MICROELECTRONICS

Learning Objectives

• MICROELECTRONICS MOD. A

  The course is aimed to develop advanced design skills in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits

• Microelectronics mod. B

  The course aims to provide students of the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering the tools necessary for the design and the experimental verification of analog/digital integrated and discrete circuits.

Detailed Course Content

• MICROELECTRONICS MOD. A
  1. From Electronics to Micro and Nano electronics. VLSI technologies. Asics and design steps.
  2. Operational amplifiers and applications: instrumentation amplifier, logarithmic amplifier. Effect of finite gain and bandwidth. Noise and distortion. Op Amps architectures. Output stages. The uA741. 3. Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs). Miller OTAs (class A and AB). Folded Cascode OTA. Telescopic OTA etc. Low voltage solutions. Multistage OTAs and frequency compesnation schemes. Fully differential architectures and common mode control schemes.
  3. Comparators. Autozeroed comparators Schmitt Triggers.
  4. Filters. Active and passive filters, continuous time and discrete time solutions. First order and second order filters implmented in RLC, Active-RC, Switched-Capacitor, Gm-C and MOSFET-C approaches. Biqudratic cells (Thow-Thomas, Sallen-Key, Ackerberg-Mossberg, Delyannis-Friend). High-order filters. Gyrators. Automatic tuning for Gm-C filters.
  5. A/D e D/A converters. Performance and design specifications. Sample and Hold circuits. A/D examples: full flash, two step flash, time interleaved, successive approximation, ramp. D/A examples: current-steering (binary, thermometric, segmented), resistor-string, capacitor-string, ramp.
  6. Computer Aided Design Tools for microelectronics.
• Microelectronics mod. B
  1. LTSpice simulator
  2. Cadence CAE design environment
  3. Time and frequency experimental characterization of elementary circuits
  4. Design and experimental test of active and passive I- and II-order filters
  5. Layout of integrated circuits
  6. Design of PCB with Eagle CAD/CAE software

Textbook Information

• MICROELECTRONICS MOD. A

  1. D. Johns, K. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Wiley&Sons, 1997.
  2. Schaumann, Van Valkemburg, Design of Analog Filters, Oxford UniversityPress, 2001.
  3. R. Van De Plassche, Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

• Microelectronics mod. B

  K.C. Smith, "KC's Problems and Solutions for Microelectronic Circuits", fourth edition, Oxford University Press, 1998.