Undergraduate Course: Analogue Electronics (Project) 5 (ELEE11073)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Engineering |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Electronics |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This course will extend the student's knowledge of analogue integrated circuit design to a variety of common blocks found in mixed-signal systems.
1.To extend the student's proficiency and understanding of the design flow for a nalogue and mixed-signal circuits using industry-standard computer-aided design tools.
2.To advance design knowledge of common analogue circuits used within mixed-sign al systems.
3.To carry out a design project of an integrated circuit block from specifications to layout and verification using state-of-the-art CAD tools.
This course will prepare the student for work within a design team involving interaction between analogue and digital design engineers. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 13:00 | | | King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | 14:00 - 17:00 | | | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
10 lectures and 20 x 3hour laboratory sessions |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students should:
1. Be familiar of a variety of building blocks and architectures found in mixed-signal integrated circuits such as ADC and DACs.
2. Be able to follow a computer-aided design flow for mixed-signal integrated circuits using industry-standard design tools
3. Be able to design, layout and verify analogue sub-blocks from the specification of a simple mixed-signal system.
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Assessment Information
Assessment will be based on the following components of work:
1. Lab attendance
2. Record of design work
3. Design files (CAD data-base)
4. Design Report
5. Oral examination |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
The lecture series covers all the concepts necessary to complete the design of a cyclic analogue to digital converter in a submicron CMOS technology. The practical work of the course involves the design from specifications to layout of a 200MHz GBW fully-differential amplifier in a foundry 0.35um CMOS process. The amplifier forms the core of a 10-bit cyclic ADC covered in the lecture material. Students employ Cadence mixed-signal design tools and gain a familiarity of the complete design flow from schematic capture, analogue simulation, worst-case and yield prediction, custom layout, verification and post-layout extraction. The course is assessed on the basis of a design report (85%) and an oral design review (15%) conducted at a workstation with the design database and report available.
The lecture course synopsys is as follows: cyclic ADC operation, ADC specifications, INL, DNL, SINAD, digital error correction, differential signals, fully-differential amplifiers, common-mode feedback, cascode biasing, power-down, settling, gain, phase, output swing requirements, transistor sizing methodology, switched-capacitor circuit operation, switches, charge injection, clock feedthrough, bottom plate sampling, latched-comparators, auto-zeroed comparators, voltage reference generation, timing generation, non-overlapping clock generators, ADC system operation and simulation techniques.
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
P.E. Allen and D. R. Holberg, CMOS Analog
Circuit Design 2nd Edition, Oxford 2002,
ISBN 0-19-511 644-5
B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS
Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 2001, ISBN
0-07-118815-0
A. Hastings, The Art of Analog Layout 2nd
Edition, Prentice-Hall 2006, ISBN 0-13-
146410-8 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Analogue and mixed-signal CMOS VLSI circuit design |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Robert Henderson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5645
Email: Robert.Henderson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Sharon Mulvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 7076
Email: Sharon.Mulvey@ed.ac.uk |
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