanced process transistors BSIM Berkeley Short Channel IGFET Model 19 18
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