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Undergraduate Course: Analogue Electronics (Project) 4 (ELEE10021)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaElectronics Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe aim of this module is to give students more hands-on experience of analogue design. It is a half-way house between discrete component design and fully custom integrated circuit design. Working with real hardware, the only way to learn about real analogue problems, will not be easy, and the practical work is likely to be very testing. However, exposure to the real problems that will be presented by using the custom chip designed specifically for this course will take the students? understanding of analogue work to a new level.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Electronic Engineering 3 (ELEE09007) AND Microelectronics 3 (ELEE09011)
Co-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students also take Analogue Electronics (Circuits) 4 (ELEE10020)
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Analogue VLSI A (ELEE11041)
Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLectureClassroom 10, Alrick Building1-11 11:10 - 12:00
King's BuildingsLaboratory1-11 10:00 - 13:00
King's BuildingsLectureClassroom 10, Alrick Building18-29 11:10 - 12:00
King's BuildingsLaboratoryTLD18-29 09:00 - 12:00
First Class Week 1, Monday, 11:10 - 12:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Classroom 10, Alrick Building
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of the basic analogue building blocks.
Ability to perform detailed experiments and characterisation work on analogue circuits.
Ability to design and simulate operational amplifiers with a moderate performance.
Assessment Information
This module will be assessed by continuous assessment of practical lab work and by coursework assignments.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Lectures.

Lectures exist primarily to support the practical work. Therefore, the remaining time, in which new material is introduced, is not always accurately split between lecture slots.

L1 Introduction and Overview
L2 Description of the Cadence suite $ú on-line example
L3 Description of hardware
L4 Electromigration and its effects
L5 First order MOS models, their limitations, and what can still be gained from using them. Interpretation of standard IC process rules for use in an analogue environment.
L6 Reminder of small-signal analysis as applied to MOS circuits. Important features of various standard analogue circuits that can be derived from small-signal and first-order models
L7-9 Standard components, discrete and integrated, and their limitations
L10 Revision
L11-20 Development of an on-chip band-gap reference, starting from a datasheet right through to fully simulated IC layout (including back-annotated parasitics and non-idealities).

Laboratories

The course is primarily practical: 20 labs of 3 hours assessed lab work each. Assignments are issued fortnightly
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list CMOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2nd Edition, Allen and Holberg, (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) 2002, ISBN: 9780195116441.

Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Behzad Razavi, (McGraw-Hill Science Engineering) 2000, ISBN: 9780072380323.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Martin Reekie
Tel: (0131 6)50 5563
Email: H.M.Reekie@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Laura Smith
Tel: (0131 6)50 5690
Email: laura.smith@ed.ac.uk
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