DAE-IC

Design of analog electronics - analog IC design

Information

This course learns to specify and design an analog integrated circuit comprising an application-specific amplifier and/or DC reference; 11 days, lectures, practical training, home-work, assignment.

 

After the course, the participant will be able to:

- specify and design an analog integrated circuit comprising an application-specific amplifier and/or DC reference.

- specify application-specific analog integrated circuits.

- design amplifiers, level shifts and references in BiCMOS technology.

 

The course price is excluding 200 euro (excluding VAT) for a software package (‘Scientific Notebook’ and an introductory version of the circuit simulator SIMetrix) to be used during all course modules. The participant makes assignments during the course days and other days and is requested to bring a laptop to the course onto which software can be installed. The High Tech Institute can provide for a laptop that can be hired.

Intended for

Analog IC designers and technical project managers who have to manage outsourcing of IC design. Prior knowledge on matrix algebra, complex functions, transformations, stochastic modeling, network theory, and of the knowledge and skills learned through course modules DAE-Intro and DAE-AE1.

Programme

Day 1: IC processes and device modeling

- BiCMOS technology

      - Modeling of semiconductor devices  

      - Device operation and simulation models 

      - Models for hand calculations

 

Day 2: Principle of amplification

- Available power gain and biasing of active components

- Biasing techniques

      - Principle 

      - AC and DC coupling

      - Negative-feedback biasing

      - Model-based biasing

      - Auto-zero biasing

 

Day 3: CE and CS amplifier stages     

- Chopper stabilized biasing

- Available power gain

- Noise behavior

- Linearity

- Dynamic behavior

- Output drive capability

 

Day 4: Application of balancing techniques

- Differential stages

- Push-pull stages

 

Day 5: Application of negative feedback

- Balanced and unbalanced local-feedback stages

- Balanced and unbalanced model-based feedback amplifier stages

       - Current mirrors

       - Voltage mirrors

       - Variable-gain stages

 

Day 6: Design of multiple-stage amplifiers

- Overview amplifier properties and design techniques (see also DAE-AE1)

- Design of cascaded amplifiers

- Design of over-all feedback amplifiers

 

Day 7: DC References

- Design method for voltage- and current references

- Design of current references

- Design of voltage references

 

Day 8-10: The final exercise comprises the design of an application-specific amplifier in BiCMOS technology. Attention needs to be paid to the following aspects:

- Desired type of amplifier regarding the application

- Noise behavior

- Load drive capability, linearity and overdrive recovery

- Dynamic behavior and frequency stability

- Temperature stability

- Minimization of the influence of interference signals

 

Day 11: Presentation of the results of the final assignment by the participants and group discussion

Timetable

07-01-2013 09:00