Postgraduate Course: Analogue VLSI B (ELEE11043)
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 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Electronics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
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. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Analogue VLSI A (ELEE11041)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Attendance on Analogue VLSI A |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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 | VLSI circuits analogue |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Henderson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5645
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
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