Undergraduate Course: Analogue Circuits and Digital System Design 3 (ELEE09033)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course aims to build on the material presented in second year and to give the students an intuitive feel for the basic building blocks of analogue and digital circuits.
Analogue
Analysis and design of discrete and integrated bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and CMOS based analogue circuits.
Digital
To enhance students understanding and design skills of combinational and sequential digital circuit design techniques. To introduce the concepts and techniques for datapath and FSM design.
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| Course description |
Analogue
BJT Review
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Current sources and sinks
1.3 Small signal circuit models. Worked examples on small signal ac gain
1.4 Signal coupling, external capacitors
1.5 Hybrid pi model, Miller effect, Cascode
2.1 MOS: Introduction And Basic Operation
2.2 MOS Small signal model
2.3 First Circuits: source follower
2.4 MOS Switch
2.5 Current sinks and current mirrors
2.6 Cascode current mirrors
2.7 Inverting amplifiers
2.8 Cascode amplifiers
2.9 Differential circuits, Worked examples
Digital
Introduction to Digital System Design
Logic Synthesis
Deep Sub Micron (DSM) Issues
Datapaths
Binary arithmetic, Number representation and coding 2's complement representation, Floating point representation, ANSI/IEEE Floating Point Standard 754-1985, Binary Coded Decimal (BCD), Grey Code.
Adders
Full adder, Ripple - carry adder, Carry-bypass adder, Carry-select adder, Square root carry-select adder, Carry-lookahead adder.
Multipliers
Binary multiplication, Array multiplier, Carry-save multiplier, Tree multipliers, Wallace and Dada Tree multipliers.
Sequential Circuits
Introduction to sequential circuits, Definition of a sequential circuit, Definition of a synchronous circuit, asynchronous R-S flip-flop, State tables, master-slave J-K flip-flop, D and T type flip-flops, Setup and hold times.
Basic Sequential Circuits -Counters.
State Machines
Finite State Machines (FSMs), Moore and Mealy machines, State diagrams, ASM charts, Conventions for ASM charts, Synthesis from an ASM chart, Drawing timing diagrams from ASM charts.
Reduction of State Tables
Sequential design implementations, Introduction to different implementation styles, Programmable and non-programmable implementations, PLAs and FPGAs, Design of sequential networks using ROMs and
PLAs, Design of sequential networks using sequential PLAs.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Knowledge of basic analogue and digital circuit theory. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 38,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
130 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
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| Feedback |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 3:00 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and be able to design BJT amplifier circuits .
- Know the MOS tansistor model, linear and saturation regions, dc equations and MOS capacitances and be able to design simple MOS current mirrors, simple and cascode inverter circuits, source follower circuits and (some years only) differential amplifier circuits.
- Understand the concept of synthesis and modern digital circuit design using hardware description languages (HDL).
- Understand basic datapath structures, including adder and multiplier architectures.
- Understand the design of combinational and sequential logic systems including finite state machines and state reduction techniques.
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Reading List
P E Allen and D G Holmberg, 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
Bogart et al Electronic Devices & Circuits 6th Edition, Pub Prentice Hall
DA Neamen, Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design. McGraw-Hill, 2001 ISBM 0-07-118176-8
Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, J.M. Rabaey, Prentice Hall (1996), ISBN 0 13 1786091
Digital Design (Verilog): An Embedded Systems Approach Using Verilog (26 Oct 2007)by Peter Ashenden
FSM based Digital Design using Verilog HDL by Peter Minns and Ian Elliot. Pub: Wiley (2008) ISBN:978-0470-06070-4
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Analogue circuits,CMOS,bipolar,transistor,digital circuits,combinational logic,adder,FSM,datapath |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alister Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: |
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