Postgraduate Course: Analogue VLSI B (ELEE11043)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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 analogue and mixed-signal circuits using industry-standard computer-aided design tools.
2.To advance design knowledge of common analogue circuits used within mixed-signal 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. |
| Course description |
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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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 |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | It is recommended that this course is taken along with Analogue VLSI A (ELEE11041) |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV2)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 70,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
105 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
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
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
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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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 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | VLSI circuits analogue |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Henderson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5645
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Viola Brunori
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: |
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